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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.

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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 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Bydgoszcz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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

And keep them to a minimum. R/R has to be compulsory apart from for your number 1 or a reserve, but replace reserves with unattached Champ riders. And on the Championship don't allow riders like McDairmid to sign in the first place if they are never going to be here.

I can only see an easy home win for the Lions tonight. But I hope its closer than I fear.

This looks set for a home victory but a close meeting with most probably the win being secured by heat 14 maybe even a last heat decider.

Yes strange, you would think r/r at 2 also Kings Lynn have Cooper at 4 when you think he should be at 2. Maybe having Dan T at 2 is because Kvech is at 2.

Easy home win

2026 as been a hard watch and that started from november 25, a winter of discontent not knowing what structure will be, lost lots of fans before a wheel was even turned, and they not done anything to entice them back. i remember dicko saying they will be sorting 2027 out very early during the seasoon, well we are nearer the end of the season and nothing about 27 as been mentioned, set out a plan that fans believe in and you might just entice these people back, fans are out there, thats the frustrating thing. before they start trying to bring new fans in they need to bring back the fans that have walked away, start of by securing a TV deal, thats a masisve loss of money for the clubs, plus people easily forget the sport is still going when all the domestic league racing is behind a paywall that only existing fans know about. no one knows the figures of BSN or the clubs private streams but they are deffo having an impact on attendances, yes clubs are still getting money with them watching at home but they lose out on parking money, food and drink and merchandise sales, so they must be taking a massive financial kick in the bollocks with it. scrap streaming need a new vision, Rob Godfrey has to stand down, which i think will be this year, if they can, while hes not everybodys cup of team, and tbh, i see him as a guy that will leave the sport and never be seen again, but try tempt Tai to run the sport in uk, hes got no ties with any club, and we know his marketing value is very good. leads me perfectly to marketing, or lack of it, constantly asking fans to spread the word about speedway, i think most fans do that anyway but your job as a promotor is to promote, and it seems no one does, Plymouth are doing a fanstastic job of it. that old saying, speculate to accumulate, advertising is not cheap but if it gets you an extra 100 people through the door at £25 thats £2,500 extra every week, add on top of that drinks and other sales. Ask Mark Phillips what hes doing and plymouth and follow his ideas, he seems to be upping his crowd. dont do one league, every sport needs a top league to sell, put the points limit up and go back to the old style , 45 point limit for 7 riders, scrap the RS and put it in the champ. prepare your tracks better and you will see an influx of riders return, riders want to race uk but they dont trust track prep when you speak to them or hear what they have to say on various podcasts. season tickets should be discounted like ipswich have done. sell the season ticket valued at £20 per match, and give them the option to pay monthly, starting from november, atmosphere is missing totally, each track have a certain area in the stadium where fans can congregate and make some noise, start meetings on time, and make sure they last no more than 90 minutes (crashes dependent) regular fixtures, far to many teams going 4-5 weeks without a home match, should be 2 weeks at most re-brand the play offs, i like the Denmark way of doing it, whoever finishes top of regular season ride the final at there track in a 4TT, or make it top team straight to the final and 2nd and 3rd team if a play off tie for the final we all want weekend racing, but we just cant do that unfortunately, the top league need to ride all matches on Mondays, this is uk race night, there will be no clashes with any team in europe and gives clubs' full availability to all riders fort every match, dont scrap the guests but limit the amount of times you can use a guest,