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Goodbye speedway my old friend…The sound of silence 🤫

Need they bother. No one wants to see a pathetic looking team just to make the numbers up. Even if it’s six teams, it’s a pathetic state of affairs.

Wrong bloke mate

You wanna bet🤣

I couldn’t if I tried

It's impossible, Perry Como.

Looking at your Site Name... and going back to Elton... with a bit of help from Kiki on this one... "Don't Go Breaking the Tapes"....

Perhaps next year. I know how you feel it’s gutting when it’s your birthday and the wife forgets to make you a cake🤣

All this reminds me of Hackney 1988. Team wins the league in a class of their own. During the close season the team gets ripped apart ( funnily enough half of them go to Ipswich). Three years late Hackney closed.

Sheffield 2023. Overall. Jack Holder 9.40 Tobiasz Musielak 9.35 Tai Woffinden 9.12 Away Tobiasz Musielak 8.50 Tai Woffinden 8.33 Jack Holder 8.00 That doesn't suggest if motivated and in a competitive team that Musielak will struggle to win heats home & away.

Scrap the Team. Pile up the Top 5 and get a Rider like Mitch McDiarmid in @ No.6. 1. T. Brennan 7.05 2. D. King 6.50 3. R. Lawson 6.81 4. N. Klindt 6.46 5. T. Musielak 6.63 6. M. McDiarmid 3.45 (5.18 divided by 1.5) 7. J. Edwards (RS) = 36.90

You can probably get away with a 6 team league, but no more than that. There’s a few that could come back in if they’ve been given enough notice namely Doyle, Becker, Ellis. But they would only help team five and Six be a bit more competitive rather then get a seventh or eighth team competing.

I've tried to remain positive this winter but I'm now very concerned to a point where the damage could be irreversable for Mayfield tbh. Fans have hit boiling point before the season has even begun so they simply aren't going to put up with a poorly built 1-7 that gets hammered every week, Fans don't have any patience left and nobody can blame them. I get options are limited but you can still put together a better side than the one that's rumoured which would put up a better fight to nick 3rd Place. You've still got riders like Nicolai Klindt available who can score big points around King's Lynn and Leicester as well as Ipswich. What's the point in having a No.6 on a GSA around the 4.50 mark unless it's a Rider who's going to put in Leon Flint 2025 type scores every week? It goes against everything what a strength in depth side should be. It's not even a side built to win at Home if the No.6 isn't a Rider who'll score a minimum of 8-10 Points consistently around Foxhall. The blame also lies with Chris Louis if the rumoured undercooked 1-7 becomes factual.....No free pass this time.

Yep, he just can't help himself.. No doubt he'll be back soon with another "Nom de plume"

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The vast majority of the fans can see that, yet, incredibly, it seems those running the sport cannot. Once again, if we go with six teams, at least one will be cannon fodder... Just like when we had seven teams... Just like when we had eight teams. .. Just like when we had, etc etc etc, In fact, when the top tier reached eight and more, it usually meant at least two teams were cannon fodder.... Yet. . "We propose to do exactly the same this season" is the only plan....

Not John Perrin. 2013 vs Poole in the David Gordon era. Two riders, Zagar and Zetterstrom (allegedly) missed their plane, and the track was deliberately over watered. Darren Hartley was dispatched by SCB to investigate as he lived locally. My recollection was that BV were fined and told in future they needed to have a referee’s inspection before a meeting was called off

Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream..

Exactly. Isn’t feasible, or workable .

Time Pink Floyd

Top tier promoters were trying to encourage some second tier teams to go into the top league... Imagine if Poole and Glasgow had gone into the top league (I won't say "moved up", as it isn't really), and Oxford had decided to stay...? Even without Northampton, where would the riders have come from?

And people want even more clubs in the top flight. LOL.

Nice one Christopher.

Can’t disagree with any of that. If they had the six I mentioned on the provision that Thorssell would be the seventh, then they might have to rip up a couple of deals and have a rethink. The problem is, if there was a lack of quality options to begin with, then it’s not likely to be any different now. With the six plus Jenkins, the season is a write off before it’s even started. That’s not being negative, just a reality. What on earth are Northampton going to go with if they get the Green light? A top two of Klindt and Iversen?

If Jenkins is the No.6 then this Team gets hammered at Home as well as Away. Going to see a massive drop off in attendances that's for sure especially after this joke of a winter.