YeOldPitGate

Agreed it will be the most rigged fight ever AJ might be ten years past his best but there's a real risk he could kill Paul if he hit him with an uppercut so the word will have to go down come in one 20% of your ability tops but your right it will still pull in a fortune in readies.

Tony Rikardson wasn't bad either.

To be fair M.D, Mike after he won the world championship was about as reliable as the british summer at that point moving forward. I remember his comeback meeting at Lynn after his ban a year out and he beat Erik Gunderson the then world champion on his first race back but from that point he just started to lose interest and missed loads of meetings he didn't fancy. It was a real shame in his final comeback early 90's as to how far he had fallen Andy Meredith who at this point was a wobbler was ahead of him and Mike was lining him up perfectly to pass on every single corner but he just didn't have the bottle anymore to pull the move off.

Will there be the usual hide and seek games with Cook this season.

If there's only five teams they might as well go straight to the play off's, the strongest looking side gets a first round bye, and whoever scores the least out of the remaining four is out with the top three going through with the bye team to the semis. It might be a case as others have floated maybe in 2026 the weakest two prem sides are amalgamated into the championship and the top three try to put decent sides together with a view to having a euro league with Sweden and Denmark given half the riders are based abroad it probably wouldn't be much more expensive flight wise and the likes of Harris, Lawson, Pickering etc could still double down.

Agreed Louis did as much as can be expected of a modern day promoter but as you say if the rest are losing money, or turning up with half the riders missing your own product is going to get dragged down regardless in the race to the bottom.

I take my hat off to any rider who has the bottle to race but when people say natural talent the likes of Kelly Moran, Darcy Ward, Henka Gustaffson and Mark Loram are the kind of riders that come to my mind.

Dear old JD had the best equipment and was well funded but he would have been better off at longtrack, I remember when he signed for Lynn poss 88 under Simmo and Bill Barker he was a good trapper but coming out of the second bend he would be leaving a gap on the inside the titantic could have got through. And JD'S riding the boards wasn't in the Henka or Loram style it was more just looking uncomfortable on the bike, to be fair he had an above average career but he never looked suited to speedway to me he would have been better on an oval twice the size of Lynn where he could drift off 20 metres from the inside line.

I'm having visions of a hare being installed on the inside of speedway tracks.

The old pit gate would play up and the final would be rained off after a black cloud spotted in North Lynn at midday.

Would he be though given Plymouth signed Pederson and Crump in the same season ?

What about Gusts seems suited to big fast tracks

I would imagine a lot of Lynn, and Peterborough fans made the trip over for the final.

Your forgetting the usual three week breaks every month in the peak summer months , fear not the most lucrative play offs meetings will still be run back end of October when its back down to 7-8 degrees at night and the rain is back.

Given only five teams and lord knows who Ipswich and Sheff will get to ride for them its probably not a bad shout.

If they both return one will have to elsewhere or your going to have the witches go from champs to having Rambo Lambo and Jack Smith as the spearhead.

Isn' Tony about a hundred years old now ?

Thanks

Agreed but they would need a decent league sponsor to cover the flights in and out, but it is something that could potentially work well for all three countries and ideally if 6 & 7 protected to home grown youngsters could help develop the next generation to negate current polish dominance.

Harris (Captain), Nicholls & Lawson as the heat leaders.

is it 37 including rising star ?

sounds promising i'm thinking could it be Lambo to ipswich

You seem in the know Flagrag is there any hope you have heard about in the current sea of darkness for the premier league ?

Lord knows what the teams will look like I would imagine most of the top boys have already bailed, so I can't really see anything beyond a championship looking side but built to the equivalent of a 45 point limit in the championship. As Mike BV has said its most likely going to 99% of the same riders who are in the championship populating the teams but with an extra heat leader.

Unless they have convinced Nigel to give Northampton a go he's the only person in Speedway who could probably afford to drop 100k on it to get the sport through to 2027 when hopefully even the prem promoters will be forced to take a different direction. I did like the press release saying "a unique set of circumstances" when it should really have read "a dreadful state of circumstances" have to give them credit for trying to keep it going but they need to realise it just isn't working in the current state and a risk is going to have to be taken at some point to turn it around.