YeOldPitGate

He's going to have to find a way of ideally getting an 8 team top league and 8 team second division I think doubling up will have to stay due to shortage of riders. Given Poland and one other league in 2027 I think the long awaited reset will be forced to happen at most likely a sub current championship standard as if the Poland ruling happens most of the remaining top guns I would imagine will depart.

The words "plan quickly" Mike not something you will associated with British Speedway the go to is "react at the absolute last minute"

Now where talking two lots of play off's also to get the tills ringing.

Agreed with us now so far behind Poland if the one other league comes in most top riders will surely pick Denmark or Sweden due to logistics, Would there be merit in forming from whatever is left a top eight league of championship standard and then a championship lite league for another eight teams agreed it won't be pretty but I would imagine we must be down to 90% of the fans being the die hards now.

If serious money ever came in that would be probably the best way forward and then lease out like a franchise model the promotion to interested parties but you would have one big dog hopefully acting in the sports interest rather than eveyone pulling in purely their own direction.

Good to hear phil, didnt the mob who originally ran the gp series buy Reading back in the day when Sudden Sam was on 70-80k for pretty much high fiving the team ?

Who are they Phil the new promoting company ?

There that desperate for teams I think the fit and proper person bar will be set at a very low level.

Didn't Mike Bacon qualify as a rising star at nearly 30 ?

Spot on i think it will be a big ask now for Ipswich to put a half decent side together let alone if Northampton do happen. Its going to take someone with serious bags to burn when you look at it you are going to be getting the very last left overs to form a team, either running at a place with no heritage or at possibly Oxford under a different brand name where its already been proven the Oxford public don't want three teams. No tv deal rumoured either, who would be bonkers and rich enough to take this on ?

Tell me about it Iain I stopped going the year after Cradley brought Hamill over after that I forget about speedway until I started watching it again on tv the night Harris beat Greg in the final at Cardiff so you might well be right. In the SGP'S though he was such a good trapper most of the time he was out front, but that race his hand got caught in the mudguard he was incredibly lucky 9/10 it could have had his arm off but I think he got away with a broken finger/nuckle.

Yes both these lads should have big futures and be core England regulars in 5-6 years time, just need to stay grounded, not take on to much to soon and most importantly avoid big injuries, one of the reasons Hancock and Nielson went on so long was they didn't have many really bad smashes , all be it Hancock got lucky when he got his hand stuck in Neils mudguard.

I definately think theres more to come from Becker he is the perfect build for a speedway rider I think he just needs an ex top level old hand to help him get up a couple of rungs on the ladder.

More chance of congress saying those rumored UFO's in area 51 are really real.

Similar thing happened with Dillon Ruml was developing into a promising your rider but ended up with and average over five and no one seemed prepared to take a chance on him, I think if someone had perservered he could have developed into a seven point plus man at championship level.

Agreed I can see no logic in selling possibly the most successful club in the UK with infrastructure already in place and then putting your sale proceeds into somewhere with zero speedway history , if Coventry revival was the rumoured sixth club and the stadium wasn't falling down then yes maybe.

Hopefully will be a better long term ending than when JB sold out to Shears.

Remember Josh Bates

I can't think he would do either if he has any sense, I think the chances of a sixth team are near zero unless someone who has money to burn can be found and is happy to take a six figure loss on the chin assuming the other five promoters don't agree to underwrite part of the losses. The issue with that would be the new Ipswich owner has to buy the club with presumably no Emil or Doyle and then underwrite part of the losses also for another track just can't see it. I think it was in hindsight always a fantasy idea to try and throw a bone to the fans of the top league.

The only positive I can see is at least the top league didn't go with three home and away, at least with only potentially eight home meetings losses should be more contained but you just have to hope they don't start running home meetings once every 3-4 weeks with five teams they would be better off starting in May and done mid Sept.

Don't think much between Scott and Cairns if both stay grounded and don't take on to much to quickly they should be core England squad members in 5-6 years I would have thought.

Straight to the play offs forget the league and make sure everthing is run in October.

Aussie mate ?

The old three day p-ss up's those were the days.

Christ that's almost Tolley like figures, I wonder how much of the £350k loss was racked up in the year they had Crump and Pederson