Leicester Lions 2026

[noaksey]

Dicko in the Star Leicester have lost serious money in the last 2 years hence the change of approach to this year's team building 

[IainB]

5 minutes ago, noaksey said:

Dicko in the Star Leicester have lost serious money in the last 2 years hence the change of approach to this year's team building 

Their approach should be to get back down into the CL and back to running on a Saturday night. 

[Pitch]

2 hours ago, noaksey said:

Dicko in the Star Leicester have lost serious money in the last 2 years hence the change of approach to this year's team building 

Why on earth do they choose to run at a loss in the Premiership rather than run in the Championship with a profit ?

So this could be one more club that doesn't want to run In the premiership in the near future.

[Phannan]

6 minutes ago, Pitch said:

Why on earth do they choose to run at a loss in the Premiership rather than run in the Championship with a profit ?

So this could be one more club that doesn't want to run In the premiership in the near future.

Things like this just confirm the desperate state that the top level speedway in this country has become. One league is only a matter of time away. Call it championship, premiership, whatever. But then how the hell can you make a profit when all you’ve got is four other competitors to compete with. 

[gjcone44]

yet there are idiots on here who think the championship cannot survive with out the premiership. Its the premiership which will go 1st.

[Youhave2minutes]

3 hours ago, IainB said:

Their approach should be to get back down into the CL and back to running on a Saturday night. 

Fricke took it all

[Fromafar]

3 hours ago, noaksey said:

Dicko in the Star Leicester have lost serious money in the last 2 years hence the change of approach to this year's team building 

It difficult to comprehend that the majority of speedway run at a loss most seasons.Whoever bankrolls these Clubs eventually bail out one way or another.

This insistence to keep a Premier League will eventually fail .IMO.

[Teromaafan]

3 hours ago, IainB said:

Their approach should be to get back down into the CL and back to running on a Saturday night. 

Exactly, why is there this obsession with the ‘top’ flight? The sport in this country has no credibility. The shrinking numbers that still follow the sport aren’t that bothered about which league their team compete in. Less than a handful of GP level riders is the only difference between the Premiership and Championship. The top tier is so attractive that it has got to the point where they literally are begging clubs to take part! This is not something you would include in your sales pitch when trying to attract new spectators/sponsors to the sport.

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

43 minutes ago, gjcone44 said:

yet there are idiots on here who think the championship cannot survive with out the premiership. Its the premiership which will go 1st.

Get rid of the two tier system and the whole house of cards collapses

The Championship (as it is now) is over the moment the Premiership ceases

If you can't see that you are either very naive or very stupid

[gjcone44]

common-sense wins in the end. as it always will. 

[1 valve]

1 hour ago, gjcone44 said:

yet there are idiots on here who think the championship cannot survive with out the premiership. Its the premiership which will go 1st.

If there was no Premiership- but only one “senior” league running on something like a 38 - 40 point limit then that league would consist of no more than eight (maybe nine) teams simply because of a lack of suitable riders. 
And to be clear, this is not a personal opinion, just an outcome of the math involved. 
One thing to be sure of …. The eight or nine surviving teams would not all come from this year’s Championship.