mikebv Posted December 22, 2025 Report Share Posted December 22, 2025 41 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said: Shame Oxford didn’t choose to run in the PL and NDL …….. I think the fact they didn't speaks volumes.... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 (edited) 11 hours ago, mikebv said: I think the fact they didn't speaks volumes.... No, I think it's more about riders progressing from one team to the other as it's less of a jump. This may encourage fans to watch both. Edited December 23, 2025 by SPEEDY69 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish McRaker Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 On 12/22/2025 at 11:58 AM, TTT said: Cool heads needed. I agree. The signs being put out by the other 4 clubs (although BV seem to have been a bit quiet) indicate the 5-team league will go ahead. But there's clearly still not 100% resolution with "Team 5" that would enable BSPL to make the announcement they'd otherwise like to have made by now. Its hard to think that Team 5 could be anything other than Ipswich, but of course you cant be certain until its announced. Personally im in the "one league" camp and highly skeptical about the Premier league being viable, but the BSPL have made their decision for 2026 and so all we can now do, is to hope their plans and efforts succeed. It could be that anything more definite won't be announced until the AGM. But they must get their collective backsides in gear asap to develop a new plan for 2027 otherwise the whole circus will disappear over the cliff edge it's currently clinging onto 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted December 23, 2025 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 (edited) 2 hours ago, Hamish McRaker said: I agree. The signs being put out by the other 4 clubs (although BV seem to have been a bit quiet) indicate the 5-team league will go ahead. But there's clearly still not 100% resolution with "Team 5" that would enable BSPL to make the announcement they'd otherwise like to have made by now. Its hard to think that Team 5 could be anything other than Ipswich, but of course you cant be certain until its announced. Personally im in the "one league" camp and highly skeptical about the Premier league being viable, but the BSPL have made their decision for 2026 and so all we can now do, is to hope their plans and efforts succeed. It could be that anything more definite won't be announced until the AGM. But they must get their collective backsides in gear asap to develop a new plan for 2027 otherwise the whole circus will disappear over the cliff edge it's currently clinging onto My logic is, The BSPL wouldn't confirm a minimum 5 Team PREM without having 5 PREM Teams 100% confirmed. We know the 5th Team isn't a current CHAMP Team as they're continuing with CHAMP signing announcements. The BSPL can't class Northampton as the 5th Team because you've got to wait until a deal has 100% been done with all the paperwork signed off. (Maybe it will, Maybe it won't) So realistically the mystery 5th Team is either Ipswich or a Current/Previous NDL Team and if it was the latter then the NDL Club would've been confirmed by now imo instead of dragging this out even longer. I've heard that Ipswich are more OUT than IN at this point but every day is different so who knows what will happen on a day to day basis. Edited December 23, 2025 by TTT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish McRaker Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 10 minutes ago, TTT said: My logic is, The BSPL wouldn't confirm a minimum 5 Team PREM without having 5 PREM Teams 100% confirmed. We know the 5th Team isn't a current CHAMP Team as they're continuing with CHAMP signing announcements. The BSPL can't class Northampton as the 5th Team because you've got to wait until a deal has 100% been done with all the paperwork signed off. (Maybe it will, Maybe it won't) So realistically the mystery 5th Team is either Ipswich or an NDL Team and if it was the latter then the NDL Club would've been confirmed by now imo instead of dragging this out even longer. I've heard that Ipswich are more OUT than IN at this point but every day is different so who knows what will happen on a day to day basis. Has C. Louis emigrated to Oz or is it a holiday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky_Mark Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 17 minutes ago, TTT said: My logic is, The BSPL wouldn't confirm a minimum 5 Team PREM without having 5 PREM Teams 100% confirmed. We know the 5th Team isn't a current CHAMP Team as they're continuing with CHAMP signing announcements. The BSPL can't class Northampton as the 5th Team because you've got to wait until a deal has 100% been done with all the paperwork signed off. (Maybe it will, Maybe it won't) So realistically the mystery 5th Team is either Ipswich or a Current/Previous NDL Team and if it was the latter then the NDL Club would've been confirmed by now imo instead of dragging this out even longer. I've heard that Ipswich are more OUT than IN at this point but every day is different so who knows what will happen on a day to day basis. Unless it’s a champ team that’s thinking of running 2 teams like Oxford did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted December 23, 2025 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 7 minutes ago, Hamish McRaker said: Has C. Louis emigrated to Oz or is it a holiday? Who knows what's happening at this point lol. What will be, Will be as the saying goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluPanther Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 30 minutes ago, Hamish McRaker said: Has C. Louis emigrated to Oz or is it a holiday? He's back on Jan 7th... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish McRaker Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 2 hours ago, TTT said: Who knows what's happening at this point lol. What will be, Will be as the saying goes. Sometimes holidays give the chance to reflect on decisions and get a different perspective, especially to knee-jerk and emotive ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB1 Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 On 12/22/2025 at 11:58 AM, TTT said: Cool heads needed. How about some sensible heads. It might help British Speedway survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted December 23, 2025 Report Share Posted December 23, 2025 5 hours ago, Marky_Mark said: Unless it’s a champ team that’s thinking of running 2 teams like Oxford did Should be one (or more) of the Prem teams to run a second side! Why should a Championship club take the financial risk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 (edited) 17 hours ago, TTT said: My logic is, The BSPL wouldn't confirm a minimum 5 Team PREM without having 5 PREM Teams 100% confirmed. We know the 5th Team isn't a current CHAMP Team as they're continuing with CHAMP signing announcements. The BSPL can't class Northampton as the 5th Team because you've got to wait until a deal has 100% been done with all the paperwork signed off. (Maybe it will, Maybe it won't) So realistically the mystery 5th Team is either Ipswich or an NDL Team and if it was the latter then the NDL Club would've been confirmed by now imo instead of dragging this out even longer. I've heard that Ipswich are more OUT than IN at this point but every day is different so who knows what will happen on a day to day basis. Could still be the "Mother" of all 4 Team Tournaments ahead then? 12 meetings at home for each of the four teams.. Five riders per team, which includes a reserve.. With, to add variety, the teams change helmet colours meeting by meeting.. ie, over the first segment of four matches, the home teams start with Red, but by their fourth meeting at home, they are riding in Yellow, having gone through Blue and White in the second and third matches at their track... This means every team has equal gate positions over a 48 match season.. Sounds exciting I know, but, even better than that. The top four qualify for a Final held at every track... With the top team over the season starting the final with three points, second two and third with one.. (Otherwise all the Qualifiers could be seen as meaningless if no reward for finishing top, and we wouldn't want that would we?) Sounds good doesn't it? Loads of meeting for riders... Loads of exciting helmet colour changes for the fans to follow.. Three lots of away fans at each venue (maybe even double figure numbers attending from at least one of them), and possibly a taxi full from the other two tracks, (not a seven seater one obviously).. And, (and this is the winner for me), you can flog "Quarter n Quarter n Quarter n Quarter" scarves, so lots of merchandising opportunities.. Charge around thirty quid a ticket, running on those hotbed of entertainment nights of Monday and Thursday, plus, (most importantly of all of course, riders can still then double up), and, I think we can all agree, the sport would be on to a winning formula... Maybe they could get a betting company involved to sponsor the league and, every meeting, they could run a book on "Who will Bomber ride for tonight?".. It could be a bit like the Masked Singer, whereby he stands on the centre green in a Wulf Sport Jacket, and the crowd shout "Take It Off! Take It Off'!, and as the crowd reach fever pitch he unzips the jacket to reveal his kevlars... Imagine the scenes?..... Making Speedway Great Again.. Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Christmas All... It’s a time for miracles so lets hope those in charge can come up with one now, and a few more over the next few seasons.. Edited December 24, 2025 by mikebv 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted December 24, 2025 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 12 hours ago, TB1 said: How about some sensible heads. It might help British Speedway survive. We've needed that for a few years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25720291.ipswich-witches-hoping-announce-sale-coming-days/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aries Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 Gonna be Buster isn’t it.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 1 hour ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said: https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25720291.ipswich-witches-hoping-announce-sale-coming-days/ That’s some welcome good news. 6 minutes ago, Aries said: Gonna be Buster isn’t it.. Do you think so? I thought he was happy with just Lynn and didn’t want the additional hassle of another team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish McRaker Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 17 minutes ago, Aries said: Gonna be Buster isn’t it.. Could be one last, final case for "We Buy Any Speedway Club.com" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldPitGate Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 22 minutes ago, Aries said: Gonna be Buster isn’t it.. I think in the perfect world he would like to offload the Stars and focus on just stocks I would be stunned if its him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish McRaker Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 8 hours ago, mikebv said: Could still be the "Mother" of all 4 Team Tournaments ahead then? 12 meetings at home for each of the four teams.. Five riders per team, which includes a reserve.. With, to add variety, the teams change helmet colours meeting by meeting.. ie, over the first segment of four matches, the home teams start with Red, but by their fourth meeting at home, they are riding in Yellow, having gone through Blue and White in the second and third matches at their track... This means every team has equal gate positions over a 48 match season.. Sounds exciting I know, but, even better than that. The top four qualify for a Final held at every track... With the top team over the season starting the final with three points, second two and third with one.. (Otherwise all the Qualifiers could be seen as meaningless if no reward for finishing top, and we wouldn't want that would we?) Sounds good doesn't it? Loads of meeting for riders... Loads of exciting helmet colour changes for the fans to follow.. Three lots of away fans at each venue (maybe even double figure numbers attending from at least one of them), and possibly a taxi full from the other two tracks, (not a seven seater one obviously).. And, (and this is the winner for me), you can flog "Quarter n Quarter n Quarter n Quarter" scarves, so lots of merchandising opportunities.. Charge around thirty quid a ticket, running on those hotbed of entertainment nights of Monday and Thursday, plus, (most importantly of all of course, riders can still then double up), and, I think we can all agree, the sport would be on to a winning formula... Maybe they could get a betting company involved to sponsor the league and, every meeting, they could run a book on "Who will Bomber ride for tonight?".. It could be a bit like the Masked Singer, whereby he stands on the centre green in a Wulf Sport Jacket, and the crowd shout "Take It Off! Take It Off'!, and as the crowd reach fever pitch he unzips the jacket to reveal his kevlars... Imagine the scenes?..... Making Speedway Great Again.. Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Christmas All... It’s a time for miracles so lets hope those in charge can come up with one now, and a few more over the next few seasons.. Just calm down and take your medication, Mike. Nurse! Nurse! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aries Posted December 24, 2025 Report Share Posted December 24, 2025 53 minutes ago, JamesB said: That’s some welcome good news. Do you think so? I thought he was happy with just Lynn and didn’t want the additional hassle of another team. He was definitely the “back up” option for the league to continue with a five team league. Desperate times call for desperate measures! 39 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said: I think in the perfect world he would like to offload the Stars and focus on just stocks I would be stunned if its him. As above. He wouldn’t normally have gone near it. In his own words when he “agreed” to buy Ipswich last time.. ”I don’t like Ipswich” Great sales pitch that was to the Ipswich fans when the news broke on the official website 🙄 Hopefully it’s someone else. Merry Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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