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I personally don't think that any rider who is going to be absent for a certain percentage of meetings in a season should be permitted to ride in a league whoever they are. Injury can't be helped but one of the things which gets up people's noses more than anything IMO is facilities for riders who are raving elsewhere and not for the team they signed for.

i just remembered a few years ago Kings Lynn were advertising this role - https://www.kingslynn-speedway.com/news.php?extend.30563 in the end i believe Chapmans daughter was the one they selected. 😁

Yes

Not in the Champ perhaps but he's been at the level you'd expect in the Prem.

That would be a vast improvement. Likely with the havvy connection.

Problem with McDairmid he is riding in the top flight in Poland and is also in the SGP2 meetings so means he will miss loads of Friday’s. With so many championship teams running on a Friday a rider like that is unfortunate going to miss lots of meetings. Next year, Cairns and Rushen will probably have the same issue so would you also not sign them?

good idea, lets try one league with a more varied fixture list 😀

Can we shut this thread.

"New signing Edward Kennett – a 28-day replacement for Erik Riss – makes his debut for Cheetahs. Kennett brings a wealth of experience to Cheetahs – the 39-year-old twice finished second in the British Final, while he was British Under-21 Champion in both 2005 and 2007." This was from the 2nd of June so 28 days would have been the last day of June. I'm honestly not sure whether he has signed another 28-day replacement contract (which would expire on the 28th of July) or whether he is just guesting now for Oxford until the situation with Riss becomes fully known.

It simply doesn't matter what they come up with if hardly anyone from the 80 million in the UK people know that you exist... What does a Premiership team cost? £350k a year maybe??. Shave off £50k and pay someone that money to work full time to run your marketing and commercial operations, plus running the "fan experience" on the night itself... With their remit to bring in a tangible extra £100k a season in sponsorship, and attendance increases... Give them full remit to do "whatever they need to", to get, at least, 2500 in the stadium... Free tickets, reduced tickets, database collation, even direct cold call marketing, their role will be to get the team noticed and get "new" money into the club... The more who attend, the better the atmosphere as we know, currently any "newbie" attending would have been in louder, more atmospheric libraries.. You can pay out six figures for a top two world class riders who, due to their small public profiles, will bring in hardly anyone extra to watch, or pay someone a decent figure, (with performance bonus), to get them noticed , and then bring people in to watch them.... I visited a pub on Monday to meet up with an old workmate, a pub I had never used before... I signed up to use their WIFI... Within 24 hours I had a 15% off voucher emailed to me for this Sunday in their restaurant, and thanking me for my custom... The circa 3000 or so who still follow most Premiership teams, should all be known to "someone" at the club,(via the clubs database), and that "someone" then keeps constantly communicating and doing anything, and everything, they can to encourage repeat visits... 500 empty seats just get colour faded in the sunshine... 500 full ones, even at a tenner each, will bring in £50k over a season, and create far more of an "event feel" and atmosphere, plus increase bar, food and merchandise takings... UK Speedway brings in big money in relation to its size, and pays out even more!! It needs to redistribute the money going out to people who could help bring more people in.. And currently, that isn't the riders..

Harris would be a concern as it seems he is not at his best currently, I seem to recall he has had some good scores there and Fricke is pretty much unbeatable there.

look how its turned out lowering the points limit year on year, massive gaps in team qualities, so why not try something different

there will never be one league, quicker we forget this idea the better for peoples mental health

Kolodinskis is the Wildcard 17 is Mihailovs 18 is Kostigovs

Line-ups Czestochowa 1 Ludwiczak 2 Halkiewicz 15 Wroclaw 3 Kowolik 4 Mikolajczyk 16 Bydgoszcz 5 Przyjemski 6 Pawelczak 17 Lublin 7 Jaworski 8 Szymd 18 Torun 9 Kawczynski 10 Duchinski 19 Krosno 11 Kreglicki 12 Wieszczak 20 Gorzow 13 Paluch 14 Sobkowiak 21

Wasn't it 45 but that also included bonus points??

if there was one league it automatically makes it a top league. Its the only way to go if you ask me, 45 points limit for 7 riders is absolute insanity and will see even more of a gap than there already is.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Da2FvDzDn6v/?igsh=MXR0OWQ2NmdzNnl2bQ==

Yes, he put it on Instagram a couple of hours ago

I’m more interested in the German clown getting sacked after last night’s shambles. My interest in speedway will only return when some jeopardy is added to the sport and add meaning to most meetings. Won’t hold my breath though

Sunday’s matches line-ups Daugavpils v Landshut Daugavpils 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Landshut 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Swietochlowice v Opole Swietochlowice 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Opole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Sunday’s match line-ups Poznan v Bydgoszcz - start time 6 pm UK time Poznan 9 NKI 10 Pludra 11 Berge 12 Smektala 13 Douglas 14 Witkowski 15 Mencel 16 Bydgoszcz 1 Wozniak 2 Putkowski 3 Huckenbeck 4 Loktayev 5 Buczkowski 6 Pawelczak 7 Andrzejewski 8( Przyjemski) - not named

I think its more likely to be the other way round. Cooper has done well so far at 4, don't think it makes a huge amount of difference anyway personally. Harris at 5 concerns me a bit, if its mega slick as it usually is when Lynn visit he'll struggle. As always we have to make good starts, don't and we'll get marmalised.

The preview on bspa site says if fit, so have you seen somewhere else that he is definitely back tonight?

Good to see that King is back for tonight