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I think the crowds will stick around for this season but 2027 needs a more competitive team. The facilities are great (a few winter updates would be great also) and they deserve to have a team that can at least win their home meetings.

I am expecting Charles Wright to sign for Northampton upon his return.

Expecting this to be a mauling. Leicester 57-33

Attended this meeting on Monday as my first visit to Northampton and to play devils advocate here I absolutely loved it from the first impression. One of the promoter’s out the front greeting supporters was a really classy touch and made a world of difference. I entered feeling already valued as a spectator. The food was of a decent quality. The drinks whilst on the penny side come with a nice souvenir Foxes cup which is a nice touch. Merch is of a decent quality and I understand they are constantly refreshing and adding to it. The team is obviously sub-par but they’ve not exactly been pushovers, they could have easily won this meeting if Batchelor (get rid btw) & Jeppesen showed up a bit earlier. A quality rider up top and a better effort from Jeppesen and this team will win its home meetings which is vital to keeping good crowd levels. Yes the track needs work; and it is always going to struggle after Stox & Bangers meetings but it isn’t far off being a good race track as was shown in the latter heats. This has made me a fan and is a better option to me as a Coventry fan than visiting and supporting Leicester. I will 100% be back. Well done Northampton.

They should have stuck with the proposed 3 team play off to make it a little bit more competitive. 1st straight through to Final. 2nd vs 3rd in SF.

The sport is really missing a trick in not getting involved in “vlogger” culture. Imagine having dedicated vlogs to drum up interest and offer a behind the scenes look at what it takes to prepare for a season. Insight into a rider’s daily life etc. It would enhance the interest incredibly.

The longer the silence goes on, the more I think this isn’t happening… “Northampton Speedway 2026, the club that almost happened.” will be spoken about for years.

I think a lot will depend on how well Northampton does as to whether they return in 2027. With the possibility of Coventry also returning… it wouldn’t surprise me to see the BSPL continue to try and flog the Premiership…

Ben Cook announced

This thread makes for grim reading. 😞 I am running out of hope. Uk League speedway won’t see the next decade.

That team wins the league again IMO.

I think Dan Bewley will be prioritised over Kurtz as he seems to be a club legend at Belle Vue.

I wouldn’t run R/R as you run the risk of another injury and running out of rides for the reserves. I think Ipswich should be looking to Charles Wright to guest.

If it’s two leagues and Leicester line up in the Prem then Dickson needs to learn that new faces are a must. This team has bottled it two years in a row. Kemp, Thompson, Becker and Masters should be gone. Inject some new blood

Emil is so good around Leicester. Lions poor attitude has really cost them tonight, Dickson must be fuming.

With Ellis out for Thursday and his home guest ave of 6.37, I would imagine the Witches will go with either Keynan Rew or Charles Wright. personally, I wouldn’t run RR as it risks backfiring if anyone else gets injured.

Reserves only.

This is so boring. I truly hope SON is binned after this season.

Enter Nigel Tolley…

I would like to see change and a north/south divide with top 2 from each in play offs. However, I honestly don’t think much will change next year at this point. The setup will remain with one last “roll of the dice”. Two clubs to move up, with two clubs entering the championship. Premiership: Belle Vue Ipswich King’s Lynn Leicester Plymouth Scunthorpe Sheffield Championship: Berwick Edinburgh Glasgow Mildenhall Northampton Oxford Poole Redcar Workington NDL as is.

credit to both teams tonight, very enjoyable meeting! Fricke the saviour for the Lions, what a guy! The 5-0 on Thursday was the catalyst for Sheffield, ouch!

Janowski showed up! One point in it going into 15!

Chris Holder and Janowski majorly letting down the Tigers. I think Leicester go through now.

Tatum is such a bad commentator. Learn the rules mate On another note - this is far closer than I was expecting! This is going to go down to the wire

Doyle has had many wild cards now and is always missing injured, and there are 3 Aussies ahead of him so I think his time is up IMO. Max Fricke is a given and only missed out on the points system (the old format he would have been 7th over Lambert) Then there’s the conversation around Martin Vaculik who had a massive fall off this year but has been a consistent rider for the last 6+ years so I think he deeerves one also. I’d give one to Laguta if the powers that be finally have some sense. I’d love to give one to Emil but I believe we are starting to see him past his best. then I believe the SGP2 champion should be an automatic qualification. So if there is four (dependant on SEC), I would like to see: Max Fricke Martin Vaculik Artem Laguta Nazar Parnitskyi