How has speedway been allowed to get into such a state? Riders in this day and age and I'm not talking big names here. Riders in the 2nd division and even the 3rd division turn up with kit that a GP rider would be happy to have. Paid mechanics, Big fancy vans. It's a fantasy world. You say we can't change back. Well if we don't address the elephant in the room. Speedway won't have long left as a professional sport. Promotors have got big decisions to make this close season. Sticking their heads in the sand and thinking " Theres nothing wrong with product," will not wash anymore. We have come to a watershed moment. If nothing changes, then it won't survive. 1) Do they still carry on paying riders wages that far outweigh the amount of people who come through the gate. Clubs will have to cut there cloth accordingly. Meaning riders will have be paid a realistic wage for what the sport is and the amount of people coming through the gate. If ridweres want to turn up with all the kit, no one is stopping them, but the clubs cannot afford to fund their fantasy and before anyone has a go. No rose tinted glasses, but pure facts. In the 80s Most riders worked. They got wages according to their standard. The Leagues were a lot bigger. The crowds were a lot bigger. 2) Do they take the sport by the horns, and make it one league. There are 16 clubs, god knows how many next year. but you can't run two divisions with such a small amount of clubs. " yes they have done, but look where it's taken us"  3) The pricing has to reflect the quality of what you're paying for. Riders will have to make drastic changes. If there is to be one league, I would imagine the top riders would disappear. So the one league would be mainly made up of British riders. Clubs have to stop paying bang average foreign riders, flights and mechanics. People who say it will water it down. Well the standard can't get much lower at 2nd division level. This season most 2nd division clubs have filled their 6 and 7s with 3rd division riders. The top league is made up mostly of 2nd division riders. The standard has been getting lower every season for a while now. if that means a couple of more riders from the 3rd division replacing expensive foreign riders, then that will have to be a price the sport will need to pay to survive. More importantly. two home and two away meetings would stop the silly practise of clubs not having home meetings for weeks on end. The sport needs a reset and It has got to far out of hand and only a massive reset will save it. IMO

Take it the BSPA will financially compensate the Berwick promotion and any Berwick or Workington fans who lost money as a result of the very short notice cancellation of the fixture. Thought not.

Looking at Companies House and the London Gazette it seems the company was subject to a mandatory winding up by the Registrar of Companies as they hadn’t filed any accounts since 2022.  The problem when that happens is that all assets of the company - physical assets, bank accounts, anything with a saleable value - is declared by the court to be “Bona Vacantia” I.e. property with no owner. So legal ownership passes to the Crown (or in other words the government). Bank accounts will be closed and any cash transferred to HM Treasury and physical assets seized for auction. Property can be reclaimed by either going to court and having the company reinstated on the register or providing evidence that any assets seized were owned by someone else. 

Definitely think a Saturday Afternoon is not good day to run a meeting.But don’t know the main decision for this .Know the don’t have floodlights. accommodating rider demands is killing the sport fixtures are too sporadic.Fans could probably accept once a Fortnight better.

I don't think most fans realise just how much the riders earn nowadays it's very good money. I've always watched the Comets but used to enjoy it more when there was a meeting every week so it was much more expensive to watch then but you knew you had a meeting every week. The way the fixtures are now you have no idea if there at home or not you have to check. I miss quite a few Saturday meetings now if I'm at work due to the 3pm start I've never liked or understood that decision to ride on a Saturday afternoon. At the start and end of the season they are up against football then during summer so many events are on a Saturday plus people working. Workington apparently helped out stepping up to CL but I think another year or two at NL could have been better to build white it was cheaper to attend.

There is a lot of sense in this. Worky crowds are down so far this season and there have been internal discussions re the need to do something to attract more people.  Our first priority should definitely be to find out why we are losing fans we had. There have been a series of variables this season which have had a deleterious effect on early attendances eg relatively late start, lack of fixture continuity, rain offs, unbalanced team strength and poor early form. We have had home fixtures against two clubs Scunny and Plymouth which historically attract less fans than other fixtures while the Edinburgh KO Cup return leg was a dead rubber following a disastrous score in the 1st leg as was pretty much the Redcar BSN meeting because we couldn't qualify. Like has been stated it is easy for certain fans to get out of the habit of attending.  Finding out why they are falling out with it, while rigorously self critiquing your own product in terms of entertainment and enjoyability has to be a top priority.