Phil morris

[PhilTheAce]

Im hearing hes stepped away from the sport in the UK

 

Did he do anything to improve it???? Will he be missed 

Edited 4 hours ago by PhilTheAce

[IainB]

Yes he did a lot to improve things in the sport, especially the race night experience and the appearance of the sport on TV. He was never going to be allowed to make it into a proper sport as the powers that be just aren't interested in doing that. I think he may have had a hand in introducing some new riders to the UK. 

He did make the massive bottom burp of interfering with the play offs the season before last though but he did fess up to that understood it was wrong and owned it. 

Couldn't see him staying on as soon as the TV cleared off. 

[noaksey]

8 minutes ago, PhilTheAce said:

Im hearing hes stepped away from the sport. 

 

Did he do anything to improve it???? Will he be missed 

Did ok in the GP series but no impact in the Premier League but thats hardly surprising given the current set up 

[Racin Jason 72]

25 minutes ago, PhilTheAce said:

Im hearing hes stepped away from the sport. 

 

Did he do anything to improve it???? Will he be missed 

British speedway or world speedway?

I hope not as he battled hard to raise the level of the sport. Seems like the cartel have won again 

[mikebv]

Another who could see what the sport (in the UK), could be, if only it could become credible and authentic within a team sport concept...

But was never going to change things when so many (who financially sustain the sport), are quite content with what they have..

He definitely helped with Coventry and their ongoing battle to get back to Brandon...

 

[1 valve]

34 minutes ago, PhilTheAce said:

Im hearing hes stepped away from the sport. 

 

Did he do anything to improve it???? Will he be missed 

But nothing official so far? 
 

[PhilTheAce]

Sorry. I meant british speedway 

[PhilTheAce]

26 minutes ago, 1 valve said:

But nothing official so far? 
 

No

[Neila]

1 hour ago, 1 valve said:

But nothing official so far? 
 

Yea but how long did they ( the officials  ) keep quiet about various winter shenanigans 🤔 when a lot of the goings on were on these forums 🤔

[flagrag]

Even for 2026, Phil has been a great advocate for British Speedway Premiership and has done lots of work behind the scenes which most people simply do not see. Always knowing that his role of Chief executive wasn’t to continue this year due to lack of money 

He was instrumental in keeping Ipswich going including being part of a consortium that made an offer to keep it going if Mayfield deal had fallen through.

Has also had a a lot to do with the opening of Northampton giving guidance of what was required to get Speedway running along with being involved in the negotiations with stadium owners and management .

There has been some failures previously maybe the loss of TV deal being the greatest but he did explore various options but none could be got over the line for various reasons.

It has not been helped by some promotions not backing him fully. He wanted to modernise the product to try to get in new fans and sponsors some of which cost money like for tv meetings having a set presentation team and DJ, Lights and fire cannons on centre field but certain promotions wouldn’t back this and could even be objective like refusing to move  advertising A boards for tv meetings and not even keeping the league sponsorship ones clean.

Phil was also key to a number of top names returning to the UK like Woofy , Janowski and Lindgren along with brokering deals for Lambert and Dudek to ride for clubs to then back down on the deals 

Edited 2 hours ago by flagrag