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They have probably all been asked if they are happy for Mildenhall to join and add another fixture by this point?

Nothing like a good dose of negativity in speedway! The Chancellor said this week that animals won’t stop building projects going forward 👍

Seems a good step forward. This looks like the start of the formal planning process. Exciting times for Swindon and speedway! Hope all Swindon fans back the project.

Doyley to ride in the Ben Fund meeting. Will b great to see him back racing and good on him supporting the very worthy cause.

Your assessment sounds bang on. If the fixture list was 2 home 2 away then fans would pick and choose leaving clubs with a hole in their pockets. The current set up is best of bad bunch but may be most sustainable and that is crucial.

This has been done for years in the Championship but the dates are then allowed to move too easily when rain offs happen

That’s an interesting view for him to take. He could maybe take the opportunity of the NDL to improve and then move up a league where he would have earned the right to be paid more!

Do you think all the current NDL teams breakeven or do you think some do it because it is right to provide a platform for riders to develop and see it as an investment worth making into the sport? Some may invest, others may trot out lame excuses.

Never any surprise in Poole not supporting youth development but happy to cherry pick the work of others.

Vinnie seems to ride with a bit too much throttle and too little brain. Maybe one of the senior riders can encourage him to be more sensible? That or the mounting repair bills for his bikes might do it. It a shame for those that get caught up in his reckless path.

Tough luck for the Premiership!

Should the other Championship clubs wish to have more fixtures then tough luck for Oxford!

Forecast is looking a bit dry. Will this go ahead?

Perhaps they should have connected the drains to the main drainage network?

What a shambles calling off with a perfect forecast and hoping that October will be better.

Which 2 pointer will sign for Poole knowing they will be shunted out in June?

That depends how you assess the product. Anyone watching speedway at Ashfield would say that the racing has improved year on year. If that is the product and it has improved then does the points limit really have much impact? Have admission prices increased by much more than inflation in recent times? It seems that too much importance is placed on the points limit every year by promoters and fans alike when there is so much more to the sport. Speedway fans often like to throw stones at their own sport rather than enjoy the sporting spectacle which is just as good as most other sports. There is room for improvement but are things so bad to warrant the frequent negativity that is on display on this forum?

This point hits the nail on the head. While everyone would wish to see a higher points limit, probably most promoters even, all it would do currently is enable the richer clubs to hoover up the scarce heat leaders and leave the poorer clubs without any top end strength. While the points limit exists then it should be set at a level that encourages healthy competition in the league otherwise there is no point having a points limit at all.

If there were no team managers, who would fulfil the four duties that you 'literally' feel is all they do? If you have ever been involved in any sport at any level then you will know how much management goes on behind the scenes to keep the wheels turning logistically, not including any of what happens on a match day.

Correct that hopefully a small portion of land as you suggest could be found for such a multi-purpose speedway-focused stadium. They aren't going to wish to include some shabby facility though. As a minimum something of the like of the NSS should be aspired to as it is far more appealing for such a large scale development than something like a Leicester-type facility as an example. Speedway will forever be small-fry if we don't aspire to be big.

Is this meeting being streamed?

All motorsports are expensive but it doesn't stop thousands competing in different disciplines every weekend all over the UK! Making it more affordable may help but it is no silver bullet. Build the tracks, offer the track time and they will come! Fiddling with the format of the NDL will change nothing.

With the team building restrictions then it will always be necessary to bring others in to plug the gaps to get under the limit. It is convenient to ignore literally every other member of the current Leicester team that has been developing through the Cubs. Foord, James, Springer, Joe Thompson. Max Perry would for sure have been a Cub again but for the limit. Not to mention Dan Thompson who made his early strides with the Lions. If every team, and some but very few others can and do, could offer the same opportunities and track time as Leicester then the sport in this country would be in a far better place. That doesn't help it be achieved but it is what should be aimed at.

Why change the habit of a lifetime!

Is it the lack of youth meetings being run and the viability of running them that is the issue rather than tinkering with the format? Leicester winning the league by miles is a sign of their commitment to youth development and track time rather than some win at all costs mentality. All tracks should aspire to have the output of quality young riders that Leicester achieve... however they manage it!