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I know it's being rebranded after the sale, but the last time I passed our local one I'm sure it still had WH Smith up. It's not a shop I go in really, so I wouldn't know. Like I say, I know they stopped stocking the Star many, many years ago, but it's easily found in the big supermarkets.

I know a good many years ago (10 years or more) WH Smith wanted a payment to stock Speedway Star in their shops, so the Star stopped stocking it there. (That was a long time ago, so it may well have changed, and the Star may be back on the WHS shelves - I don't know). But I do know it is stocked in Asda, Tesco and Morrisons. When my subscription copy is delayed in the post, I usually have a read through one in Asda when I'm shopping.

I agree, you have made a pathetic response. At least you agree that back in the day we had a one-off world final, and now we have G.P.s. Back then, the Star had photos from the world final in the following week, and now they have photos from the G.P.s in the following weeks. In the other weeks, we get a photo of whatever is being reported from that week, just as we always have. The only difference is that the internet makes it much quicker to get information these days, and we can now get rapid information from abroad, which we couldn't do back in the day. And of course, modern digital editing means they can produce much more striking cover photos. So really, no one knows what you were moaning about in the first place!

How do we tempt you? You seemed a decent guy in the brief time you were involved. You'd make a good Ipswich owner. If you don't fancy Ipswich, how about being the one to open Northampton?

Unfortunately your crowd wouldn't turn up either! . We all know that to include riders who also have contracts abroad, you can only have a Monday and Thursday league. The alternative of an "any day" league has to be without those with foreign contracts. Anyone in denial of those facts is starting from an impossible position.

If you look at all the responses, (some samples above), most, including me, have applauded the effort of trying to come up with something new, even though we have then pointed out that it is flawed and unworkable.

The @AlexBrady account on here seems to really be him. He reacted to a post as recently as last month.

Superb response. Thoroughly shows up all the flaws. Like you say, a good effort, but fatally flawed in many areas. The biggest flaw is there wouldn't be enough riders available for 14 seven man teams, so it falls down right there without the rest. AI just doesn't understand enough about speedway.

Who are Ipswich's 2nd biggest sponsor? I was told last weekend that there were 2 interested parties. One was a sponsor. I immediately jumped to Guy Nicholls, but was told definitely not him. So I was trying to think of Ipswich's 2nd biggest sponsor. But then my source didn't say an Ipswich sponsor, just a sponsor. So Alex Brady did come to my mind too. The other bidder, I'm led to believe has promoting experience but isn't Nigel Tolley. It sounded like they are only interested if there are no other bidders, just to keep the club going.

It's not Tolley.

Sadly, all you have proven there is that some fans live in cloud cuckoo land.

Back in the day we didn't have GPs Back in the day they would have a current photo of the world final winner, but that was one week in September. What about the other 51 weeks? And which "GP or event of that week" photo were you expecting for the last week of November?

I didn't mention assets and debt. I'm comparing the huge losses that Football clubs make, measured against the comparatively tiny losses that Speedway clubs make. A £100k loss is a problem in Speedway because clubs are generally backed only by small businessmen who don't have bottomless pits of money. If a football club made just £100k loss it would be a mere trifle, because they have big benefactors willing to put in millions to go on the ego trip that Football's high profile gives them.

Quite right. When you think about it, Speedway clubs are quite sensibly run. Very few turn a profit, but most break even or run with comparatively small losses that a club owner or sponsor is happy to cover. Those with the most affluent owner/sponsor may lose £70k-£80k. It's chickenfeed in the grand scheme of things. Let's look at the national sport of Football. Now some (not all) of the big 6 make a profit, but clubs in the Premiership, on average, lose £30M per year. In the Championship, average losses are £13M. League 1 clubs lose an average of £5M each, and in League 2 it's £2.3M lost by each club, every year. The problem is, Speedway doesn't have the profile that Football does. It's far easier to find an owner who will pump £20 million quid into a football club than it is to find an owner who will put just £50k into a Speedway club.

Some good news. Thursday's Star has turned up today (Saturday)

To quote Dennis Healey “The first law of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.”

Genuine question to Ipswich fans: Are you worried that there might be no Speedway at Ipswich in 2026? If "Yes", are you busy organising "Save our Speedway" campaigns and petitioning Louis not to quit? If "No", how do you think it will pan out? Someone will buy the club, or Louis will back down and continue?

God knows when I'll see yesterday's Star. Last Thursday's arrived on Tuesday this week (5 days late) along with the previouis Thursday's (12 days late)

And that would solve time travel, and allow him to be in 2 places at once?

Absolutely. Amd without 2 leagues to double-up in, the whole thing falls apart anyway. Still think a 6 team league can happen.

He was reasonably wealthy the day after the Commonwealth Final. Ooops, I mean whoever stole the takings was reasonably wealthy the day after the Commonwealth Final

Chris Louis owns Ipswich Speedway Promotions Ltd. He's the sole shareholder

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.