Daniel Smith

Absolutely correct but (and some Stars fans may fall off their chair) I think this may be a good move. If Buster was to buy up every Premiership and Championship club that would totally remove the self interest aspect of Speedway. This is one of the main catalyst for poor management and the decline of the sport. So while it is dictatorship, it may just be what's needed to drag the sport forward. So, as 1 of his biggest critics, I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and see how this works out.

Good question. An even bigger question with fixed race night's, surely they have to make sure the home meetings don't clash each week

Welcome back to the top flight you no1 scumbags

Welcome back to the top flight you scumbags

I've said few times, the Championship should just be an extension of the National League, progress for our youth. Foreign rider's allowed but they must not be included in any top leagues i.e. Premiership, Ekstraliga, Liga 1, Metal League, Elitserien or Bundesliga.

Why's it clear that Peterborough and Ipswich are going Premiership? The stadium use at the showground is unreliable. The stadium owners cancel fixtures when someone else wants to use the grounds and willing to pay substantially more than the Speedway.

It seems your cautious approach may be correct. With Gaming International not bothering to attend you get a feeling they're wanting to sell all the land to the builders.

Stadium owners

Nobody is ridiculing rider's, just stating that the rider's wouldn't be anywhere near the 10+ averages of today's format. That is absolutely correct, they wouldn't. Also, I believe that in today's Speedway the 2nd string / reserves are of much better standard than years gone by too. The only significant difference of now and years gone by has been quality of racing. Rider's are saying it, promoters are saying it, fans are saying it, racing and tracks in the UK are abysmal. Tracks haven't evolved with the changes in machinery. Today's bikes are rev hungry machines but don't actually deliver faster race times. David Howe explained in his Speedway Star piece that today's engine's are impossible unless you're ringing the throttle. Get off the throttle today to change your racing line in the middle of the bend, and these machines will try to put you in hospital. What I'd love to see happen is some testing. Say at Belle Vue, 1 trustworthy rider, 4 bikes. One with his current engine in, 4 heats on his own, calculate the race times and speed. Then, re-dress the track, in the next bike, run the last of the high powered uprights at full tilt, 4 heats as before 3rd and 4th bikes to run the updated Gerhard and Godden engine's. Then repeat the above with the track covered in deep dirt. Then, with the same rider, repeat the whole process at a tight technical track. Work out all the data and from that World Speedway would have a better idea of where it needs to be. After reading the Speedway Star, while everything seems all rosy in the Polish garden it's quite clear they to have financial worries. So, if we can get the machine v track combination right, make the engines run longer etc the sport can then start to look at saving money from top to bottom. Only then, maybe the sport can then get that feel good factor of years gone by, hopefully we'll see and hear clubs turning a profit. What many have said is correct, whatever comes out of this AGM is irrelevant as it won't keep everyone happy all of the time. First and formost for me, there needs to be a program in place to test all possibilities of track and machine, in attendance, the chairmen of FIM, BSI and international leagues to run these tests. To make Speedway the sport it should be track v machine is vital and only then the thrill factor of 4 blokes, 4 laps, handlebar bashing may be a more regular occurrence than just the standard gate and go.

You may well be right but it is now stated, confirmed, signed and sealed that no more homes can be built until stadium completion, rather than just the start of stadium construction. Just a little bit more solid foundation that the Robin will have a home going forward.

Keith Chapman. Either he leaves or changes his ways. 2 major factors for me are: Get the track back to where it should be with much better racing on offer rather than being delusional Show the supporters a little bit of respect and appreciation and not just treat them as customers There is more but that's a collective in his failure as the BSPA Chairman Don't hate Allitt at all Sometimes tactically clumsy but who wouldn't be under pressure? Passion sometimes gets the better of me and I say things I shouldn't but it's because I care. Right now I can't justify £18 for gate and go racing week in week out, a delusional owner who thinks the track is brilliant. I just don't like the way he treats the fans with contempt, it's like we should be thankful to him rather than the other way round. The promises to speed meetings along a bit quicker didn't last long. Just had the feeling like he was losing a few quid from the food and drink so out came the extended tractor racing again. Going to King's Lynn now I just feel bored stiff. Poor racing, abysmal atmosphere which just doesn't offer up any value for money.

The running of the club. As I've said many times, I'll support and follow the team on the road until things change

Nope, it's not the team I have a problem with and you know that

While I wouldn't be surprised by that last sentence that team is a mile off. 6 Danish riders in the team on a Wednesday night is not gonna happen

Great news for British Speedway as a whole

Says everyone. That's exactly what we get every season, says no-one.

Chairbird or chairchick will do. Never bow down to feminism. I'll teach my kids the correct way to never be offended. It's chairman. Like fireman, policeman etc. Anyone offended by the word man in a job title really needs to get a life. What do feminists want to be called? fe(male), (lad)ies, wo(men) Oops, major diversion alert - rant over

Agree, Speedway is no more susceptible to betting fraud than an other sport in the World

So, the bananas are placed on the tables ready but is there anything anywhere that suggests the monkey meeting is actually happening today??

have him nowhere near a team I owned. He's entertainment but will always let you down

Don't think the heatleaders worry about injuries at all. Their concerns will only be about finances. To put themselves week in week out through handicap racing they'll demand a higher per point wage or larger signing on / guarantee payment simply because they're certain of less money.

I'd say rider of the season is clear cut. Undoubtedly Robert Lambert

Poorly because the NL doesn't offer value for money, what's so difficult to understand?? Across every Speedway league around the world British Speedway is one of the worst for expense at the turnstile and standard of the product to the supporters. It's one of and probably THE very top reason terrace numbers are ever decreasing. Weaker product, admission prices increase. If you can't see that, then some fans are as deluded as the promoters in British Speedway.

Just a thought, should the Premiership be the only "professional" league? What I mean by that is that the Championship becomes a 2nd arm to the National League and has a 'Paid Point Salary Cap' of say £40-£50. But unlike the NL the Championship allows the inclusion of foreign rider's. Any rider's that are contracted to the Polish Liga 1, Ekstraliga, Swedish Elitserien, Dansk Metal League and German Bundesliga cannot ride in the Championship unless they have a current Premiership average less than 4.00

I don't disagree at all but is British Speedway in a position to be classed as a professional sport? British Speedway is slipping behind the German league in the quality of rider's. When you look at all the leagues above us charging less for superstars British Speedway fans rightly, as shown with the ever declining terrace numbers, feel ripped off. What's your solution??