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You only have to look at the names that have been interested enough in Speedway to buy all the kit and kaboodle to ride at NDL/CL reserve level over the last 10 years but have subsequently quit due to lack of opportunity because clubs want ready made riders from abroad to see that the sport in this country could be sustainable if only the people running the sport would give home grown riders a decent chance. Even now were importing loads of young Aussies, who are really just here to concentrate on starting a career in Poland. To do away with anybody not committed to British Speedway is going to take a period of adjustment but look how quickly the CL has recovered since its drastic weakening a few seasons back, a lot of fans were up in arms when this happened but now it's probably one of the most competitive leagues in Europe.

December 31st then. At least top league does which is why Sheffield are planning to race on Wednesday

Spine chilling entertainment 🥰

Will the crowd be on their countryman’s side tonight or clubman?

Just the normal at Glasgow ATM,great racing.

For a sport that is virtually unknown in this country that looks like a sensible level to run at with guys that are fully committed to riding in UK. Start from the bottom and build it up. Invest in marketing and presentation and watch the sport fly. Joe Bloggs on the street doesn't know Saifutdinov from Simon Lambert but will love Simon's commitment to his team. It's a team sport after all and needs sold on that. Back your team.

At home you can do that in the easier fixtures

The fact that the BSPL/SCB are using a registered charity in their petty battle with NORA tells you everything you need to know about the people involved at the top of our sport and they should be nowhere near any decision making. If I were involved in the SRBF I'd be issuing a statement demanding that point 3 be removed from the SCB statement. And would be distancing the charity from such a corrupt organisation as the SCB.

The fact that the BSPL/SCB are using a registered charity in their petty battle with NORA tells you everything you need to know about the people involved at the top of our sport and they should be nowhere near any decision making. If I were involved in the SRBF I'd be issuing a statement demanding that point 3 be removed from the SCB statement. And would be distancing the charity from such a corrupt organisation as the SCB.

They aren't against it, but it needs to be volunteers, and a team. It can't just be reliant on one or two people because then it falls apart if they aren't around. It does get talked about from time to time, but I don't think they are going to pay anyone to do it - and they do place a high value on feet through the doors. They want the stadium to look full and have a great atmosphere.

Absolutely agree with what you say, but I genuinely feel also a bit of luck will have seen us into the PO. That home defeat to BV was damaging, as was the away defeat when we lost by 6 without Jan Kvech at reserve. If we had picked up the points from these, we would be heading into the Sheffield fixture 2 behind BV. Also, that defeat at Brum when Jan and Ben pulled out. I'm sure everybody has had there fair share of bad luck but this is from our persepctive.

As always, it's the day after the last fixture actually takes place.

Is there a cut off date?

yeah it is on British Speedway website.

Godfrey has been very quite all year, I thought he might have thanked the fans after a difficult season. Which riders didn't turn up in bar? Zaines average went up 0.94 Declans went up 0.64 Harrison went up 0.6 mountain went up 0.56 These are a bit misleading because every riders average should of gone up by 0.36 due to the team limit being 40 rather than 42.5.

http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=3099074&u=https%3A//share.google/CtzwFYP3Tiox9xLD9 Saw this on socials what a race.

Meeting at Workington on Sunday evening is also OFF

There are just enough number ones to go round. There needs to be some rider control for the good of all speedway and each team allocated a number one so as to give all teams a chance and more competitive competition.

So will one big weaker league work i have done a little research to help you decide. First of all we say goodbye to the 6 GP riders BK,DB,JD,MF,JH,JK,+ES. Then i checked which of the riders left double up both leagues and found that all but 15 of them do. These riders who do not are. J Lidsey, N Blodorn, T Brennan, R Douglas, J Pickering, C Holder, T Musielak, M Zagar, K Rew, N K Iversen, B Cook, M Janowski, R Tungate, L Becker, A Ellis. I found that of the above riders that 3 of them ride in the Polish top league. 9 of them ride in the Polish 2nd division. 2 of them ride in the Polish 3rd division. Also 8 of them ride in the Swedish top league and 4 of them also ride in the Danish league. So the question is how many of these riders would fancy riding in a league that runs on 6 days of the week of which non of them choose to do now. Hopefully some do but looking at the possibility that they do not. I have found that 19 riders in the Championship have averages over 7 points these riders are S Masters R Lawson, D King, N klindt, C Harris, C Wright, P Kildermand, S Worrall, K Howarth, E Riss, Z Cook, D Kemp, J Sedgman, D Thompson, J Allen, T Batchelor, A Rowe, A Vuolas and L Flint. So 15 of these riders spread over 15 teams will be the new number 1s. So the big hope is that some of the riders from other leagues will want to come over to ride. But looking how hard it is now to replace any injured riders it would seem that not many would So how do we fill the teams. As has been suggested we can lower team numbers if it is lowered to six then we need 90 riders. If my maths are right we are 27 riders short which will have to come from the National league there are 6 teams in that league which is 42 riders 9 of the better riders in this league already ride for championship teams which leaves 33 so that means a lot of very young inexperienced riders will be in all teams There is also the N D T league but most of the teams are filled with N D L riders doubling up so cuts down the choice of younger riders. Not sure if my maths or working outs are spot on but it gives a good idea of how teams will possibly look if we go one big league. In my opinion if they do go one big league having the above number one riders as the best in the league and so many very young inexperienced riders is one hell of a big risk.

A team of second strings and reserves was never going to have a good season. When building a team you need to look for riders who are likely to improve their averages. This was unlikely as Lambert, Allen, Worrell and Mountain's averages have been the same for years. There was always a doubt about Zaine and Declan in first season back and first season respectively. Only Harrison was likely to improve which has proved the case.

Plymouth would be mad to move up and does anyone actually know for certain what will happen with Sheffield, all sorts of things are being said ranging from complete shutdown to Nigel Tolley coming in but dropping down into championship to not risking his own money anymore, it seems as usual that it’s a mess and the fans are yet again left in the dark, something has to change and if it is one league without gp riders then so be it but at least it’s regular meetings and variety instead of stop start season and usual suspects at the top

Says it all when half the riders didn't turn up in the bar after the meeting including Godfrey don't give a dam about the supporters who turn up every week to see the same crap

Looks like Victor and Justin have the same plans 🤔

Looks like Victor and Justin have the same plans 🤔

Workington web site showing it off now