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No point in looking too carefully at what 2018 might bring until the BSPA present their seemingly annual re-structuring plan. As the league structure, team strengths, team building averages, pay rates and d/u & guests are all up in the air, until much later there is not much to look forward to that might improve the fortunes of KLS. Even the very existence of the Stars seems to be hanging in the balance.

Sadly the faddy duddies continue to run the sport and their head in the sand approach to what fans want, need and expect will take more than even someone as up to date and competent as jchapman to turn it around or make significant progress.

But of course it is well known that the stock car operation is money spinner for Buster. Why worry if the speedway supports falls away because he can still use the excellent venue as an income stream. Not much incentive to throw good money after bad on the speedway side of things. Crying out for a new promotion to run the speedway team.

It's almost certainly going to happen and there will be casualties as some clubs drop down to the NL level, leaving the 12 (?) in the top league. As customers we have no choice, as someone else pointed out, other than to go to matches or not. Same is likely to be the case if Buster Chapman get's his way over guests ( almost anywhere and everywhy ) . We can only "buy" what the BSPA chooses to offer to us - or not.

Even though it is likely to be the final meeting of the season V RH. I will be surprised is there is much of a crowd turnout for it. Equally so, the lost confidence of many fans this season, will mean even if there were to be relegation match after that, I don't think that would tempt many to the terraces, following such a debacle of a season. KLS has truly lost it's way.

Robert Lambert is simply the best we have now and it will take a huge effort for any of the other young Lions ( other than Bewley ) to catch up with him. Give the young man the credit he deserves.

The future is very bleak for KLS because Buster IS still running things HIS way and those around, him who choose to stay involved are "Yes Buster, No Buster, Three Bags Full Buster", so new ideas are given short shrift ( that's the way it looks from the outside ). What looks even more bleak was that the crowd for Thurs night's double header was well down even when it included Poole & Rye House fans. Buster is very out of touch with the fans he continually exhorts to turn up. It can only end in tears.

Run UK speedway with the riders who want to race here when we choose to put on meetings. Those handful of international top riders are too expensive for the UK anyway and new "top" riders will emerge from those who we can afford. Doyle should stick to Poland, Sweden and the GP's and I don't blame him for doing that.

There might well be promotion & relegation matches held this season ( for money spinning reasons ) but I feel sure that no club will go down and no club will go up because the New , New League structure will make it redundant. Glasgow and Sheffield may well go "up" but KL or Leicester will not go down.

Oops, I should have posted this here and not elsewhere. Regarding a well run crisply played out match - as last night was. But that is how it should be and illustrated perfectly that if there are no injury delays a match can be completed within 90 mins ( with no pointless interval ) and it is more interesting and exciting presented in that way ( in my opinion ). So let's have something more like that in future instead of long drawn out borefests. Had there been an interval then the first match would likely not have been completed. Like This Quote MultiQuote Hide Edit

But that is how it should be and illustrated perfectly that if there are no injury delays a match can be completed within 90 mins ( with no pointless interval ) and it is more interesting and exciting presented in that way ( in my opinion ). So let's have something more like that in future instead of long drawn out borefests. Had there been an interval then the first match would likely not have been completed.

Of course there must be some sort of refund IF the fixture V Rye House is raced! We all have ticket stubs so at least £5 / £8 should be reduced when next you go? Or a straight admission?

I hope they do attract a Massive Sponsor and it is called the Doo Doo League ( or Top Poop Toilet Tissue League ) to reflect the mess speedway is in, in the UK. Can't wait for these two big articles in the SS. Some kind of Revelations?

Much as I love to watch Robert Lambert race it would be better to have a guest for both meetings rather than no RL in the 2nd one. All very odd but it is GB speedway of course. Why not have Harris guesting in the Poole match and Andersen guesting in the 2nd match? Much more fun all round and if Robert is truly far from fit a better prospect for the last match of the season ( no need for a relegation battle as it will never happen ) ( that Up & Down movement ).

I can see that a 3rd title is well within reach for Woffy. Hurray !!! But I am well aware that it would not meet with universal approval! and that 2013 / 2015 / 2017 sequence sounds good!

But if Michael Lee and Ove Fundin had been riding along side Robert Lambert it might have been a draw.

I thought that ALL speedway related media was directly controlled by Nigel Pearson ( as it is at King's Lynn ). Just kidding but all that confusion must be someone's fault.

I have still attended this season but my patience in the KLS promotion has been sorely tried since the Stars V Poole "Holdergate" meeting and several unnecessary call offs as well as the recent Wolves " seeing double " debate. I will be going to the final relegation battle V Poole and V Rye House but my heart is not much in it this season. Unless there is significant improvement in how things are run at King's Lynn ( and in the sport in general ) I am unlikely to return next season. But having an opinion about the sport I have followed for over 60 years does not make me a "speedway complainer" - merely not just a mug.

Could be indeed - just as long as they are not heavily pushing that they are " on the right path" and " it will all work out well" and if supporters really want speedway " they must turn up to support their local team and bring a friend". Most of us have grasped that idea already.

Don't worry I am sure ( well nearly sure ) that someone will be riding in that position.

If there is to be a final match at the AFA - Stars V team X - as a relegation battle it would make sense to make it a £10 meeting hoping to get a decent crowd for the send off wouldn't it?

GRW 123 wrote " At Kings Lynn, the venue has so much going for it, but the biggest problem appears to be Buster persona.... This Club was built up to be respected and appreciated by all, Them days are long gone... These past few weeks, we have descended into a club in total turmoil ....... Surely that cant be allow to continue.," Unless those who surround Buster can encourage him to listen to fans concerns, perhaps in a series of meetings or a new style of supporters club, I can't see a future for the club under Buster's sole control. Of course as the owner he can do as he chooses but KLS will wither and finally flounder unless better ways of running the club are embarked on. It may be that he no longer values the Stars speedway team as being a viable part of the business at the AFA. Changing the name of the 2018 "top" league will not turn around the fortunes of KLS nor of the sport in general.

As far as I am aware not one of the current KLS team is riding solely for points money. A match fee guarantee is in place so that a rider failing to score will not fail to earn. I would like to hear from fans of other teams as to what they know exists generally in the UK re pay rates.

Plenty of volunteers for that task and if Buster posts it ( sorry Facebooks it, now he is using the media powerfully ) it would be his finest act as Chair of the BSPA. But who will pick up the poisoned chalice after Buster?

mikebv wrote" I truly now believe that (in this Country) the Promoters have simply 'given up', and accepted that years and years of leaderless, no direction, make it up as you go along, decision making has rendered the Sport 'beyond repair' and now just 'wing it' the best they can on a daily basis to (hopefully with a good wind) complete a ridiculously disjointed fixture list" ​And that is how I also see it and is why I am about to walk away from the sport live in the stadium and settle for watching it much more cheaply ( not quite free ) live at home on TV. The GP is still truly competitive and well worth watching but the Premier League matches are 75% dross and FTG "races". The promoters will continue to "wing it" until there is no-on left on the terraces to watch it.