Daniel Smith

It's purely my opinion, an idea & with regards to the Ekstraliga rider's wages, not the British League. It's an idea. To many ideas are the same year in year out. Quite a few ideas revolving around the kids, the next generation. Problem with that thinking is the product has to worthwhile for the accompanying adult too to be sustainable. We need to find a way to resource more rider's, with injuries currently, the league starts to quickly become farcical. The Ekstraliga being interested is very slim, almost zero, but €1000s coming back their way for something they don't actually own or use mid-week could be tempting & help build up our product for future years. British Speedway is just doing the same old same old year in year out. No improvement even attempted to save this sport. Just a consistent 'dumbing down' every season.

As fans the last thing needed is "my clubs better than yours". From top to bottom, league by league, the whole sport is on the brink of collapse. As many as 5 clubs could be gone come the winter. If these clubs do fold we could see a complete collapse of the sport. There's never going to be full agreement between promoters & sponsors on structure. We're in a position that there has to be 1 league. Some will want the big guns, some won't. Fixed race nights, some just can't etc. Should we link up with Poland? Hear me out. Each of our clubs are feeder clubs to the Ekstraliga. Over there they pay salaries so instead of us negotiating individual contract, our clubs pay a monthly rate to use their squad. Effectively their squads of 14 / 18 riders also become ours. We have to include 2 homegrown rider's in our 7 at all times. British teams can only include 1 of the the Ekstraliga rider's that featured in the Ekstraliga weekend fixture, other 4 from the squad. Example: Wroclaw squad; Laguta, Bewley, Woffinden, Janowski, Pawlicki, Kowalski, Chugunov, Fienhage, Panicz, Andrzejewski, Curzytek, Wiatroski, Rybak, Lopuski. King's Lynn; Worrall & Nicholls full time This shouldn't be mandatory for British clubs to assign a Polish club. If a club wants to run their own 7 they can. We just need to find a solution to becoming more efficient, eradicate guests, doubling up etc. Just an idea.

Ipswich are only in existence because of 1 guy & it ain't Louis

3 of them do

Klindt is on a minimum guarantee + points. 0 pts doesn't mean he goes home with £0

Jakobsen's last meeting was the 12th, he'd notified the club the previous week it'd be his last meeting. Pickering was injured in May & never returning. All done under the guidance of Brady. Jakobsen & Pickering weren't in the budget when Buster made that statement. Buster's budget concerns are with Laguta (expensive) & Klindt (no delivering), both on guarantees

They'd already gone when Buster deemed the team "well over budget."

Will back them but I'd never have gone with Ellis & Brennan

This is ok if you're under 12. Teens don't think it's "kool' enough for their online image & anyone over 30 posting social media images with rider's just looks a total gimp. Not good promotion if you want to attract the next generation.

Race for the 'Wooden Spoon Title'. A meeting as big as this, in front of the cameras should be £5. Every club should do the live TV meetings at £5.

Generational at 29??

Further bad news for Wolverhampton Speedway, the main backer for many many years, 'Parry's International' on the brink. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2023/07/17/dilemma-over-future-for-coach-holidays-firm/

I don't mind. Just don't see how the referee could make any other choice than he did. Lindgren didn't make contact, Tomson shut off, straightened up & collected Thorsell. Correct call was made

Obviously I'm alone but I thought the referee was correct. Lindgren never made contact

Still waiting myself, not sure if I've been had

There are radical plans amongst some of the promoters for the 2024 season. Waiting on more detail, will fill you in around lunch time but it's basically 1 league inc the stand alone NDL teams.

100%

They're not far out, King's Lynn would turn a small profit at 900 if they're all concession price. I believe only Artem is on a guarantee & the rest are scoring fa home & away

He's great to have around were there are chips to be eaten

Marc Bates Leicester, Damien Bates Sheffield. It's correct that you can't be a promoter of 2 or more clubs in the same league

You've misinterpreted Chris. He's called Louis a disgrace for defending Chapman . There are no quotes in the post

He didn't save Peterborough. He bought it to save the Premiership & it's TV deal

That's correct, Louis no longer owns the stadium do they? I think Speedworth bought that? As a new owner, you're probably just purchasing the bond, licence, assets then may be £20k for the name. £50-£70k all in

A serious businessman looking for a tax break on other businesses

What's all this nonsense to stick in an honours list?