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It's not his team to announce though is it! If you were negotiating a sale worth tens of thousands of pounds to you would you be disclosing the planned new owners team against their wishes? That doesn't seem the best way to conduct the process to me....

Is it contempt or just incomplete negotiations? We know there’s a deal in place for Ipswich which has still some fine tuning required to make it happen. We also know there are discussion going on with the owners of Northampton which have still to be finalised. As punters, we have no “right” to know the details but what we do know is something is happening. The waiting is certainly frustrating but that hardly amounts to contempt. The parties involved have a right to confidentiality.

Let’s get things in perspective, he’s been around British amateur meetings for quite a few years, rode in a few second halfs and would struggle to hold down a NDL team place so let’s not call in Trumps ICE army just yet.

I predict the draw for the PL Cup will be made...

Speaking as a speedway fan and not the parent of a rider. I would not be attending a meeting this year. To be left in the dark to this extent yet expected to pay my hard earned and turn up to watch god knows who on a random date yet to be determined…. I’d have found another sport to follow weeks ago.

The guy who posted on the Speedway Friends UK Facebook post re Northampton (the one with the pic of the Holder brothers with Northampton poster behind them) is adamant that no contact has been signed by any promotion with Speedeworth for speedway to be there in 2026. beyond a joke now, should just crack on announce Ipswich team and fixtures for a 5 team league and move forwards, tye circus is just becoming a bigger laughing stock as days go by with unanswered questions and paying public left in the dark

Got confirmation ( been talking to the boss on his Gregg's run 😄) that new lights are hopefully going to be installed in 2 weeks time, weather dependent, but then got to wait for electricity north west to install cables, hopefully before end of march 👍 other further improvements being made, but will let you all see the next time you attend Northside, won't spoil the surprise 😜🔵⚪🏁😀

Tigers On Tour group are not too bad either.

Yes - minus if required

Wasn’t mentioned but you’d hope so. Thorssell on a cheap average is the only thing that saves this team really.

On what average? I presume it will be assessed down to the exact decimal point that fits under the allowed team average total...

Plus Thorssell then....

He’s been on a pushbike, but not a Speedway bike I don’t think although I could be wrong.

Brennan, King, Lawson, Musielak, Nicholls, Edwards is definitely six of the seven.

not quite 😄

You could say that.....both are a load of balls! 🙄

Just go to Championship fixtures - mostly the same riders. You know it makes sense......... 😉

Don't feed the troll.

Lamps.

Championship riders can guest in the Premiership, and often do.

Hopefully 😀

Who needs bulbs,its the riders who lightup the track 🤣

Paul Turle is a friend of mine going back to our cycle speedway days with BournemouthViscounts in the late 1970’s. He moved to grasstrack and tried unsuccessfully to establish a speedway career. I can ask him to contact you by whichever message you prefer if that would help.

Jakub Jamrog completes Smederna’s squad.

I'd say that the only thing to predict at the moment is... Will there actually be a Premier League... And if so will it contain 4,5 or 6 teams... The silence is deafening... and the contempt with which the supporters are dealt is off the charts...

My worry is that, potentially, we have a motor sport firm taking over at Ipswich and I remember all too clearly what happened to Rye House in a similar situation.

Bit more meat on the bones here: https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/sport/linnets-in-sprinkler-storm-9454621/ Didn't John Perrin do something similar at Kirky Lane once?

Thanks for the update …….theres still 3 weeks until the season kicks off so plenty of time .. let’s hope the team know when to turn up and who will pay their wages

Don’t think so, Nicholls guested a lot for the witches in 2024 while Doyle was out long term and only signed to a championship club

No i think it was Morrissey

I don’t know what to think at this point, I’m willing to give mayfield the benefit of the doubt but they are hardly doing themselves any favours in the promotional sense

Before putting this together, I was obviously well aware that the usual suspects — the Richard Coleman fan club from deepest, darkest Bury St. Edmunds and beyond — would be ready with their pom-poms to defend their hero. Anyway… While browsing the FIM Speedway website earlier, I noticed a link to the Mayfield Sports Events site and decided to take a look: https://www.mayfield-ms.com Ignoring the outdated design (it’s mostly text blocks and dated graphics), what instantly stood out was this: there’s no mention whatsoever of Speedway or MotoGP. It’s all about Formula 1. And even that’s stuck in the past — the site lists Günther Steiner as Haas F1 Team Principal (he left in January 2024) and Otmar Szafnauer as Alpine’s Team Principal (he departed in 2023). We’re now in February 2026, which means the Mayfield site hasn’t been updated in at least two years. Odd, isn’t it? Not that the Coleman cheerleaders will see a problem, of course… Coming from a background in the insurance industry — particularly compliance — I can say this much: the situation with Coleman/Mayfield doesn’t pass the “smell test.” Back in the day, we’d make sure anyone collecting client money — insurance agents, advisers, financial consultants — was “fit and proper”: no major debts beyond a mortgage, no red flags for embezzlement or mismanagement. When I read posts from “Flagrag” and “DHSS” on the Northampton thread, and then see multiple companies with near-identical names, plus Coleman’s previous court case, it all feels… off. Something doesn’t quite add up. My prediction (and honestly, I hope I’m wrong): even if Coleman and Mayfield finally complete their long-awaited takeover of Ipswich Speedway, they’ll scrape through 2026 by the skin of their teeth — if they finish the season at all. And when the dust settles? We could potentially be looking at unpaid riders, unpaid suppliers, disappointed sponsors, and a fair few let-down fans, and Coleman trying to run away from unpaid bills and responsibilities!

And of course not forgetting sideways🤣

Have the bspl become so desperate and tunnel visioned in their quest to get Northampton running they have forgot what their actual job is ? They have practically isolated and ignored the fans and even the other 4 teams to a degree since November to the point now where even the most loyal fans are getting fed up and if like me thinking is it worth it anymore, this winter has been one of the most damaging to its credibility winters the sport has ever had

I suppose I could of asked for more money but I didn’t really care, I just wanted to race speedway, the privilege of being part of a team was for me what speedway was all about, it always made me more determined to beat whoever it was if I knew they were on a good screw from their team, I think I was one of the lowest paid riders ever to race for 21 years but not only did I achieve my lifetime ambition I also did alright for myself so looking back what else could I ask for in life

To be honest I’m not really bothered, I went to the IOW twice last year and will be going twice again this year, I raced for them for 2 years and was one of my favourite tracks to get too, I thought the ferry crossing was part of the fun

Don't think it's a HIgh Street Bank. He seems like more of a Merchant Banker.

I blame it on the Newkie Brown🍺

I hope we keep being ignored, prefer it that way!

I don’t hate him, I don’t like him but I respect what he has achieved and as much as I dislike him he would be the first name on the list if I was putting on a big individual meeting because he is a headline generator and gets people talking and is vastly underused by British speedway as a marketing tool, the less said about his music the better though

I'm not sure whether it's case of a very bitter Wolves fan with a massive grudge , or that the guy is just incapable of understanding the plan for the stadium & just how much support the consortium have ,and not just from the fans

Before putting this together, I was obviously well aware that the usual suspects — the Richard Coleman fan club from deepest, darkest Bury St. Edmunds and beyond — would be ready with their pom-poms to defend their hero. Anyway… While browsing the FIM Speedway website earlier, I noticed a link to the Mayfield Sports Events site and decided to take a look: https://www.mayfield-ms.com Ignoring the outdated design (it’s mostly text blocks and dated graphics), what instantly stood out was this: there’s no mention whatsoever of Speedway or MotoGP. It’s all about Formula 1. And even that’s stuck in the past — the site lists Günther Steiner as Haas F1 Team Principal (he left in January 2024) and Otmar Szafnauer as Alpine’s Team Principal (he departed in 2023). We’re now in February 2026, which means the Mayfield site hasn’t been updated in at least two years. Odd, isn’t it? Not that the Coleman cheerleaders will see a problem, of course… Coming from a background in the insurance industry — particularly compliance — I can say this much: the situation with Coleman/Mayfield doesn’t pass the “smell test.” Back in the day, we’d make sure anyone collecting client money — insurance agents, advisers, financial consultants — was “fit and proper”: no major debts beyond a mortgage, no red flags for embezzlement or mismanagement. When I read posts from “Flagrag” and “DHSS” on the Northampton thread, and then see multiple companies with near-identical names, plus Coleman’s previous court case, it all feels… off. Something doesn’t quite add up. My prediction (and honestly, I hope I’m wrong): even if Coleman and Mayfield finally complete their long-awaited takeover of Ipswich Speedway, they’ll scrape through 2026 by the skin of their teeth — if they finish the season at all. And when the dust settles? We could potentially be looking at unpaid riders, unpaid suppliers, disappointed sponsors, and a fair few let-down fans, and Coleman trying to run away from unpaid bills and responsibilities!

Looks like a Poole shirt😅