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Someone else has just said that also, but neither of you know that. The fella who I’m not going to name, can be a very awkward customer. It’s entirely possible the goalposts would have been moved when someone other than Chris Louis was negotiating the lease.

Aren’t you excited to see what team of undesirables and misfits they’ve managed to cobble together? 😁

Pretty much what I expected from the behind scenes wording I was given. It didn’t sound as though it would be a comprehensive update of anything completed, and so it’s proved. But, at least he’s provided a further update and put us all in the picture on the reasoning for the delay so that’s appreciated. We now know the reason for the delay was stadium related, and that issue has now been resolved. Good to know there were no issues between Louis, and the prospective new owners and it’s all still going ahead as planned. Team almost in place also. Alas the wait now goes on for official confirmation.

Update coming this evening.

Paul Hurry?

In all seriousness Buttons makes a good point. Someone official has to be there don’t they? It’s all getting a bit bizarre

Well hopefully someone who is attending can find out what the hell is going on and then let us know!

You can stop checking your phones people. Now “very unlikely today”. 😂

The pessimist in me is thinking it’s Ipswich with the bad news. The wording “there will be some sort of update on Tuesday” doesn’t fill me with confidence that they will be announcing either a completed sale, or any rider signings today. Just another non update of “sorts”. I could be completely and utterly wrong of course. Let’s hope I am.

This is why I’ve been saying for months that if you’re going to persist with a top league, then it doesn’t suit a league with the amount of clubs that people are asking for because there just aren’t enough riders of sufficient quality to make them all competitive. The riders name dropped on the 360 podcast for Northampton sound like an absolute car crash of a team. Even with the likes of Doyle, Emil, Becker and Rew in the league last year and more options than this year, there was still only five teams putting together a competitive team in a seven team league. The two at the bottom were there just to make up the numbers and were with all due respect, cannon fodder. How is that going to be any different in 2027 if the aim is to have a top league of seven, or eight teams? Where are those extra clubs heat leaders going to come from?

I’m not convinced he’ll be riding for either.

If this is an indication of the way they work then I’m all for it. The way it should be really. I’m interested to see what they do with it all, how it’s promoted, how it’s presented etc. Will they add anything different to the meeting day experience? Do something different? Who knows. Also, will they add any extra meetings? Individuals, international meetings. That’s one thing Louis has done less and less of the last few years and with a sparse fixture list, adding a few extra would be most welcome.

Tuesday “hopefully”, an update.

Possibly…..🥴

He’s still a good team manager whether he’s currently a manager or not. He seems to have had the respect of all the riders that have ridden under him the last few years and none have had a bad word to say about him. Two of them, Doyle and Ellis, have him as part of their team this coming season.

Hawkins IS a good team manager.

I thought (or hoped) I was reading too much much in to the wording of the Official club post on the update coming next week! Didn’t come across as any confirmation coming so perhaps it’s not the update we were all hoping for…

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16629633 Northamptonshire 🤔 Could Mayfield also be behind getting Northampton up and running as well as Ipswich?

Just suggested the same myself. HAS to be Monday with the staff signing on at Ipswich sports club on the Tuesday.

That was issued only a couple of days ago so that’s pretty conclusive that we’ll be running. Not sure they’d be asking all staff to attend on Tuesday for the signing on session if there were still doubts about the club taking part. The wording of their “update” on the sale was interesting to me though. Does that sound like a sale is “done” and it’s being announced next week? Or is it simply a further update on the potential sale? Either way, I expect that update on Monday. Every Tom Dick and Harry will know what’s going on after the staff meet up for the signing on session on Tuesday and it would all leak out from there as it usually does. So I expect the update, will be before that on Monday.

More likely just an inaccurate oversight. Wouldn’t be the first time that has happened with those Polish reports.

This is true also. Point taken.