Daniel Smith

Why should a rider know the score? The job of rider's is to score & perform when called upon. If all the rider's just do their job, the team wins. For me, managers shouldn't even tell rider's the score either as it can alter the mindset with added pressure.

It should be all pending on the other 4 or 5 riders. These 2 need to be around a team with a winning mentality, that being riders, management and owners. Another set up like the last few seasons at King's Lynn can do more damage than good for their futures.

It's also disgraceful to force someone to ride in a league that they may feel is financially unviable.

I'm intrigued by your opinion of "successful"?? Who has jumped straight in to the top league, without 3rd/2nd tier experience and been successful?? Let's just go from the start of the 'Laydown' era as this is a totally different sport than the Upright game.

So we'll see another Rune Holta, with Robert Lambert riding under the Polish flag and in the Polish World Cup / SON squads. That'll be interesting as I believed you can't ride for Great Britain without an ACU licence??

For the better of a rider's career if the club can't deliver. What's wrong with that?? I much rather be honest than biased. King's Lynn is a suffocating club

In year 1 of a senior career, it would mean they're doing well, how exactly?? Of course, age has to be relevant. Where they start is also very relevant. Nearly all of our British World Champions started out in the 3rd/2nd tier. That alone should be the biggest indicator of 'not running before you can walk'. We've had far to many youngsters thrown in to the deep end, getting their ego stroked and their careers crashing before 25yo. British Speedway, for the protection of our youth, MUST SLOW DOWN. It is imperative for British Speedway to stop forcing natural talents in to the top tier and burning them.

Of course, but if these rider's are "top league standard", between 16-18, shouldn't they manage a 7.00+ average at Championship level?? If they're exceptional, they should be hitting 9.00+. Age shouldn't be restricted to U21 as that forces the Premiership to be a training ground due to the numbers available now, and that shouldn't be acceptable in the top league. At least with U24, all rider's would mainly be fully developed and safe in ability. The Premiership is about getting our own to that next level by their 30s, which is now (in general) the peak of a rider's career. We must, in the main, slow the process down of our kids and make them 'Work' for Premiership spots.

Intrigued to know the long term process of 2x U21s. For me, there is no long term. The numbers available now, the potential of more youngsters taking up the game in 5 years whose U21 just isn't there. With the financial position of British Speedway as a whole just can't sustain U21s long term. The U21s (Rising Stars now) is a process that should be just in the Championship. The Premiership, if they want an "inexperienced" reserve system, should be U24. As I've said many times, the pinnacle of our sport SHOULD NOT be a training ground. I don't think you should be a Premiership No7 until you've achieved a 7.00 in the 2nd tier. We've seen far to often, young lads now want to sprint before they can even walk and their careers get killed. We need to protect, slow down and try to get them ready by 25.

As much as it would be a lose to King's Lynn, if we can't put a super team together for 27, I want to see Cooper at Belle Vue. Develop the gating and super high speeds required for Poland. With Lambert now just reaching the pinnacle of the sport I'd like to see Cooper make moves now. A repeat of the past few seasons at King's Lynn, his career will be stunted if sticks around at King's Lynn. Same for Jody too. King's Lynn has become rather suffocating for all rider's. In 2027, this club (with the riders potentially available) need to take a risk and be "ALL IN".

Thanks for giving King's Lynn the worst possible septet possible 🤣 Cheers mate 👍🏻

Can we?? Would he?? Should we?? If ever there was a time for King's Lynn Speedway to have an open cheque book, it has to be for the home coming of a World Champion doesn't it?? If Robert Lambert chooses to return to the UK, we CANNOT allow him to be elsewhere, especially at Ipswich.

Because they're fixated that it would help towards a fix for British Speedway. Removing guests won't add anything in improving the product, adding sponsorship and spectators through the turnstiles. Guests is bottom of the pile to fix British Speedway.

Leicester gets 💷 to throw a first home defeat of the season to get Ipswich in the Play-Offs, just for both to get whacked in the 1st legs, with Leicester getting butt blasted by former & King's Lynn No1 Max Fricke. These Play-Offs have been EXCELLENT 🤣🤣

Ideal world for me, there'd be 2 divisions of 8+, North & South, home & away x1. Top 4 from each go in to the Elite Play-Offs, home & away x1, top 2 to the one off final at a neutral track. The rest go in to the Craven Shield, home & away x1, top 2 to a one off final at a neutral track. Unfortunately, there just isn't the rider availability, and available days in the week if we could get the number of rider's

This 100% Brennan would be a good addition to King's Lynn imo.

After giving Leicester the 💷 to throw a meeting it nice to see Belle Vue bury the old hags in embarrassing style 😛

There in lies the problem, comparison to Poland. British Speedway will never ever get to, or even come close to their level. Poland are rightly so, looking to a 1 club model alongside SEC, SGP & World Cups. They have an extensive amount of dollar to keep rider's tied down. The UK, Sweden, Denmark & to a point Germany can only ever be a feeder to Poland's top 2 tiers. We have to accept & embrace that. Instead of being angry, we should be proud of our lads being over in Poland achieving (or atleast trying to) those levels of the sport. For British Speedway, we want to keep, and increase the number of clubs we already have. Also steadily build the numbers that come through the turnstiles. We CANNOT currently hold riders down to 1 league as it's just not financially viable. Doors will close, and rider's lost forever. Without being too political, the white man demographic is shrinking at an alarming rate in this country, it's a problem also in other major European countries. Do you want to guess which country is economically stronger than ever and heavily restricts asylum?? People don't like to see it but these things do go hand in hand. How many black and brown are on the terraces in UK Speedway?? It matters to our sports future.

Guests is a necessary evil but the solution I've suggested for years is the simplest and fairest way forward. All guests must be from the lower league & not have a team spot in the Premiership. All guests must have an average equal or lower than the No7. If guests are required they come in at No7 and everyone else moves up in the team. What that also does, is speed up the process in finding injury replacements as teams get away with it for to long using better inform guest rider's than the guy injured. 1 missing R/R or guest at No7 2 missing R/R and guest at No7 3 missing, meeting postponed. It should be a ruling that meetings can only proceed if teams have 5 or more riders available from their official declaration. If meetings get cancelled due to availability, 2 league points are deducted.

That's not the same thing though is it??

Nobody, especially new fans would give a 💩 Doubling-Up is a nonsense argument in making the sport look 'Mickey Mouse'. There's no promotion / relegation so there is zero 'conflict of interests'. Guests have been and always will be a necessity of this sport. British Speedway doesn’t have the finances to run Polish type squad systems so that's a no no. This sport has far more important problems than some riding in multiple leagues. As far as I'm concerned, riding in the Premiership & Championship is no different to riding Premiership and Elitserien, it's still 2 different leagues with no conflict on each other.

Match fixing at it's finest this one

Shame they'd gone with 60s imagery. More modern imagery might get someone to search the sport up but that's obviously not weatherspoons responsibility to sell the area.

Speedway is absolutely better suited to a highlights reel. Cuts out all the 💩 and a whole meeting can be covered in just 30mins with best race highlights from other fixtures from that week. With all the gaps / delays in live meetings, the sport doesn't lend itself to modern society and new fans. Majority of U30s today cannot cope with nothingness and 15 minutes of action over a couple of hours just will never cut it. Speedway in general is a sport in a real tough spot regardless of the moves it tries to make. There has to be a major focus on speeding up heats and/or adding extra races. Selling Speedway to new observers, sponsors & media is a seriously tough job.

Excellent result is that 👏🏻👏🏻