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The four points I was told earlier today were : 1 - The 36 points limit for 2026 now 37 points 2 - Only 5 teams at moment committed to the Premiership (Belle Vue, Ipswich, Kings Lynn, Leicester and Sheffield). However Chris Louis has threatened to pull Ipswich from the Premiership and put club for sale. He will only run in the Premiership if it has a minimum of 6 teams 3 - The consortium to run a team at Oxford in the Premiership have pulled the plug on that 4 - One 2025 club has some serious financial issues to resolve with a lot of their riders owed in excess of £10k, doesn’t take a genius to work out which club it is. So not exactly good news even if the points limit goes up a bit.

I heard earlier today that the new limit for 2026 has been changed from 36 points to 37 points 🤷‍♂️

He’s definitely not at Leicester (Douglas & Masters at 1 and 5 for them)

Team A is 95% correct just Nathan Abblitt instead of Declan Kennedy

Also that’s a big change of tact from last season, will out an end to a 6 pointer at reserve that’s for sure

Fricke incoming, that’s a big chunk of the 36 points used up

Heard this consortium wanting to run Premiership at Oxford in 2026 under another name have looked at Oxfords historical rival clubs in Swindon and Reading, not sure how much the locals would support and if those from either club no longer running would travel that far for a ‘home’ meeting. Maybe a more generic name like ‘Thames Valley Titans’ (other nicknames are available 😜)

Been told that by two current riders that it’s 36 in Premiership and 40 in Championship and they are signed up in teams built to those limits already

Any snippets of team news at awards do last night?

Any snippets of team news at awards do last night?

Swap Becker for Dan Thompson and that top 5 plus RS is what we’ll see in 2026, just not sure the number 6 is yet

Limit is definitely 36 points plus Rising Star for 2026

Can’t see Pickering keeping that average especially if at 1 or 5, his away form over last few seasons has been bang average, its his Owlerton form against weaker teams that has inflated his average, but could see Jack maintain his and Chris improve his by 0.5, well that’s my thoughts anyway 😆

Morris and Killeen at Leicester Sheffield will need to decide if it’s both Holders or its no Holders as they come as a pair not. Personally I’d keep Jack at 1 and Chris at 5 and let Pickering have a season elsewhere, Rowe and Flint will be back for 2026 at 2 and 4, love to see Musielak back at 3, then Etheridge at 6 and someone like Harrison or Abblitt at Rising Star

Two of them another type of big cat further down the M1 for 2026 from what I’ve seen

1 Pickering 2 Ablitt 3 MPT 4 Harrison 5 Mountain 6 Lambert 7 Ingram

Yes will be in Premiership again in 2026

Can see this being a glass half full announcement rather than glass half empty for Scunny fans

Can see this being a glass half full announcement rather than glass half empty for Scunny fans

Pretty sure if Glasgow wanted the Premiership they would move up, they don’t need financial support that’s for sure. They’d loose out fan wise as it’s a helluva trek on a Monday or Thursday even from the closest track which would be Belle Vue, so not many travelling fans would turn up, plus loosing matches v Edinburgh and Berwick that always bring better crowds in. They’ve already signed riders up in the Championship so can’t see them back tracking now for this coming season anyway. Geographically you’d think Scunthorpe would be the one to put their hand up to move up a league and Godfrey to back up his ideas, get a local(ish) derby back against Sheffield and not too far away from Leicester or Kings Lynn

Anyone heard anything on the back of last Wednesdays ‘emergency’ BSPL meeting? Believe it was called as all not well with the set up costs initially to Northampton as under egged, causing them to not want to enter in the Prem and then other Promoters not happy with 5 team league (Belle Vue, Ipswich, Kings Lynn and Sheffield) as Glasgow and Poole staying where they are in Championship. Be interesting to see if it is 5 teams if sticking with the initially agreed 6 plus RS teams with 36 average (no cap on riders above a certain average)

Woffinden not doing UK in 2026, concentrating on Poland and GP’s. Take a brave promotion to take him on anyway at start of season on his high average having missed 18 months

Top three of Harris, Howarth and Flint (I’d add Morris to that four but pretty sure he’s back at Berwick on what is a steal of an average) should grab a decent amount of points one and away, a less top heavy team will allow to have one slightly stronger reserve at 6 and hope there’s a 0.5 point increase each in the engine room and reserves in case some mid season tinkering needed 1 Harris 8.90 2 Jake Mulford 4.26 3 Leon Flint 6.95 4 Tate Zischke 5.43 5 Kyle Howarth 7.92 6 Sam Hagon 3.48 7 Freddie Holder 2.63 Averages = 39.57

With the rumoured 36 point limit plus Rising Star I’d look for something like this with the 2.5% off for Brits and 25% off Flints end of year average 1 Jack Holder 9.08 2 Leon Flint 5.06 3 Nick Morris 5.89 4 Anders Rowe 5.21 5 Josh Pickering 7.76 6 Jye Etheridge 3.00 RS Luke Harrison Total Team Average = 36 If the annual ‘no Jack Holder at Sheffield’ rumours are true then something like this 1 Josh Pickering 7.76 2 Kyle Howarth 5.00 3 Chris Holder 6.84 4 Leon Flint 5.06 5 Tobias Musielak 6.63 6 Jonas Jeppesen 4.34 RS Luke Harrison Total Team Average = 35.63

From what I’ve heard and also seen others state elsewhere the limit for 2026 is 36 plus RS. Going to be some decisions for the teams over the next few weeks