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Any white smoke coming out above the BSP Tower in Rugby?

Is the Union Jack flying  outside to mark whether King 'Arry is in residence?

Imagine being any reasonable sized comoany looking to get involved in sponsoring UK Speedway's "flagship league", and witnessing such a way of working?...

"We are interested, but the optics of only six teams doesn't look like something with too much relevance"...

"Well, technically, we only currently have four, but don't you worry about that, we have a cunning plan, and, rest assured, we are masters when it comes to cunning plans"...

 

 

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8 hours ago, Hamish McRaker said:

It's sad, so sad,

it's a sad, sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night's alright...

(But not for Premiership Speedway due to doublng up being so important)...

Music by Elton John

Lyrics not by Bernie Taupin...

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2 hours ago, mikebv said:

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night's alright...

(But not for Premiership Speedway due to doublng up being so important)...

Music by Elton John

Lyrics not by Bernie Taupin...

The Witch is Back... maybe... perhaps... one day....

"I'm a Witch, I'm a Witch and I'm better than you".... or at least I was last year.... 

 

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11 hours ago, Hamish McRaker said:

It's sad, so sad,

it's a sad, sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd

Perhaps next year. I know how you feel it’s gutting when it’s your birthday and the wife forgets to make you a cake🤣

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4 minutes ago, Tapewrecker said:

Perhaps next year. I know how you feel it’s gutting when it’s your birthday and the wife forgets to make you a cake🤣

Looking at your Site Name... and going back to Elton... with a bit of help from Kiki on this one...

"Don't Go Breaking the Tapes"....

 

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1 minute ago, Eagle77 said:

Looking at your Site Name... and going back to Elton... with a bit of help from Kiki on this one...

"Don't Go Breaking the Tapes"....

 

I couldn’t if I tried

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Perhaps we have got this all wrong? To find out what made speedway so great back in the day the bspl and speedway futures have been watching  old episodes of world of sport with Dickie Davies and they have put their collective heads together and decided that Kendo Nagasaki is the marketing idea to follow, Northampton will not be revealed to the public until a few years time and compete all their matches as a complete mystery to the public, see there is us lot slagging them off when really a genius idea was being implemented all along 

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10 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

Perhaps we have got this all wrong? To find out what made speedway so great back in the day the bspl and speedway futures have been watching  old episodes of world of sport with Dickie Davies and they have put their collective heads together and decided that Kendo Nagasaki is the marketing idea to follow, Northampton will not be revealed to the public until a few years time and compete all their matches as a complete mystery to the public, see there is us lot slagging them off when really a genius idea was being implemented all along 

Might be on to something here Dean...

"The Masked Speedway Rider"...

Can you guess who it is based on riding style...?

Could be a winner!!!!

 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

Perhaps we have got this all wrong? To find out what made speedway so great back in the day the bspl and speedway futures have been watching  old episodes of world of sport with Dickie Davies and they have put their collective heads together and decided that Kendo Nagasaki is the marketing idea to follow, Northampton will not be revealed to the public until a few years time and compete all their matches as a complete mystery to the public, see there is us lot slagging them off when really a genius idea was being implemented all along 

Given the woke ideas of today more likely to be Adrian Street. If you needed someone who could dodge everything and still come out a winner, Les Kellett fits the bill but both are probably off the radar for the BSPL. More likely Steve Logan aka as Harry Redknapp.

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2 hours ago, Eagle77 said:

Might be on to something here Dean...

"The Masked Speedway Rider"...

Can you guess who it is based on riding style...?

Could be a winner!!!!

 

 

 

It will be Bomber...

Every. Single. Time....

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I truly cannot believe the negativity on here ..

It is almost like people are not taking into consideration the innovative, successful, marketing genius of those who have run the sport for the past 15 years plus....

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On 2/24/2026 at 1:27 AM, stevebrum said:

Yea quite possibly. And similar that we don’t know what has been going on behind the scenes. 

And to be brutally honest, he's probably looking at where the sport sits and thinking, "do i really want to get involved with that again?"

On 2/23/2026 at 6:09 PM, Phannan said:

To put up with accepting the total disrespect that the leaders of our beloved sport are showing their customers with regards the new season , yet we’ll continue to turn up , makes us either totally delusional or we can’t shake off the bug . I get the feeling many will try to this time and rightfully so. They’ve failed miserably on their watch. 

Does sometimes feel like "don't worry about it, these mugs will come whatever we serve up".

Out of interest,  as someone who no longer reads the speedway star, how are they reporting on this?  Are they being critical or are they just pretending everything is ok like they did with the Coventry and Peterborough fiasco in 2011?

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