Marky_Mark

Is there anything we can do? Write letters of support to try and encourage the track owners to lease the facilities again? We’ve lost SO many tracks in the South in recent years, Exeter, Trelawny, Somerset, Weymouth, Swindon, Reading, Eastbourne, Rye House, Wimbledon, Lakeside, The other Kent team, Oxford who are thankfully back. I just think it’s so important that we do everything we can to keep this going.

How about Chris Holder at the Witches?

Why have the 2 Aussie lads not come back over this year?

Should already fit now they’ve announced a bigger reduction for riders who’ve missed a season in the league (Ablitt) ?

How about bringing the end of the season forward to ensure regular weekly fixtures through the summer when the kids are off and people are on holiday …… and avoid all the rain offs at the end of the season

And yet Louis was a director of the BSPL that could have seen this coming and made provisions for a different way forward before the end of the season?

It does sadden me to read when some people state they wouldn’t attend any track where he is riding. By all means you can choose not to support him personally or write to your clubs promoter with your views but if too many people vote with their feet then it could have awful long term consequences. The sport is on its knees and we’ve lost far too many tracks with many more making a loss, let’s not lose any more by turning our backs, the other 6 riders in the team still need your support and the clubs as a whole.

I thought 4.80 was his premiership average?

Oh come on, give your head a wobble! There’s a very good reason why people won’t name the new team, which is why the BSPL and the team themselves haven’t announced it yet, there’s still lots to sort out and it isn’t finalised but they are serious and have already spoken to riders. It’s not a done deal yet, but very close and dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s It’s only right that the promotors announce it themselves to gain maximum publicity.

He had bikes, and was doing practice and amateur events at Scunthorpe

Mildenhall would need a similar large investment as per Northampton. The SCB wouldn’t give them a track license due to the large posts inserted to the fence for stock cars. They have installed foam inserts which were accepted by NORA, however to obtain an SCB license they would have to install new foam from a certain supplier at a cost of circa £90,000. The additional premiership team that I have been told about is neither Northampton or Mildenhall.

The premiership will run with or without Ipswich, Ipswich are the potential 6th team if a sale goes through

As far as I’ve been told, Ipswich are the potential 6th team. The 5th team have yet to be announced

Unless it’s a champ team that’s thinking of running 2 teams like Oxford did

With respect it doesn’t mean that at all, they may have just signed a rider on the same/similar average to Jacob that they believe is better value/has more scope for improvement?