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If you went surely you must have noticed there were only about 299 other people there, which might explain its closure.

KJP made his Danish Lge 1 debut in 2018 10 points in 2020 Danish under 21 Final was probably his first notable result (but for covid he would probably have made his DSL debut that year) 2021 DSL regular - sitting between Lasse Bjerre and Philip Hellstrom-Bangs in the averages 2022 DSL av 4.95 and 2nd in danish under 21 2025 DSL av 3.38 (only 3 matches); Pol Nat Lge 4.63 (an easier league than DSL, where Ivacic averaged 6.74). Mitch McDiarmid made his 500cc debut on 11 May 2024. KJP is a perfectly solid signing and a 6 point average should be a reasonable target to aim at. He is a competent rider who has shown steady but not spectacular improvement. There are several younger Danes who are already ahead of him, not just the obvious ones like Bastian Pedersen, Mikkel Andersen, Drejer and Nagel - but also riders like Heiselberg, Breum and Thorst who have largely been unnoticed.

He's 7 years older than Mitch McDiarmid with all the additional experience that implies, yet it was McDiarmid who had the higher average in the Polish under 24 league this year. If I was going to sign a Pedersen he'd only be fourth on my list behind Bastian, Villads and Rasmus.

Time for that rematch against California (track still visible but a bit moist), seeking to revenge that 1936 defeat

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

I reckon the dog did it

No spot for Captain Flack?

Well there's Bill Barker, the Commonwealth Final takings and the flatulent dog ...

Sounds to me like he's one of the few sensible men in the room, making a judgement that for his financial health/personal life/sanity it is time to get out. And who can blame him.

When we are desperately casting around for more teams in the top tier, introducing a provision that forcibly removes removes one, seems, somewhat reckless.