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Unfortunately this situation has been predicted over the last 10-15 years and it has arrived.!Who knows what the powers at be will come up with. Many suggestions but who knows what the outcome will.Cant really see it being positive though unfortunately. Back to basics is my solution .The BSPA is secret society full of self interest .The sport has no credibility as a professional Sport which is a major problem in attracting new Fans (and keeping them)

Lets face it, Cami Brown will continue as Tigers TM,as long as the Facennas receive money from Browns business interests. He's as good as being the longest TM in tigers history.I am not a fan of his ,never have been, he hasnt good the balls to criticise or give a kick up the backside of riders when need be. He got the job because the Promotion and Stuart Dickson had difference of opinions. Dickson is not a YES man.

We have fixture chaos and dozens of guests now, so how will we spot the difference? A towo league of eight teans will need forty riders with five to a team.. And, if all run in every night apart from Tuesday and Sunday all will be available for their HOME meeting and some/most always... If there is common sense, then anyone 8 points and over from last seasons Prem should get their average capped at 12, so that team can keep a "top rider" if they so wish, and still build a decent five rider team... A couple of my mates retired before me and got bored... So now they do Amazon drops... 7am to 3pm, earning around £120 a day.. Meaning if they did five days they get £600.. Circa £30k a year. A Championship No1 will be on around £2k a night if the Championship was the top tier... Eight teams in a league home and away twice as a minimum is £56k... Add in an Amazon job, with decent hours to still do Speedway ,and that is circa £86k a year. (Other jobs are available).... Comfortably in the top 10% of UK earners.... Or they double up for around £1k a night in second tier at Champ/NDL level... Or ride in Sweden, Poland and Denmark. (For one season at least)... This obsession with high earning GP riders who restrict teams to Mondays and Thursdays baffle me... Especially as they don't generate crowds which justify their expense... They have, sadly, outgrown the UK version of the sport...

I am sure the BSPA could arrange the fixtures in a way that meant the Panthers first 8-10 matches were all away from the Showground. This would give the Panthers additional time to fix the track.

I agree. Something has to give and a compromise has to be met between PREM & CHAMP Promoters.

Unfortunately, although you clearly mean well your suggestion just will not work due to a number of factors which are just not sustainable or deliverable. one being, a top league of eight teams will leave no riders to make up a second tier - thus at least no need to worry about the fixture chaos and the mass use of guests required.

Will was the biggest shoe in though since Mike Tyson beat up poor old terrified Frank Bruno in their second encounter.

Then the Top two in the play offs 🤣

Don’t think that will happen though

An eight team "top league" racing on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday depending on what is their best night to deliver the biggest crowds... The level being very much Championship standard, but if a team wants to run on Monday and Thursday so they can use a GP rider with a "high average" then they do so and just build the rest of the team around them... Five riders per team, no rising stars, use the Danish model so plenty of rides per meeting for each rider... Anyone riding in Poland or Denmark may miss away meetings from time to time so just use a guest. Like happens ad nauseum now... As long as they ride at home then, "where the money is made", is protected... Second tier, six teams, seven riders per team ran at a hybrid Championship/NDL level, (the current stand alone clubs and the NORA ones may also be interested)... Riders can double up with, again, a high average for the better ones, with the rest of the team built around them.. Two, two point reserves in every 2nd tier team, a) to give those starting out track time, and b) to help offset the costs of a DU'ing No1... Each club to run at least a 9 heat second half of those needing development....

You're the one that is drooling. Your argument is a toddler could have guided that team (Harris, Brennan, Vissing, Tarasenko, Basso, Complin & Pijper) to the title. Cami Brown did. But with Bewley, Kurtz, Lindgren, Zmarzlik, Doyle, Kubera and Holder, Cami Brown couldn't win the Championship? So...are you trying to argue that the 2023 Tigers are better than that world select you listed??? I think you're on more drugs than Lee Complin

Ok may be 2027 a year or two to soon…But it is simply unsustainable with costs and revenue incoming to carryon you say riders, you are correct I say revenue… Get away from this Monday Thursday piece. What about one league then across all three at present. I know yeh… but standard of riders will be unbalanced then say a Leicester ride a Saturday night entice level 2 riders from Europe not riding in Poland.. get back to every week racing we all want the same thing to watch speedway in years ahead but needs an absolute c change or as many say it hits a wall and all we have is individual meetings as and when…

Why, is it beyond the Wit of man to put up a fence and lay a track in winter.

Shocking numbers... hey but Dan Bewley & Robert Lambert!

There have been recently, quite few realistic posts made on this matter in particular the recognition of the number of competitive riders that are available for the existing teams to participate in two leagues or so long as the top league runs on Mondays & Thursday meaning that doubling up can facilitate a second tier for other clubs to compete in. However, when I read your suggestion of planning ahead for one league in 2027 I do wonder what it is that you don’t understand about rider availability & implications to a league structure. To be clear. one league removes doubling up meaning that even if the one league runs on Mondays & Thursdays there will be only seven or possibly eight teams around. I'm not sure that the instant culling of seven or eight of the existing clubs is what you want the BSPA to plan for in 2027 Is it? Please read the recent posts which detail the math of the situation which may help you grasp why two leagues are a key element of building a future for UK speedway - or if not seeing what could become a car crash.

Jason Pipe in last weeks Speedway Star says that since 2021, 53 British riders have stopped racing... 20 more stopped in 2019, and 23 stopped in 2018... Seven seasons, 96 riders . Many of whom will have stopped through a lack of a clear development plan and opportunity, and an insistence from NDL promoters that they have two bikes of a standard, and maintain them to that level, that wouldn't leave much change from £10k... And all to try and win a competition that even close followers of the sport would struggle to name the winners of... Hardly anyone outside of Speedway followers could even name who won the top two league competitions, never mind the 3rd one... The whole operating model is inherently flawed and needs a complete overhaul... They could start with every track running a 2nd half of say two groups of four riders, all getting four rides minimum each (from every starting gate), and then the top two from each group have a final... No teams, just individuals in "glorified practice" but with a competitive edge to it.. Hell. There could even be expenses paid to the eight riders and a modicum prize for the winner... Maybe even a national trophy award running through the season with a full final for the top 16 scorers? There has to be a line drawn in the sand now.. And everything then reset from there...

If the landowner EoEAS allow them too, then yes. I guess there are on going discussions about that.

You don't absolutely have to have seating straight away. People can Stand or bring their own Camping chairs. People can sit or stand under the cover of the very large grandstand. Permanent Seats can be added over time.

It all boils down to the old saying, where there is a will, there is a way, the stumbling block from what I read is there are allegedly a couple of Clubs that don't want to lose Top league status.

All 3 of those can be addressed if the will is there

A toddler could have guided that team to a title. Or even you.

British Speedway is running into a brick wall which ever way it turns. It's just a case of how hard do the BSPL want to hit that wall? Every solution leads to a dead end due to Financial Costs, Rider Availbility and the 2027 Polish Rule.

That's far from the truth. I saw several people with white stickers on their shirts that had come to the motor museum & were allowed into the speedway show & some of our fantastic speedway people were more than happy to spread the gospel of our sport. Now weather or not any of those people have or ever will attend a speedway event I can't answer but the seed has been sown.

I'm not so sure about that... there has only been 1 thing that has kept British Speedway going in its current form since the turn of the millenium and the rise of Poland & the SGP series... and that is a tv deal. The current implosion was always going to happen when that particular golden teat ran dry and anybody with any foresight would have known this. Now that tv deal has gone it's time to cut our cloth accordingly, get the sport in order and fit for purpose as a sporting entertainment event and who knows in the future the powers that be maybe able to approach a tv company with a proposal of bringing in top stars for a proper tv deal and not the peanuts that has been received over the last 5 years or so.

Going to sound hypocritical but British Speedway was in a much different state back then in all fairness.