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Could still be the "Mother" of all 4 Team Tournaments ahead then? 12 meetings at home for each of the four teams.. Five riders per team, which includes a reserve.. With, to add variety, the teams change helmet colours meeting by meeting.. ie, over the first segment of four matches, the home teams start with Red, but by their fourth meeting at home, they are riding in Yellow, having gone through Blue and White in the second and third matches at their track... This means every team has equal gate positions over a 48 match season.. Sounds exciting I know, but, even better than that. The top four qualify for a Final held at every track... With the top team over the season starting the final with three points, second two and third with one.. (Otherwise all the Qualifiers could be seen as meaningless if no reward for finishing top, and we wouldn't want that would we?) Sounds good doesn't it? Loads of meeting for riders... Loads of exciting helmet colour changes for the fans to follow.. Three lots of away fans at each venue (maybe even double figure numbers attending from at least one of them), and possibly a taxi full from the other two tracks, (not a seven seater one obviously).. And, (and this is the winner for me), you can flog "Quarter n Quarter n Quarter n Quarter" scarves, so lots of merchandising opportunities.. Charge around thirty quid a ticket, running on those hotbed of entertainment nights of Monday and Thursday, plus, (most importantly of all of course, riders can still then double up), and, I think we can all agree, the sport would be on to a winning formula... Maybe they could get a betting company involved to sponsor the league and, every meeting, they could run a book on "Who will Bomber ride for tonight?".. It could be a bit like the Masked Singer, whereby he stands on the centre green in a Wulf Sport Jacket, and the crowd shout "Take It Off! Take It Off'!, and as the crowd reach fever pitch he unzips the jacket to reveal his kevlars... Imagine the scenes?..... Making Speedway Great Again.. Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Christmas All... It’s a time for miracles so lets hope those in charge can come up with one now, and a few more over the next few seasons..

Think drug and alcohol offences are different to beating up pensioners when burglarying their home 🤔🤡

A year at Lynn for Max, to get his average back down, before coming back "home" to Leicester next year 😁

Maybe there's a place for him at Speedway Futures Ltd... with the rest of the wrong'uns 🤷‍♂️

I find it hard to believe there’s no place for Perry in the championship. If he doesn’t get a place there must be more to it than his performance. He is a kid with potential who I’d hoped to see at Berwick. Maybe he is asking for whatever Glasgow gave him.

Nora doesn’t have a format for any meetings, it is only really the same as acu, it has no say in how a meeting is run, it’s basically a licence and insurance company, they are cheaper and some would say less complicated than the ACU and you find more and more disciplines are turning to Nora because of the incompetence and the price of the ACU

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25720291.ipswich-witches-hoping-announce-sale-coming-days/

Nick Morris and Richie Worrall disagree

You normally know these things 😛. Merry Christmas marra 🎄🎅

Nearly as big of a surprise as cooper at Poole 😄

Vaclav Milik on 4.11? Former Lynn rider!

Delighted to have Luke Harrison back!

Yes

What about the Bournemouth Buccaneers? Was that not a Poole junior team that ended up losing a shed load of money? Poole then made the decision to concentrate on what they’re good at, which was to pay for developed talent, which was undoubtedly good business for lower and same league teams. This route is sadly now lost due to the unnecessary (in my view) collapse of the retained list system. Anyway, can we move on from All our Yesterdays and get back to Poole 2026

Four and an individual. Plus years of Young Stars/Boston/Norfolk Braves up to 2016. And training schools, practice sessions etc. You Poole folk really should do your research before trapping off and looking daft.

As I said, Cool heads were needed because every day is different. British Speedway isn't British Speedway without fans being left frustrated. Merry Christmas everyone.

I'd be surprised, but If it is anything to do with Buster, my guess is that it would be a short term deal of some sort to help the Prem run in 26. He was supposed to be winding down 2 years ago.

Yes it was a nora meeting, I thought it was great. Heat 13 Lowest scorers from the meeting up to that point, heat 14 middle highest scorers, Heat 15 Top Scorers. 6 rider teams.

He’ll clean up in the watered down weaker premiership without the top riders returning.

As far as I know they have all sorts going on all year round, the advantage of having 24/7-365 access to a stadium.

Or as Cairns signing for Workington in 2025 would have been…..

But they didn't ride in the NL only in the Trophy.

On the plus side, we have someone to boo in 2026... 😉

Jack Holder announced...

Looking good for the play offs 😉

Harrison is back at Scunny

Good option given what’s left in GB on that sort of average.Hope he chooses agood one .!!

But they literally had a NL team last season.

I think if Cook does sign and he is committed it’s a battle between him and JJ to no1. As good has Batch has been in the past he isn’t at that standard now.

Without knowing everyone else's team that's a pretty strong top 4

Mine arrived today in deepest worky

If Buster is involved in buying the club then sorry but for me Louis has failed the club, I feel let down by the poor media information given from the club as well during this period. Bitter taste in my mouth after such a great season, tarnished a legacy is a sad comment to make but it’s starting to really feel that way for me.

He was definitely the “back up” option for the league to continue with a five team league. Desperate times call for desperate measures! As above. He wouldn’t normally have gone near it. In his own words when he “agreed” to buy Ipswich last time.. ”I don’t like Ipswich” Great sales pitch that was to the Ipswich fans when the news broke on the official website 🙄 Hopefully it’s someone else. Merry Christmas.

Just calm down and take your medication, Mike. Nurse! Nurse!

Gonna be Buster isn’t it..

No plymouth have planning constraints for holding meetings, poole had plenty of free Wednesday nights

Didn't know Poole had an airport 😝

Thats a daft statement to make he was a deserving world champion he scored the most points over the series You can take away some of Rickardssons titles then when he would have gate 1 followed by gate 1 and then gate one and then first pick

7.51 it is then

Big year for Jan, should be looking for an average closer to 8 than 7

That's a definite then 😂

Looking at other teams up to now i think redcar have the best reserves

I think the fact they didn't speaks volumes....

And it is that ignoring "the inevitably" rather than embracing it and planning for it, that is the most frustrating thing for many fans... As soon as 20 teams got hit then I would suggest "one league" should have been the plan.. One season in the planning of it, and then a complete reset and relaunch of the sport... With the aim of every team being competitive for the restart of the sport... Maybe they will do it in 2026 for 2027?...

My Star w / e 20th Dec arrived today, think I'm up to date now so all is well 😉. I also feel for Pinegen, always feel a bit guilty asking for replacements (copies missing after 3 days never turn up) but they are ok about it, apologise & send duplicates straight away. I've sometimes bought another copy from likes of Asda / Tesco / TJ Jones / whoever but often there are none on the shelves, usually at the same time as my '3 days late & gon foreva' copies. Hmmm....

The nine championship teams finished this season with a total average of 377.61. It’s been well documented that the five premiership teams aren’t bringing any riders with them as the top liners would skip the UK and the rest are already riding in the championship. To fill those 35 vacant spots would require using new (to the championship) NDL riders who average around 2.50, so thats a total of 87.50 to add to the pot. 465.11 divided by the 14 one big league teams gives a team total of 33.22. To create some kind of bargaining power when negotiating rider terms the limit would be set lower than that and most probably be around 30. Would championship clubs have wanted to water down their teams just to accommodate the ex premiership teams and how would they have felt letting riders whom they had agreed a verbal contract that there was no longer a place for them? The option of five or six man teams doesn’t sugar the pill either. Once you understand that one big league is unworkable with just 3/4 months to sort it out then the only alternative is what we have. Digging your feet in and saying I’m not supporting that doesn’t help whatsoever but then this has been going on for decades. Me, I’m just happy to enjoy that sixty seconds of excitement and I’m not bothered about the score nor what the competition is just that race, wether it’s U16, NDL, Aces or GP’s at the NSS.

Sadly you could say that about British Speedway for the past several years .... "always going to be fixed next season". Maybe this AGM in January 2026 really is "THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT" to quote the regular old chestnut trotted out in the Speedway satr to try and sell a few more copies. Dont think it is unfair to say the "one big league" has been suggested for a few seasons now - but what did the clever boys in charge do .... they started "doubling up" "doubling down" under some misguided belief that it would help riders progression. It has just developed into a money earning stunt for the mediocre riders and separated the 2 leagues further apart , making it nigh on impossible for teams to move up or down ... with so many doubling up riders. Sooperstars carried on regardless, and rabbits enjoyed the "rising star" charade. This also makes amalgamation nigh on impossible with the loss of sooperstars plus the loss of many doubling up riders who might just retire with only one teams income (albeit more meetings per season.) None of which solves the minor issue of getting MORE people through the turnstiles, something that has been continually overlooked !!

Never could I defend the play offs nor a division where teams meet 5 home 5 away.

Was there not some kind of fall out between Drew and Stewart Dickson in the premiership play off final last year when the manager said the rider stopped trying and just packed in when he was fourth or am I just imagining that. Think some things were said at the time and that might have affected any chance of him riding for Stewart again. If he did sign, Simon Lambert, Max Perry and Dale Wood could fill other 3 places - or Gusts, Max Perry and a 2 pointer like Cooper Rushen (maybe)

What, space amongst all the dust?