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IMO Monday night Premiership racing is the worst decision ever made. Thursday is slightly better. Who wants to really go out on a Monday night especially parents with kids. And if you’re trying to attract a younger early 20s audience, generally they’ve spent out over the weekend. The majority of our meetings should be on Friday, Saturday or Sunday and if that means we have to lose the ‘stars’ then so be it, the sport is or needs to be bigger than any individual rider.

Both lads have jobs and do speedway with help of their amazing parents and friends, they ain’t full time riders they combine both like most of the NDL, it’s bloody hard work and I know that personally because we’re doing it, not one rider expects anything except a fair crack and believe me or not if we all said stuff it some people on the forums would be even more stuffed because they wouldn’t have a platform to tell us what they thought of our concerns for our sport

Got to disagree there regarding race nights. I only live 15min away from the afa or saddlebow road but I absolutely hate Monday race nights, especially when I'm normally home about 18.30 and very often out at 4.30 in the morning. It means I'm nackered Tuesday and that doesn't start the week off very well. At least with a Thursday race night there's only Friday at work to get through!

The difference is, you know what time it's going to start and finish, you know (unless there are freak circumstances) that it's going to be on when you get there and you know who the player are lining up for both teams.

By saying it’s a dreadful idea, you’re actually saying what we currently have is ok (ish). It isn’t, it is not viable. Great to have the GP stars but we need enough people to come through the turnstiles and enough sponsors to pay for them. It clearly doesn’t happen for 95% of the clubs and the 5% bet everything on getting to the Grand Final and getting five times their normal attendance to pay for the season and a bit of the following season. It is a crap business model. Monday is a rubbish night to watch Speedway, the diehards will come but attracting a new audience to come on a Monday night is nigh on impossible, if it was working we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Those who say yeah well football is played on Tuesday or Wednesday nights, well yes that’s true but it’s not every Tuesday or Wednesday and the majority of a clubs midweek games coincide with school holidays.

I agree with you, physical media and the real thing is always the best - put it this way, I wouldn't buy the digital version of the Speedway Star, but I will buy the physical copy. I am just trying to think of ways to make the sport easier to follow and understand for new and existing fans. If you could see all the scores, news, tables, rider profiles, etc in one space, it makes it easier to learn about the sport.

I would like to see each club have an app which would be identical in format. I would like the match day programme to be available and be able to compile my programme during the meeting digitally. maybe a couple of cameras fixed in each pit area so during breaks I can see the action in the pits rather than tractor racing. id like the presenter to interview team managers and riders during the meeting as normally over the pa you cannot hear properly. id like to vote for my rider of the night and maybe have competitions to enter. Guess the final score and two top scorers would win a pit tour the following week I’d like information during the week of future meetings and news. Promotions for app users this in my view would give my race day experience a much better value for money without the clubs spending a fortune.

This isn’t true, Max is still racing next season

Meanwhile... if true, there's riders in the PL on guarantees who don't care one jot about British Speedway. While Trigger and Perry may not have been the next Bartosz Zmarzlik they could well have been the next Simon Lambert's and without them the sport is dead.

I'd like to see Promoters and the sport as a whole introduce some more flexible ticketing options in the future. I have a Glamorgan membership for 8 days play+ a free ticket for a guest for 1 day & free entrance at other county grounds (When Glamorgan aren't playing). This encourages me and commits me to going. Next year is £100, based on current season prices it would be £120 on the day. I've failed to use it to it's full potential every season (Think i've typically done 6 days play, never used it anywhere else). So they probably make a small upside on me. I think with modern fans being more likely to pick and choose, more could be done to get people to go maybe not to a full season but to a significant part of it. And i think for fans who travel away. There's a lot of fans who have lost there team, who still go and typically travel around to different tracks. I think the sport could be doing so much more in this area.

And they say Ipswich buys the league 😂 Fair play to Thompson if that’s the case he has been awesome for us these last 3 years. Equally Louis stands his ground & won’t bust the budget so fair play to him too.

He literally said he’s looking for sponsors for 2026 yesterday evening, so what is this nonsense?

Personally think Perry and hodder at reserve makes perfect sense. Wouldn’t have such a weak number 2 though, but if both stayed at reserve all year they could both really kick on

I don't see it that way. When the SGP was at Cardiff, it was a special occasion. Even then though crowds were decreasing. Now we have two GPS in two days at the NSS. Smaller than Cardiff and doesn't hold as many people. Perhaps interest is waning in this Country. Perhaps we should return Speedway to it's roots. Do away with GPs and have a genuine Word Final, as was - a much more spectacular occasion. There is a reason folk are not attending, the powers that be have changed everything and people are voting with their feet.

It’s such a shame others don’t have that same attitude and drive. There’s a lot out there that will do the absolute bare minimum to get by each year. People don’t realise that Louis also paid out of his own pocket, for someone to go canvassing across local areas to every local business big and small, to garner any interest in sponsoring the club. That eventually bore fruit. People inaccurately claim Ipswich are “lucky” because they have a “rich” sponsor who does all the leg work but that simply isn’t true. It’s the hard work of Chris Louis bringing in several partner sponsors, along with the title sponsor, that enables the club to be run efficiently. The consistently healthy crowds (by today’s standards) also obviously help. They’re all contributing factors combined.

Much bigger crowds in the Boyce, Rosco, Schofield, Langdon, Allan days!! ( The old National League too!!)

Think a lot of the lesser riders, and some bigger ones ( like josh Pickering) are now giving Poland a wide berth due to several cases of non payments. Several polish clubs are in deep financial doo doo

I would like to see each club have an app which would be identical in format. I believe the app is setup for this and the developer has reached out to all of the UK clubs individually for their consideration. I would like the match day programme to be available and be able to compile my programme during the meeting digitally. Even better imo, this app does the filling in for you in fantastic speed and accuracy. maybe a couple of cameras fixed in each pit area so during breaks I can see the action in the pits rather than tractor racing. Most clubs now offer live streams, where this footage is covered. The streams bring in a much needed positive additional income arm for those clubs. id like to vote for my rider of the night and maybe have competitions to enter. Guess the final score and two top scorers would win a pit tour the following week As the app has only recently gone live, and many great additions already been implemented, these ideas are most welcome and will be carefully considered. I’d like information during the week of future meetings and news. Promotions for app users The app has a fully up to date news section, taken from both the official clubs Facebook feed and from it's website which has all of that information. this in my view would give my race day experience a much better value for money without the clubs spending a fortune. The only thing I personally would add as a comment is whilst you would want to limit the amount of spending out on these ideas, some ideas have the potential to take away much needed revenue that the club is already bringing in from other areas providing these ideas.

I’m afraid I can’t agree with you on once the Prem goes the Champ goes with it.

Has it not occurred to you that the life of the owner of Glasgow might not be reliant on speedway and if push comes to shove, he will just say I’m out of here. How would that sit with British speedway? You cannot hold a club owner to ransom relying on their passion for a sport where the most successful clubs do well to break even.

It’s not the first time he’s done it. He’ll be back….unfortunately. A bigger attention seeker than Phil Morris and Vinnie Foord’s family combined.

There’s the rub. Plenty of people know about the sport including many speedway fans and they cannot be bothered to come out and watch aside from BH or big ticket events. We need to change the racenight experience to increase interest. I’m a lapsed speedway nut with another track less than 30 miles away as the crow flies. I use to visit this track every meeting as they were my second division track. I stopped going as I got fed up with the entertainment on offer and the journey plus admission didn’t feel worth it. This thinking then gravitated over to Aces away meetings with my final one being mid 2022. The thing is if the sport cannot appeal to a speedway nut previously happy to take in 100plus meetings a season anymore, apart from a few at the NSS what chance has the current product got of attracting and KEEPING new customers?

Kinda feel like if Dan was the new number one, Joe would come too? Dan Thompson - 8.50 Paco Castagna - 7.05 Kye Thomson - 5.93 Joe Thompson - 5.72 Francis Gusts - 5.49 Luke Harrison - 4.97 Jordy Loftus - 2.14 Total - 39.80

If you say so haha.

I wouldn’t worry about that situation

I still say Bewley @ No.1. I think the One Rider Over 8.00 Rule will come into play in the PREM as well to ensure that Northampton are competitive.

Waiting for confirmation of a TV deal I suspect. Lots of championship signings have been announced but none in the premiership?

Shows how times have changed Bald Bloke I reckon £5k would be pushing it now days.

I am aware of someone who came on board in the last 12 months as a sponsor & he has been blown away by Louis attitude & professionalism.

Going on averages, Lions would lose the best No.1 in the league and be left with the worst (no disrespect to Dougy) going by the rumours of a five team league. This is of course assuming that each of the other teams (except Lynn) will be able to retain a current big hitter. Still too many unknowns at the moment.

Boughen has sold all his speedway equipment apparently, can't see him making a return to the sport

Jenkins is 6.15 before reduction

He had it up for sale ,rumours of him wanting £500k 🙂 Of course he is perfectly entitled to make a profit. But most promoter's/ owners seem scrimp and scrape, often putting their own money in from other businesses to keep their team going. I would say they love the sport, not someone who said if the club don't make money, then he will be gone!! He likes to sign up the top kids coming through, but doesn't do much for the development of young riders either imho. Just my opinion of course, and we all have one..

I would say there are quite possibly as many "passionate followers" of the sport who don't attend regularly in the UK, as there are who do... "Don't moan if it closes then" is the oft used comment from those die hards who go to every meeting... And, even some Promoters have been quoted uttering the same thing... But, as you, (and many thousands of fans who have lost their tracks), show, you can very quickly just shrug your shoulders and get on with life... When any business closes, it certainly isn't the customers' fault... And if a business closes after receiving years of good, honest, constructive feedback from an ever more frustrated customer base, but does nothing with this feedback, then it probably deserves to go...

If i was a betting man would happily put money on Nick being a Bandit 2026

I've heard the same, Must be 36.00 for a Top 5 and another rule where both reserves have to be British youngsters under a certain age. If it's 36.00 for 6 Riders then Fricke, Kvech, Harris & Klindt only leaves 6.21 for 2 Riders.

Completely agree with you. I followed my local club religiously from being a child to mid-20s, until I moved away with work. I'd never miss a home meeting and often get to 7/8 away meetings a season. We were often crap, and the racing wasn't great, but I'd never dream of missing it. About a year after I moved back, they shut down completely, and I think I'd been to 1 meeting in that year. I just couldn't muster the enthusiasm for it, which I regret now but alas. Fast forward to now, there are 2 regular tracks within an hour, and I still cannot get back to regularly attending. It's not a financial or logistical issue for me, more like there's always a reason not to go. I would still consider myself an absolute speedway nut, read about it on here, follow Polish speedway, etc., etc. However, the thought of going to stand for 2.5 hours amongst a sparse crowd, with crap entertainment, and often average racing is just not appealing at all. Maybe I'm just getting older, maybe the lack of a 'home' club doesn't help, but I'd have watched speedway 24/7 not long ago if I could, and now I think I'd close the curtains to most meetings if they were raced in the back garden. Whatever the answers are, someone has a very big job on their hands to implement them.

That's fine Fromafar, Everyone's entitled to have a view/opinion whether it's in agreement or disagreement All I'm saying is that the math doesn't add up when it comes to Rider Availability so the CHAMP in it's current format would have to be scrapped if it's one big league. We're in a mess and a longer term solution has to be found at the AGM, Northampton in the PREM isn't the answer as we'll be back here in the same situation in 12 Months time.

The Poles are looking after themselves with their rule changes.Not everybody will get aTeam place in Poland. (Pickering for example,he’s signed foe Scunny just in case his wage demands price him out over there). IMO.

Not much different I would say. So its a bit of a no brainer, it is almost certainly more profitable in the Championship.

Not completely sure about these two year deals, considering a team can get rid of a rider mid season if he is not performing well how can a two year deal be totally binding? Of course we all expect them to be back and there is no reason why they would not be but surely we cannot be completely certain. I like Anders and in my opinion has the ability to go a long way in the sport, I hope he is back in the team but I can not see how it can be definitely nailed on.

Would have walked if he could have found a buyer pitgate

Halcyon days indeed Gulf, Daily Mirror and the amount of money poured in by Sunbrite in the 80's

Harrison (4.97) replacing Grahn would allow a stronger number 6. I would expect Sedgmen to be first choice ahead of Palovaara for number 5

Exactly. If the Russians dropped a bomb on Poland this winter and wiped-out the whole country's tracks, it would benefit British Speedway, but It's not going to happen any more than the SGP are going to cancel all the GPs. Like you say, this thread is just garbage,

I would scrap all of the GPs. I am not sure that British Speedway has benefitted too much from having them. The old World Final was a much better way of deciding the World Champion than the GPs. However, we have what we have and I suppose we will have to put up with it.

Speaking as a former sponsor rider's start off grateful end up demanding , maybe just my bad luck but it happened almost everytime

Landlords will want the same money for the year, so less meetings means the rent for each one will be higher. Fanbase will be smaller because people will get out of the habit of going if they're less frequent. Can't make one as you're on holiday and the next one is not for a month it's easy to think oh well I won't bother as you've probably found an alternative routine/thing to do.

So, 1. Chris Harris 2. Sam Hagon 3. Drew Kemp 4. Leon Flint 5. Kyle Howarth 6. Freddy Hodder 7. 2.00er While that top 4 is insane for the Championship, does that team not have the same issues as this years? A massively long tail. I'm sure Hodder will get better, and realistically a 2.00er (except Rushen who I don't see at Glasgow) isn't going to score lots of points either.

Your last paragraph is total nonsensical.