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So will one big weaker league work i have done a little research to help you decide. First of all we say goodbye to the 6 GP riders BK,DB,JD,MF,JH,JK,+ES. Then i checked which of the riders left double up both leagues and found that all but 15 of them do. These riders who do not are. J Lidsey, N Blodorn, T Brennan, R Douglas, J Pickering, C Holder, T Musielak, M Zagar, K Rew, N K Iversen, B Cook, M Janowski, R Tungate, L Becker, A Ellis. I found that of the above riders that 3 of them ride in the Polish top league. 9 of them ride in the Polish 2nd division. 2 of them ride in the Polish 3rd division. Also 8 of them ride in the Swedish top league and 4 of them also ride in the Danish league. So the question is how many of these riders would fancy riding in a league that runs on 6 days of the week of which non of them choose to do now. Hopefully some do but looking at the possibility that they do not. I have found that 19 riders in the Championship have averages over 7 points these riders are S Masters R Lawson, D King, N klindt, C Harris, C Wright, P Kildermand, S Worrall, K Howarth, E Riss, Z Cook, D Kemp, J Sedgman, D Thompson, J Allen, T Batchelor, A Rowe, A Vuolas and L Flint. So 15 of these riders spread over 15 teams will be the new number 1s. So the big hope is that some of the riders from other leagues will want to come over to ride. But looking how hard it is now to replace any injured riders it would seem that not many would So how do we fill the teams. As has been suggested we can lower team numbers if it is lowered to six then we need 90 riders. If my maths are right we are 27 riders short which will have to come from the National league there are 6 teams in that league which is 42 riders 9 of the better riders in this league already ride for championship teams which leaves 33 so that means a lot of very young inexperienced riders will be in all teams There is also the N D T league but most of the teams are filled with N D L riders doubling up so cuts down the choice of younger riders. Not sure if my maths or working outs are spot on but it gives a good idea of how teams will possibly look if we go one big league. In my opinion if they do go one big league having the above number one riders as the best in the league and so many very young inexperienced riders is one hell of a big risk.

Are you a camera man for TNT sport 😉

Thanks for the love 😀. I tried to post twice yesterday but i was so pd off that my words were a little off for this forum so i deleted them. I started watching this sport in 1972 and have loved it .But how the sport has gone over the years has finally got to me. Three years ago i had a season ticket for both the Aces and the Colts .But this year i have been to watch 3 live meetings. I won't do a list of all the crap that has gone on over the last few years as you all will know. Its been building for a few years now and i have just realised that i cannot support a team in a sport that really is not a sport anymore its become a pile of contrived rubbish i have had enough. So unless feelings change i will be joining the many before me and walk away. I will still look in on this forum but not comment as i have retired and get a little bored and old habbits etc.

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Going off the averages as they are now yes you can you could even keep Lidsey over Brennan and be under 40 If you change Lidsey for Brennan you could swap C Bailey for N P Toft at reserve who goes very well round B/vue.

Oops sorry what was the result of that race i missed it i nodded off.

On this video i saw all the action and all the passes. Eurosport should watch BSN and club streams to see how it should be done .Less is more all we want to see is as much of the action on screen as possible through out the race and not a camera switch every 2 seconds with close ups on board cameras and sky shots where they seem to miss most of the action and any passing in most races(Basically what you can see from the stands if you were there) .Eurosport cut your costs all you need is 2 or 3 cameras at most to film a race.

Agree i wanted us to keep Brennan.

Blodorn.

There is an aspect of the crime related to speedway that being speedway stadiums are full of older people. If he is accepted back i think he will get a hell of a lot of stick from the crowds where ever he goes.

Now we have debated the cost of streaming would anyone like to comment on what they thought about the Peter Craven memorial speedway meeting. Very enjoyable meeting .Well done Brady great performance a well deserved win, great race in the final between Brady and Dan . Thought the new boys to the Belle vue team Ben and Connor showed great promise for the season ahead. Got me back in the mood for speedway and now well locking forward to the new season ahead .The performances of all the Belle vue team gives me hope that the new team can make up for the forced weakening of last seasons team down to averages.

To me speedway is a sport and in sport you play/ride to win. I love close plenty of passing races as we all do. But if its my team that are getting passed great race or not i am still pi**ed off. I also go home feeling a lot happier if my team has won. Its why the play offs pull in much better crowds meaningless silverware or not fans want/hope to see there team win something it makes people happy.

There are 4 speedway of nations meetings to plug the gaps in July.

Could have had the top 3 +Wright Cook and Mountain and Bailey stronger imo.