Bit like when the Titanic sank the passengers in 3rd class knew the ship was sinking way before those in 1st class as they sipped champagne and ate caviar.
What a sorry state as we are about to turn the page into 2026 and still no idea how many teams will be in the league with 11 weeks roughly to the start of the season - how can anyone plan riders or sponsors and to a lesser degree fans . And how can this league be taken as a serious professional league ?
Well that might well be the case but the Agm in January roughly 2 months to the start of the season a so called professional sport and we don’t even no if it’s one big league one two leagues again with potential 5 teams in the PL with no tv deal either what positive spin can you put on this ?? If I was a potential sponsor I’d think shambles and walk away
Looking through theses post is really depressing to see the state of British Speedway especially the PL with only 3 confirmed starters maybe the PL should not run in 2026 and give more time to sort things out for 2027 - championship clubs seem more settled at least that’s something if going one big league cause them problems it’s not worth it let them run as they are this coming season .
Can’t fault the efforts of anyone trying to get speedway back at the Showground but it’s turned out two years wasted if the end result was always going to be a new home - it’s very sad situation speedway could have continued the last two seasons and had there been more enthusiasm from Chapman who knows what could have happened . Hopefully a new site can be found but not sure where the money is coming from to fund it on what is a 1000 fans
That’s it in nutshell too many meaningless meetings top4 was more or less set in stone from March then it was who’s best of the bottom 3 - half the meetings other than pride there was nothing on them
Put the semis on Saturday night at Belle Vue and Sunday afternoon at Ipswich then see how big the crowds would be but on a Monday and a Thursday both terrible nights to run a premium event - as for admission price last night maybe Belle Vue thought stick the price up as won’t be able to in the final as they doubt they will be in the final
A conversation I had on Facebook with someone regarding Northampton and speedway being introduced to the track they seemed to think the track would be to narrow once a air fence was put up - the obvious answer would be I thought bring in the white line a bit - there is definitely a catchment area of fans with Pboro not so far away and Coventry as well .
If Leszno have paid for all Ben treatment on his wrist I can understand why they wouldn’t want him to race in the Uk and the difference in pay between Poland and England we can’t really blame Ben he’s obviously going to ride where he can maximise his earns we’d all do that in what ever job we do - these riders don’t need to race here in the Uk it’s handy for early and late season when Polish seasons hasn’t started or at the end of season has finished. England is pocket money in comparison to Poland but we think we are equal paying field we are not we are at the bottom .
only two ways to go pay the same as Poland that’s not going to happen the money or support isn’t there so the choice is teams sign riders that will 100% put racing in England first over any other country yes we’d lose a lot of riders but we’d have riders that actually want to be here and give there best .