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Is Brennan riding on the continent somewhere?

Excellent to hear the crowd size, a very healthy crowd at Armadale tonight as well both car parks full by 40 minutes before tapes up. Fingers crossed it continues for both

To go point by point - less Champ fixtures protects ndl as allows clubs to have teams in both, nobody wants to run double headers these are proven loss makers - I won’t argue that lack of continuity in fixtures will harm attendances but having the same team multiple times does this also (unless for cup Finals / play offs etc) while your weekly diehards will go regardless the more irregular fan is less likely to go to a fixture if they know they have another opportunity to see them or vice versa wont bother the second time I’ve seen attendance figures to back this up. - for some riders more fixtures the better but for those with other commitments that’s not always the case. Erik Riss originally was going to sit out champ this year as it was to much, Josh Pickering said he considered the same. Then others like Ben Basso had originally said they would only do 1 uk league. That probably would still have been Glasgow I would guess but who knows may have been Pboro that’s potentially 3 number 1’s gone. I like you am a speedway junkie and want weekly fixtures from April till October but we perhaps have to realise there are many mitigating circumstances why this isn’t feasible.

Could argue the bigger mistake was in announcing 2h/2a before it was ratified Can see more reasons against it than for imo - Trying to protect the ndl - teams that lose money per meeting lose less - riders that couldn’t commit to 2h/2a leaving the championship - lower average attendance when same opposition visit multiple times

David is great with the kids at one of the coaches of the Monarch’s academy as well.

Lasse is UK based during the season so costs the Monarchs less than a southern based rider who would want travel costs

If the rules stay the same then yes last year only league meetings counted, the new rule book hasn’t been published yet so not sure if the bsn shield or whatever the start of season group competition thing is being called this year counts or not

Last season it was 8 championship matches regardless of home or away

Unless the rules have changed (and they may have) I think Marcin would need to complete 4 meetings to get a new average last years rule book stated 8 fixtures were needed at Championship level for a new average Marcin only did 4 league matches in 2021

I would say if anything it’s actually the other way though as every match matters more when you only have 16 to qualify for the playoffs rather than 32. With 32 matches a team could know it’s as good as in the playoffs 22 matches in and ride to a minimum effort the last 10 (your 4 in the playoffs was never confirmed as part of the 2h 2a it more than likely would still have been 6)

Averages are currently only on last 10 league matches anyway so whether there is 16, 32 or any other number it wouldn’t make a huge difference as it’s last 10 anyway

Not really, if the two teams can’t agree a fee or if Plymouth refused to sell it would just go to arbitration

That’s your opinion that they won’t come back I could just as easily say they all would and all of a sudden it’s problem solved. even if we forget that next question then why does there need to be a distinction?

Parity comes naturally in speedway from a points limit whether that be 30,40,50 every team builds to the same. If some teams can’t afford to build to a higher limit by bringing back top tier riders they can still do this by building stronger teams from riders already here. Is a team that was for argument sakes Masters, Bomber, Ellis, Pickering Morris, Lawson, Brennan, that comes in around 50 going to be prohibitively expensive? I’m going off topic massively here though, back to my original point why should the championship need to weaken?

Those aren’t punishing success though rather they are promoting parity, none of the sports mentioned force successful teams to be broken up so really that’s like comparing apples to oranges. The constant race to the bottom is what is killing speedway if one or two teams can afford to sign who they want and dominate for a few years then so be it. It’s up to the others to manage themselves better and stay competitive.

Very true I should I have split the list into top tier guys that might come back (Bewley, Lambert maybe a couple of others) then the other guys

While I agree the top guys more than likely aren’t going to come over there is a second tier of guys I wouldn’t have thought it would be to hard to attract some of especially with Swedens troubles. Guys like Jensen, Bjerre, Klindt, Holder, Bewley, Lidsey, NKI, Tungate, Bellego, Berge, Lahti, Huckenbeck, If only a couple of teams could put a team to that standard together then let them, speedway must be about the only sport that constantly punishes success and plays down to the lowest common denominator

Who would you say these riders are that ‘shouldn’t be performing in the championship’? The problem is how far the premiership has fallen the calibre of rider in the Championship now is no better than it was 10/15/20 years ago. The main difference then was the top level had world stars in every lineup. If there needs to be a clear line between the two divisions then why is it the championship that needs weakened rather than the premiership strengthened? Why don’t they raise the limit of the Prem to say something like 50 then teams that want to can build super strength teams with multiple gp stars that would show the difference. Constantly watering down the middle tier the most varied and competitive division in the country does no one any favours.

Where did he announce it? He never mentioned it during his interview was it on his social media?

Paco Castagna who has the Italian championship

I was team manager for the Monarchs so was in the same manager briefing and that wasn’t my understanding of what the ref said I can’t say if there was any other communication prior to the semis Tbf as sadly I was picked up and in the bar by the start of heat 18 :-(

The riders weren’t warned by the referee not to slow races down The referee did say as it was a pairs meeting that he expected team riding and that was ok but if riders took it to far and were dangerous or caused an accident then he would have to take a view on it

Is that the equivalent of when a football player gets a red for a bad 2 footed tackle and then folk say ‘he’s not that kind of player’ when he clearly is cause he did it heat 15 last night I have no issue with that’s racing, heat 9 was dirty, deliberate and I’d say premeditated By all reports Ulle is the nicest guy in the world off the track, on it there’s a pretty long list of folk who would say he’s pretty quick to take it to far

For me the heat 15 one was desperate rather than dangerous, Ulrich knew he needed to get to the front to get the Tigers a point, he also knew he had Josh up his tail so if he scrubbed his speed then he’d have been relegated to 3rd That being said the move was only ever gonna end one way and the video clearly shows him taking Paco’s leg. The heat 9 first and second bend with Kye was much worse and downright dirty. Ulrich knew exactly what he was doing and even looks over his shoulder mid corner so knows Kye is there. Ulrich is a rider who has a repetition as going over the line at times when the pressure is on and sadly that was the case again tonight definitely in the first incident maybe in the second

Weirdly I also think that in places where there are starting clocks it actually delays the start more often than not as riders know exactly how long they have left so do more digging and general mucking about up till the timer ticks to almost zero