THE DEAN MACHINE

Hope you’re right but needs to run something to keep stadium open for speedway, 2 GPs is not enough, if there is no premier (looking likely)and they won’t go championship what is left ?

Ah yes Peter Waite, tighter than a ducks arse, literally argued over £1 but he was a good laugh though

I got a call from Len asking if I would come and ride for rye house, I was interested as I’d always liked rye house track, first thing I remember him saying was he was just touching base with me, I had never heard that saying before and it made me laugh,we had a fairly long chat over the phone and he ended the call by saying he had a few options and he would be in touch, I heard nothing so after a month or so I called him and he denied ever calling me 😂 needless to say I didn’t join rye house

Yes and it’s not a bad thing

I did get a message today from someone saying they were only running national league in 2026 but where they got that from I have no idea and I can’t find it anywhere else so hopefully it’s crap, we can’t afford to lose BV

I agree, I actually think BV would flourish in a one league set up , but if they run NL then they have lost my family’s custom, we would rather go Buxton for NL and if they run in a 5 team league we would go to a few but not many, probably see each team once

Unfortunately it sounds like lemon is doing the same, BV in the national league only and Ipswich potentially not running at all is catastrophic for the sport, both completely avoidable but are we dealing with stubbornness preventing a proper solution

Who in there right financial mind is going to throw money at this irrespective of what they call it, if I had millions I wouldn’t and I love the sport

No you have at some length provided your opinion which is fine (it’s a forum after all) but very little of that is how I how my plan would work and as for the “better than them “from the premier league well they weren’t my words I was quoting someone else

And very little of that applys to my post, you have just assumed that my view is degrade the sport on all fronts and hope it works well it isn’t so all that is just your opinion which is fine if that’s your view but it’s not mine, I have a plan which covers how 1 league would work with the top riders but it’s too long to detail on here, I might talk about it on the 360 podcast when I’m next on but I don’t get to choose the subjects

This argument is a redundant one, less revs can achieved easily with something as cheap as a cam with less lift and the equipment replacement doesn’t exist as if a better faster engine came out tomorrow every rider would dump their GMs in a flash just like they did from Jap to 2v Jawa -weslake-GM and we will probably see it again soon if reports of the revolver carb are true, riders will dump their £1000 blixt carbs in an instant and buy revolver ones

I just don’t understand why they insist 2 leagues when we are in the situation were in, there is either a tv or sponsorship deal looming and they don’t want to split the money or there is a we are better than them attitude towards the championship of which they are not, 5 teams is financial suicide, they must know this

It’s just not good enough, it’s destined to fail, fans don’t want it, it doesn’t interest me at all

I have posted this before but Was a big fan of John Perrin, straight talking northerner, he didn’t care who he offended, had some laughs in his company whenever I raced at or for belle vue, I know he was owing money to riders from time to time but he never owed me any, Graham dury was a marmite character too, riding for Graham I found him awkward but when not riding for him we often had long chats about the sport and he often backed me when I was speaking my mind about the sport, he offered me team managers job at Birmingham which I turned down and he told me he didn’t understand why I turned it down but respected me for not just taking it if I didn’t want it

A shredding machine to put your hard earned cash straight into and what you have left the bspl will send their special magician round to mysteriously make it all disappear in to the pockets of the few, just incase some think I’m posting an in the know post, it’s just a bit of fun, you don’t get a shredding machine

At least someone can see positive possibility’s of one big league, mikebv for bspl chairman

Wonder what all the premier league promotions are all doing today ? Do you think they are all in a room thrashing out some sort of solution or do you think they all out shopping with the family ?

Yes exactly, too right, I’m always right, what exactly were you referring too ? 😂

Reading that piece in the star reads like we going to decimate the championship to run our flawed system in the premier, think the championship teams should have a meeting, ditch the bspl, form their own governing body and start a new sport under the Nora banner

To be honest it doesn’t really matter what his reasons are,he will be missed but he either wants to be a part of speedway or he doesn’t, sentiment doesn’t solve anything,all that matters is the club is brought by someone and the sport moves forward in a positive manor with Ipswich involved of which it isn’t doing at the moment

And why exactly has it happened? Is it Because there aren’t enough teams ? The sport is bankrupt? .The bspl couldnt force the likes of Glasgow and Poole to join the league putting themselves at finical risk? the tv money has gone as have a couple of big sponsors ? There is a snobbery towards the championship from some clubs ? What is it ?

I was just thinking yesterday I wonder if I gave up on speedway and put my heart and sole into some other sport that after a couple of years I would be thinking this sport is a real mess and maybe speedway isn’t such a shambles after all

Exactly this, the 1 big league with Ipswich and belle vue in it is actually quite an exciting prospect imo

And that is how it should be but with an independent body actually making the rules like in just about any other credible sport

One thing I really don’t get is the obsession to why we need a premier league, 1 league would just make the championship the top league with more variety for fans, I could understand up till now because of tv money which selfishly the didnt want to share with the championship clubs but that’s not there anymore, the thought of belle vue riding against Poole or Glasgow or Workington is something different for the fans and personally find exciting, the championship has a hell of a lot to offer and imo a lot more than the premier for a couple of years, so I say to the top 5 teams embrace it for a year and if in a years time a couple more teams are back on the scene look at 2 leagues again, we have an opportunity for a reset of the sport here but again we will probably miss the opportunity like we always do