... or, our top division doesn't suit a league with top class riders 🤔

Long Eaton... during the 90's

He must be confident of putting at least 300 paying adults on his crowd numbers every week then, even when the tv cameras aren't there, to mitigate the loss of tv money... which begs the question why hasn't he done this already 🤷‍♂️

Expected, then 2 should be a very competitive heat 13/15

Not particularly no, but it kind of depends how competitive and I mean equally competitive, those five teams are. I’d rather watch four teams visit three times each if they look attractive, than several teams visit for “variety” where you’ll know the result before the tapes go up in heat one. We had that even in a seven team league this year. Our poorest attendances at Foxhall this year were unsurprisingly when Birmingham and Oxford came to visit.    Is it really a positive thing to get more teams involved for the sake of variety, if those extra teams end up as cannon fodder like Birmingham were this year? The reality is there’s such a small pool of top class riders that want to ride over here, that our top division doesn’t suit a league with large numbers.

As a Scunthorpe fan I totally understand his situation, and can’t blame him really, he’s Sheffield club captain at the end of the day and has rode for the club for a few years now