That would be awesome to be fair 😁

Big loss to Berwick and the Championship. I saw Drew at Shielfield last season against Glasgow and it was one of the strongest individual performances I’ve witnessed by an opposing rider. If memory serves me right, he was unbeaten by a visiting rider, albeit one engine failure/mechanical retirement.

Teams need to state they are running by the 20th.

How do a similar sized sport in Sweden do it?  A country with a similar lack of young riders from their own country coming through.. Probably worth finding out isn't it I would have thought... Denmark run five rider teams due to also having a lack of Danish riders to fill spots and, five rider teams also keep costs down. They run similar sized crowds to the UK... Something else to explore maybe? Or... Just carry on with the nonsense operating model used over here? "They used guests when Speedway was popular" is something I have read on here as justification for them... A great many things accepted 50 years ago in a non instant 24/7 media world, are no longer accepted today... UK Speedway hasn't even come out of the 20th Century yet....

I love the debate that comes around guests necessary evil etc etc & what the alternative is. Its not a necessary evil, Poland & Sweden run with out guests they use a squad system. Back in the day the old National League under the management of Stekesbury & co banned the use of guests. At the time the NL was a fair better & more professional outfit than the BL. Guests & doubling up come about because of the absolutely ridiculous operating model that the uk have gone with. If you go back to the 80s & early 90s every team had a junior team which meant most clubs had their regular 1-7 with them a back up of anywhere between 4-7 good junior/second half riders. If you were running in the NL basically you had a squad of 11-13 guys the juniors would be called in to the team to cover injuries. The promotors decided to bin that off reducing the number of available riders though lack of opportunities to race remember those juniors rode in their own league match’s each week. While every other ‘professional’ sport have invested in increasing their squad systems & opportunities to compete & train British speedway has done the opposite. There is a route out however that will take time vision & creative thinking.    The out of control guest & doubling up system is a condition unique to British speedway brought about by the way the governing body has chosen to operate the sport. It wasn’t ever necessary!

Nothing wrong with the idea of in-meeting or 2nd half junior racing. I used to enjoy those too. It's not to dissimilar to what I'd already suggested. For me though, guests from outside the league only adds quality rather than having a wobbler coming in for a missing top rider. With most teams already having inexperienced at 6 & 7, adding more juniors as guests could make meetings an horrific experience for paying fans. The Premiership, were possible, desperately needs to keep it's product as strong as possible.  Again though, as a whole, most don't lose interest due to missing &/or guest riders. These are just generally used by fans who bash the doubling up/down. Most fans get fed up and bored because everything surrounding the sport. If British Speedway wants a younger audience, they have to provide engagement outside of practice starts, wheelies, & racing. The "Speedway" isn't broken, the engagement of the sport is.