Hamish McRaker

....including a competent and experienced team manager?

Good result. But who would/will be the landlords if/when speedway resumed?

It may be better for Brennan to keep Ipswich in mind for 2026. With this likely to be Brum's last season at PB, he could set his sights on becoming the #1 by end of next season having had two seasons with the same club. If not Lindgren to begin the season at #1, who could fit the bill? Madsen? Smolinski? Or maybe Woffinden and Tolley could strike a good rapport with Pete Adams managing the tram?

Sorting out the troublesome no. 6 issue would be a big help i'm sure. Or they could bring in Patrick McGoohan?

What do the Leicester owners and promoters want, and how soon? The answer to the first one should be obvious, the second not so easy. The Premier league is consolidating into three clubs which are all capable of winning it, two sitting just outside that group trying to become members, and two outliers (maybe one next season). Presumably, Leicester wants to join the top three, as do Oxford. So they have two missions, the first one is to gain supremacy over Oxford and hope that in doing so, they also break into the top group. This is a tough ask. They can't expect any favours from any of the top three - no more nudge/wink deals with Sheffield! Speaking of Sheffield, it seems likely they will have to release one of their top three, and that rider's destination may provide the answer to part one of the Leicester/Oxford question about who can join the top three first. Leicester have given it a good go this year, but have they got the grappling hooks secured?

So, which GP rider will Greg Hancock work his magic on in 2025?

As Phil Morris would call it, "Commercial Considerations", which also accounts for the axeing of Madsen, who nonetheless may be better to begin self-indentifying as a Wolf or a Snow Leopard as a career move

Does this mean that Lebedevs is not included? Haven't seen him mentioned. I'm in favour of giving new GP riders a two-year contract, with the provision that after year 1 they can be "terminated early" if they have badly underperformed. Under this arrangement, Lebedevs, Kvech and Huckenbeck would have been retained for a second year, and Wozniak eliminated.

It's the new world according to Phil Morris and Disney. It's now all about how many "views" incidents attract. The world of clickbait and short attention spans now dominates in the quest to please broadcasters, that's what it's all about. And in the GP's Doyle's more likely to provide it than most, whether he is classed as dangerous or not is irrelevant

Viewing figures! Like Nicki Pedersen until he got too slow.

Really? I'd have thought they'd tell you in person. You must be slipping down their pecking order 😗

If you're going to keep Max Fricke, you'll need the new big hitter to be at No 1 and he'll need to still be at No 1 when the season goes into September

It's pretty simple and has been said by many others - can't perform when the track is wet, maximums all along when it's warm and dry. He needs a winter practicing on frozen lakes in Finland

They seem to be on a different planet, unfortunately

He must be getting old. Puts "Young" before every rider's name, he'd be saying Young Scott Nicholls if he was commentating on Oxford matches

UK has gradually given up priority race nights including Thursdays as the Polish juggernaut continues to crush all in it's path. May as well just run at championship level with remaibing UK tracks on whatever night they choose.

Unfortunately, and ironically on the day that the Premiership concludes it's season, this is a reminder that attempting to sustain a higher-level league in this country is becoming ever more impractical and may have gone beyond that stage. It just isn't sustainable and is financially bonkers. Professional sport now involves having to accumulate and run with terrible levels of loss and debt, meaning that the weaker clubs in so many sports are falling like leaves from the autumn trees.

So it sounds like they currently owe money which they are unable to pay (presumably including to riders) and unless this is cleared, they will be unable to declare 2025 participation when the deadline comes up (I e. BSPL conference). The Directors are unable to finance this, and are seeking persons to contribute and bail them out, and enable them to declare participation in 2025. If the Directors can't provide this finance, then what chance is there of them being able to keep chipping in and keep the club afloat during 2025, as they seem to have done during the past three seasons? And as someone has said, this puts them down in the bottom of rider preferences. I heard that, when David Hemsley's promotion at Leicester hit the buffers at the end of their previous and ill-fated dabble with the top league, Keith Chapman bought the club and cleared the debts before selling it on to the Bateses. Maybe he could do the same for Birmingham, although obviously not selling to the Bateses this time

I do.

Max Fricke would do a great job as no.1 for Birmingham, King's Lynn or Oxford.

What is S.Worrall's average now? Needs to have recovered from his illness of course

Creative thinking. It's what's needed.

It's time to part company with Max Fricke, Leicester nor any club for that matter will ever win a title with him at no.1, good rider though he is. Jason Doyle is the best rider Leicester has had in the current era, he's a winner and the club should be going the extra mile to try and get him back on board. Szymon Wozniak will probably lose his GP place and could be ideal to have as the second rider of a new spearhead. He'd possibly be assessed as 8 but if given 7 would be a great acquisition and would possibly enable a clear third heat leader to be brought in. Overall, I think Leicester should ring the changes for 2025 but that could include bringing back some riders who have been there before, Dan Thompson being another, and his brother Joe.

I'm sure the management took that into account when they made their decision

Hiding behind his captain most of the time