Poole 2026

[Marksman]

Interesting piece in this week's Speedway Star that the Ford's are pushing for 2H and 2A league fixtures for next season. This needs to happen and do away with the BSN series if needed imo.

[Neila]

33 minutes ago, Marksman said:

Interesting piece in this week's Speedway Star that the Ford's are pushing for 2H and 2A league fixtures for next season. This needs to happen and do away with the BSN series if needed imo.

This season a lot of teams struggled to fit in 1H 1A so how can they fit double this in next season, BSN cup was only 3 more meetings. 

[LisaColette]

58 minutes ago, Neila said:

This season a lot of teams struggled to fit in 1H 1A so how can they fit double this in next season, BSN cup was only 3 more meetings. 

So why are Poole, Berwick, Glasgow and Redcar been complaining all season about too many long gaps between fixtures then 

[Fromafar]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

This season a lot of teams struggled to fit in 1H 1A so how can they fit double this in next season, BSN cup was only 3 more meetings. 

The fixture gaps are a problem retaining fans it would go along way too resolving it.Take the 3 BSN + the extras for the teams that made the Semi’s and it not that big a problem + some teams didn’t even have fixtures in Oct. Also the fans turned in Oct for Finals so can’t complain about the cold nights.

[Neila]

14 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

So why are Poole, Berwick, Glasgow and Redcar been complaining all season about too many long gaps between fixtures then 

A lot of the gaps were caused by various FIM meetings ,GP2 etc and lesser Micky mouse European meetings taking away a lot of the teams U24 riders,of all nationalities, so clubs had blank weekends or choose not to be available when the fixture draft was made, rather than run a team of guests or R/R

[Marksman]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

This season a lot of teams struggled to fit in 1H 1A so how can they fit double this in next season, BSN cup was only 3 more meetings. 

It's simple, you hit the ground running from the mid March to the end of August with league fixtures (Just like the Premiership do). Would be 16 home league matches, plus at least one KO Cup fixture, making 17 meetings to fit into 24 Race nights, allowing for rain offs/rider availability.

The BSN series is a nonsense competition.

While we are on the subject, Mark Lemon's comments on the same page in the SS were tone deaf as usual, speaking about the Championship clubs not to think about themselves being okay (I'm alright jack was what I think was quoted). If he wants to mess about thinking that clubs like Poole and Glasgow should move up to save the Premiership, then he needs to give his head a wobble. The crowds both clubs get provide the best business model to run a sustainable sport with a future.

Getting the biggest names in the sport to ride over here is not sustainable in the long term apart from 2/3 clubs unless Lemon is quite happy to see clubs go to the wall. He wants to try promoting speedway outside a major city then he will see how hard it really is.