Glasgow.... To You, To Me, To Me, To You. Etc, etc etc... The seemingly unpalatable truth for some is that the level of the Premiership is clearly, and undeniably, untenable in the UK, for enough teams to make it viable and credible... A dead horse that some still seem to want to keep flogging.. As was shown last season, seven is two too many given the lack of riders of the level needed, and the cost of them, with the team in fifth being no real challenge for the top four.. Running with five or six teams makes little difference anyway to running with four teams when it comes to credibility and variety of clubs visiting.. Listening to the augments for a Premiership is like listening to the Dead Parrot sketch in Month Python...  "This league is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet it's maker!"... Time to move on with "something else"... As. Whatever it may be, it has to be better than a non competitive top tier with so few teams... (Once Again)...

And if Glasgow tell them where to stick their ultimatum? Are you REALLY going to kick Glasgow out of speedway?? And kick Chris Harris, Kyle Howarth, Leon Flint, & Luke Harrison out of the Championship? Or are they just to ride your 4 meaningless meetings? (NB I've no idea who Glasgow have signed for next year, but those 4 have all been linked to Glasgow, but I expect the first 3 to be wanted back. I'm also reckoning that most Championship teams have already signed nearly all of their 7 for 2026 so couldn't fit three newly unemployed 2026 Tigers septet into their plans).  So Tigers prop up the Premiership for one year with Janowski or some other nae user at number 1, no second heat leader and a team full of riders not good enough for the 5 existing Premiership teams, and then go back to one big league to sign the cast offs again? That is assuming that your 1 year propping up the Premiership with a dross team getting stuffed every week with a significant drop off in the racing (entertainment) against teams we don't care about (no rivalries of any sort) doesn't kill the crowd levels to the point it becomes not financially viable to continue? Also how is this Championship level team going to work, is at a select team from other clubs (essentially 7 guests!) are we just bringing riders out of retirement. Or are we to have 4 Premiership riders plus 3 NDL reserves? (like that very sorry lived inter league trophy from 10ish years ago) The 2026 Premiership problems are a direct result of 4 of the remaining 5 teams hoovering up all the talent and leaving the others to rot. KL made a decent fist of it, but Oxford and Birmingham were lambs to the slaughter and consequently aren't around any more (Brummies lost their stadium but there was no talk at all of trying to relocate). That is the reason that no one wants to step up. It's not the first time it happened either, Arena Essex / Lakeside were screwed over just the same when they stepped up.  Ideally it needs a miracle resurrection of Coventry or Swindon or Peterborough or Cradley Heath but that isn't likely, and starting a Northampton team in a different location (like Oxford) with a weak team getting stuffed every week sounds like a recipe for disaster

If it's one "medium" league, then I'm sure riders would want to renegotiate their contracts. Pickering may have asked for a amount based on scoring 13 points a match. If one league is stronger, he'd likely ask for more, if one league was weaker, Scunny may want to offer less.

Danny King in this weeks Speedway Star says he's "happy with two teams & two Leagues in the UK"  

That would be the saviour option that pleases all parties. What's the whisper as nothing has done the rounds on here other than Northampton running at Oxford?

D a 6th team not mentioned brought back ?