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One league could work, if that one league wasn't created based on UK speedways version of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Things have just got to be different if change is going to be successful. If league/team racing is to continue and one league is desirable and doubling up is to be abolished then using the availability of competent current riders there is just about a sufficient number to make up eight teams. However, who those eight teams should be needs a lot of thinking about. Maybe four of the current Premier league promotions could cut it against a correctly formulated criteria. But to even make a start on such a review, the current group of promoters would need to put aside their own agendas/egos and bank accounts and work together in the best interest of UK speedway - this is more than probably too much to ask or expect. So although I hate to say it - Our best intentions to help the sustainability of UK speedway with ideas worthy of consideration will ultimately fall on deaf ears.

No. Just the cash🙁

No. Just the cash🙁

Spot on. it is just so very unlikely (and sad) that today’s UK promoters would go along with such a plan given the organisational structure that is the BSPA which in itself exists in a time warp.

I agree with your sentiments. However, I’m not sure this type of drastic action will work out quite as well as we would hope becoming more of a “death by a thousand cuts” rather than a cure for the problem. Preferring evolution rather than revolution I believe the best way forward would be the formation of a “Super League” carved out of the best available riders making up a max of eight teams spread evenly across the country. Such teams/promotions committing to a clearly defined programme of continued improvement to the product on offer. The remaining promotions would work to fixed (low) budgets to run semi professional events the purpose being to provide a basis for growth in riders ability and worth to the senior clubs. Of course the biggest challenge the sport faces in the UK is the self serving, self preservation of individual promoters which exists to the detriment of our beloved sport. Frankly whilst that remains the case we can debate alternatives as much as we like but to no avail. There is history of a sport bankrupt in its own right, on its knees and run by self serving owners with no future which is now so big it boasts the single richest annual sporting event held on the planet. If anybody is interested in how that was achieved by the battles won by a single person against rich & powerful egos you should look up Pete Rozelle, who without there would be no NFL and no SuperBowl.

Not enough riders even for 5 man teams if you remove “doubling up” and those riders who race in Poland who would not be able to commit to fixtures held on any other day than Monday & the occasional Thursday - Poland permitting. Example, from the existing Leicester team four riders would be lost to the UK leaving 3 riders, a rising star, a number six and one second string. Granted if you draft in NDL second strings & similar you could get close to the required number but such dumbing down of rider talent & 10 man/boys meeting lineups is not the answer.

Not enough riders for that number of teams.

How many teams?

One league, no doubling up, using riders of competitive ability based on current riders racing in UK could stretch to fielding no more than eight teams. (It’s the math). Thus two home, two away fixtures would be as current in Prem and the end of professional speedway at the majority of tracks currently operating today - maybe not a bad thing - just a reset and a welcome to the real world

That’s what there is now.

Your comments just show you know nothing of this particular matter. 1. There isn’t a “Coventry” but a body of folk fighting the cause to keep the current site “as is” 2. There is a separate group of folk who the first group are working with/alongside who have absolutely no problem with funding the development (not restoration) of a multi sports complex at Brandon. 3. A miracle is not required. Only the removal of Brandon Estates intransigence. Then the work can and will begin of the development

There is plenty of headroom in the plan for the proposed redevelopment of Brandon as a multi motor sport venue to generate sufficient profit from its operations to provide more than acceptable ROI. Please stop your absolute drivel on a matter where your ill informed opinion is totally incorrect.

I would also like the guy who announces the races/times to pronounce his “th’s” correctly so that “Gate Free” becomes “GateThree”, “sixty free point free free seconds becomes “sixty three point three three seconds” & “Fird place” becomes “third place”

Hopefully so. Because it will mean his. youngster is ok.

The plan is not to “restore” Brandon but to re-build the facility. Yes it will take millions to do and yes the combined group of interested parties do have the money available to build and run a sustainable operation in both the short & long term. The only challenge facing the group is the intransigence of Brandon Estates, which admittedly is a big challenge but not an impossible one to overcome.

No need to make anything up when TV evidence clearly showed the reality of the situation. And for my edification, where/when did Dickson “freely admit to preparing the track at the expense of entertainment”?

Well in the first fixture at Kings Lynn it was that track which was so rough, home riders couldn't get their bikes to turn and one even crashed and damaged his wrist. Perhaps we should put to one side the super long track grading session employed either side of the break to give Bomber a long break between his rides. Meanwhile Leicester have been accused of preparing tracks with no top surface (slick) and now your "predicting" a rough track of which there is no recent history of. As for "win at all cost" well the Lions have done quite well this year against the "big guns" its only the lesser clubs they have struggled against so maybe the Stars will have some chance after all. Hope you make it to the meeting.

No issue with having one league - but with the exclusion of riders who ride in Poland & no doubling up the math is clear. One big league would comprise eight teams - presuming you do not want to teams with a massive disparity between very capable riders and those staring out. That would be far from entertaining / value for money.

List isn’t exaggerated at all it. However I agree some may opt to give Poland a miss. But in one big UK league with eight teams (that’s just the math sum of available competent riders) they wouldn’t be able to double up and the meaning no more than two meetings per week a reduction by 33% or one meeting. the one missing being the higher paying Polish one. Not sure how many riders will wish to reduce their income.

You will have seen the list of riders who currently ride in the Polish “lower” leagues, very few who would give up riding there in favour of UK. Add the Ekstraliga 1 riders attached to UK clubs and you have the best part of 28 riders to do without or put another way 4 teams worth of riders. Of course there would be enough riders available to run a league with doubling up removed which with the inclusion of NDL riders would mean “one big (watered down) league” of seven/eight teams. “Death by a thousand cuts” comes to mind.

Do you envisage Ekstraliga 2 riders also being excluded from a one "big" league?

And for those of us who were not there, what was the “odd occurrence”?

Fast race required so that he could get his injury back into trackside treatment as soon as possible. Should make it through the night and ok for tomorrow’s GP where more fast times could help him through. However, injured wrist maybe agitated during GP and need rest until next weekend - Cue docs medical note!!!

And what rumours would they be?

Grabbed by the gargoyles - eye watering! 😭