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I'm not reading the same tea leaves obviously.

A season pass is for the season.

Not for BSN. He works for TV whether it was SkySports or TNT Sports. BSN's statment confirming season passes with the same amount of PREM fixtures for this season with No Play-Offs basically confirms a TV deal.

Mr Doyle didn't seem that confident that Mr Louis was going to carry on regardless.

Hmm... doesn't say that the PL Pay Offs are included in the Premiership/Season pass 🤔🤑

I don't think theres anything to read into there. They will probably just do a prem play offs pass in September 🤷‍♂️

I was a bit confused as well because they’re still showing the same 18 premiership meetings that they did last year. I re-read the statement again because I thought I missed a bit where they all but confirmed a separate TV deal elsewhere!

How have you taken that from the statement? Cause they aren't showing the prem play offs?

I can’t wait. Stevie Nicks.

As in Scott working for BSN? Don’t think that’s going to happen.

me too will have some of that. will get full pass dont think will get too many live meetings this year

newer tech than that now 😃

See the BSN Package prices have been released. At around £5-70 a stream I struggle to see how these prices do the remaining Speedway clubs any favours. Championship 30 streams for £169-99.

Its cheaper than I expected, so for breakfast I'm going to have some humble pie 🥧

We really don’t know how they work yet. They’ve come in and cut the money at GP level (understandably) so maybe their plan is to come in at Ipswich and run things cheaply? All the genuine number one’s were already snapped up but none of us know yet if they’d have stumped up the cash to get one of the top liners in even if they were still available. We’ll only know that and what their ambitions are, from next season onwards because they’ll get a free pass this time due to coming in so late. We know with Louis that he’s Ipswich through and through and he pushed things to the maximum to get the best team he could. We already had Doyle and nobody would have batted an eyelid if he’d just went with him and then built solidly downwards but he then went and added Emil as well. He could have saved himself a lot of money by just going with Doyle, and then packed in middle and lower order riders below him but he didn’t. It remains to be seen whether the new people have those same ambitions for Ipswich as Chris Louis did.

That does seem good value for 48 meetings and being able to spread the cost will encourage a few more punters. Well done to BSN

BSN's statement basically confirms a TV deal for British Speedway this year. Are we sure that Nicholls is in the 1-7 now?

Showing your age there Dean ! As I remember all the Wrestling greats had second jobs even though the were on the TV each week traveling all over the country perhaps lesson to be learnt there by riders of today .

And to be brutally honest, he's probably looking at where the sport sits and thinking, "do i really want to get involved with that again?" Does sometimes feel like "don't worry about it, these mugs will come whatever we serve up". Out of interest, as someone who no longer reads the speedway star, how are they reporting on this? Are they being critical or are they just pretending everything is ok like they did with the Coventry and Peterborough fiasco in 2011?

I don't understand your problem. Ipswich Speedway Promotions Ltd is the company that holds the promotion rights to Ipswich Witches. Chris Louis is the sole shareholder. Chris Louis didn't want to continue, so his options were to pull out altogether (and have a near enough worthless company) or sell the company's main asset (the licence) to someone else. He chose the latter, and agreed to sell the club. Businesses change hands all the time. I might win the Euromillions this week and offer Buster a million quid for King's Lynn. I buy the club and its licence, and things carry on, just with a new owner.

So ISPL "made a commitment" to run, even though its proprietor had apparently said previously that he was walking away from involvement in the sport with immediate effect? And BSPL incorporated that "commitment" into their statement that a minimum 5 team league would happen? Really?

Apologies... Thought you were comparing this years potential Ipswich to last years Lions... Ipswich and Leicester, this year,could be of a similar level.... Who cares? Will be the sports biggest challenge.

But Leicester now dont have fricke. I'm comparing the rumoured '26 ipswich team to the confirmed 26 Leicester team with dougy at 1

It looks like a very competitive Championship this year.Oxford look the best on paper to me.The rest could be anywhere in the League although Scunny will need some changes.Monarchs and Workington (Cook dependant) look the dark horses.Should see some shocks .IMO