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yes he did another weaker end National league rider needed.

Sounds very similar to Swindon. Only key difference is council own land the stadium is on. Fingers crossed can keep them on side.

Didn't he double up for Leicester and Plymouth?

That doesn’t make sense, with one league Glasgow would ride Edinburgh less times than they would now

No wind up, that’s it, TOTAL, TV money died with Sky.

Looking at this years Prem teams out of the seven teams there is only one rider J Thompson who does not either double up or rides overseas. So if you look at 5 Prem teams joining the Champ league to form one big league you might get the odd few who ride overseas that might stay even if they do you are around 30 riders short. So what does that mean. These riders will have to be replaced with possibly a few lower order overseas riders but the majority will be replaced by lower order National league riders. This also means that 5 teams need 15 more heat leaders between them. The only place the majority of these riders can come from is the existing heat leaders and the better second strings in the league being shared out. To be replaced in the teams by the new lower order national league riders making the league a very much weaker product than it is now. Now i am not choosing a side but putting out the options that i can see happening with the riders available. So if the above happens will fans be happy with a very much weakened product.

That I agree with, When we're down to 10 Teams. Imo it's not the time to do it when we've got 14 Teams as well as a couple of potential returns in the near future when it comes to Northampton and Peterborough whether that's in 2026 or 2027. British Speedway is on a downward slope granted, But it's still got a lot of fight left in it.

I wonder what the costs/benefits/usefulness/viability is of making BSN available on a linear network (Sky/Virgin Media) would be, maybe in conjunction with a betting company. Similar to Racing TV

It’s just the 25% reduction, they don’t get a further 2.5% off. See Toms average at the end of 2022 compared to his start in 2023. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/p22_issue_final-1.pdf https://britishspeedway.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/p23_issue_1.pdf

Nothing will come of the demolition of Perry barr, it will just be swept away just like the crooked house (not to be confused with ACU house) corruption pays in this world unfortunately

Looking forward to one big league and Sam Masters battles with Jack Shimelt, add in seeing Glasgow v Edinburgh 10 times makes for a mouth watering prospect.

Who would be fining who in this case? How would the city council be fined, and, if it were, woukdn't it be paying the fine to the city council ( who as I understand it own the site and are the relevant local authority)?

Having a long chat with a former promoter yesterday at the speedway show, something he said made me laugh but his point was valid, he was saying speedway had changed and not for the better and he said it used to be after a meeting around midnight he would get the stadium manager calling him saying can you come and get your star rider out of the bar I want to close up and go home, his point was when that stopped speedway changed lol

I'm with you there... @TTT seems pretty insistent and I've wanted to comment on a lot they've said... I can't be arsed though 😂. Like you say, just got to wait for it all to play out

The 'top' league is clearly on borrowed time, one league will be the only solution at some stage. Some serious massaging will need to happen for the Prem league to happen in 2026.

Poole finished with one rider over 8 this year so aside from the decades used points limit, they will done nothing to share out league strength. The “big” five didn’t screw over Birmingham or Oxford. If the Brummies had won the league this season they would still have closed. Kings Lynn (one of the “big” five) screwed Oxford over last year and simultaneously finished below them in the table. It’s widely known that there are no assets any longer so how in a free market can teams screw over other teams? If offering better terms is screwing over, then people and companies are screwed over every day and this has gone on since commerce came to be. With the lack of riders for one big league I anticipate screwing over will become more prevalent - and costly.

No there does not, if the so called top league folds then the what does the other league become ?., think back to the early 60's the National League became untenable which left the Provincial League that then became THE British League with National league teams joining, the difference between now and then is solely the number of riders or should i say where the riders come from, take away the Aussies and we would struggle to have the 2 leagues we have had for the last few years. I believe Speedway in the UK has to take a step back before it can step forwards, at the very minimum NO doubling up/down which in itself will be a step forward, Poole are an example of NOT riding in the so called top league on a night the fans want to watch, somehow a way has to be found and struggling to maintain the status quo is not it.

Exactly this but some folk just don’t see it, every opportunity, every bit counts and the bspl are the biggest naysayers when it comes to it

It was, it was auctioned off a couple of years back, I bid on a couple of bikes myself but didn’t win, if I remember rightly Martin Yates was reunited with his bike which the family brought from him when he retired

Rather than asking what is there to gain for clubs attending this, maybe they should be asking what is there to lose? At the very least you would think that the costs should pretty much be covered by sales of merchandise. Hand out some free/discounted tickets for next season. Your track might be miles away but we're heading into the time of year where people will be travelling to see family, maybe they have relatives close by who haven't attended before. They might have a friend at work who holidays in that area every summer. And who knows, maybe there's a potential sponsor there or someone who could introduce you to one?

One Big League is just mathematically impossible to work and I'll prove it with statistics. Including the following Riders.... Nicolai Klindt (Missed so many Meeting's due to foreign commitments) Craig Cook (Doesn't Turn Up) Villads Nagel (Same as Nicolai Klindt) Erik Riss (Said he's not Riding in the UK in 2026) Steve Worrall (Retired) Oskar Polis (Quit after a handful of Meetings in 2025) No. of Clubs (14) No. of Riders on 8+ GSA's (9)....After C. Cook and possibly Klindt (7) No. of Riders on 7.00-7.99 GSA's (12).....After Nagel and Riss (10) No. of Riders on 6.00-6.99 GSA's (11)....After Polis and S. Worrall (9) Team Building Rules and a Grading System would be irrelevant because no matter what idea they think of, The Mathematics still won't add up due to too many Teams competing in the League. Due to Rider Availability we will have no choice but to call out of depth NDL Riders up who don't even get a look in at CHAMP level in it's current format let alone PREM. Rider Availability worsens in 2027 when Poland introduce the One More League Rule. After all of thse problems, Clubs then have to convince fans to pay £20 to watch this stuff as they can't drop admission prices as they'll still be paying increased prices when it comes to rent costs and stuff because everything goes up in the world that we live in today.

No there doesn’t have to be a top league, fans want variety, something different, the arrogance of the top 5 teams says there needs to be a top league and it could be argued that arrogance is the reason the sport is in such a mess that it finds itself in

I thought they got a 25% discount then 2.5% after that. Could be wrong though. So a rider who's got a 4.00 average goes to 3.00 then 2.82 after the 2.5%

There will be a top league, and there HAS to be a top league. Patience is required but progress is being made.

Six teams? Five teams? Four teams? Won't make much difference will it? If they go with six teams, as soon as the riders are confirmed on here, the two missing out on the play offs will be as clear as day for all to see... Just like every season... The top tier in its current guise simply doesn't work due to the lack of riders of the level required, and the money those who are top level, and ride over here, take out of fhe sport. . Ultimately, doing the sport no favours.. I would suggest £20 to sit, and £15 to stand, is the sweet spot for Speedway in the UK... Away fans in for a tenner max, and free if travelling over 50 miles... Start from that and build your cost budgets around it accordingly... And get as many teams in one league as is possible to bring some variety...