Add Poole to that scenario too
When they dropped down did they pick up the dregs?
Nope! Laswon, King, the Cook brothers etc and proposed for next year the premium rated newcomers - Cairns, Rushen and Bailey - not really sharing is it.....
Only in British Speedway would having a truly professional outlook, the best sponsors, the largest crowds and access to the world's very best riders be considered as having nothing to offer!!
To have one league would surely need all clubs to accept running on the basis of Monday/Thursday if it was to have any chance of attracting enough riders
Going by the rumours on other threads around the potential of an AGM delay perhaps the worry should be for a reduced or absent British League season......
Playing devil's advocate
They have all the targets and obligations for standard day to day Mail but have had all the lucrative parcel deliveries deregulated and offered out to the market
The rest of the market don't want the expense of the promise of UK wide guaranteed delivery for standard mail day in day out
Effectively they have been tied to providing the 'loss leader' without the accompanying profitable additional lines
Never a good time for something like this but if it does happen this time of year is best from a recovery point of view
Fingers crossed it is all straight forward for Tom
Uninhibited certainly!
One time that backs up your point is when he broke the track record by about a second and in his next ride was flying and I reckon had he stayed on would've broken it again by another - but he binned it
That meeting could also be used on another recently started thread as he was in full camouflage leathers
Quite a character - that could be another thread!