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It would be quite cool if they relaxed the points limit a bit and made the best out of the 5 teams left over. If you could get Musielak/Rew/Wright/Janowski/Tungate into each team in place of their weakest rider, plus any other riders who weren't here last year, it would be a very strong competition. Lots of reason as to why this won't/can't happen, I'd imagine.

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10 minutes ago, PersonalResponsibility said:

It would be quite cool if they relaxed the points limit a bit and made the best out of the 5 teams left over. If you could get Musielak/Rew/Wright/Janowski/Tungate into each team in place of their weakest rider, plus any other riders who weren't here last year, it would be a very strong competition. Lots of reason as to why this won't/can't happen, I'd imagine.

Buster has probably fell out with half of them so they wont be at Lynn 😅

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10 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

If no-one's willing to move up, what can they do?

The fact that Ipswich, Belle Vue & Sheffield haven't exactly shared out the heat leaders, may make any clubs thinking of stepping up hesitant to become the next Birmingham or Oxford?

One big watered down league all on BSN.

Premiership collapses next season if it's a 5 team league imo, Basically facing the same team every other week and what happens if one team gets tailed off? The Play-Offs would be sorted in no time and I doubt punters would turn up to see the same fixture that they've already just seen a couple of weeks ago.

Need to force Glasgow or Poole to move up as neither of them should be allowed to race in the Championship because they've got a Premiership business model in operation.

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13 minutes ago, TTT said:

One big watered down league all on BSN.

Premiership collapses next season if it's a 5 team league imo, Basically facing the same team every other week and what happens if one team gets tailed off? The Play-Offs would be sorted in no time and I doubt punters would turn up to see the same fixture that they've already just seen a couple of weeks ago.

Need to force Glasgow or Poole to move up as neither of them should be allowed to race in the Championship because they've got a Premiership business model in operation.

if there are only five teams in the league play offs cannot feasibly take place with four teams.

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3 minutes ago, therefused said:

if there are only five teams in the league play offs cannot feasibly take place with four teams.

League winners straight to the final, 2nd and 3rd in a play off...

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1 hour ago, TTT said:

One big watered down league all on BSN.

Premiership collapses next season if it's a 5 team league imo, Basically facing the same team every other week and what happens if one team gets tailed off? The Play-Offs would be sorted in no time and I doubt punters would turn up to see the same fixture that they've already just seen a couple of weeks ago.

Need to force Glasgow or Poole to move up as neither of them should be allowed to race in the Championship because they've got a Premiership business model in operation.

Spot on apart from "if" one team gets tailed off, as it is "when"...

Every season the team everyone on here says have "no chance" before a wheel is turned, invariably have their season over by the end of May and become a team with small appeal to watch either home or away...

The biggest frustration for the fans is that where we are today has been predicted by us for the last two decades...

As we could see the glaring obvious flaws in "Baldrick's cunning plan", yet those insulated within their own echo chamber/Speedway Bubble either couldn't, or chose not to...

There should have been radical change to the operating model when the GP's started to impact UK Speedway. And they chose to not to do anything different..

There should have been radical change to the operating model when Poland started to impact UK Speedway. And they chose not to do anything different...

There should have been radical change to the operating model for the return of the sport post Covid, when a year out gave them huge opportunity to reset the sport, and unpick all the nonsense that has held the sport back over the years, and disillusioned so many fans, who still follow the sport but attend either never or infrequently. And they chose not to do anything different.. 

Many of the same people who have led two decades of negative fan attendance, plus reduced TV viewership and media profile, are still running the sport...

The sport desperately needs outside influence to drive it forward, from marketing, to adminstration,  to operating model planning...

People not within the Speedway Bubble..

The past two seasons of the play offs, in the flagship competition, have actually been ran by NOT following the very rules the competition was set up with, which from an outside optics view, is both amateurish and ludicrous... 

The sport won't move forwards until the promoters realise that they are the custodians of all of it, and not just their own clubs, and also realise that they may not have the right set of skills to lead it, and be open to get some clear direction from people who do possess those leadership skills...

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4 hours ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

So it's says more than one - which is at least 2.......

Depends on the interpretation. More than one could be taken as anything from 366 days to 2 years.

As Tai didn't ride in the British leagues due to injury from the end of June 2024, so that is "more than 1 full season" as a season can't be longer than 12 months and by the time 2026 starts it will be about 21 months since he last rode in the UK.

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1 hour ago, TTT said:

One big watered down league all on BSN.

Premiership collapses next season if it's a 5 team league imo, Basically facing the same team every other week and what happens if one team gets tailed off? The Play-Offs would be sorted in no time and I doubt punters would turn up to see the same fixture that they've already just seen a couple of weeks ago.

Need to force Glasgow or Poole to move up as neither of them should be allowed to race in the Championship because they've got a Premiership business model in operation.

Have you not read Matt Ford in the Speedway Star last week?

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