2026 Premiership is Go! - At least 5 teams

[kevin bass]

1 hour ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

Don't forget that the top 6 of each of these 5 teams will be at least at or around the standard of the Championship heat leaders

This means that almost every heat in the Premiership will be similar to Championship heats 13 and 15

But of course the Championship is the best place to be......

Exactly, it'll be the Premiership in name only tbf with what top riders are left to ride over here next season.

[mikebv]

2 hours ago, spin king junior said:

Can't believe they've stuck with play-offs with five team. Imagine trying to explain it to a non-speedway fan- "so yeah, we finished 4th out of 5 teams but we won the league"

Think this year will just be damage control- hopefully with serious change incoming for 2027... hopefully.

They have all qualified for Europe though...

[Marky_Mark]

So is Louis going to run Ipswich if we have a 6 team league?

[old bob at herne bay]

Just now, Marky_Mark said:

So is Louis going to run Ipswich if we have a 6 team league?

He aint got a team ... they have all left the building  🙂 

[Youhave2minutes]

A twist of the arm behind the back and it’s all go.

[Marky_Mark]

Just now, old bob at herne bay said:

He aint got a team ... they have all left the building  🙂 

Would be the same problem for new owners?

[mikebv]

2 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Lord knows what the teams will look like I would imagine most of the top boys have already bailed, so I can't really see anything beyond a championship looking side but built to the equivalent of a 45 point limit in the championship.

As Mike BV has said its most likely going to 99% of the same riders who are in the championship populating the teams but with an extra heat leader.

And who wouldn't want to pay out around twenty seven quid for that?

On a Monday......

[Youhave2minutes]

2 minutes ago, Marky_Mark said:

So is Louis going to run Ipswich if we have a 6 team league?

 

1 minute ago, old bob at herne bay said:

He aint got a team ... they have all left the building  🙂 

Ennit about time you boys are in bed. It’s only me up this late

[Hamish McRaker]

1 hour ago, Hawk127 said:

Not if Poland has anything to do with it. The golden promised land is not going to happen. Those in charge have really lost the plot and who with half a brain is going to want to watch repetitive matches with double uppers on inflated rates screwing the supporters because the TV income has gone south and someone has to make up the financial shortfall. Two occasions, Covid and the current situation gave the sport the opportunity to reinvent itself but what have you got, the same old scenario. It has failed the punter yet again and this time it will implode because no one is going to be fobbed off with this plan. BSPL, you really do not have a clue about your audience and are so far removed from reality by your actions you will fail and regrettably be instrumental in the demise of the sport in this Country. Thankfully we have Poland to fall back on.

Its known as irony

[mikebv]

3 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Unless they have convinced Nigel to give Northampton a go he's the only person in Speedway who could probably afford to drop 100k on it to get the sport through to 2027 when hopefully even the prem promoters will be forced to take a different direction.

I did like the press release saying "a unique set of circumstances" when it should really have read "a dreadful state of circumstances" have to give them credit for trying to keep it going but they need to realise it just isn't working in the current state and a risk is going to have to be taken at some point to turn it around.

Surely a "self inflicted set of circumstances" should have been the press release? 

Imagine finding five people, in the 8 Billion on the planet, who actually believe that this is going to work? 

[heathen52]

4 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said:

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/rowe-motor-oil-premiership/premiership-2026-update/

So the 2026 double up league is going to run for the benefit of the riders and to the detriment of Promoters, Fans and the Sport as a whole, I really cannot believe the BSPL or should I say the promoters of the Double up League want to Promote a League of 5 teams, I refuse to call it a Premiership as any League in any Sport that has so few teams can only be described at best as being cobbled together, Double up promoters hang your heads in shame for making the Sport a laughing stock.

 

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

10 minutes ago, heathen52 said:

So the 2026 double up league is going to run for the benefit of the riders and to the detriment of Promoters, Fans and the Sport as a whole, I really cannot believe the BSPL or should I say the promoters of the Double up League want to Promote a League of 5 teams, I refuse to call it a Premiership as any League in any Sport that has so few teams can only be described at best as being cobbled together, Double up promoters hang your heads in shame for making the Sport a laughing stock.

 

But all the Championship promoters are giving them a standing ovation because without this they were F@cked

[BackInTheDHSS]

52 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said:

Recent evidence shows Oxford as the only "new" track joining the PL  and then lasting only ONE season. 

 

  

Capped it up and then got it wrong! 

[Marky_Mark]

27 minutes ago, heathen52 said:

So the 2026 double up league is going to run for the benefit of the riders and to the detriment of Promoters, Fans and the Sport as a whole, I really cannot believe the BSPL or should I say the promoters of the Double up League want to Promote a League of 5 teams, I refuse to call it a Premiership as any League in any Sport that has so few teams can only be described at best as being cobbled together, Double up promoters hang your heads in shame for making the Sport a laughing stock.

 

How on earth is this to the detriment of the sport, would you have rather that another 5 tracks closed down (remember they weren’t being allowed to join the championship)

With the loss of so many tracks over recent years, we need as many running as possible and whilst 5 teams is far from ideal, it’s better than the league not running at all, and buys some breathing space for a year to regroup and come up with a plan for the future without having 5 venues/groups of fans with no speedway in 2026.

 

 

[TTT]

19 minutes ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

But all the Championship promoters are giving them a standing ovation because without this they were F@cked

Facts.

Josh Pickering dropping Scunthorpe for Sheffield would've only been the start of the revolt.