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Paramount+ won the auction for Champions League rights from 2027. Some reports say Paramount are now preparing a takeover bid for WBD (which obviously includes TNT)

I'm a bit confused what this has got to do with Stamford Bridge speedway. It refers to the clothes being in their racing colours of green..... But Stamford Bridge's colours were blue and white. It refers to Gys Kuhn's racing number of "42", but I'm not aware of Gis Kuhn ever racing in a number 42 jacket. Are Chelsea just flogging merch and linking it to speedway without doing any research whatsoever, and just making stuff up?

Sadly, this is the kind of irrational thinking, and failure to understand the situation, that I fear a few actual promoters have too.

I want a date with Kylie Minogue. But the way this dream plays out in my head is very different to the reality of the situation that I have to deal with.

a) Many CL teams aren't able to race on Monday or Thursday, which is needed to include riders who race in other leagues. b) Without the above riders, and without doubling up riders, there are nowhere near enough riders to fill 14 teams. c) Some teams (Workington etc) could not compete financially with others (e,g. Ipswich) and smaller clubs would fold d) We've been through the above 100 times.

Not how it works at all. All 14 clubs are equal members of the BSPL. There aren't 2 different organisations with different memberships.

Did you happen to read the post you are replying to? Because your strange reply has no relevance to his post. You're not kidding!

But apart from you, hopefully some of the non-ridiculous would want a ticket too.

Exactly this. It's been explained dozens of times, but still some people don't get it. There simply aren't enough riders to staff one big league, even if you draft in every NDL rider to make a big, weakened league. It's in every club's interest that the Premiership must survive.

The AGM these days isn't a 3-day conference to thrash out all the rules like it used to be. Nowadays the rules are thrashed out in a number of meetings, and the AGM is just a "box ticking" exercise to ratify what has been agreed. Clearly things haven't been agreed yet to a stage where they can be signed off, so last week's date was cancelled. The AGM has now been set for 6 January 2026. The Premiership is down to 5 teams, and realistically needs at least 1 more. An amalgamation into 1 league is impossible for various reasons; Several Championship clubs could not run on Monday/Thursday which would be needed to keep the top riders in Britain. Without the top riders, and with doubling-up ended, there would not be enough riders to fill 14 teams. With riders only having 1 club income and no doubling-up, they would need higher wages. Higher wage costs and lack of riders would close several of the less affluent clubs- So 1 league is a non-starter. Whilst some Premiership clubs may consider running with 5 teams, Ipswich are strongly against this, and are threatening to pull out, leaving a 4 team Premiership. A sixth team would appear to be the solution. A club moving up from Championship would solve it, but who? Rumours of a new club at Northampton is another option, a new promotion running a new team out of Oxford is another rumour. There's even rumours Peterborough could get their track back and relaunch, although that does sound far-fetched.

They really don't. The likes of Chris Harris, Danny King, Peter Kildemand, Sam Masters, Charles Wright, Richard Lawson, etc, etc, pick up a "top-up" wage from the CL, to supplement their main PL earnings. If the PL were to collapse, those riders would either need a big pay rise from their one remaining British team or they'd need a foreign league place, which would bring clashes with any British team who don't ride on either a Monday or Thursday. e.g. A collapse of the PL would see Danny King's Plymouth signing fall through. He couldn't ride solely for Plymouth money. He'd be better going to Ipswich on a Thursday and picking up a foreign league. The CL absolutely need the PL to survive, or else it will be the end for some of them.

I remember it the first time around when I was a kid. It was filmed at Rye House (and says so in the end credits). I believe Bob Garrad did the riding for Peter Duncan, and I think Kelvin Mullarkey, Hugh Saunders and Karl Fiala are mentioned at some point (Either introduced by Len Silver or announced as a race winner).

Well that didn't age well. Looks like @1 valve did know their facts, and rightly called out the garbage!

The thing is,(as many others have pointed out), there will be no one there to promote the club to. It's an enthusiasts collectors fair, and a bloody good one. But no member of the general public is going to pay £10 to go and look at old speedway programmes, books and leathers. It's entirely for existing speedway fans, and very devoted ones at that! There will be no one there who has never been to speedway, and no one who doesn't know of the existence of Workington Comets. In fact, I'd wager that the vast majority will have been to Workington as, like me, they are the kind of people who set out to visit every track in the country, and will have had Derwent Park and Northside ticked off their list already. Preaching to the converted in November is neither "thinking out of the box" nor "promoting the club". Just go along and enjoy the nostalgia and the lovingly crafted collections.

How many clubs do you think are in the NDL and NDT?

That's not true. I know of several clubs only paying the standard rates this year. Payments to NDL riders have come down considerably, particularly over the past 2-3 years, with the vast majority of NDL/NDT teams now being second teams to higher league clubs. (Only Iwade were a standalone club in 2025). It's not like it used to be. Going back to the days when Buxton were forced out due to wage costs, there used to be a lot more standalone clubs (Eastbourne, Cradley, Sittingbourne, Mildenhall, Isle of Wight, Stoke, Birmingham) and some of those were the clubs paying huge money to NDL riders.

Normally, they'd agree everything and rubberstamp it at the AGM. But this year they've had to put the AGM back 2 months because everything hasn't been agreed yet.

The AGM is the beginning of January

As people were saying earlier in the week, it's been put back to the first week of January.

I think that top 5 is correct. But I reckon once they all sit around a table trying to plan their teams, they'll realise that they are all struggling to shoehorn riders into the bottom end and will have to go higher than 36. Maybe just as far as 37 to give everyone an extra point at reserve. So R Douglas 8.12 S Masters 7.28 N Morris 5.89 D Thompson 5.87 K Howarth 5.00 4.50 foreigner or D Kemp 4.72 L Killeen R/S

Come on kid, you need to do better than this! Remember, you're supposed to be attention-seeking, and entertaining us, by role-playing as Clark Osborne. But this is a lacklustre effort. It comes across more like something from that 80s ex-Cradley junior with the mental problems who posts laughable drivel on Fracebook while talking into a car sponge.

Pretty sure Jordan Jenkins had his 25% reduction for coming out of the RS scheme in 2024, and you can only have it once even if your average drops you back into RS. So he shouldn't get it again.

I'll go with J Doyle 7.86 T Brennan 7.05 D King 6.50 K Rew 6.19 A Ellis 5.92 D Hume 3.48 J Edwards R/S

Turkey farmers are obviously going to vote for Christmas. It's their most profitable time of year by a long way!

The parting of the ways between Ipswich and Rew last year certainly worked out better for Ipswich than it did for Rew.