Falcon1983

I don’t personally believe there is a desire for weekly speedway anymore, looking back at when the sport was seen more of a main player in UK sport compared to now being a minority sport, there are just so many things to do in life I think Speedway needs to find its place but the promoters are still trying to push the sport like it’s the 70’s/80’s Less can sometimes be more 8 Team Premiership – Home & Away Once Top 4 into play offs 8 Team Championship – Home & Away Once Top 4 into play offs All meetings run between May – August, Play offs only in September. You could even with a reduced calendar work more closely with Sweden/Denmark to fix more fixtures so that you could see Prem clubs being able to run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursdays. The main event of British Speedway should not be league racing anyway, it should be a major part of it like the above but the main event should be an individual series, I would put something together like the “Super 12 Championship” where the top 12 British Riders who don’t race in the polish top flight race over 10 rounds and this replaces the British Championship as we know now 1 Round in April, 2 rounds in May, June, July, August and the final round in September after league play-offs. 12 riders, 4 heats each, top 4 to the final at each round that’s 13 heats, add to the program a “Super 8 series” for riders U24 which will be our equivalent to what Poland are doing with their U24 league – they ride 4 heats each and a final, that’s 9 races so 22 heats of racing per championship round, make these rounds events, practice, meet the riders, have entertainment etc. The individual series on Eurosport, the rest of British Speedway on a Pay Monthly stream like Netflix where its £9.99 per month they get say 4 meetings a month, interviews, behind the scenes, nostalgic meetings, you could even have a feature presenting each club side throughout the season Premiership built to 42.5 limit with a minimum average of 3.00 and maximum average of 9.00 for team building so for example a rider can get an average of 11.00 during a campaign but it resets at 9.00 why penalise a rider from having a good year? Championship built to 36 limit minimum average of 2.00, that takes away the bigger names in the championship and effectively they race in the individual series. Issues that I have seen mentioned - Riders losing money? too many riders are professional riders in a non-professionally run sport, the individual series if you had prize money of £3k, £2k £1k per round to the podium finishers then had a £50k prize pot to the top 3 in the series overall the top 12 riders in this series would not have to double up/down, with 10 rounds guaranteed on Eurosport they would get more sponsorship to cover costs etc. The sport is here to survive for future generations not to give current riders a professional career, doubling up and down only benefits a smaller % of riders, Covid showed us that riders will go and get jobs if they have to, if the sport can’t offer a fulltime wage they will get part time jobs. - Landlord issues Simple really if some clubs have to run X amount of fixtures, then just hold some individual rounds, say Glasgow/Edinburgh/Berwick could host a round each of the “Scottish Open Championship” these can be run in April before the season opens up in May-August, other individual meetings can take place when fixtures are cemented and free weeks are available, you could get Ipswich, Lynn and Peterborough doing a “Star of Anglia Championship” etc. Also with no promotion or relegation in speedway what is to stop on a reduced calendar a premiership side entering a championship side? You then get 14 home and 14 away meetings I would invite someone like TalkSport to become title sponsors of the leagues, AT NO CHARGE, and use their massive social media following to promote the sport, doesn’t mean it will feature much on the radio itself but their social media platforms are HUGE and could generate more interest in the sport For the individual series I would encourage Monster to get involved plus speedway stalwarts such as Tru Plant, ATPI, Adrian Flux etc. to sponsor it to generate the funds for prize money

Should be home and away once Top 4 into play offs Season to run from May to end of August, play offs in September No other gimmicks

32 league fixtures with play offs on top will be carnage

just need to find a volunteer to switch the light off on the way out and let this sport die as it deserves the current people responsible for this sport should be laying foundations for future generations to enjoy it, joke

42.5 point building limit No rising star However any rising star retained from last season will get a 25% reduction on his final average, or 2.50 being the lowest so Kemp etc. 2.5

3 from Iversen, Bjerre, Thomsen, Michelsen #TeamDenmark

another absolute farce by the people trusted in protecting this sport for future generations

That would be a great side

In the championship yes

ok so if Doyle 10.32 it could leave 31.68 for 6 other riders an average of 5.28 per rider 1. Doyle 10.32 2. Batchelor 5.57 3. Riss 6.00 4. Cook 5. King 6.57 * 6. Barker 4.42 * 7. Hume 4.09 * * Brit reduction The Witches will need to unearth a rider or two from abroad or maybe take Cook from Poole and lose King to allow for a big hitter 1. Doyle 10.32 2. Batchelor 5.57 3. Riss 6.00 4. Barker 4.42 5. Klindt/Lambert 6. Cook 4.00 7. Hume 4.09 Think Ipswich need to take at least one if not TWO risks somewhere

pretty sure the deal was worth around £500k over 5 seasons

Its not a huge amount of money anyway well, i say that... wouldn't say no and would want a slice

Before someone else comments, Leicester probably have more than 2 of their current side riding in it, but for other clubs

Because Leicester are not in the prem this season Leicester wont have two riders riding in it To be honest the sport is so far adrift of professionalism i shouldn't contribute or say anything when something like this happens

Total farce of a sport Every year they deliver it worse The most successful season the powers that be had running the sport was the year covid put a stop to it

just looking at average so you could take out Batch and put in Ellis/Andersen maybe 36 should be the limit and just put a 5.00 in for Batch

If a 38 points limit which I think its what it should be max! 1. King 2. Cook 3. Ellis/Andersen 4. Cook 5. Batchelor 6. Ablitt 7. Perry

yes you can make changes after the window if an injured rider is coming back to replace another rider that came in for him

Denmark top flight only run 12 league fixtures If the prem in the UK could get to 8 clubs by 2024 maybe 10 clubs by 2025 and just ride home and away once and do away with gimmicks such as pairs or a league cup for the top flight then I am sure UK/Sweden/Denmark could all work together to run Monday-Thursday with some fixture scheduling

has there ever been a 0-0 in Speedway?

probably looking in UK terms at around a guarantee of £4,000 as there are not many if any signing bonuses but maybe a bit of sponsorship money thrown in so if you had Doyle on £4k guaranteed per meeting over 20 league meetings thats £80k a season, if you wanted a "Doyle" in each of the 6 teams thats £480k per season to have a top no.1 associated to each club. The BSPL should have taken the offer from Discovery who were keen to buy into British Speedway, they could have subsidised 1-2 riders like this per side

Gonna go for Belle Vue 48 Sheffield 42 Sheffield 50 Belle Vue 40

I've been told by half a dozen that its 42.5 no rising star

Swap Lambert & Bewley for Janowski & Dudek

Half a point possibly still to play with 1. Doyle 10.32 2. Batchelor 5.57 3. Riss 6.00 4. Wozniak 5.79 5. Michelsen 6.02 6. Hume 4.09 7. Knudsen/Ratajczak/Sorensen/Hjelmland/Nielsen/Jeppesen/another 4.00