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The published accounts of the owners would indicate that in the 3 years 2015 - 2016 losses were £37k, £37k and £32k, and if 2018 was a 3 figure sum then that’s a lot of money to wave goodbye to. I’ve no idea of sponsorship sums, but looking at their accounts, the main team sponsor has considerable resources. I’m not saying they should cover the losses but it’s a shame that a business plan couldn’t be put together to provide financial support.

Thanks No1, that's good to hear. I'm not signed up to Facebook or Twitter (and have no intention of doing so), it's a shame that those two external sites seem to be the main source of communication rather than the clubs own website. Hopefully that will change when the site gets a much needed overhaul.

Shouldn't be too hard to set up a new company either ? Here we are on 11th January 2019 and the new limited company announced by the BSPA on the 14th November 2018, The British Speedway Promoters Association Limited, to take effect from 1st December 2018, doesn't show as registered at Companies House. I trust that has nothing to do with the delay, e.g. we'd like to take the cheque / bond/ guarantee but we don't have a legal entity to accept it yet. All admin in speedway is a bit suspicious, we're still waiting for the results of the 'full investigation' by the SCB of the cancellation of Eastbourne v Mildenhall fixture on 26 October last year. p.s. I had to search for the R&R reference......it's in the Birmingham thread.

Haven't seen this company registered with Companies House yet. Was supposedly being incorporated from 1st December wasn't it ?

So both Toby Elliott and Vera Tomlinson either supported or approved whatever application was being made, with "conditions". They are hoping the leopard will change its spots. Perhaps it would be more effective to do a "Trump"..........refuse the application totally until the previous commitments have been met.

Hope it’s not lost or delayed, things seem to move slowly in the admin world of speedway. We’re still waiting for the results of the SCB enquiry into the non staging of the season finale Eastbourne v Mildenhall fixture. And British Speedway Promoters Association Limited has yet to appear on the register of companies at Companies House.

All good stuff but there is a note at the bottom of the BSPA press release as follows : PLEASE NOTE: The move to join the 2019 Championship is subject to official entry criteria being completed and logged with the BSPA Head Office. Let’s hope the paperwork is in hand and / or in the post !

Worth enquiring. He’s not riding on Saturday nights anywhere else is he ? And would be a huge boost to British Speedway.

Oh, OK, apologies, I was thinking that you took the Premiership average and applied the relevant factor, I didn’t look to see if there was an attained Championship average, my mistake. So the 1.5 Premiership to Championship calculation would only apply to those riding in a Premiership team and then riding in the Championship for the first time?

Not had much experience with double up / down and average calculations, so could someone run through Craig Cooks average for me please. He is shown as 7.73 on the final green sheet averages for Belle Vue, how does this get to the 10.45 shown in this thread against Glasgow?

As much as I enjoyed the NL, I am looking forward to professional speedway back at Arlington. If Kevin Coombes can return as well that would be perfect ! (No offence to Steve Crow, he has done a decent job in getting acquainted with speedway but Kevin has the extra professionalism and knowledge of the sport that is currently missing).

Sorry to be either a pain or pedantic, but perhaps we could just use the one thread in the Championship section for Eastbourne 2019 from now on ?

Hope so.

"rumoured" being the operative term. Any factual evidence ?

I think factually Eastbourne are only responsible for one of the "three league fixtures outstanding after the Play Off final" and that's the one at home against Mildenhall. The other two are away at Stoke and Buxton.

I'm hoping Eastbourne move up a league.

Still think the one last week was entering the 1st bend of the 3rd lap and was therefore correct. Dugard fell on the 3rd bend of the 2nd lap (as reported on updates and the Eagles website) and therefore under the rules the race can't be awarded. Agree, that seems a bit daft and farcical but how many fans were thinking, "don't do anything daft", "hope there's not an engine failure" as Baseby and Spiller rode round. If it had been awarded, Mildenhall would have been within their rights to protest. On reflection, all Dugard needed to do was stay on and guarantee a point - he didn't.

Texter Steven always gives a good and usually accurate account of the racing and goings on at Arlington. The other messages regarding rider availability are worth a read.

Some interesting comments on Speedway updates.

Sad state of affairs if, even at this level (and that’s not a snub or put down in anyway), riders don’t want the booking for a play off final.

I tend to agree with Mike. Mountain made a fast move up the inside, a move at that point of the track we seldom see in the NL, which I believe took Baseby by surprise, he still had a lot of room around the outside of 1&2 and has chosen to go out there many times. I thought they had completed 2 laps and were entering the 3rd? In which case the award was in accordance with rule 15.5.2.

Despite the score line there was some good speedway last night. I thought Connor Mountain deserved more, he certainly is a racer, shame his team mates weren't on the pace. Fabulous performance from Charlie Brooks and nice to see Baseby team riding him for the wins. Usual sublime riding from Brennan and Wood.

I wouldn't know, it's just a number in the accounts prepared and signed by the Director and Secretary, Mr C H Van Straaten. I suspect only he knows.

Who's saying what ?

Both figures correct, however there are liabilities to take account of as well. The net worth of the company is shown as £77k, down from £98k in 2016. But these are unaudited accounts, as are most Speedway clubs, and there is no uniform measure or requirement of assets, nor is there any accurate measure of profitability. Just because the net worth is down by £21k in a year it doesn't necessarily mean they made a loss, it could be that the owners decided to take out some of the retained profits from earlier years.