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But the idea that Chris '15 teams' Harris is 'faithful' was the funniest bit

Also 1/10th of TV money is better than 1/11th of TV money etc

How about a little respect for keeping speedway going for nearly 60 years in their remote outpost?

Let me type this slowly. Imagine you have a team with combined GSA of 39.99. They have an average season with no riders improving and none getting worse. At the end of the season their combined GSA (all other things being equal) will be 42.00. Now imagine you want to sign the same 7 riders for next year ... You can't you will have to replace one rider with another who's average is 2 points lower to get back below 40. So the final outcome is that you've replaced a (say) 7 point rider with a 5 point one - how is that not weakening the team.

Of course if will be weaker. The par will always be 42.. An average team that started the season with a GSA of 40 will over the course of the season rise to 42 as 2024 scores are replaced by 2025 scores.

Can't wait to read the Alun Rossiter interview 😉

And also provides opportunities to pick up riders like Heisselberg and West who will probably no longer be involved.

Well over - you'd need to replace KJP with Hodder or Smith.

This seems unlikely. To anyone in the Oxford orbit it was clear from around May that enthusiasm for running in the Premiership had waned and by August it had become the expectation that the Spires would expire, and that the goal was simply to complete the season and re-focus on the Cheetahs in the Championship. I can't believe that other promoters were not aware of this.

Villads, Rasmus or Bastian?

I'm sure Chris gets several offers from Poland every year. What is significant is that he has said yes to one. (He's ridden just 2 matches in the last 8 years in Poland).

Hence the negligible value we would place on most speedway 'businesses'

That seems high. Very much dependent on the business, but in my day it was typically 10-20. Has it changed that much? And for a speedway business aren't we more likely to be looking at an asset value of the intangibles (promoter's licence, ability to generate useable tax losses, goodwill)

They could follow the lead of clubs from other minor nations (Landshut in Germany and Daugavpils in Latvia) and join the Polish National League