Oxford Spires 2025

[PersonalResponsibility]

6 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Imagine seven figure league sponsorship deal announced with Skybet, Eddie Hearn taking over as commander and chief, an eight strong top league once home and away with all the top men back over, 12 strong second division once home and away, racing on the best nights for the public not the riders, then we woke up

Crazy to think that we had the Skybet Elite League, the top riders, a 10(!) team top division not that long ago really.

It just so turns out that Terry Russell and co weren't quite the promotional gurus that Eddie Hearn is. Who could've guessed.

[RoundTheBoards]

I can understand Oxford wanting to drop out of a league rather than doing all three, but I'm wondering, do Oxford fans approve of dropping out of Premiership and just doing Chmapionship, or would you have prefered to drop out of Championship and just entered Premiership?

[Hilly]

Championship all day long for me

[Triple.H.]

13 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said:

I can understand Oxford wanting to drop out of a league rather than doing all three, but I'm wondering, do Oxford fans approve of dropping out of Premiership and just doing Chmapionship, or would you have prefered to drop out of Championship and just entered Premiership?

Do you know which league they've pulled out of ? If it's PL CL and NDL again it could be Cheetahs moving up to PL or staying CL. If it's one league then every club is dropping out of either PL or CL to create whatever the new league is called.

[arnieg]

I sense that the management's main grievance is the enormous guarantees paid out in return for modest performances.  That would suggest to me that if the current structure remains a Championship team is more likely.

[YeOldPitGate]

1 hour ago, arnieg said:

I sense that the management's main grievance is the enormous guarantees paid out in return for modest performances.  That would suggest to me that if the current structure remains a Championship team is more likely.

Would make sense I don't know what some of the prem heat leaders were on at Oxford but if your talking maybe 3-5k per meeting the numbers will never add up.