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They have two solutions.. 1. Run a "Super League" with (five or maybe six?) teams at last years tier one level and hope they get some TV coverage. With those teams then running a 2nd team in a league that matches a cross between last years Championship and NDL levels, with rider/average controls in place to share out the HL's. Or 2. No GP or Polish contracted riders at all and just running one league at a Championship/NDL level running on any nights the clubs want to, to maximise crowds, with some kind or average/rider control to share around the HL's... Let's face facts. . Bringing back the GP/Top stars simply hasn't worked across the league, as fans are now able to watch them ride in Sweden on Tuesday, Poland Friday and Sunday, and in the GP's, Euro Championships, SON, SWC etc virtually every week of the season... With several visits to your own track during the year, any "novelty" has now gone and their presence simply hasn't added the numbers to the atrendances they obviously were hoped, and intended, to do.. Ipswich fans may say different, however, when they travelled away "huge crowds" didn't pay to watch Emil and Doyle and even at home in "dead rubbers" theid crowds, whilst better than anyone elses, were hardly "bumper". Contrast and compare Emil's first season to his last away from home. It became just another Speedway meeting, where, in his first year there was some "box office" to his arrival at your track.. The Aces had some very low crowds with two of the top 3 riders in the world, (being two of the most exciting riders too), riding for them... I would say the lack of jeopardy in so many meetings keep more fans away than the GP riders can attract, especially as they are only "big names" in a tiny, tiny pond, so hardly anyone outside the small number of followers of the sport, in fhe UK, could even name them.. One league will at least bring some different teams to tracks, which may stimulate some "novelty value" at least....
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"we are heading for something really big," ----- Could it mean that after more EGM's and more EGM's that the PL situation has unravelled to the fact that there are currently only 4 Clubs. The PL won't countenance, 1 big league, NONE of the CL Clubs are not interested in moving "up". Birmingham are closed, Sheffield remains unsold, Oxford will not run 3 Leagues and won't run PL. No returning or new Club is viable in the timeframe. The only viable 5th club therefore is Sheffield. My understanding is-: AT LEAST Two of the PL Clubs are now considering not racing in 2026 rather that diminish their current SGP staffed roster and are increasingly intransigent. Where that might leave the other 2 (or 3 if Sheffield is sold) no one yet knows. Hopefully Sheffield in sold PDQ! Before AGM! / CL will accept a couple of ex PL Clubs who wish to race under current CL limit? Also possible that if the boycott happens potentially none of the current Management Committee may remain in place!
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By Youhave2minutes · Posted
That’s a Damn good side you’ve assembled there. Move over Peter Schroeck -
By Youhave2minutes · Posted
How that’s gonna be achieved god only knows😢 -
By THE DEAN MACHINE · Posted
It’s trivial, at this point in time we haven’t got a sport, we need to sort that out before we even contemplate how teams are made up -
1. D. Thompson 2. L. Fredriksen 3. B. Barker 4. J. Thompson 5. S. Nicholls 6. D. Klima 7. 2.00 or 1. D. Thompson 2. T. Thomsen 3. B. Barker 4. J. Thompson 5. S. Nicholls 6. A. Bowtell 7. 2.00
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