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Ive always thought the third place play off is pointless really

Well the sport appears to be run by amateurs so at least it’s a start!

Agree, we cant have the shambolic close season that we have just witnessed again, they need to be looking towards next season and beyond, this season has seen even committed fans walk away.

At some point they are going to have to give team places to riders who are not ready, you can kick kicking the ball down the road but eventually it will happen, riders like Nicholls etc cannot go on forever. The sport must go back to be more amateur, it’s got to get even worse before it can get better.

Same here... I've been "flying solo" since the 2018 season

True enough in my Dad's case.He passed halfway through the 2024 season,so that's roughly £700 in entrance money ( upto lastweek) that the club have needed to replace for him. Multiply by just 10 and that's £7000...

Thai makes 4 Smederna riders -+Jepsen Jensen.

15 teams, seven riders per team, equals 105 riders needed... Nowhere near enough riders of the level needed, so a complete non starter... Heaven forbid, they cut the number of riders to five in a team and just then need 75... I could never get my head around the "we need GP riders back", thought process, as, when the majority of them rode over here 15 years ago, crowds dwindled consistently, just like now.. The very riders who took all the "Golden Ticket" Sky money, then effed off to Poland to take the "Diamond and Platinum Ticket" money when Sky's money disappeared... One league would at least make the sport look like a reasonably sized entity, and have a "national reach and feel"...... The "Optics" of how you are perceived are so, so fundamentally important when trying to sell something…. I have seen Brady and Dan ride at the NSS loads of times, so,watching them scream around the boards is no longer the pull it once was... Especially against the same few riders .... If you can fit them in (and afford them), to a one league structure then great... If not, it means you can run on any night you wish... Obviously though one league would mean no DUing which would mean riders getting paid by just one team... Hence no chance of it happening...

Well mis-remembered,it was a PL meeting (May 7th 1998)!

Problem is where will they get the riders from for that, personally think best we can hope for is 8 and 8 top league ideally have one top liner each and the bottom four riders in the top league double up in the second division so its financially viable for them. Once home and away which would avoid seeing same teams week in week out and hopefully reduce promoters losses as fewer meetings to underwrite. Would love to see one big league but given they are struggling to get through fixtures in a six team top league can see how they would ever cope with 15-16 teams and as mentioned guessing they would need 30-50 extra riders from somewhere.

I’m not sure that’s a big secret so “outing” him is a bit late. Or are you wanting him to out you? Theres a few he could I’m sure, like Nellie from Workington, the Loverat and old Fred from Botany Bay

Hopefully the BSPL have been working on next season if only to outline a potential League structure so plans are in place in plenty of time for 2027 and beyond............

Still not too late for next season, though. One big league of 15-16 teams, 13 heat matches with a six-heat junior second half. Guests only for number ones, R/R or juniors to be used for other missing riders. Home and away just once, fours and pairs and a proper riders championship, each track having their own invitational event, and with maybe some touring Polish and Swedish sides tempted over for pre-season attractions... One can dream!

Oi! Be a little more grateful... it was us who have given you your only win so far this season! 😉

100% - nothing wrong with his on track contribution

Dreadful state of affairs

To be fair thinking Kings Lynn are pathetic is generally good logic

I apologise. It was Leicester who were more pathetic than the Foxes this time round.

"That's all she wrote"... does my head in!

Yes, they have 😁

Has nobody said "Happiness is 40-38"?

... and who's going to spaff £100k on Speedway sponsorship, look at last night on BSN it was a Rowe Motor Oil Premiership meeting and unless you heard it mentioned by the commentator at the very start of the transmission you wouldn't have known it. No prominent banners, no sponsor board for any of the interviews conducted 🤷‍♂️ Or come and sponsor Leicester along with JCB and you'll get a couple of banners on the in-field... face down.

I remember thinking the same when Bill Barker was running Lynn and trying to balance the books by wandering round at half time selling raffle tickets. I once said "give everyone who comes through the gate a questionnaire to fill in relating to what they like/don't like about the current speedway set up and give them a spare to give to someone who used to attend but no longer does). Nothing ever happened and Bill soldiered on with the raffle tickets but as Mike has said there's going to come a crunch soon when the over 40 year old double uppers retire and we are nearly out of people who will step in and take over underwriting the annual track losses.

Methanol fans, let's go racing...🤣

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