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Premier runs Monday & Thursday. Championship on other days. It’s how doubling up works

Couldn’t agree more. It’s the promoters job to promote fixtures which they and their fellow BSPL members have the responsibility to arrange & publish. Clearly at this moment they are failing miserably- but it’s not the riders fault which was the point I originally made.

It’s not the riders responsibility to put bums on seats. That the responsibility of the promoter who has two key tasks. 1. Build a competitive team. 2. Promote the team/fixtures. Clearly a winning team puts bums on seats - even more if well promoted. The riders have two key tasks. 1. Ensure they have competitive bikes. 2. Race to the best of their ability. Obviously it helps the promotion if the riders avail themselves to PR activities which most do willingly.

Becker not available anyway as he has already signed to ride in three countries.

Becker has already said he will not be available to ride in UK in 2026.

But there's no intention of claim by the developers to include a track in their plans.

So this is a proposal for the development of the old speedway/greyhound stadium? Meanwhile any news on the proposed “new” speedway facility?

There are only a few established riders who do not double up. Those that don’t (putting aside those who ride in other countries in addition to UK) are by and large riders starting out. One league would not mean additional meetings because there would only be eight professional clubs (it’s the math of riders available).

Well you may not buy it, but you need to consider the realty of what one league means in terms of earnings. Assuming rates of pay remain the same then one league would mean a rider such as Howarth would lose at best 35% of his current pay but in reality more likely 50%. So quite reasonable that in such circumstances a rider would need to quit the sport to take up full time employment and no, in today’s job market, unlike yesteryear there is far less opportunity for a family man like Kyle to double up with conventional employment and riding speedway.

If there was no Premiership- but only one “senior” league running on something like a 38 - 40 point limit then that league would consist of no more than eight (maybe nine) teams simply because of a lack of suitable riders. And to be clear, this is not a personal opinion, just an outcome of the math involved. One thing to be sure of …. The eight or nine surviving teams would not all come from this year’s Championship.

Other than it would take a significant amount of cash to get to a level where it conforms to FIM standards.

License’s are issued by the Speedway Control Board (SCB) not BSPL.

License’s are issued by the Speedway Control Board (SCB) not BSPL.

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Your final point makes good sense. However, UK speedway is far from being a great product, it does not use the best ingredients, such as riders, stadiums and universal matchday experience. If things were done correctly promoters would invest (not divert from current costs)) significant amounts of money on local marketing & PR utilising the appropriate professional agencies whilst the BSPL did likewise on a national basis. Unfortunately, the majority of the promoters do not have access to the levels of cash or acumen necessary and so sadly they should not be running the sport at the professional level in the UK. For those folk who currently sit both inside and outside the BSPL with both cash and knowledge of what to do with it to grow UK speedway they will not be doing so whilst the BSPL functions in the significantly less than cohesive manner it currently does - it just does not make good business sense to do so, biding their time does.