Hamish McRaker

Agree with you 100% there, but I suspect the 5, some more than others, already have working agreements in place with riders. So its hard to see how any "team 6" will be anything but sacrificial lambs. No disrespect to them, but we're looking at the likes of Douglas, Pickering and Brennan being the top dogs and they'll have got their first and backup clubs already sorted out, won't they?

Ah, but they are far-sighted! The rise of the economically inactive over-55's and Gen Z's aversion to night clubs and alcohol will mean Monday night becoming the new Saturday night🤫

Either that, or the UK Government has stepped in to avert a crisis using confiscated Russian assets as collateral. Why else would Starmer have been meeting the Belgian PM today, hours before the BSPL announcement?😂

Its known as irony

Just have to somehow stagger through 2026 in order to reach the golden promised land of 2027, after which all will be splendid, when a deluge of high quality riders will arrive, a mega bucks tv deal, and a whole slew of new and revived tracks will emerge. Keep the faith (Paloma, that is)

How many times did we hear Tatum & co last season more or less saying that playoffs is the real part of the season? In that case, just skip the majority of the season and stage playoffs in October between 4 clubs who want to and able do it. Leave team building until September with a high points limit so that riders no longer involved in Poland and Sweden can make a few extra bucks. Call it the Bet Victor Super Series, get it onto YouTube tv, with 'Arry and Phil fronting the whole thing. Sorted!

I wouldn't know but I bet that things are way different now in sports gambling and the ways people participate! Davies is Chair of an "upmarket" gambling company and Redknapp is Bet Victor's best salesman. I can see a big gambling company buying exclusive rights and being given free rein to do what they like

Harry Redknapp. Philip Davies. What do they have in common? Gambling!! Maybe this is the real reason that Chris Louis resigned as a Director of Speedway Futures and has got out altogether? Is this all a last, desperate throw of the dice, selling the whole thing to gambling companies?

I hope you dont have or get Gout. Or take certain types of medication🤫

Could Leicester be the last club left standing? Don't forget to turn off the lights on the way out, Stewart.

Hard to think what can be added to the statement unless the interviewer has some demon questions up his sleeve (and they get broadcast)

May depend on what "top flight" actually means? Even if there are three leagues next year, will any of them genuinely claim that accolade without incurring the interest of the respective Trading Standards services?

So, Leicester has done what the BSPL/ACU should have done weeks ago, but the latter didn't have the spine or the gumption to do it. Shame on them, and good on Leicester I'd also add that it's a very well-worded and clear statement

If there is no Premier League in 2026, would Leicester want to try to join the Championship? And if so, would they be allowed in? Would they be part of a long (5 teams) or a short (2 teams) queue?

Ah, the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few? Was it Mr Spock who said that? A noble sacrifice, as I recall

Clarke Osbourne?

Who is the guy on the right? Alun Rossiter? Terry Russell?

British League north Glasgow, Edinburgh, Berwick, Workington, Redcar, Belle Vue, Sheffield British League south Scunthorpe, Kings Lynn, Leicester, Ipswich, Oxford, Poole, Plymouth No GP riders, doubling up allowed, low points limit to begin with. 5 or maybe 6 per team Each League has separate champions decided by playoffs, or even just a 1st v 2nd final. Grand Champions decided by number of heat wins throughout the season NDL consisting of BL "second teams" plus stand-alone clubs. Minimum of two over-35 riders per club

Would need liberal use of words like "exciting" and for Harry Redknapp to give it his seal of approval! Maybe a few of the 14 existing clubs will prefer to run in a league at NDL+ level, either in addition to being in the "British Super League" or in some cases instead of?

It all reminds me of the great Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python.

The Premier League has been heading along a dead-end, one-way street for many years, and it might have finally hit the buffers at the end of it. And maybe it hasn't just yet, and unbeknown to us a rabbit might have been pulled out of the hat, about to be revealed. If not, a very creative, out of the box solution will be needed, otherwise where will those 5 surviving clubs go, presuming they wish to continue. Would be very strange for two GP rounds to be staged at a venue no longer home to league racing

History has a habit of coming around again

Go on.....how (both of those statements above)??. I'm fascinated

So, what measures are available to be used, to "force" or incentivise a Championship club to walk the plank? I cant currently bring any to mind? What i can see happening, is for the existing Championship clubs to break away from the BSPL and form their own organisation. Maybe this is already happening

Appalling silence from BSPL so far. Hopefully they are taking due care and time over producing a statement. On the other hand, they could be either doing headless chicken or ostrich impersonations.