Sir Sidney

Not so. The press release includes all leagues. The part about returning clubs was not league specific.

Oxford is returning as a club, just not in the Premiership

Many sports and sporting clubs do. The losses in Premiership rugby for example are eye watering, and yet they continue

It does exist for the Premiership, where one fan per club is part of the Fans Voice group, which meets periodically with Phil Morris. Some of the reps have gained some traction with their own clubs promoters There is also a rep on the group who does not represent Premiership clubs, but acts as a rep for feedback from other clubs and defunct clubs. The group that that rep comes from contacted all other clubs and got zero respone. However, they collect views and ideas from fans on the groups Facebook page and submit those monthly or thereabouts to Phil Morris. At last years AGM Phil presented the document, which had 1600 lines of ideas and comments. Regretably the fedback from AGM was almost non existent. Ideas have again been summarised and submitted throughout last season, with no feedback at all. It's difficult to help promoters when they simply wont engage.

If that is the case my guess is Scunthorpe. Maybe Rob Godfrey feels some responsibility as Chairman, having led the organisation into such a parlous state, to act as a sticking plaster for a year. Josh Pickering as number one in both leagues?

I still don't see that. I understand you would pay less tax on the combined profit, but the profit would be lower, and therefore the net position worse I'll look for a worked example to get it clear in my mind. If it were beneficial to own a loss making company then every profitable company would take one on.

I follow that, but, isn't the net position worse than if you didn't own the loss making company?

I follow that, but, isn't the net position worse than if you didn't own the loss making company? My understanding is as per that set out by YeOldPitGate above.

Can you explain to me how having a loss making speedway club is good for tax purposes? Surely you would still make less net profit than if you didn't have the loss making speedway club?

About a 55 point average CL team I'd guess

Personally I don't think betting is viable specifically for all the reasons you mention - far too open to manipulation and perceived corruption ( even if no corruption exists) . Maybe Sir Philip has been recruited for his marketing knowledge - which as we know is sadly lacking in British Speedway. Of course, Speedway Futures Ltd could just be transparent and tell us, but I'm sure none of us expects that

Why would they hand over any money? Redknapp was brought in because of his (alleged) contact list. I don't know the other guy but it seems he has some relevant credentials. I suspect both are on some kind of % deal for what they bring in either directly or indirectly. All it needs is for BSPL to be a bit more transparent to stop all the speculation - of course, we know they won't be, and so the speculation will continue

In the original press release re Harry Redknapp it included that 'Speedway Futures Ltd was set up in 2024 and became the commercial and media rights holders of British Speedway, with the specific objective of attracting long term commercial investment to develop the sport in the UK.' So the questions I would ask is how did it become the commercial and media rights holder? Did it pay for the rights and if so, how much did it pay? What is the deal between BSPL and Speedway Futures because , surely, all BSPL members must have had an input or vote on tge deal. Of course, I don't expect to get sny answers but they can't have just started a new company and taken the rights

Of course, not an easy sell ( in the same way it is for any potential new fan) - but surely worth investigating why Chelsea has expressed an interest in speedway. Or just don't bother and miss out on a potential opportunity

Probably as well as, for example Joe Thompson or Sam Hagon against Emil or Jason currently at Premership level. Of course, there are ways around this such as adjusting the race formula to reduce the number of uneven races. There are no perfect solutions, but we need an acceptable transitional solution that doesn't bankrupt the clubs that are left.