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Speedway GP at Ipswich in 2027 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I think despite our misgivings Kerr had to come back, he showed signs of better form during the season and on his average very few are as good.

Please stop!

A decent 1-7 should be battling for all trophies again. Kerr needs to prove to himself that he can show better form than last season.

Pretty sure Bailey is finished over here would Hook and starke cover Heeps and Bailey

This is what I said Friday.

With Gilkes off to Poole, how about? Sam Masters - 10.09 Anders Rowe - 7.38 Mitchell McDiarmid - 5.18 Luke Killeen - 5.15 Connor Bailey - 4.97 Cameron Heeps - 4.93 Darryl Ritchings - 2.29 Total - 39.99

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Well done, you actually got one right! 👏

Think once a certain rider named agreed to come here next year and changed his mind about 4 weeks ago, the club had to move quickly to get Dan signed up, the deal has been done and dusted a few weeks I would think 😁

Yep. As ever it's all down to the numbers game.

Am I the only one who didn’t see that signing coming?

So far it’s 5 riders that could certainly put a point on their average, maybe apart from Lawson, but if he rides like he did last year I wouldn’t put it past him

By all means pick on the word 'alienating' and rubbish it... but I for one was contemplating sponsoring a rider this year, and Hooky woukd have been my No.1 rider choice, (a) because he was good last year, and (b) to help 'bridge the gap' between reserve and main body. I'm more than willing to give the management the benefit of the doubt, but given Hooky has been 'counted out', this suggests the 1-7 is known... In which case, get on and announce it, rather than leaving question marks over decisions made, not made, or being made...

Very happy with that signing a very gd number 2 on a low average,hoping he can stay injury free next season and like you say should be getting upto mid 5pt I would say.

Good signing that. A strong number 2. if Zach and Rushen follow him aboard the pirate ship for 2026 it’s a very good team.

Welcome to Poole, Dan! Great signing and if he can stay injury free he will easily add a point to his average! I’m sure the signing everyone was expecting will be delayed until the week up to Xmas Day and delivered as a perfect Christmas pressie for Pirates.

Maybe you shouldn’t be stalking a minor on social media.

He's been thanking all his sponsors over the last few weeks

Until the sport reinvents itself, I don’t see how anything changes. You need salaried riders, a squad and no averages (for team building purposes) but you can’t do that, as no money, not enough riders or interest in the Sport, it’s not football where all you need is a ball. If riders can/do manipulate their average then you’re essentially watching a bent product, which was probably part of the *sports undoing back in the day. This is before modern stadia, all weather surface or preventable measures to minimise rain offs, then you may have some credibility, which is a starting point…but that is all it is.

Take a bow.. this thread should now be locked after this post, magnificently worded

It might be a case that we just have to accept the sport in the UK at the level we have known it previously is now over. I mentioned before i stopped going in my late teens in the early 90's when I discovered nightclubs , fast forward 33 years and nightclubs that pulled in thousands of people on a Saturday night then are all gone. The nearest city to me had 10 night clubs in the early 90's now it has one tiny one, and loads of pubs have closed over that time frame also, places that from 1990 -2005 if you had said to me one day all these will be gone you would have thought never going to happen but it did. Its accelerated since then with social media really taking off a lot of the youth of today have near zero interest in going out, online gaming, dating app's so you don't physically have to trawl out rounds pubs any more looking for a likely partner. Why bother with restaurants get Deliveroo to drop off a pizza to your door, Blockbusters video gone the way of the Dodo when streaming caught on. I occasionally look back at threads on here from 10 years or so back, and there's loads of names I come across who are no longer posting, I would guess there is maybe 50 of us die hards on here now posting and hoping a miracle happens so even this forum is probably on last knockings. Really sad how its ended up all be it the sport has actually limped on for far longer than i thought it would but these days its a struggle to attract punters even when you are offering a professional leisure opportunity let alone when you are trying to attract people to a sport where the riders all ride for different teams every other week and after the first month in you can pretty much guarantee every week from the two teams on show there will most likely be at least 2-4 of the combined 14 riders missing. It really does look like checkmate is nearing I would say one big league but the argument that there has to be some form of even dire top league to subsidise the bottom league as far as rider earnings goes does have merit as an argument, so it really is a case of least bad outcome. I would imagine it will be a five team top league in 2026 with a view to finding a sacraficial lamb to get it up to six in 2027 unless someone with a load of money and no business sense can be shoe horned into getting Northampton running in 2027.

You're yet to prove you're right before anyone can prove you wrong.

Probably the most likely outcome is that there will be no league speedway on tv for at least two years.

I can`t see anyway that Kemp stays at Berwick.