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Mitchell McDiarmid and Luke Killeen signed.

Yeah, I misremembered that one. As you say though, BSPL as an entity are majority shareholders.

Know it’s a big ‘if’ there’s one big league (personally think there’ll be a Premiership and Championship), but what makes people think Sheffield would want Pickering? Know his initial demands when talking to Sheffield didn’t go down too well with the people who will be involved running the club at Premiership level (I’ll let them announce themselves), and with his average being heavily biased based around home form there’s more consistent riders out there they could look at. Pickering at Scunthorpe In Championship is good for both parties, just now where he’ll end up in Premiership unless he out prices himself again like he’s done again in Polands (with Ekstraliga 2 and National League teams) after Leszno decided he wasn’t good enough for Ekstraliga

I suppose it's possible Poole could be favourites for the league, while also appearing to have they'd poorest starting 7, because the points limit keeps getting lowered. If you compare a team to their opponents they can look strong, but compare them to the previous seasons side & they can look weak(er).

With Championship clubs announcing season tickets, with only 8 hone league matches included, does that mean the Premiership is definitely going ahead? If there's a chance of Ipswich & Sheffield not competing, leaving Leicester, Lynn & Belle Vue facing a drop down to the Champ, how can they plan season tickets?

just googled this as had no idea who this chuff or the spouse was - oh!!! 😅

Trolling through social media it’s hard to find many good words about mr Davies

Like who ? Only rob godfrey is from the bspl either as a director or shareholder, Chris Louis has quit and Phil morris isn’t in the bspl, the others are rob painter, his Mrs and a few unknowns. And ex motox rider Jamie Dobb,,it says the bspl as a company are shareholders but not individuals

Odious man. At least they haven't got his vile spouse involved.

Don’t know where Bonjangles got them from, but they are all available on GBSpeedway. It’s a fantastic site if you’ve never used it before… https://www.gbspeedway.com/2025/averagelist.php?mc1=x&mc2=a&mc3=y&mc4=x&search=all&sort=average&meets=All&bp=inc&hora=all&num=&league=B&oleague=B&mleague=B&above=&lower=&upper=&below=

Agreed think pooles 1-5 will be weaker than Oxford’s rumoured top 5 and Glasgow well we will wait and see as they have 2 unknown riders in at 2&4. And as you say Poole look strong in the reserve berth with the potential signing of Cooper Rushen,on paper one of the stronger pairings but not many reserve pairings have been announced yet,actually thinking about it I would have to say Redcars reserve pairing has to be the strongest looking at it again.

You have one problem with your one big league for 2026, and that’s the fact that none of the 9 championship clubs will bow down to the Ipswich way.

But .. Apart from that. ? Comparing Chalk and Cheese isn't it? Yet, it appears, some UK promoters seem to think what the UK produces has some similarities.. Baffling... Just deliver the sport you can afford to, with the minimal outlay..

To find a riders average: If you go into the British Speedway website, click on the 3 lines at the top left to open the menu, click on Championship and then 2025 declarations, and then click on issue 27 amended at the bottom of that list. That gives you ask the rider averages (by team) using column A. Multiply any Brit by 97.5% to get their reduced average for team building

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Lawson's scoring dropped off after he missed the KO Cup semi at Glasgow when they were doing engine testing. I presume his back injury hindered him for the rest of the year

No, he was posting constructive opinions on Pooles team as he is entitled to and you hit back with a sarcastic comment about the goings on at his club. Sums you up. Complete knob head.

Well I ventured into Tesco for groceries and yes picked up a copy of Speedway Star. First one I habought for a couple of years. Great article on one of my favourite riders Simmo ….who I watched from a raw novice. An accomplished motorcyclist on trials grass and speedway. Good interview with Jason Doyle,in ehich he made some fair and reasonable points from an Australian rider’s perspective. Most of the rest was the usual out of season gossip … good to see it on the shelves at Tesco though.

Going to be sitting a bit tight for quite a while the extraleague has just signed a new tv deal worth over 14 million pounds, 3 million more than the last deal and crowds at most tracks have been pretty much the same as previous years, Wrocław was sold out for the complete season, tracks where crowds were down were the least successful ones

Where are those averages available? You’re looking at it from a Poole pov, I’m a neutral, Kyle Howarth and Scott Nicholls are better than Zach Cook, both average wise, and just from watching them. Zach Cook scored 5pts at Plymouth three times, 4 at Edinburgh, 4 at Berwick last season, those 3 teams weren’t amongst the best in the league (slightly harsh on Edinburgh from myself, but it was a 3 horse race last year really). He was at Berwick before the signings of Morris and Jeppesen and only managed to beat Smith, his 4 other points came from falls and retirements. At Edinburgh he beat Grahn and Starke, his other two points were from retirements. This was all whilst riding at the considerably easier number 4 position. Compare his scores to Kyle Howarth, who’s lowest score was 6, at Poole, and a bunch of 7’s, but ultimately far more consistent around the tracks, at number 5. Scott Nicholls scored 7+3 away to Edinburgh on his comeback meeting, a poor score of 3 on his home debut then managed at least 9 thereafter.

Yep was just about to say this, when lt mattered last year Zach beat Howarth 2 times in a row on his own track, and would’ve been 3 had Howarth not rode through him earlier on in the meeting. it’s tough to compare Pooles team to Glasgows as 2 or their riders I’ve never seen. I fancy us over Redcarr and also over Oxford, although we don’t know Oxfords reserves yet so it is too early to say. I agree that Glasgows have certainly laid down a marker, but we will be there come the business end which is when the medals are up for grabs

Yes that is true but when it comes to the play offs Zach outperformed Kyle so Howarth was more consistent over the season, he did have one of his best seasons.

Certainly a small technical track if he ends up at the Plymouth polo mint track 😝

Doyles already jumped

Glasgow have to be favourites. It remains to be seen how Bowes will fare, personally I have my doubts about him.