mikebv Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago (edited) 53 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said: We are talking about the bspl here, farce is their specialty, just when you think they have took farce to its absolute limit, they suprise us all and they pull a new bigger farce out of the hat, in reality come January we wouldn’t expect anything really Monkey Tennis!!!!!! Edit... Actually, that might work.. Do it during the interval and the tractor grading breaks... At some tracks they would get a whole five sets in!!!! Edited 9 hours ago by mikebv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szkocjasid Posted 7 hours ago Report Share Posted 7 hours ago 2 hours ago, Dave_minall said: I think it's far too late to switch to one league now. Some championship teams have already named riders, if the BSPA did a u-turn and made it so, it would make a farce of an already farcical situation. I wouldn't call it a u-turn, as until the AGM anything can happen. All Champ clubs must know there's a chance changes will be required because they don't know if there will be a Prem. If that is the case most Prem clubs would want to drop down. To me once the AGM was postponed l, all bets were off regarding the Champ team building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitch Posted 7 hours ago Report Share Posted 7 hours ago 5 minutes ago, szkocjasid said: I wouldn't call it a u-turn, as until the AGM anything can happen. All Champ clubs must know there's a chance changes will be required because they don't know if there will be a Prem. If that is the case most Prem clubs would want to drop down. To me once the AGM was postponed l, all bets were off regarding the Champ team building. Redcar co promoter Jamie Swales said this week in the Speedway Star. Redcar are revealing their full 1 to 7 at their Christmas party on Friday 5th December. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago 1 hour ago, Pitch said: Redcar co promoter Jamie Swales said this week in the Speedway Star. Redcar are revealing their full 1 to 7 at their Christmas party on Friday 5th December. ... I hope he's kept the receipt 😂 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitch Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, IainB said: ... I hope he's kept the receipt 😂 He also said, "we will definitely go ahead with the revealing as the AGM hold-up was to do with the premiership - the championship will go ahead as planned. We know what's happening and if it is decided that we go to one league, then the premiership will effectively come to us". Edited 3 hours ago by Pitch Abbreviation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago (edited) 24 minutes ago, Pitch said: He also said, "we will definitely go ahead with the revealing as the AGM hold-up was to do with the premiership - the championship will go ahead as planned. We know what's happening and if it is decided that we go to one league, then the premiership will effectively come to us". I bet there's a number of clubs regretting ditching the asset system! It's almost as if it were planned! Nobody in power clever enough to think up of such a devious cunning plan though. Edited 3 hours ago by IainB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy cookie returns? Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 11 minutes ago, IainB said: I bet there's a number of clubs regretting ditching the asset system! It's almost as if it were planned! Nobody in power clever enough to think up of such a devious cunning plan though. The asset system on stopped because it was against employment law therefore illegal 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy cookie returns? Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 11 minutes ago, IainB said: I bet there's a number of clubs regretting ditching the asset system! It's almost as if it were planned! Nobody in power clever enough to think up of such a devious cunning plan though. The asset system on stopped because it was against employment law therefore illegal 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szkocjasid Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 49 minutes ago, Pitch said: He also said, "we will definitely go ahead with the revealing as the AGM hold-up was to do with the premiership - the championship will go ahead as planned. We know what's happening and if it is decided that we go to one league, then the premiership will effectively come to us". But the 40 point limit agreed for 3 years was based on the same number of teams. If Prem clubs want to join the Champ, they'd have to vote on the limit again? I'm not saying it definitely won't be 40, just that they can't guarantee it will be 40. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago (edited) 21 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said: The asset system on stopped because it was against employment law therefore illegal 😀 Ahh, that old chestnut... didn't stop them for the previous 95 years. And as we've stated countless times before the riders are not employees, they are contractors and the law will only apply to what is in their contract. Footballers are employees and yet an asset system still operates there. We now have a situation where all the CL clubs have been free to plunder PL "assets" in their closed shop league and to hell with the rest, leaving the 5 PL clubs high and dry to form a CL team even if they wanted to... nicely done 👍🏻 Edited 2 hours ago by IainB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB1 Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, szkocjasid said: But the 40 point limit agreed for 3 years was based on the same number of teams. If Prem clubs want to join the Champ, they'd have to vote on the limit again? I'm not saying it definitely won't be 40, just that they can't guarantee it will be 40. Given the lack of available riders I suspect the hand has already been forced. Therefore, I suspect the points limit will drop dramatically, possibly below 35 given that in a 1 league scenario it's likely that teams will be bottom heavy with NDL riders and rookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy cookie returns? Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, IainB said: Footballers are employees and yet an asset system still operates there. The asset system only applies while they are under contract to a club once that expires they are free agents. Given riders in 99% of cases only sign 1 season contracts meaning that they become free agents from Nov 1st each year. Therefore are not ‘assets’ of any club. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndiCapp Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago Is this happening or not? Why the big hold up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 10 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said: The asset system only applies while they are under contract to a club once that expires they are free agents. Given riders in 99% of cases only sign 1 season contracts meaning that they become free agents from Nov 1st each year. Therefore are not ‘assets’ of any club. In theory they could be sold while midway through that 1 year (more likely 6 month) contract... though the contract is probably that full of holes, it's probably not worth the paper it's probably not written on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 2 minutes ago, IainB said: In theory they could be sold while midway through that 1 year (more likely 6 month) contract... though the contract is probably that full of holes, it's probably not worth the paper it's probably not written on. Love it. 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 52 minutes ago Report Share Posted 52 minutes ago 28 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said: The asset system only applies while they are under contract to a club once that expires they are free agents. Given riders in 99% of cases only sign 1 season contracts meaning that they become free agents from Nov 1st each year. Therefore are not ‘assets’ of any club. What I'm getting at is if Sheffield now join the CL for example they would probably have wanted Josh Pickering but wouldn't be able to have him due to him having signed for Scunny, you'd probably say, at this point, he's more of a Sheffield rider than a Scunny rider, he may not be a balance sheet "asset" but he's a riding asset of Scunny in the CL for 2026 until his contract ends (for whatever reason) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric i Posted 36 minutes ago Report Share Posted 36 minutes ago BSPA hoping the sale of Sheffield and ipswich will be sorted quickly. Each team play each other 3x, top team straight through to final, 2nd and 3rd play off. People might not like a 5 team league but I think thats what is going to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DEAN MACHINE Posted 25 minutes ago Report Share Posted 25 minutes ago 10 minutes ago, eric i said: People might not like a 5 team league but I think thats what is going to happen. Imagine a business plan where you ignore your customers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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