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That's how the draft pick still works. Any team can keep the same RS from the previous year, but anyone who needs/wants a new RS gets a pick starting with any newcomers and then from bottom of the league working upwards.

Think that is about right. And of course we must remember that Redknapp was not brought in by the BSPL, he was brought in by "Speedway Futures Ltd", the alleged marketing company who were formed in the summer of 2024 and given the media rights to the sport in Britain, and who seem to have done **** all. Knowing that the sport was going into its last year of the TV contract in 2025, they seem to have done nothing all year, and the Redknapp story does sound like a desperate last ditch attempt to get TNT to extend the deal after Speedway Futures Ltd failed to secure an alternative broadcaster. (This ties in with their inability to attract a league sponsor, except for a joke company "Rowe Motor Oil" who no one has ever heard of, and who don't put a single penny of sponsorship into the sport). I do wonder why Speedway Futures Ltd were appointed when they seem to have done absolutely nothing. Surely the BSPL could have done nothing themselves?

I must be missing something that you're reading into it. To me, it says nothing different for 2026. Already back with Vastervik and Bydgoszcz, so just the Ipswich deal to sort, and then no difference from 2025

I guess it's their right to free speech. Just take them with a pinch of salt is my advice.

No. But there are factions within Poland who are upset that a British company (Mayfield Sports Events) have taken charge of the SGP, when they wanted the Polish mafia to get hold of it. So they're trying to make negative crap up. It's a bit like that Clark Osborne apologist who keeps posting crap about the Save Coventry Speedway campaign, and the halfwit with the mental health problems who has a grudge against Cradley. They're best ignored.

Says the bloke posting the garbage.

Exactly. If the Russians dropped a bomb on Poland this winter and wiped-out the whole country's tracks, it would benefit British Speedway, but It's not going to happen any more than the SGP are going to cancel all the GPs. Like you say, this thread is just garbage,

You see the "8.69" which I quoted next to Musielak's name? That's called a "Calculated Match Average". It's a statistic used in Speedway, which represents a rider's most recent form. It repesents the average number of points that rider scored per 4 races. It shows that Musielak joined KL at an out-and-out No.1 who had scored 8.69 out of every 12 points available to him. A higher figure than "REAL" No.1s Bewley and Kurtz.

Musielak headed up the team on 8.69 in 2024. In 2025 they went for a strength in depth bunch of 6 pointers I reckon a big hitter with weak reserves might be the plan for 2026

That puts Flint at second string, not reserve!

After a year with no real No.1 and a strong No.6, I can see Buster going in totally the opposite direction for 2026.

Last year's team, yes. But you'll struggle to build a team for 2026 and have Flint at reserve unless you ditch Jack Holder and Pickering go for the 2025 King's Lynn model of all 6-point riders.

You're answering an incorrect post. There are 9 riders on averages above 9, and there are 9 teams.

Even with a 25% discount for coming out of the R/S programme, Flint is still 5.06 average. So no way he'll fit in at reserve.

Like i say, choose which rumour you prefer.

Could put an advert in McDonalds window?

Feel free to give us your Sheffield prediction, or your prediction of who will be down the M1. It's all guesswork and speculation at the moment. Join the fun and give us your thoughts.

There's also a whisper that Jack Holder likes to live in the UK and travel to the continent from here, and without a job in the UK, he might not be able to live here. This time of year believe whichever rumours you prefer.

J Holder J Pickering C Holder N Morris J Sedgmen J Etheridge L Killeen Team Sheffield Australia, job done

Awww don't cry, Mr Osborne.

LOL

Northampton Knights. Try to rekindle interest in the nearby Milton Keynes area.

This will fit... J Doyle T Brennan D King K Rew D Thompson D Hume J Edwards

I thought the latest story was that there had been quite a few parties interested in taking over Sheffield, such that the Bates's have now had a change of heart and have decided to stay.

R Douglas 8.12 S Masters 7.28 L Becker 6.88 K Howarth 5.00 D Kemp 4.72 New foreigner 4.00 D Gilkes R/S