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 18 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 16 hours ago by flagrag

[Steve Irving]

8 hours ago, flagrag said:

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 

We all know exactly who that is 🙄

Hint: The same promotion who couldn’t even be @rsed to have a press and practice session this year, instead will do the “team photo” at the first meeting. 
 

Unfortunately some promotions are a cancer to the sport in this country. They’re old, stuck in their ways, have no fresh ideas, and want to just get by every year by doing the absolute bare minimum. Until they’ve all retired or buggered off, nothing will change and neither will they let it. 
 

The ideas you’ve suggested Phil wanted to implement sound exactly like the ideas Mayfield have for the sport not just at Ipswich, but for British Speedway in general.

But they’ll also find out soon enough that any ideas they have will fall on deaf ears and they’ll get absolutely nowhere with them. 
 

Would anyone be at all surprised if Mayfield went exactly the same way as Chris Louis in 12 months time? I wouldn’t. 

[BryanUgest]

14 hours ago, PhilTheAce said:

Im hearing hes stepped away from the sport in the UK

 

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

Fake News PhilTheAce!

[1 valve]

Unfortunately for UK speedway we are exposed to two types of promoter. 
1. The professional.
2. The hobbyist.
And let’s be clear, some regard themselves as professionals because they run businesses elsewhere but are in realty stuck in the mud hobbyists. 
What makes the matter worse is that there are more hobbyists promoters than professionals and thus they get to say what goes and what doesn’t. 
I live in (faint) hope that the time will come when the professionals get together and gain sufficient momentum/influence & money to go it alone. Because make no mistake the hobbyist are not (as they would like us to believe) keeping the sport going on a thriving basis, they are holding it to ransom and actively leading it to an eventual demise. 

[Racin Jason 72]

1 hour ago, Steve Irving said:

We all know exactly who that is 🙄

Hint: The same promotion who couldn’t even be @rsed to have a press and practice session this year, instead will do the “team photo” at the first meeting. 
 

Unfortunately some promotions are a cancer to the sport in this country. They’re old, stuck in their ways, have no fresh ideas, and want to just get by every year by doing the absolute bare minimum. Until they’ve all retired or buggered off, nothing will change and neither will they let it. 
 

The ideas you’ve suggested Phil wanted to implement sound exactly like the ideas Mayfield have for the sport not just at Ipswich, but for British Speedway in general.

But they’ll also find out soon enough that any ideas they have will fall on deaf ears and they’ll get absolutely nowhere with them. 
 

Would anyone be at all surprised if Mayfield went exactly the same way as Chris Louis in 12 months time? I wouldn’t. 

My biggest fear is losing mayfield due to the cartel. 

[Wee Eck]

32 minutes ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

My biggest fear is losing mayfield due to the cartel. 

I’ve seen a couple of references to the cartel. Who are they?

[1 valve]

2 hours ago, Wee Eck said:

I’ve seen a couple of references to the cartel. Who are they?

The majority of promoters who in the main run Championship clubs. 

[Byker Biker]

14 hours ago, flagrag said:

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 

This just reads like the clubs ignored the broadcast partners agreement again. GoSpeed got some sh!t on here but the broadcast operating manual they produced and every club agreed to was spot on and very professional. Clubs still didn't trim the centre green, clean the air barriers and screwed up Broadcasters Brand Banners leaving them covered in sh!t for the rest of the season. The clubs wanted their share of the fees but wouldn't adhere to the agreement and just left TR to battle it out. If it wasn't for the need to fill summer live sport airtime Speedway would have been discarded years ago

[Byker Biker]

3 hours ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

My biggest fear is losing mayfield due to the cartel. 

Like they lost Rick and Julie together with other capable business folk.

[mikebv]

3 hours ago, 1 valve said:

Unfortunately for UK speedway we are exposed to two types of promoter. 
1. The professional.
2. The hobbyist.
And let’s be clear, some regard themselves as professionals because they run businesses elsewhere but are in realty stuck in the mud hobbyists. 
What makes the matter worse is that there are more hobbyists promoters than professionals and thus they get to say what goes and what doesn’t. 
I live in (faint) hope that the time will come when the professionals get together and gain sufficient momentum/influence & money to go it alone. Because make no mistake the hobbyist are not (as they would like us to believe) keeping the sport going on a thriving basis, they are holding it to ransom and actively leading it to an eventual demise. 

With the ultimate irony being that "the hobbyists" get their hobby subsidised by "the professionals"....

Many of "the hobbyists" crowds would only support a much weaker product without tier one clubs using the same riders, thus sharing the costs..

As said before, nothing will change as too many don't see any reason to do so..

 

Edited 1 hour ago by mikebv

[Neila]

1 hour ago, 1 valve said:

The majority of promoters who in the main run Championship clubs. 

Are you sure you don't mean premiership clubs, any recent new promotions don't have voting rights for 2-3 years so they keep it a closed shop