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He won’t last 5 minutes

Sure it was mentioned on another thread that Kemp was giving the Championship a miss as he's riding abroad this coming season, dunno if that means he gonna miss the UK completely and not do the Premiership either.

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What do we have left?

Your final point makes good sense. However, UK speedway is far from being a great product, it does not use the best ingredients, such as riders, stadiums and universal matchday experience. If things were done correctly promoters would invest (not divert from current costs)) significant amounts of money on local marketing & PR utilising the appropriate professional agencies whilst the BSPL did likewise on a national basis. Unfortunately, the majority of the promoters do not have access to the levels of cash or acumen necessary and so sadly they should not be running the sport at the professional level in the UK. For those folk who currently sit both inside and outside the BSPL with both cash and knowledge of what to do with it to grow UK speedway they will not be doing so whilst the BSPL functions in the significantly less than cohesive manner it currently does - it just does not make good business sense to do so, biding their time does.

It's not a bad team that's shaping up down Scunthorpe way considering that they have a (very good) rider taking up a quarter of the average space. Plus, it leaves room for both Max Perry at reserve and Worrall to come in at 5 if he decides to race this season, leaving a team which looks like this; Pickering / Harrison / MPT / Mountain / Worrall / Perry / Ingram

He’s welcome at Leicester but as a spectator only

Normally a draft ( daft 😛 ) fixtures schedule is released to the clubs, then tweaked if the club thinks any rider could be involved in official and Micky mouse FIM meetings etc. or some clubs avoid a certain date due to local stadium availability or a planned local event may have to be avoided

https://fimspeedway.com/news/woffinden-my-health-is-great No mention of Sheffield by Tai

He's not picked him yet though and his average is too high for the remaining place.

Sorry, what do you mean mate? Received by who? The BSPA from the clubs?

Talking of Drew Kemp, is he now Argentinian? Saw him competing in the Argentina championships

He could be the mascot

Championship fixtures were not yet received as of Saturday 10th January!!

I'm with you on that. Think Stewart has played a blinder here by sacrificing Fricke for an all round 1-7. Other Teams may have Superstar No.1's but they've also got very long tails to go with them, Who could be found wanting most weeks. Leicester on the other hand have a rock solid pairing across the board in every Heat.

Top stars bring people in it’s just the slow death of the sport that makes it seem that they don’t. Remove them and you’ll see a further jump in the drop in attendance. One very vocal critic of the current state of the sport said he’d turn up if his favourite top star was in attendance, no matter how repetitive his appearances. What has been the feedback from your 50 family & friends about attending regularly?

I like the look of this team, very solid without the top rider as number one, Fricke has gone to Kings Lynn but because of that they have weaknesses lower down, this could be the season Leicester win the title.

Link to source https://www.elitspeedway.com/nyhet/kalendern-klar-for-bauhaus-ligan-i-speedway-2026/

100%.... But. All glaringly obvious... Yet zero has been done to act upon it... Instead of marketing nationally I remember seeing one club set up a decorator's table with club memorabilia on it, in the foyer of a local supermarket... In the Speedway Star this week there is an excellent article with Mark Lemon who mentions wanting to bring others with "broader skill sets" into the sport.. Let's hope, marketing is one of those skills.. The bottom line is hardly any riders will increase crowds by their appearances, (as has been proved since "The Stars" came back a few years ago), so to keep forking out hundreds of thousands in paying them, instead of redistributing this cash into marketing (which "may" grow the sport), is not a great business plan... You can develop the greatest product ever to have existed in the world, using nothing but the very best ingredients, but you won't make any money if no one has heard of you, or your product ..

Roman?

It depends on what constitutes "huge" over decades. sure the sum over 20 years looks big but when viewed as an annual spend its not huge by any stretch of the imagination. Its not clear if you mean a couple of million spent on riders each year is the figure per team or in total but at an an average of around 150k per club per year (low) or 280k per rider (high). If it is the former and being on the low side even a figure double that, is not remotely big. By and large todays promoters spend what income they generate from gate receipts, sponsorship and media deals and cover small losses (200k is small) as their interpretation an an investment. sure it keeps the sport going which we should be thankful for, but in no way does it create the prospects for growth. What's lacking is additional working capital (cash) investment by the promoters in significant marketing & PR (so folk do know who the riders are), and the improvement of the meeting experience which (besides a few exceptions) is woeful with sub standard presentation. The reason its not done is for two linked reasons. 1, The promoters don't know what great promotion (marketing & PR) is and 2, They don't have the money and so rely on keen and willing volunteers to help out rather than being able to invest in engaging full time professional PR, marketing & sponsorship agencies. Also, worth considering that there is a need to promote at the national level (BSPL) and at the local level (individual promoters) in a coordinated and cohesive manner at a much greater level than is currently undertaken.

Tasmanian State Championship, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, 8 December 2018 1 (15) Kye Thomson [QLD] 3 3 2 2 3 13 + 3 2 (4) Zach Cook [NSW] 3 3 3 3 3 15 + 2 3 (12) Ben Cook [NSW] 2 2 3 2 3 12 + 1 4 (16) Josh MacDonald [NSW] 2 1 1 3 3 10 + 3 + f 5 (6) Declan Kennedy [QLD] 1 3 2 1 2 9 + 2 6 (13) Dakota Ballantyne [SA] 1 3 2 2 1 9 + 1 7 (1) Matthew Gilmore [NSW] 2 2 3 1 2 10 + r 8 (8) Jedd List [QLD] 0 0 3 3 1 7 9 (7) Cooper Riordan [VIC] 2 2 x 3 x 7 10 (5) Isaac Hawes [NSW] 3 1 xt 1 2 7 11 (10) Connor Bailey [VIC] 3 0 1 2 0 6 12 (9) Matthew Pickering [NSW] 1 0 2 0 2 5 13 (2) Kane Lawrence [NSW] 1 1 1 1 1 5 14 (14) Alan MacDonald [NSW] r 2 1 0 1 4 15 (11) Tyson Snow [QLD] 0 1 0 0 0 1 16 (3) Mitch Cluff [NSW] 0 0 0 x n 0 This meeting was staged with the intention of providing additional opportunities for riders to achieve a top three position in a State Championship and thereby achieve eligibility for a UK visa.

They’d be better off with Martin Kemp or his older brother Gary. They would provide the half time entertainment aswell.

Bauhaus Ligan fixtures for 2026:

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