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Common sense by BSPL. Playoffs should be prioritised.

As people have pointed out, one big league of 14 teams with 7 man teams would be impossible. Take out the 25ish riders who ride in Poland (and are only available to Britain on Monday and Thursday) and reduce all the doubling-up riders to a single team (another 30+ riders) and you've barely got enough riders left to staff 14 teams of 3 or 4 riders. You'd need to take every rider from the National League, including every novice 3.00 NDL wobbler, and you still couldn't get to 14 full teams. The standard or 14 teams would be somewhere between Championship and NDL. The level would be a big comedown for Workington or Plymouth fans. Imagine asking fans of Belle Vue, Ipswich or Sheffield to watch that!

Really hope a new promoter is found etc - having looked at the Sheffield accounts they do seem to lose money over time (unless i have misread them) so someone with a few quid is needed.

I agree that would help matters, but equally it's the year 2025. If TMs are making changes to the line-up then there's no reason it can't be done digitally, with almost instant notification to appropriate people (commentators), regardless of whether they're in the stadium, London, or Timbuktu. Alas.

I'd be wary of this! Utd (Blades) seemed to be the only Saudi prince owned club with no money 😁 The moment they got into the Prem the other season the club was put up for sale

Surely it's gamble worth taking because the current rock bottom attendances need a major boost. I think those who watch speedway nowadays will stay loyal whatever. And the only way to attract the 50/50 followers back through the turnstiles is via a more varied fixture list. Meeting the same teams 4 or more times each season just breeds complacency. Not that the riders care, of course, but Joe Public needs more variety.!!!!

if it is one big league i would highly doubt it would be with seven mean teams. as i replied to that original post that is a MASSIVE assumption that all of those riders would drop GB.

JK has also made Race cards for both SF and also the SON2. They are over at his website. https://www.speedwayservice.at/en/info/jk-speedway-scorecards.html

Live updates for SF2: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/945/fim-speedway-of-nations-semi-final-2-torun.html

The format works so no need to change that, the one thing that needs addressing over the winter months is the track preparation and that goes for the Grand Prix's as well, the tracks are atrocious and serve up little more than follow the leader, speedway is in the entertainment game and these events should be the prime events for the world to look at and watch, now if us hardened speedway "fans" find them boring then how do we think "newbies" to the sport feel?? Last night the track was that slick i would imagine even with the very small crowd they would of covered the shale costs!

Northampton then

I Don’t know for sure- only themselves and WBD are privy to that information, but a rumour was that it was their choice to do it from London.

As it is a extra competition as most meetings were contested early season then it is fair to say the semi final and final should have been completed ages ago.

What's the reason behind Chris and Kelv not attending the meetings abroad this season ?

From what I was told earlier today I believe Mr Tolley’s involvement at a club in 2026 will be a bit closer to his Midlands base

If that was the reason Monarchs lost, I'd keep that to myself. I'd rather say "we were beaten by the better team, than "we didn't pay attention to track grading" 🤭

Simple answer would be the complete the BSN series sooner, especially as it was the season starting competition.

The latest issue coming from the club is that they are still obviously in debt but are having loans from various parties offering them the money, the issue comes with the city council who need to act as a guarantor. They don’t need to give any more but are reluctant to accept the guarantor venture due to not yet being provided the debt plan from Stal, Stal have one month to provide all documentation for the loans so the city will accept the guarantor status, only then will Ekstraliga provide their 2026 licence to run.

Point D It’s amateurish because Kelv and Chris sat in a London studio is amateurish. Should be at the track for the 4 meetings and with a commentary position right over the start line he surely could see by himself without waiting for the drone to fly away and a shot of the start line shown. He could also see the exclusion lights clearly.

Doubt that would happen, there has been meetings in October as far as I can remember, used to be a Oct 31st cut off which was adhered to as I can remember going to a meeting on a Sunday at Poole that normally would have been rained off but they did sort it out after the rain had stopped and the meeting was run. They would not do that now as they can run meetings in November if needed.

He had two coats ... But. One was brought to give to anyone else who turned up...😁

Businesses exactly the same .... Those empty seats tell the organisers everything they need to know about their promotion and organisation of this event.... The same can be said about over here. Listening to those who are no longer attend, but still follow the sport closely, is far more important than the feedback of those who still do attend .. As there are many, many more of the former than the latter.

What was he wearing?

There is simply no way that a semi final for the SoN should be in an empty stadium. Absolutely ridiculous. 😡 Any first time viewer will have been appalled, let alone us as speedway fans. Tickets should have been given out free to schoolkids, local residents, charities etc. While it wouldn't have created anywhere near a full house, it would still have looked better on tv than looking at the 50 fans that were there dotted around the stadium. Unacceptable.

They should stick to the 4 man Team formula,even though the lesser Nations don’t have International standard riders their lesser riders are the same standard which produced some decent racing between them.This pairs Semi-Finals just need to be scrapped.