Daniel Smith

There is not 1 Speedway Club not for sale. The problem is, there are no buyers.

As Speedworth owns the stadium, you'd be mad to spend £1000s you'd never get back for fresh air. Buy or rent, you need millions in your back pocket.

His money was keeping the club afloat, running a club is a totally different thing. No ordinary businessman is buying a Speedway club in 2025. You'll need a guy with a £10m+ bank account without care for their finances to be in this sport. British Speedway is absolutely in the sh!te.

How about this for an "Outside The Box" idea. Premiership continues with 5 teams, home & away twice. 2 Championship clubs have a 2nd team on a Monday or Thursday were they just have 1 round of fixtures except against each other, allowing them to put their feelers out with their supporters as to whether they go Premiership in 2027 or 2028. Could Championship clubs like Glasgow & Poole finance just 10 extra fixtures??

Not really the same, as everyone had averages to build to. Also, teams wouldn't get thrashed every week. If Belle Vue & Ipswich have 5 GP/Ekstraliga rider's, King's Lynn & Leicester have 2 GP/Ekstraliga rider's & the rest of the league has none, it's still a competitive league most weeks between the rest of the other 10 clubs. It may even be competitive for those 4 teams away as the superstar rider's would mostly be unavailable so to other commitments. It's a choice to make, allow clubs to spend too their own budgets. No average restrictions. Maybe, over time, other promoters / potential new promoters that have money to burn could come in & challenge. It's happened before with the Ford's, Frost's & Sandu's etc & to some extent Jonathan Chapman who was lifting the sport as a whole with his 'Super Sevens' but the 'Old Man Brigade' put the road blocks up against him. Again, these only failed due to self interest.

Thing is, having read most of this thread, absolutely everyone's ideas are right. Everything & anything would work. The Big League, 2 leagues, 5-6-7 man teams, it's can all work. The problem?!? It's all doomed to fail regardless of the January outcome, simply because every single club is self-serving. None of the promoters have any inclination to have a 'All Together' 10 year plan. Any idea get squashed because the teams that swim around the bottom of the pond always throws their toys out the pram eventually & all plans gets scrapped. Unity is a must for anything to have sustainability. For me, if 'The Big League' was to come to fruition, averages need to be scrapped & all teams build sides to their means. If a side can have Zmarzlik, Lambert & Lindgren as a top 3, then so be it. It would be terrific for the fans when they travel away. If another team can only afford Masters, Batchelor & Morris as a top 3, then again, so be it. Have teams built to what clubs deem fit for themselves, not to what everyone else deems they "Can't Have."

It intregues me that so many say Ipswich is a well run club. Personally, they're run no better than King's Lynn, they're just very fortunate to have 'Superfan' Guy Nicholls 'Tru Plant' money. They wouldn't be where they are without this guy. Absolutely couldn't afford Sayfutdinov & Doyle without him. With Sheffield too, it's no surprise they'd been able to have some big names having the same sponsor. The Premiership is in a financial pickle but they cannot afford to lose the big names also.

Could this work?! We have the "Big League" with all teams included. Also, a reintroduction of the "Elite League" with 5 man teams, 40pt limit, 13 heats, home & away once. Any teams from the "BL" taking part in the "EL" just don't take part in "BL" cup competitions.

Is that necessary??

British Speedway doesn't have the finances to issue those demands anymore. If someone is signed to the top 2 divisions of the Polish League they'll just leave. We're already in a rider shortage situation having to have wobblers at reserve in both our leagues. I don't follow Championship Speedway at all, what's been the situation with teams going to Poole on a Wednesday & Glasgow on a Sunday for example?? Has there been regular R/R - Guests due to none injured rider's being elsewhere??

Wasn't it the FIM that set out race nights after BSPA, DMU & SVEMO complained about Poland threatening to run 5 days & banning riders from competing in other leagues?? There isn't officially 'Fixed' days as such, just 'Priority' days to individual associations. Monday - UK Tuesday - Sweden Wednesday - Denmark Thursday - UK / Sweden Friday - SGP / Poland Saturday - SGP / Poland Sunday - Poland Every league can run 7 days if they wanted to, they'd just not be allowed to demand rider availability on an 'off' night. It's why some of the conversations on here have been funny when some say "have one big league and ride any day we want." Rider availability would be disastrous with R/R & guests all over the place. It's probably the biggest reason why British Speedway are desperate to save the top tier league. Going to 1 league would finish the sport in this country forever, they'd be no coming back from an absolute 💩 storm that would create for our clubs.

🤣🤣🤣 only just seen this thread. That would be typical BSPL thinking. It's been done before & doesn't help strengthen the league throughout. 9/10 times the strongest teams financially will still employ the strongest 7+, 6+, 5+ riders, and the cheapskate club will be swimming around picking up the has-beens & sink to the bottom. Doesn't matter what rules get implemented, the powerhouses always rise to the top eventually.

This is were Speedway will (and always has done) fall down. How to maintain that engagement at live meetings? You're trying to attract the next generation which have the attention spans of a fish. For a newbie, going to a live meeting today, 2½ hours for about 40mins of entertainment, if you're in to practice starts & laps of honour. Otherwise, it's 15mins of entertainment. For that privilege, it cost £25. Also, the quality of the Stadia in the UK, for any middle/upper class citizen its horrific. The truth is, British Speedway is lower class trying to sell itself to the affluent. This is were it's not working. 100%, the attendances would be far higher if it was £10/15 with an Offy, a Vape Shop & a Turkish barbers selling class A's. The sport would be as big as football then 🤣

If King's Lynn can get Fricke + Kvech & Cook back that's a decent top 3. Is it certain Fricke is leaving Leicester though?? Would be terrible for them & Leicester has served Fricke well too, why change what isn't broken??

And there lies the problem when looking at statistics & cherry picking what suits the agenda. Kurtz & Bewley rode for the same team & taking points off each other home & away in heats 13 & 15. Musielak was unchallenged in a poor King's Lynn team. For King's Lynn in 2024 Musielak only achieved 6.97 from he 5 meetings. Musielak achieved the 8.69 at Sheffield as 2nd heatleader behind Jack Holder. Musielak is not, & never has been a "REAL" No1. "REAL" No1s are consistent season in, season out, not just for a statistical rolling average &/or a single season.