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The trouble with uk speedway is clear and simple. The toys are too expensive and we no longer have the boys to play with them.

Coventry, Swindon, Arena, Peterborough to name a few.

I believe we have had 14 meetings this season. Quite shocking when we used to have nearly 30. What I want to know is with all these defunct teams wanting to come back, where are we getting the riders from? And even if we get riders from abroad, how the hell are most clubs going to pay them on pitiful gates.

It certainly was from the terraces. Really concerning and more importantly where this sport is heading. A sport with no participants surely ceases to be a sport eventually. Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe you said before that something like 90 odd British riders have been lost to the sport in the last decade? If that's the case then that far outweighs anything to do with silverware.

We could call it the BLRC. The both leagues riders championship.

Belle Vue will win it hands down I have no doubt about it. What's more important is the sports future. Failure to do so and the promoters might as well carry on with the violins on the deck as the ship goes down!

More chance of extra terrestrial tv than normal tv. If it was that good they'd be queuing up.

Looking at the table I presume Lynn have to win both their remaining matches to catch us?

And all 3 meetings scheduled for 7th September, so unless Sheffield sign Basil Brush or something at number 1 then they will have to go with RR again then.

Lol got more chance of Bart Simpson than Bart Zmarzlik!

The league becomes more worthless year on year. Sooner or later the back end will drop out and then what happens. I simply cannot see how they find a way out without reducing costs. Simple economics surely, if participants can afford to take part in a sport it simply has no future.

Guesting in this league now is quite literally like pass the parcel. What an absolute sh1tshow!

I get the point, but where are we going to replace him from the vast numbers of riders available lol

Trouble with speedway is that the Rome fire just keeps getting more intense?

Absolutely, whilst it was good to win it for the first time in 30 years, the prize becomes more and more pointless as the years go by.

Congratulations to Leicester and it would be nice to see someone else win the league for a change. More importantly the powers that be need to find a way of saving this sport, and soon.

Can I have a pint of that please?

I reckon about 35 with more morphine being injected into the business model!

At at some point there must be a tipping point where we quite literally run out of participants or in this case riders.

I agree. I bet a lot of Coventry, Cradley, Wolves, Peterborough, Swindon and Arena fans would like an 'average' season. This is not about us at Ipswich or any other team, it's about the sports survival now pure and simple.

That could be next year at this rate.

Surely though we must be getting to the point where the straw breaks the camels back. Sheffield (publicly know of course) have lost heavily on the last couple of meetings and we know crowd figures have not been healthy at other tracks. But with that potential scenario in mind what possibly can Poland feed off?

Imagine if you bought a luxury car for say 30k. Then they removed the electric windows, the air conditioning and stereo and still tried to flog it for 30k.

Think it was a shoulder injury. But Doyle has had injuries the last couple of years. I was around 30 yards away when he cleared the fence at lynn a couple of years ago. Anyway I noticed in the Sheffield Star they were complaining about low attendances and significant losses at their last 2 home meetings. One day these owners may learn!

I thought he was injured?