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I'm not sure why some posters appear to think that Hook would've been such a risk in the top 5. He's improved every year as a reserve, 2022: 2.78 (Edinburgh) 2023: 3.71 (Edinburgh), 3.74 (Berwick) 2024: 4.19 (Plymouth) 2025: 5.61 (Workington) He obviously improved an awful lot in 2025 putting almost 1.5 points on his average, yes that was at reserve, but so was his previous average. If he was a 4 point rider in a top 5, but dropped to reserve & scored 5.5, then I'd understand the concern more. If Hook carries on his seasonal improvement, I'd suggest there's no reason he can't match his 2025 figure when moving into the top 5. My other point is, if every rider was dropped once they moved up from reserve, where would the future heat leaders come from lol! Every single British heat leader must have started at reserve (plus some Aussies), I guess most improving riders move up during the season, rather than between seasons, that didn't happen for Hook cause Workington had a very solid team. Certainly seems a big difference compared to say Luke Harrison, I don't remember any Scunthorpe fans being reluctant to sign him up as a second string even through his away average was far below his home?

See - plenty of riders available for one big league

Playing devil's advocate You could say that those that have been pumping money in to try to maintain top level, true professional level, speedway with supposed huge annual losses have paid for it, so it is theirs to market and they haven't just taken it......

Too bloody early for Xmas mate I'm a bah humbug 😁 but all the best to you and the Plymouth fans 😆

Get the impression they told them they wanted to drop to Championship and the sh*t hit the fan.(just a guess though)since there is not much being said about anything. Poor Communication no regards for the fans.

I know mate,no offence meant or taken, merry Christmas to you and your fellow comets fans. It's looking promising for both teams next season imo.

Look at the effect it's had though, it's sent F1 stratospheric, especially in the US who now have 3 sell out GP's and it's doubled their tv audience... and probably more importantly attracted a younger demographic worldwide. The estimated budget was between $5m & $10m, that was for a 20+ race series worldwide though and probably included some kind of rights payment. WBD could probably have done it a lot cheaper being the rights holders. Meanwhile we have a 6 x World Champion and the only thing we know about him is he's "big happy" after each GP he wins 😂

How does it go ? If you cut him open he’d bleed black white yellow and blue etc. They’re all mercenaries at the end of the day . There’s no loyalty in professional sport.

worryingly Sheffield seems to be absolute silence

Not far wrong.Sheffield situation probably threw a spanner in the works .

On a Monday or Thursday race night!! No thanks

A consortium of local business men are taking over Ipswich, apparently they are motorcycle people and are well known in the area, what league they will be in I don’t know

@lewy just giving a person an insight to what he may find Plymouth is like, it's only our normal banter marra 😃

Yes he shows the same loyalty in Poland too, keeps Częstochowa in the extraleague, celebrates like they won the extraleague them next day signs for someone else,don’t kid yourself as much as Jason has some loyalty to Ipswich and it would probably be his preference, he would ride elsewhere if the money was there

Interesting you bang on about the size,Belle Vue is probably the biggest track in the country and 7 times British champion Scott Nicholls is mediocre at best around there,but at Plymouth and other small tracks he is sublime and makes it look easy just pointing this out to give some balance. Also size has never bothered your Mrs neila allegedly has it.🤔

They argue about superheats and points limits usually after either a team has lost a superheat or they trying to sign a rider on a low average and the other teams don’t like it

If Ipswich do not come to the tapes next year then for the time being it is all over for the witches but like most on here we all hope it does not come to this but the reality is that at this stage in proceedings they have little or no hope of putting together a competitive team to grace either championship or premiership league and at best they could run an NDL team or if it still exists allow open meetings but I suspect the latter has been all but ruled out by the arseholes who allegedly run the sport. To my mind it is now all about keeping tracks open at whatever level because once they are lost it is game over. Permit tracks to put on meetings at whatever level until the authorities can decide what to do going forward. I would rather see a few good individual meetings at Ipswich rather than see the track lost to the sport. Over the years Rye house and many others have in the past survived on the basis of individual meetings but it really depends on what the overall plan is for the sport but at this stage that plan does appear not exist. Headless chickens, self interest and perpetual denial leaves the sport where it is today. Anyone that thinks you can afford to lose a club like Ipswich to the sport of speedway has lost the plot.

You have question what all the talk was at Promoters Meeting during the season.It must have been around a5 Team Premiership at best.Even the most gullible fan could see there was not a queue to join Premiership.

Grown adults arguing about the topic of discussion.😂 Anyway, for the sake of satisfying the topic police, I think Fraser Bowes could be a great signing. Is the plan for Cairns to start at reserve? If so, that’ll be huge for the Pirates.

Don’t think they will notice to be honest.

Why is the Championship partly to blame? With Louis walking away, it’s clearly the Prem committing self-flaggelation, e.g. Leicester saying they are committed to the Prem - without any current view of how it could exist?!

You say that but Poole fans get told all the time about posting on non Poole threads.

Jason Doyle will only ride for Ipswich and has no interest in riding for any other British Club hence why he's not riding in the UK in 2026. If Ipswich come to tapes then it will be in One Big League and Plymouth will be left in the mud.

Put it this way it's a bit on the small side, would fit on the centre green at Northside and still have room to spare, it's the narrowest track I have been to in 55 years of watching speedway

Jason Doyle will only ride for Ipswich hence why he's not riding in the UK in 2026. Basically if Ipswich come to tapes then we're leaving Plymouth in the mud.