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Bizarre. I never thought I’d see the word Brennan and “dirty” in the same sentence either. If anything I’d say he’s the polar opposite! Far too nice and needs more aggression on track. All very strange and it’s not one or two posters either, seems to be all of them that post on here! Sheffield for ya I suppose 😛

Incorrect. Try conned!

Buster and co, with a “buy back” Clause is the latest doing the rounds. Wonderful.

Really surprises me this. Any particular reason I’m missing why Brennan is seemingly not popular up Sheffield way?

Word is Fricke is Lynn bound.

Think he’s probably everybody’s favourite Brit. Seems a cracking lad.

If there’s still uncertainty around Ipswich’ continuation, you can’t blame the riders for going elsewhere. They all want their future sorted which is understandable. Ipswich are left completely rudderless at the moment and that’s all down to Chris Louis I’m afraid. Cheers Chris.

You sure Ipswich are running Phil? 🤣 That’s our complete top three gone!

Ipswich, Lynn, Sheffield and Leicester. Ipswich have already lost their top two, Sheffield rumoured to have lost Jack Holder. If Belle Vue retain at least one, or both of their big hitters, it’ll be a big advantage obviously. Especially as they could now be on “cheap” averages, because the competition they had this year whilst achieving their current averages, will be missing.

Can’t argue with any of that really. All very vague isn’t it.

“Premiership allstars” I like it, and I think I’d get behind them and back them for the title 😁

This gets trotted out time and time again, and it STILL doesn’t make any sense. Even in a cr@p five team league, if you get a standout team that hits the ground running and opens up a big gap early doors, EVERY meeting very early becomes meaningless, even for the club running away with it! With play offs, of course every pre-play off meeting isn’t meaningless, what on earth do you mean? Most clubs will be in with a chance of getting there right up until the end of the season! Of course there’ll be one or two who’ll cement their play off place in good time, and you can then say their remaining fixtures could be pointless. But play offs keep more teams interested and in the mix for longer, than just having the top team as champions. That’s surely obvious.

Looks good away as well if the others end up like we’re half expecting!

37 for top 6, plus a rising star with same rising star criteria as recent years.

Personally think it MUST include Ipswich Phil. If it doesn’t, we’d have heard more concrete news on a new track if they have a currently guaranteed 5 starters. Waiting game goes on unfortunately. Edit: what I will say though, is the current five shouldn’t be completing their teams just yet. They should all have a collective responsibility to help a possible sixth team come to the party and be competitive. If that means a certain team not including a rider they wanted, so be it. It’s no good bringing a sixth team in late in the day, and everyone else has hoovered up the worthwhile riders that still want to ride here leaving that team trying to cobble together a team of misfits. They’ll inevitably finish bottom, the crowds won’t come and it obviously won’t end up being successful. Someone will always finish bottom yes, but you don’t want to see anyone bottom and totally uncompetitive and getting a hiding every week. They need to try and make all six (if it is to be six) as equally matched as possible.

This is true, but Flagrag’ description of a great new number 1 who if he can master the track could push him on in the GP’s, describes Bewley to a T. Can’t think of another GP rider that fits that description better. *please don’t mean Jack Holder 🙏🏻

Bewley then. Interestingly, Ipswich’ social media team have been second to none over the years. Always leading the way. Since the British speedway announcement yesterday confirming a minimum five team league, Belle Vue, Lynn, Sheffield and Leicester have all retweeted, responded, or done both. Ipswich the only club not to have done either..

Think we’re on the same page here Speedy. I’m going to wait and see what the structure and team line ups are (if any) before I decide if I’ll attend or do something else on race night. Let’s just say it’s not looking promising! Cash saved I suppose.

Decent by championship standards, but nothing like we’ve seen in recent years which I guess is to be expected. From a personal point of view, I picked and chose the odd meeting here and there when we were in the second tier, more for the nostalgia to be honest. Things like just being in and around the stadium that I’ve been in since I was a nipper, and to see old friends. When we moved back up, I never missed a meeting, and when Emil signed, I brought a season ticket for the first time ever and have had one for the three seasons he was here. I doubt I’ll go to many next year IF we even run. Some people love the sport so much that they’ll go whatever the level, and good luck to them. I’m certainly not one of those.

I’ve always said this. Should have GP’s on a variety of different shapes and sizes of tracks. Would make it much more interesting. On the sale front, I know these things can take time to resolve but they really need to get a shift on. It’s clearly holding things up for everyone concerned. Not sure on the Sheffield situation and if it’s the same scenario. Have the current Sheffield promotion said they’ll run even if a buyer isn’t found, or is running next year solely down to a successful sale?

Not particularly no, but it kind of depends how competitive and I mean equally competitive, those five teams are. I’d rather watch four teams visit three times each if they look attractive, than several teams visit for “variety” where you’ll know the result before the tapes go up in heat one. We had that even in a seven team league this year. Our poorest attendances at Foxhall this year were unsurprisingly when Birmingham and Oxford came to visit. Is it really a positive thing to get more teams involved for the sake of variety, if those extra teams end up as cannon fodder like Birmingham were this year? The reality is there’s such a small pool of top class riders that want to ride over here, that our top division doesn’t suit a league with large numbers.

Thank you Alex. Well that puts that rumour to bed!

Isn’t he an active poster on here? Or was it someone just using his Name?

Another issue, I wonder whether we’d also need to find a new track man? Bob has been an incredible servant to the club over many years but you’d have to wonder whether he’d also call time with Louis no longer there.

He’s an eccentric no doubt about that, but he’s obviously a successful businessman. As has been said, I wouldn’t pay much attention to what happened at Birmingham. You’re comparing apples with oranges to what he’d walk in to here at Ipswich. Anyway, he may or may not be one of the two parties. We’ve just got to continue playing the waiting game unfortunately.