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Whats Beau Bailey come in on ? if they got him on a five them would steam roll the league even more than they have done this year.

You always came across as a pro-active promoter Mick if you were put in charge of the top flight in 2027 what would be the changes you would try and push through ? whilst equally being realistic of budgets and team constraints.

Spot on having two top five world class riders put them a country mile ahead from the get go plus as you say the majority of the other teams weaker/much weaker than in 2025. You would hope people would be happy to see the likes of Kurtz and Bewley more so as it looks like Dan won't be doing UK in 2027.

Really hope the lad succeeds great to see a new young American over here hopefully there's another 4-5 other decent young prospects stateside that can follow him the test matches against the US used to be brilliant meetings.

Agreed but equally might make it harder to get two more teams to move up given a lot the top riders don't want UK and we might lose a few more top liners if the rule comes in.

Its amazing the determination of some people, I do a lot of cruising and got talking to a fella who was the casino manager on ship, he was from Peru (late thirties) told me he was orphaned at six , lived on the streets for ten years, got a break working at a casino and ended up running one on Royal Caribean in between all this he was one of the worlds top surfers, and the next day like the old swearer he drops on me in the 3-4 months he has off he is one of the biggest DJ's in South America showed me these videos of him at massive footy stadiums. He looked like a mexican cartel boss but was awesome fella his life story would make a great film.

Good interview with the old swearer, sticks some f-cks into the interviewer straight off the bat lol, can't fault his incredible grit and will to win , shame it looks like he will step away from the sport as he has a lot to give but equally is to smart to be risking his life's earnings on the sport at least in Britain.

If he's lurking maybe Flagrag has a view he seems to be close to the media side of things.

Good to see a new young rider over in the UK hopefully if the lad is 50% as good as the Moran Brothers, King & Cookie he will have a bright future ahead of him, would love to see a few more promising young American riders come over to the UK but they are thin on the ground sadly. The boy will have a good support network around him no doubt and hopefully will be given a few meetings to settle into UK speedway. It's a shame Dillon Ruml never came back as he was another shaping up to be a useful rider but he stuffed himself by finishing with a 5.50 ish average and I don't think has ridden since having a hand injury 18 or so months back.

That's the one I was thinking of Bagpuss, the overseas final when the yanks were brought in, I was thinking Intercontinental but that was when Danes and Swedes also came in. As an aside whilst where going down memory lane does anyone remember a brilliant final heat race at Peterborough between Ryan Sullivan and I think it was one of the Karlson's (it wasn't Peter) when the Wolves rider just beat Ryan after a titanic race in the last heat ? if you do who was the Wolves rider was it Mikeal Karlson ? it was one of the best(possibly the best) races I have ever witnessed.

Yes it was a great day out for sure and the getting out of the car park with the shoot out of 5,000 cars all heading for one gap in the hedge was always lively, I used to enjoy the rounds where the Aussies and Yanks were brought in also held at Coventry with faves from the day such as Lance King, Shawn Moran, Cowboy Cook etc from memory other than Phil Crump the Aussie's weren't much of a force back then until the young Crump jnr, Adams, Boyce came through a few years later.

Sadly gone are the days you could rock up to Coventry along with 10k others Phil to watch Tatum, Wigg, Havelock, Silver, Morton, PC, Paul Thorpe, Phil Collins etc, real shame.

I wonder if we will ever again hear anything about the fruits of Harrys and the Tory fellas labors or if the powers that be are just hoping its gradually forgotten about.

Would be great if the old swearer was involved I just think having been on the taking out side of the fence he will know that most promoters are losing money not making it and won't want to squander his career earnings but equally he should have some good sponsor contacts one would have thought.

The impression I got from reading the article by the Scottish fella in the Star is it will still be two leagues next season I know a lot are against it and we all have our bias but personally if they could get a semi decent tv deal I still think two leagues of eight is way to go but just once home and away in the top league but ideally 20-30% better quality if it can be financed. Given other than Buster I think all other teams rent their stadiums if nothing else the losses would probably be halved and more people should turn up to watch as fewer but (hopefully) better quality meetings so long as not monthly home meetings. The bottom three-four riders in teams league one could still double up in league 2 which could run 2 home ,2 away, as far as I'm aware Poland top league is just once home and away and it seems to work well for their top league.

Great times, I was from memory age 17-22 in the Wild Wayne years used go with my best mate and his dad who drove us to meetings all over the place. I remember one bank holiday when we faced Wolves and I think Richard Knight took a bad tumble and ended up stuck under the wooden fence on bend two and some Wolves fan was cheering at the accident, Nutter loved Richard Knight and came sprinting out of the bar gave the fella a mouthful and proceeded to boot the blokes pint out of his hand , the fella then very sheepishly quickly disappeared to the other side of the stadium. Nutter getting cheers from the home fans as he headed back to his usual seat at the bar. Seem to remember the Wild Wayne posse used to be situated between bend one and two most days. God I look back on those days fondly I had zero cares myself back then and when we got Loram and Henka both young , brilliant and hungry they were the best times ever at Saddlebow road great times sadly missed. I'm now semi retired with two adult children myself all seems to have gone by in the blink of an eye but if I had a time machine I would be back to those times tomorrow for a year ideally with the knowledge I have gained over the last forty plus years intact also.

Not when you have Klindt and Lidsey who can be all over the place on the scoring on any given night, Ellis got nearly half the points total for the whole team.

Still trying to work out the culprits Phil given as far as I am aware most promoters only run one club now unless its some of the top league who have part funded Northampton. I still think two leagues of eight would be a better way to go if you went one big league the standard will have to be watered down hugely to fill 15 sides unless the teams reduced to 5 man sides, plus we have the rumours Workington will be dropping out come winter.

He was brilliant bellowing out the stars war chant every week yet again goes to show another die hard who rarely goes anymore I can think of so many a lot of them are now just to old late 70's early 80's to probably even get there these days. I often wonder what happened to Nutter and his posse who used to rule the second bend bar back in the mid 80's early 90's complete bunch of loons but were again all die hards all be it they spent most of the time downing pints and hardly ever watched the racing which in those days was generally class most weeks post 87 onwards when we stopped being the whipping boys.

Be interesting to see what happens with Northampton in 2027 depending on what happens with UK speedway in general , it would appear a decent core crowd of supporters is there which was a big worry pre season. Flagrag mentioned a party with deep pockets were looking to get involved but didn't in the end if they were now convinced and got 2-3 good riders in and kept Thomson, Iverson, Ellis and the young aussie Mcdiad (or however you spell it) and could add say Anders Thompson, Becker , poss Zack Cook if Belle Vue have to shed riders that would be a good looking side. If they don't get involved its probably going to be more of the same a side making the numbers up but hopefully 10-15% better side than this year minimum.

Whats going on with Lawson and Ipswich this year, granted he's always had a rep for being moody but has generally been reliable for clubs he represented down the years. I don't know if the muddy bikes and leathers have been an issue every year or just this year also, as I've mentioned before he seems to me for a rider with no gp ambitions the perfect template for what a UK rider should be so seems odd that he should want to rock the apple cart at what has historically been a well run club.

Christ I can remember Flatman that was around the Jem Doncaster , Kai Niemi days from memory

Remember Wild Wayne back in the day Bagpuss ? if you do does he still go ?

And don't forget the Horsepool brothers

Think he would be a good signing, young, hungry, good people behind him and would have good support from the Fords as far as settling into English racing goes the only caveat is I don't know if he's a trapper or not as get the impression ideally you need to be a good gater at Poole or have the talent to come from the back like Loram, Ward or Henka and there's not many riders in that mould sadly.