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This is symptomatic of the state British Speedway is in. The advertising budget stretched to a cameo video and a paper bag with some scraps of paper in it. Getting a celebrity to host the draw. Great idea. Where's the celebrity? Not knocking Linda Lusardi but she just isn't the person to be promoting Speedway in 2026. Within Cameo's ranks there are more famous people. But a Cameo video itself is tinpot to the max. To make it work and to draw new eyes you have to collaborate with someone who has a social media following. They need to post it on their socials so that their audience sees it and may be intrigued. Not stick a Cameo video of them on your own social media reaching the same people who already follow you. Funnily enough there is a high profile celebrity who now has skin in the game and a solid social media following. Harry Redknapp. Considering he is invested in the sport I'm sure he'd have done it for free. It would have reached a bigger audience and any benefit from it helps the sport and Harry's investment in the same breath.

That doesn’t make any sense. So what is he selling then? He doesn’t want to “risk his own financial security”, but he’s asking a sh!t load of money for someone else to do just that? If he thinks it’s no longer profitable, and he thinks it’s only going to get worse and he’ll end up LOSING money, then why not give it away?

Absolutely correct. The points limit is set far too high this season.

Will they be changing the team name if Lambert is no. 1 ?

Similar to the BV fans "unofficial" FB page... Plenty are "disgusted" and "disappointed" at the non running of the Colts, but no one seems prepared to put up the fair few grand needed for them to continue... I am sure if fifty fans gave Mark Lemon a couple of grand each he may look at the situation again.. As you say, the sport is only heading one way...

Probably not but that's a consequence of raising the points limit unfortunately.

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It’ll be something like more fan interaction like they tried to do towards end of last season, stuff like social media question with centre green experience, team photo and all that sort of thing I’d imagine.

Clearly as we all know something went badly wrong & Louis decided he could no longer run a profitable business within whatever the BSPL were wanting to do. We know that because both he & Richie had been talking about putting together a team to retain the title. Then came the bombshell that he was selling Doyle came out on twitter & said that the had their backs. No one can really blame Louis for getting out if the future direction meant it wasn’t viable for him. No one on here would have done anything differently. Louis ran a very professional outfit not something that happens very often in speedway. Just look at the shambles of the championship cup draw. Yes if the sale doesn’t happen & Louis doesn't have a change of heart I’ll lose my local track. However I still back his decision looking at the bigger picture the direction of the sport I am happy to take the memories. I’ve followed Ipswich since the 80s, however if it’s the end I have the memories of the great sides & the last 3 years have been a blast. I wonder how many of the people who are saying Louis should carry on regardless would be willing to risk their own financial security to keep a business going in an environment that is only heading one way.

Mulford has missed a season so it should be his converted Championship average at 8.74. After 2 seasons in the Premiership, should the NL really be the place that Mulford has to fall back into?

To add, when selling a business and it’s gets to the due diligence process and legal teams get involved in drawing up the contracts, that’s then something Chris Louis can’t control. He may have been a little naive in putting a timescale out there for a completion, but to be fair to him we were all crying out for an update (me included) and to be kept informed, so he was kind of in between a rock and a hard place. Now that timescale has elapsed though, as I said he’s going to have to issue a further update sometime this week really with the latest developments or non developments. Well he doesn’t HAVE to, but it would be the right thing to do IMO. The supporters are sitting and waiting for news now on a daily basis.

With regards to Boughen he may well have been poorly advised but lets not forget he had the opportunity to continue in the NL but his ego had outgrown it. Natural talent yes but impatient and got swallowed up. Simon Lambert should he be back in the NL no, could he be an incredible mentor for someone absolutely yes. Very few know or acknowledge just how much he did for Danny Ayres progression. Dropping the minimum level to 2.00 is a big worry with the heat leader calibre being drafted in as i can see riders getting lapped not through falls just lack of speed and thats a worry.

Not feasible is it? If things have gone t!ts up with the sale then that’s surely curtains for the League this year unless Louis has a change of heart and runs it for another year. a hastily cobbled together team of misfits at Northampton, to get the fifth team involved for everyone else to pump every week would appeal to nobody. As hard as it is, just have to be patient that little bit longer, and I’m talking days not weeks. Let’s see if we get positive news sometime this week. The two week deadline for confirmation has only just arrived tbf but the longer this now goes without a further update, the more ominous it’s going to look.

I presume four teams means no teams? The optics of even five/six random clubs scattered across the country for the "Flagship League" is bad enough but four would be ludicrous...

A little over six weeks until the season curtain raiser. No fixture list, no season tickets sold. A further update of some sort simply has to come by the end of this week whether that be good news or bad.

Maybe Linda Lusardi has made a last minute "gazumped" offer when she realised the huge potential of the sport after doing the draw?...

Did you mean ‘wink’ or is that a typo!😂😂

Times up. Another deadline missed. This is getting ridiculous, seriously how much longer do you give them? Starting to think that the others at BSPL towers pi$$ed Louis off that much that he’s doing this on purpose to be as disruptive as possible!

Katie Price did some promo pics a few years back with Dean Barker!

I'm no statistician but surely having 6 rides in 1998 compared to 4 in 1983 and racing against better riders more often would have an effect? Not saying Cradley weren't better but you can't just compare the figures and ignore the other variables.

Linda Lusardi ? Could have been worse . Could have been that trollop Katie price . She loves any publicity. Or even that rug muncher Samantha fox . Linda , class , well back in the day anyway. Anyway my tip for the cup is Poole. Or Glasgow