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If admission prices turn out to be too high payments to riders will have to reduce wether they like it or not

As the current custodian of a famous sports club he certainly owes the fans of Ipswich an explanation however I'm guessing that he feels the next step is that there should be some sort of statement from the BSPL regarding 26 which I understand. Hopefully after that he'll give his reasons to the Witches fans

The thing is its a sports club not just a business, there are thousands of fans in Ipswich so he owes them some sort of explanation at some point

Wanting to persist with a "model" that has caused several tracks to lose very significant amounts of money in the last few seasons is absolutely mad even if your own track is in reasonable shape They were always going to run out of road at some point

I wouldn't be too sure about Leicester.....

I thought the stadium was privately owned but leased to Spedeworth who sublet to the Witches?

Buying is probably a stretch as Sheffield presumably are finding out Maybe someone would rent it from Louis

He is the person with significant control according to Companies House with over 75% of the shares

Tolley? He's been linked everywhere else

More than 25% less than 50% according to Co House

I think the idea that they would run in the PL and also then "divvy up" 20% of the losses of a 6th club is absolute madness. Maybe new owners might see that proposition differently but....

The only rumour I've heard of late is the one posted on the Ipswich thread There have been quite a few before that but nothing that has proven to be true.....yet

He'd answer Barry Briggs to every question

I think the 2 clubs that would consider this are pretty obvious but where would that leave the gang of 3?

One thing is clear if Prem clubs won't/can't sign anyone until January then the riders will have finalised all their Polish/Swedish/Danish deals I wonder if that might mean a few not chosing UK?

Indeed. I remember the Arena Essex crew making noises about the demolition of the Raceway Tavern being unauthorised or such like, never heard another word about it subsequently

I remember a couple of years ago there was a lot of adverse comment about the quality of the Racing tv stuff especially when compared with Sky Racing. Not sure if it's been addressed since and I've no idea how the BSN coverage would across on these platforms. I think it's a good idea

A fair point but Jaguar LR have their hands full with their data issues currently you'd imagine There's been speedway in the Birmingham/Coventry area for a long time and they've never been involved afaik and presumably they've been asked....

The question for me is can Sheffield and Leicester afford expensive teams without any tv revenue? We know Ippo, BV and Lynn can if they so choose

It was possibly to do with a potential take over of the greyhounds at Monmore that would have potentially opened the door for speedway again at MG File it under very unlikely

There was an interesting rumour a few weeks ago regarding Monmore and the owners of a current speedway club but I've not heard anything on that of late

The problem with that might be if the CPO were to be legally challenged by the owners. Legal costs in dealing with that might become very substantial so they may require those to be included in any guarantee?

The Championship rules probably have

I agree More time to allow Futures to try and get deals done and for 5 teams to commit and who knows maybe even 6...

My guess is that this is designed to allow Futures time to try and get some deals done It's hard to look past that as it stands there's not enough for 5 teams to commit let alone a 6th