Starting in March the play offs would be in June. Clubs don’t run weekly speedway. It’s more like fortnightly meetings meaning the same club would be back in eight weeks time following its previous visit.
Every time our sport takes a step back, that becomes the new normal from which to work backwards from. Rarely if ever does it step back, regroup and move forward. It just moves further back.
More notice period for teams moving up/down.
Early knowledge of league structures to negate riders looking elsewhere for their income.
Teams and meeting formats to suit the rider pool available.
Competitions outside of the current league set up.
There’s many operational knock ons associated with above and that’s just stuff off the top of my head right now.
Wouldn't necessarily if it was in three seperate competitions, the fixtures would be much closer than that.
Personally I go to see my team race, not particularly fussed who its against although of course a league of five or six is far from ideal. Two leagues of eight has been mentioned for 2027 and that would be a far better situation.
But if said persons missed 4 meetings £25 each 2 people so £200 lost, multiply that by saying 50 couples that a potential loss of £10k that's on top of normal losses for each meeting. Then potential sponsors won't come on board due to lack of TV. Sorry to say this but speedway is more fooked than usual