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Did CL have any allies in this, amongst fellow BSPL Directors and amongst the wider Promoterati? And who were his main adversaries? Or do we have to await his memoires?

Pull the udder one😂

Get wot your saying, on one hand BSN are trying to sell a package to watch premiership speedway, but on the other hand them in charge have not decided how many and who are in the premiership 🤔. You just can't make it up

Whats that, about 6 people?

As I have said they have not tried to hide his nationally very refreshing no distant relations for this signing

Are you on for an exclusive on News at Ten or will Piers Morgan be taking up the mantle interviewing the oracle of British speedway. Please plead the 5th and let Godfrey take the wrap. If not sell it as the best thing since slice malt loaf and hopefully a fixture list for 2027 will be available soon. Great to have you on board the sinking speedway ship.

For certain clubs visiting fans help make the sport more financially viable, add to meeting atmosphere and help reinforce the feeling that the sport is actually worthy of travelling for to witness live. Travelling to the likes of Poole for Northern clubs fans on a Wednesday isn't so practical, this is were BSN is beneficial. However, if fans who would normally travel within a certain distance to support their team stopped doing so en block because they have a BSN package purchased at a very low price per meeting then this would be detrimental to the sport. Rumour mill was that because the TV money has currently been lost the BSPL are wanting a bigger slice of the BSN pie the result of which would be a lower payout for individual clubs at Championship level.

I’m the press officer

As it stands, I can see the Aces going full in on the PCMT, and the GP's... They may need the money to pay for their season!!!

Good news... I have lost Eleven Sports on my fire stick!!!

As I said: The poor condition of British speedway is to blame ... those who rejected whatever CL was proposing, in favour of ploughing on with the Prem in its current parlous condition are just as much to blame as he is.

And King's Lynn will still find a way to not qualify...

So... You have had the official press release leaked to you too?

The championship is perfectly set up for that scenario as they could just run their annual Glasgow v Poole final (yawn) as has been the case for as long as I can remember. Be warmer nights too.

CL didn't worry too much about change when he put together, clearly, the best septet by far last year did he? Nor did he worry too much about Birmingham when he made them weaker by signing Tom Brennan as a third heat leader did he?... The time for change was a long, long time ago... CL, and others, have had plenty of time to make those changes... However, they chose, season after season, to not make any...

A five team league was known at the time Louis was planning his defence of the premiership. Emil leaving may have been a jolt as the chance of finding another top liner “left in the wilderness because of the war in” wherever looked unlikely. The most plausible cause for his tantrum would be he asked again for some kind of dispensation but got a no this time and followed through in his (continued) threat to sell. He may have had his knuckles wrapped about poaching top riders from new clubs enlisted to bolster the premiership. Even when we most need them, clubs would be very cautious about moving up considering the predatory actions of some promoters. One thing for certain, if we are touting this bloke as one of the best then it’s obvious why we find ourselves in the mess we are currently in.

Why oh why would anyone invest buying a Premier pass or a combined? Nobody knows if their will actually be a Premier League, if their is how many teams would be in it and what dates? It will be a basic measure of interest in speedway in this country at the attendance for The Peter Craven meeting as most people I know are not bothering with the meeting or Belle Vue at all.

As I said it’s don’t have a problem with him riding, I was just asking what fans thought

I still think that CL had been preparing the way for him to make his proposal at the AGM, simply because he was fed up with devoting his life to something that was going nowhere. So, they were in full knowledge that he would sell up if there was no positive reaction, OK ... maybe he shouldn't have put the BSPL under so much pressure, yet the general consensus amongst fans is that the sport in GB needs to change for it to make any progress, and that pressure is therefore very justifiable, especially when it's from someone such as CL. Other promoters who have had new ideas and/or tried something different have simply walked away. Thousands of fans have simply walked away. The new buyers would rightly want to carry out due diligence (and have it carried out on them) - I have no idea what specifically is involved, but I can imagine that for British speedway it could be rather difficult. The poor condition of British speedway is to blame ...

I think that run out on January 6th

Why not have the play off final in May, semis in June, with league fixtures completed thereafter. That takes the pressure off having to fulfill fixtures by October when rain offs are inevitable. Arse about face, but in keeping with the way the sport is run.

If Ipswich is a cert then there is no reason a fixture list can’t be put out with TBA for potential Northampton meetings, if then Northampton doesn’t happen supporters will understand, for season tickets just add a play off or some other meeting or 2 into the season somewhere

An absolute farce it’s March two days time - move on and sort the league out for 2027 I’m done with this season

Eleven Sports have lost the contract so all on Canal + Sport.

I said this on the speedway 360 podcast back in December, if we were a mainstream sport we be crucified in the media over this, luckily we are not so nobody is seeing it in all it’s catastrophic glory