Son of Shaleman Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago My guess now is that some top league teams will not run in 2026. Belle Vue and Leicester left looking for a league while Kings Lynn, Ipswich sit it out. Reckon KL might run NDL team as last year’s team grew in popularity and entertained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB1 Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 5 minutes ago, Son of Shaleman said: My guess now is that some top league teams will not run in 2026. Belle Vue and Leicester left looking for a league while Kings Lynn, Ipswich sit it out. Reckon KL might run NDL team as last year’s team grew in popularity and entertained. I disagree, I think they'll all run but somehow they will fudge it through, presumably they are waiting on 1 or 2. Could Peterborough get up and running in a few months, I guess they could and hope they will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 9 minutes ago, Son of Shaleman said: My guess now is that some top league teams will not run in 2026. Belle Vue and Leicester left looking for a league while Kings Lynn, Ipswich sit it out. Reckon KL might run NDL team as last year’s team grew in popularity and entertained. That’s what it is guesswork.!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortythirtyeight Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, YeOldPitGate said: I'm not in the know by any stretch Steve but plenty on here who are reasonably well connected hinted last deal was roughly 100k per club. Try 6 grand for Premiership, 3 grand for championship which they did NOT receive as it’s deducted from the fees owed to the BSPA to be allowed to function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 5 hours ago, TB1 said: Everyone is talking about different permutations and this that and the other. My question is this. For non UK riders, what exactly are the visa requirements. I ask the question because presumably if we to need to populate 14 sides for example and just say we need to get riders who may be well down the pecking order in say any EU country or even Denmark or Sweden for example. Would they demand top dollar as British Speedway would have a begging bowl? When I used to sponsor workers, for "some" overseas workers they now have to show they are guaranteed to earn £41k a year as a minimum.. There are EU and Commonwealth differences, plus different tiers... £41k will be "there or thereabouts" for a fair few overseas riders if only riding in Div 2 I would think... Maybe sone clubs will need to up their deals by a few quid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 1 hour ago, Steve Irving said: It’s not going to happen for many many reasons, but talking hypothetically if they went with one league then any deals currently done would be null and void. There is absolutely no way you could have all the current Championship clubs practically sorted, and then five clubs joining them having basically nothing to pick up. That just won’t happen and anyone thinking it would, are completely delusional. You would also have a potential issue with which teams promoter has sponsored the overseas riders visa.. Some double up but one team will be the sponsor... You can imagine that the team sponsoring the visa would claim the rider... Edited 1 hour ago by mikebv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 59 minutes ago Report Share Posted 59 minutes ago 46 minutes ago, Sir Sidney said: BSPL Sponsored Migrant policy - as is https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/2024-25_BSP_Ltd_GBE_Criteria.pdf Is there a "guest migrant" policy. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerIain Posted 4 minutes ago Report Share Posted 4 minutes ago Interesting how so many Premiership team fans on here are convinced that if it went to one league, the Premiership teams would royally screw the Championship teams by hoovering up all the top riders and leaving the dregs for the Championship teams. And they wonder why no-one wants to join their failing league! The 9 Championship teams this year agreed to share out league strength by having only 1 rider over 8 points. This was to ensure that all teams had done strength after last seasons disparity. In one league of 14 teams, why would 9 teams vote to allow 5 teams to screw them over? Just to clarify, as I question the intelligence of some, 9 is bigger than 5. For 2 years the 5 "big" teams screwed the Spires and Brummies, and no longer have them in the league. The Championship promoters chose not to go down that route. Yes Poole, Glasgow and Redcar will be relatively weaker next season, but they chose the intelligent option of making sure that the didn't kill off the 'weaker' teams. If Chris Louis is the messiah like promoter some are holding him up to be, why didn't he and his cronies take their foot off the throat of Oxford and Birmingham before they killed them off? (Yes I know Brummies lost their track but for all the plans to keep the Premiership going, not one has been keep the Brummies going at another venue as the promoter walked away from the Premiership and the fans didn't support an obviously canon fodder team). IF the Premiership fails and joins the Championship, to make it one league, then the points limit and team building rules would be set at a level where the Premiership teams could not do that to the Championship teams because the bullying majority would be the minority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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