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In his interview in today's Speedway Star he has signed for a Premiership Club. He said to ride Championship he would have had to be at a Wednesday night club but was close to resigning for Berwick. PL average with reduction 4.72

In an article in the Star he says that he has signed for. Premiership club which will be announced at some stage but he is giving the Championship a miss. He also said”I still let my temper get the best of me sometimes when I’m racing. That’s a big issue that people have with me. I think people would be more annoyed if I didn’t care and that’s the thing, I think I care too much”

Could've featured Tolley with his Top Hat strategically placed. Bound to send sales soaring among a certain demographic

Riders off different nationalities have ridden in the Argentinian championships for many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Individual_Speedway_Championship

Yes, he does, just. Interesting that he won't be starting the season with a Championship team place despite averaging over 8.0 at that level.

Nothing will change if they continue to let riders dictate the pay rates.

In a copy of the star a few weeks ago there was also an interview with Jake Allen and he alluded to riders not being paid and it seemd he wasn't talking about the UK either he as going tofiscus on riding UK and championship only - not quite the vertabim quote but it was something like 'whats the point of riding being promised the earth and not being paid' - he talked of rider sbeing owed fair substantial sums Seems that TV money generally just goes straight to the riders and the big elite survive and the others struggle - its the same for so many sports!

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Interesting article in this weeks Star written by Lukasz Chrzanowski on how the world’s richest speedway league is slowly killing the sport and highlights how Britain, Germany and Sweden are struggling and economically outgunned when in Poland a reserve is paid more than heat leaders in other countries. Whatever happens the sport in the UK needs to go its own way and offer the public what it can realistically afford and if that means starting again and building talent from within so be it. The top riders find it easier to move equipment around mainland Europe and mechanics can travel by road to most places so why add to the cost by racing in the UK and given the extra expenses riders financial demands will only go one way, the question would be how long can the sport over here meet those costs.

He won’t last 5 minutes

Sure it was mentioned on another thread that Kemp was giving the Championship a miss as he's riding abroad this coming season, dunno if that means he gonna miss the UK completely and not do the Premiership either.

4 more named Dudek Wozniak Kubera Loktayev

What do we have left?

Your final point makes good sense. However, UK speedway is far from being a great product, it does not use the best ingredients, such as riders, stadiums and universal matchday experience. If things were done correctly promoters would invest (not divert from current costs)) significant amounts of money on local marketing & PR utilising the appropriate professional agencies whilst the BSPL did likewise on a national basis. Unfortunately, the majority of the promoters do not have access to the levels of cash or acumen necessary and so sadly they should not be running the sport at the professional level in the UK. For those folk who currently sit both inside and outside the BSPL with both cash and knowledge of what to do with it to grow UK speedway they will not be doing so whilst the BSPL functions in the significantly less than cohesive manner it currently does - it just does not make good business sense to do so, biding their time does.

It's not a bad team that's shaping up down Scunthorpe way considering that they have a (very good) rider taking up a quarter of the average space. Plus, it leaves room for both Max Perry at reserve and Worrall to come in at 5 if he decides to race this season, leaving a team which looks like this; Pickering / Harrison / MPT / Mountain / Worrall / Perry / Ingram

He’s welcome at Leicester but as a spectator only

Normally a draft ( daft 😛 ) fixtures schedule is released to the clubs, then tweaked if the club thinks any rider could be involved in official and Micky mouse FIM meetings etc. or some clubs avoid a certain date due to local stadium availability or a planned local event may have to be avoided

https://fimspeedway.com/news/woffinden-my-health-is-great No mention of Sheffield by Tai

He's not picked him yet though and his average is too high for the remaining place.

Sorry, what do you mean mate? Received by who? The BSPA from the clubs?

Talking of Drew Kemp, is he now Argentinian? Saw him competing in the Argentina championships

He could be the mascot

Championship fixtures were not yet received as of Saturday 10th January!!

I'm with you on that. Think Stewart has played a blinder here by sacrificing Fricke for an all round 1-7. Other Teams may have Superstar No.1's but they've also got very long tails to go with them, Who could be found wanting most weeks. Leicester on the other hand have a rock solid pairing across the board in every Heat.

Top stars bring people in it’s just the slow death of the sport that makes it seem that they don’t. Remove them and you’ll see a further jump in the drop in attendance. One very vocal critic of the current state of the sport said he’d turn up if his favourite top star was in attendance, no matter how repetitive his appearances. What has been the feedback from your 50 family & friends about attending regularly?