Hamish McRaker

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

1 Doyle 2 Dan T 3 Tungate 4 Tarasenko 5 Wozniak 6 S. Worrall 7 Joe T

Leicester will come back with their pants on fire in the second leg, whenever and wherever it actually happens. Mr Dickson will make sure of that, most of that team will receive such a roasting at gas mark 12 that their kevlars will glow all week

There's a good bakery up here on Harris, they could maybe be persuaded to produce some on a one-off basis, if the price is suitable?

Yes, I suppose it is! Maybe a few meetings can be preserved in the traditional version for analogue old farts

So the answer to ensuring that speedway survives and thrives is to design it to suit Gen Zedders or whatever they're called, with their shortened attention spans they should be catered-for. Reduce races to one lap, with electric powered bikes, introduce online race prediction competitions via Tik Tok or whatever, and run races in blocks of 6 with track grading breaks. Sorted!

I think Leicester may have already peaked and are not quite at that level now, whereas the signs are that Belle Vue are now on an upwards trajectory