Hopefully Edinburgh get Poole (Berwick have Poole/Oxford in the KOC so would prefer a different team). Must have changed the rules again as Poole and Oxford met in the semi final last year in the BSN trophy.  

Difficult to see how the Foxes win with that team!

Got to have it in mind i think.

Thought I might take a look in👀

the failures at Northampton  began  long before a wheel was turned ,, it was almost a secret except to speedway fans  ,that Northampton were opening . lots of potential fans not even aware  there was going to be speedway ,,it was a massive investment to get Northampton up and running , and IMHO some of that money would have been better placed elsewhere , bribing a current championship team to step up  . and  investing in Northampton  to start in accordance with the bspa rules and run in the championship , A championship season would give newbies a good few new teams to watch ,not the same 5 over and over , and championship  fans  a new venue to see , seems like a winner to me  , a successful first season ,building and retaining their own fanbase ,and revenue from away team supporters while a home fanbase built up ,,season 2 a step up a league allowing the bribed team to step back down   

Yes i thought that Kurtz was earmarked for "Northampton" but i suspect the longer that things dragged on over the winter, then Kurtz would have run out of patience and needed to get his 2026 calendar sorted out, so had to stick with BV. As for the current predicament, perhaps as Peter Oakes suggested recently, Northampton could be helped-out, by way of being granted "special dispensation". For instance, being allowed to try and sign a rider (of suffiently good standard) who is only required to ride in home matches. Whilst this wouldnt solve the problem of being vulnerable to heavy away defeats and a poor attraction, maybe a little flexibility with guest rider averages could be allowed with the proviso that those riders do not appear in heat 15?