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All achievable in a couple of months. Installing a safe fence would be the priority. Pits can be fabricated and installed in a week or two. A portable shower block/changing rooms can be hired. Starting gates and the electrics for a referee control panel isn't a big job. Presumably most of the existing shale track could be used without a lot of further track work. I remember when Belle Vue lost Hyde Road and got permission to move into the Greyhound stadium in early 1988. That involved digging the track, building the fence, building the pits, building changing rooms and showers, and installing all the electrics. It was all done and opened on 1 April 1988.

I wasn't for one minute suggesting that should be the Sheffield team, or that it would be a good team. Someone suggested Sheffield could build a team to keep Leon Flint at reserve. This team was just a way to make that fit. Of course in reality Flint isn't going to be at reserve. Sheffield couldn't build a strong team which keeps Flint at reserve. He will be a second string.

Here's a team that fits with Flint at reserve: If they increase the limit by a point, swap out Kildemand for Danny King. C Holder 6.84 T Musielak 6.63 C Harris 6.53 P Kildemand 5.28 A Rowe 5.22 L Flint 5.06 L Harrison R/S

I think this is spot on... R Douglas 8.12 S Masters 7.28 L Becker 6.88 N Morris 5.89 K Howarth 5.00 A Vuolas 3.36 L Killeen R/S (Not sure if Vuolas's short spell with Brum was enough to make a 3.36 PL average stick. If not, another 3 pointer is needed).

Very few changes from 2025... Swap Pickering out for Musielak. Lose Morris (to Leicester) and move Leon Flint up into the team on 25% reduction, then you just need a new Rising Star J Holder 9.08 C Holder 6.84 T Musielak 6.63 A Rowe 5.22 L Flint 5.06 J Etheridge 3.00 L Harrison R/S That fits the limit. If the limit gets a little move upwards, just swap Etheridge out for any potential upgrade.

Have you tried Speedway Researcher? https://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/

Royal Mail deliveries are very haphazard, but I'm pretty lucky with mine. My post normally comes between 10am - 11am. I'd say that 60%-70% of the time my Star arrives on Thursday. When it doesn't, it almost always arrives on Friday morning. Very, very rarely it's the following Monday morning. However last week it arrived at 4pm on Saturday. I rarely get post on a Saturdfay, and never at 4pm, so I don't know what happened.

Shame it's looking like 36.00 then. As usual the weaker teams hold all the cards,evn though such a low limit won't benefit them. They just think it will.

If they then changed the scoring from 4-3-2-0, to 3-2-1-0, then it would be perfect. Second and third should be ranked equal to first and last. only If there's a tie on points at the end of the night, do you count back including bonus points.

Might be training an understudy, but he's running the show.

I'm not normally a big critic of Kelv. He does a decent enough job on the Premiership, but he's having a stinker this week. I know he's been thrust into the main commentator role, which was never his job, and he's having to commentate from a studio in London using the same (not great) pictures that we are getting, rather than being at the meeting. But he is very below par this week. He doesn't know who most of the riders are (including in the British team). Surely he could have done some research on the riders and jotted down a few talking points, rather than admitting to not knowing anything about them. Then again, our other British representative, Mr Morris, isn't covering himself in glory either. Rushing riders out with only 60 seconds to go, when one has only just had his bike returned to the pits. You get 60 seconds after a high speed crash, but Morris can stand out on the track for 15 minutes conducting unnecessary track grading and overwatering,

Kelv doing Britain proud. Couldn't tell the difference between Dan Thompson and Luke Killeen, and now he says he knows nothing about Luke Harrison.

Why is Kelvin obsessed with the fact that teams are using riders 1 & 2 for the first race, and is greatly surprised that no team manager has made a change, to the extent that he tells us every race? Surely it makes sense to list the riders you intend to start with, as Nos. 1 & 2 ?

Got to agree with this. Hitmen is one of the more original, better nicknames. Much better than the weak "just pick an alliterative animal or bird" nicknames. They should seriously have a rethink about this change. "BULLS HIT WITH POOR NICKNAME CHANGE"

As people have pointed out, one big league of 14 teams with 7 man teams would be impossible. Take out the 25ish riders who ride in Poland (and are only available to Britain on Monday and Thursday) and reduce all the doubling-up riders to a single team (another 30+ riders) and you've barely got enough riders left to staff 14 teams of 3 or 4 riders. You'd need to take every rider from the National League, including every novice 3.00 NDL wobbler, and you still couldn't get to 14 full teams. The standard or 14 teams would be somewhere between Championship and NDL. The level would be a big comedown for Workington or Plymouth fans. Imagine asking fans of Belle Vue, Ipswich or Sheffield to watch that!