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Perhaps spedeworth were hesitant to renew the lease without surety of who the incoming tenants would be, would make sense that don’t you think 🤷‍♂️

Why does Worrall keep getting mentioned, hes packed in and wasnt very good last season,

Maybe with potentially less meetings the rent has needed to be renegotiated?

You're probably right tbh. As long as British Speedway doesn't have a TV deal then I fully expect Nicholls to be in the side as every Team will have to have a Rider on a low 5 ish GSA or high 4's.

11.27 left for final two. An eight point number 1 looks unlikely then.

Would imagine that Pickering will get 6 rides in quite a lot of meetings this year!

Chris Louis said the lease was the issue in the statement released. If you take a look at the statement in which he said “the club sale has stalled due to the renewal of the stadium lease” so I am not sure why you think that the other poster and I do not know that. If CL is saying why are we wrong? Renewal of the lease would suggest that it was due to expire or has expired. It does not suggest that JL had forfeit the lease and new terms needed to be agreed with new tenants. It is irrelevant anyway but the whole point is the sport has been dragged down over this and other factors. It is a shambles and Ipswich/JL and others are complicit in making the situation worse than it needs to be have been.

I’d say the confirmed 5 as Brennan, King, Musielak, Nicholls and Edwards

It’s a lot of fuss and excitement over nothing really imo. Just pick and choose which meetings you want to see , for your own enjoyment and fix , every now and again. Show them the contempt they show their customers in what after all is a tinpot league where you can be crap most of the season but still come out on top at the end.

That could have harmed negotiations though TTT. He was never going to release an update until the ink was dry on the agreement, which came yesterday.

Come the 1st of May, Godfrey needs to make a ruthless move to use up the 2+ points available. Ablitt/lambo for Worrall/Voulas.

If ,we win at home, then it will not be by huge margins. We therefore need good point scoring away from home for any aggregate score competitions.

Someone else has just said that also, but neither of you know that. The fella who I’m not going to name, can be a very awkward customer. It’s entirely possible the goalposts would have been moved when someone other than Chris Louis was negotiating the lease.

I'm not sure whether it's case of a very bitter Wolves fan with a massive grudge , or that the guy is just incapable of understanding the plan for the stadium & just how much support the consortium have ,and not just from the fans

Why when it's a team designed to win at home 😂😂

No way. Don't put him on ignore. I'm keeping him very visible. He's a good reminder. Every time I see one of his comedy posts, it's a good reminder to check the threads to see if any local councils need a reminder letter. I suspect his days on this forum are numbered, and he will have skulked off before the Coventry Grand opening meeting, but if he is still here next year, I'm thinking of DMing him to offer to pay for his ticket to the first match of the season.

It's very poor for the fans not to get a statement earlier in regards to the lease for the stadium being the hold up. Should have had clarity on that a lot earlier.

The stadium issue which is seemingly lease related will have been known for some considerable time and the renewal date would have been set out in the terms of the previous lease so no excuses. It was possibly a matter of public record if the lease/sub lease was registered but I am not prepared to pay a fee to corroborate the position. Even if the lease or sub lease was not registered, CL would have known the position and could easily have made a short statement regarding the lease coming to the end of its term and hence a delay could be expected. Yes the lease holder (Spedeworth) need to carry out due diligence on the new will not want to be in a position that is materially different to that which they were in with the JL (e g bank guarantees underpinning rent payments etc..). I do not think it is a case of the new owners being more professional, anyone involved in acquiring a business that has a leased asset would face the same issues and potential delays. But you have to go back to the fact that the date would have been known so to point the finger at Spedeworth as being the reason for the delay is a tad unfair. When JL decided to sell he would have been fully aware of the lease position. The team building and release of names does make sense but in the overall scheme of things, all parties have a made a dogs dinner of proceedings and the statement does little to deter the detractors of the sport who think it is run by amateurs who have little business acumen and that is why it cannot attract any decent sponsorship that would make a real difference and give it a modicum of credibility. All who have been involved have done the sport no favours.

Aren’t you excited to see what team of undesirables and misfits they’ve managed to cobble together? 😁

Yes but unlikely to be the team very long with Picko's average due to decrease.

I was going to add R87 to my Ignore list, but then realised that I would never see his apology for getting it so wrong with his constant negativity.

I'm past caring...

Plenty of scope for rider changes once the season is underway

Yet again stringing supporters along, utter contempt for the customers

Basically Mayfield will be confirmed as new owners within the next two weeks, Get the last 2 Riders signed in that period and in the takeover statement we'll also get the Team reveal. Late February and it's all done and dusted.