What will 2026 UK speedway bring?

[TTT]

Just now, YeOldPitGate said:

Sadly it is worthless TTT who would be mad enough to set light to a pile of cash and enter the mess known as the premiership.

I agree, Chris is just hoping that somebody does a Rodney Trotter when buying some broken down lawnmower engines.

[YeOldPitGate]

Just now, TTT said:

I agree, Chris is just hoping that somebody does a Rodney Trotter when buying some broken down lawnmower engines.

Yep Louis has tried to do the right thing all down the line but has been caught in forty years of bad decisions finally breaking the bridge everything stood on.

Can't see a way out now I think thats it for the premiership unless a bodge can be done on club number six and they can talk Louis round I really can't see anyone wanting to buy it given 33% of the prem want out , it will most likely shut down for a year at least to see if anything is left in the wreckage.

I'm beginning to think this is it for UK speedway as we have known it.

[YeOldPitGate]

I've said on here before I think the slide started after Penhall quit at the end of the 1982 season he was probably the most box office speedway rider ever.

As a deja vue scenario a few years later promoters realised things were going the wrong way and got the ex Ipswich promoter John Berry (Berry was the best promoter in the early 80's and again Ipswich was the jewell) to be the big chief.

If anyone could have turned things around it was Berry but from memory less than a week into his new role he quit as he couldn't implement the changes he wanted to do, fast forward forty years and the modern day version of John Berry has now also thrown the towel in.

[TTT]

1 minute ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Yep Louis has tried to do the right thing all down the line but has been caught in forty years of bad decisions finally breaking the bridge everything stood on.

Can't see a way out now I think thats it for the premiership unless a bodge can be done on club number six and they can talk Louis round I really can't see anyone wanting to buy it given 33% of the prem want out , it will most likely shut down for a year at least to see if anything is left in the wreckage.

I'm beginning to think this is it for UK speedway as we have known it.

I fear the worst now too.

British Speedway simply can't get out of the hole this time, Years of failure has finally caught up with them.

The sad thing is, I believe that some of them don't even want to get out of it.

[gjcone44]

1 minute ago, TTT said:

I fear the worst now too.

British Speedway simply can't get out of the hole this time, Years of failure has finally caught up with them.

The sad thing is, I believe that some of them don't even want to get out of it.

you are one of them you wanted same as last year,

[MattB]

7 minutes ago, TTT said:

I fear the worst now too.

British Speedway simply can't get out of the hole this time, Years of failure has finally caught up with them.

The sad thing is, I believe that some of them don't even want to get out of it.

Exactly.  They have nobody to blame but themselves.  Years of self interest, back stabbing and papering over the cracks have finally caught up with them.  They have backed themselves into a corner.

Edited 12 hours ago by MattB

[IainB]

23 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Sadly it is worthless TTT who would be mad enough to set light to a pile of cash and enter the mess known as the premiership.

So that's, Ippo, Sheffield... King's Lynn & Poole for sale, buyer beware!

[mikebv]

1 hour ago, JoeW436 said:

Swedish club places will be in high demand as riders seek some early week employment now the Premiership here is on its arse. What a mess.

What a very avoidable mess....

Don't listen to your customers, and only open when your employees tell you they want you to open, whether your fans can get there or not, and you get your exactly what you deserve...

The top tier has to be gone now surely? 

[gjcone44]

get them on ebay 

[mikebv]

3 minutes ago, IainB said:

So that's, Ippo, Sheffield... King's Lynn & Poole for sale, buyer beware!

Yer Buy One! Yer Get One Free!

[TINYS]

6 minutes ago, IainB said:

So that's, Ippo, Sheffield... King's Lynn & Poole for sale, buyer beware!

As far as I know Lynn are not up for sale.

[SUPERACE]

1 league will be the end of Speedway, its not the answer.  Its simply going to be a slow death from here, it won't survive into the next decade. 

[TTT]

3 minutes ago, gjcone44 said:

you are one of them you wanted same as last year,

I have to correct you, I wanted to see my Team racing in 2026.

I've known the state of play all along hence why I've put up such a fight for it's future.

If I didn't put up a fight, Then I wouldn't have the right to call myself a fan.

[FishersGate]

The blame is to be shared all around. 

1.Riders demanding too much wonga

2. The BSPA running the sport poorly and unprofessionally 

3. Losing Sky tv contract

4. Poland

5. The Grand Prix

6. TNT being rubbish

7. Poor crowds

8. Poor advertising/lack of modernizing 

9. Lack of investment from clubs 

10. Houses being built

I could go on forever!!! There's plenty more.

 

[mikebv]

1 minute ago, SUPERACE said:

1 league will be the end of Speedway, its not the answer.  Its simply going to be a slow death from here, it won't survive into the next decade. 

The slow death started about two decades ago..

When the GP's became the priority for those riders, it should have been reset radically, with at least 3 ring fenced places per team, every team, for UK riders...

And when Poland took over it should have been reset radically., with at least 3 ring fenced places per team, every team, for UK riders...

And when the Pandemic ended, it should have been reset radically with etc etc etc...

[TTT]

14 minutes ago, SUPERACE said:

1 league will be the end of Speedway, its not the answer.  Its simply going to be a slow death from here, it won't survive into the next decade. 

Got no chance of working but the Anti-British Speedway mob have known that all along.

It's never been about the PREM in regards to a select few on here and they can deny that all the want.

No true Belle Vue fan actively cheers to see it's Clubs downfall.....Because if they do, Then they never was a fan in the first place.

Edited 12 hours ago by TTT

[norbold]

What an opportunity for well-known speedway enthusiast, Harry Redknapp, to step in, buy Ipswich and save our sport.

[mikebv]

12 minutes ago, FishersGate said:

The blame is to be shared all around. 

1.Riders demanding too much wonga

2. The BSPA running the sport poorly and unprofessionally 

3. Losing Sky tv contract

4. Poland

5. The Grand Prix

6. TNT being rubbish

7. Poor crowds

8. Poor advertising/lack of modernizing 

9. Lack of investment from clubs 

10. Houses being built

I could go on forever!!! There's plenty more.

 

Lack of any dynamic Leadership..

Lack of any short, medium and long term plan..

Lack of any clear vision and strategy around operating model, business plan and national  marketing..

Incredibly well meaning people willing to put literally millions in to the sport they love, each year for decades...

But without the skill set to properly run a professional sport....

Nor the will to pay "someone" from outside the "Speedway Bubble" who just maybe have could...

Edited 12 hours ago by mikebv

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

So it’s one league then, good, not the proper way to get there but we are there, so let’s make it work, welcome the 5 teams from above and their sulking promoters and make the damn thing work, you have the basic tools, the product is there just work damn hard to make it succeed 

[gjcone44]

1 minute ago, TTT said:

Got no chance of working but the Anti-British Speedway mob have known that all along.

It's never been about the PREM in regards to a select few on here and they can deny that all the want.

No true Belle Vue fan actively cheers to see it's Clubs downfall.....Because if they do, Then they never were a fan in the first place.

your argument was to run prem for one more year to see if anything would change . us anti British speedway fans knew that was going nowhere. a reset is the only way forward, obviously no gp riders and i would still go to Bellevue to give it a try, you obviously dont want to watch no hopers, so who is anti British speedway.