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Poland really need to break the model and make their riders employees, it's the only thing missing from their business model and the day that happens all other professional leagues become amateur.

It really is time for the authorities to charge Dale Allitt and Buster Chapman for bringing the sport into disrepute. Everyone knows they are looking at getting rid of Paco Castagna so are deliberately postponing meetings.

Wish he stayed away from the British mainland for good.

nice work Lebedevs

How about having them for my Birthday as a gift

I thought it was a tad optimistic given how much fundamentally is needed to unpick... And. If Poland decrees one extra league only to race in... Which I can see their rationale given how many riders they lose riding elsewhere... Then next season will see some huge drop in levels..

I wonder if I could give it ago

It will be dead and buried before then.

In the 70's the sport piggy backed off the England team doing well on World of Sport, at a time when the football and cricket teams were crap.. A good news story... The domestic sport has always been a bit "Mickey Mouse" however the money was good due to attendance numbers... In a recent Speedway Star it covered Kenny Carter winning the 1979 British Junior Championship and for that, he got £2000. (Over £13k today).. So individual meetings carried some big prizes eg the Grand Prix at White City was £5k and the Internationale at Wimbledon a Jawa bike... In 1978, PC, in his book, said when he got banned for a month, for arriving late from Los Angeles and missing a meeting due to a plane cancellation, it cost him over £20k including his Long Track money... What you could get away with in the 70's you cannot get away with now, and the Mickey Mouse circa 200 guests per season, (with just 15 teams in total), is ludicrous, (but condoned by those who attend regularly), and doubling up is now, just like guesting, a necessity. (Only in the UK though)... The promoters of today are, in the main, hobbyists, who are quite happy to lose money that they can afford to lose, hence becoming a bona fide team sport simply isn't going to happen, therefore the sharing riders operating model is all we have.. If Poland ever decided to run with the UK's operating model their sport would go bust overnight... Fans, Sponsors, and TV would simply walk away... As Richard Coleman said in the Speedway Star this week... It has about five years to sort itself out...

They will bring violence with them.Best stay away.

The sport stinks in this country

I can p*ss more than what rain will fall. Supporters need to boycott the place.

A fine. Never known a promotion like it.

The place wants closing.

Was absent a lot when he rode for Plymouth. Used to pick his meetings

Madsen has got a lot of fans to win back, needs to be on top form.

Can’t stand the bloke, he frustrates me bigtime with his unreliable score and appearances

Leszno are only -2 with bet365, I'd be surprised if it's that close.

H Crook

Same here.

We need the Footy lads to attend meetings over here in order to get some atmosphere going like they do at the Darts.

Ashton Boughen leads the way with 2 rounds completed. 9 rounds with the British round at Kings Lynn on 29th August. 1st Boughen 51 2nd Gerard Bailo Pele 45 3rd Ervin krajcovic 36

Massive confidence boost for Nicolai ahead of the away match at Oxford 👍. Oh, forgot he’s not riding in that one either🙈

Hi, I’ve got 2 tickets for saturday night for sale. East stand,block d,row s. Cost £140 so any offers close to this will be considered.

Mike, we had loads of guests back in the heyday as the excellent Speedway Researcher will testify. The percentage was lower as we had way more fixtures back then. Teams did ride on their preferred racenight but they do now. Sheffield & Ipswich did/do run on a Thursday. Northampton are new, Kings Lynn changed from the weekend but Leicester moved from a Tuesday! Belle Vue needed to change as there is now such competition for a Saturday night in Manchester that speedway would always lose out. Most of the top league teams we have lost has been due to planners/developers and not the race nights or competition value. If I’m being honest I see little difference in the credibility and reward in winning stuff now and back then. One of the big “rewards” was when Dave Lanning took out an insurance policy on the Racers winning the league and when they did, it was duly paid out. This was more a publicity stunt which we do not get now as promoters are not in the same mould as Lanning, Mawdsley, Thomas & Berry, sadly. Back then there were meetings like the Golden Apple or Warburtons Trophy that had no consequences or rewards but were dam fine meetings as there was thousands there. Halifax always won the Warburtons trophy against us (usually on a last heat decider) as it was good for their business, no matter how contrived. Promoters realised back then that we were a sports entertainment business where’s now they just think we are a proper sport. Doubling up/down is a mess - no question. That is a result of a lack of investment in the next generation and the fact it is way more expensive to throw your leg over a bike than back then.