IainB

By jove... I think he's got it 😂

I'm not sure all of those were in the entertainment industry, went to prison for a crime and then returned to the entertainment industry. And even for those that did 2026 is a very different time to when those in your list served their time in today's age it's quite a rarity. I'm comparing Garrity to Rolf Harris in as much as he was an entertainer and went to prison and never returned to the industry.

Not wishing to rain on your parade but surely the BSPL statement was the result of Leicester breaking ranks and issuing a statement.

It's very rare for released prisoners to reappear in the entertainment industry once they've served their sentence, in fact I can't think of a single one. Of course there are those that had previously served time and then gone on to better things, Stephen Fry, David Dickinson, Gino di Campo. But could you imagine Rolf Harris reappearing after he got released?

I fear it may also be too late for the Aussies and Yanks... more recently a lot of them have started their careers elsewhere in Europe rather than the UK, it's never too late to try and reverse that trend though.

I don't say that... I say that there's plenty of riders already available in the UK that just aren't given a chance in favour of a ready made foreigner

It'll be buttons from me as I have ad blockers enabled and never see them 👍🏻

Is that in the same land owned by Google?

You may get some joy if you post in the forum announcements section under support. I posted a topic on here a few months back about the state of this forum and the need for moderators... and he removed it 😂😂 So don't hold your breath on any improvements... I'm not sure why the guy that runs it does it, it must be costing him money and he never contributes or even seems that interested in speedway anymore. It's a shame if it ever went because there's 20 odd years of content and resource on here.

It's got to get to January the 7th first!

I think the club house has been demolished but the outline of a track is still there, the land is owned by Google I think... or was For a company with a net worth of $3tn and a company motto of "Do the right thing" for them to not build a community sports facility that would probably satisfy 99% of the complaints seems a bit penny pinching doesn't it 🤷‍♂️

Seriously though, that's how pie in the sky this mystery 6th track is, unless it's a returning club with a ready made fanbase, in the current climate it's doomed to fail imo.

From the tracks that you originally mentioned and the ones I added, Eastbourne is easily the easiest to get up and running again.Whoever has approached Eastbourne on behalf of the BSPL obviously haven't tried nearly hard enough to get Speedway back to there, but if they're clutching at straws like Peterborough then they're clearly living in cloud cuckoo land. Many companies have done this in the past if it's a stumbling block to them being able to trade... it depends how desperate they are. It may not have been labelled as paying off somebody else's debts, but paying "sweeteners" in business is common place, no matter how it's wrapped up. As I mentioned above, from the tracks that @THE DEAN MACHINE originally mentioned and the 4 I added, it's still the best bet... even if it's no bet at all.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do to do the things you do want to do, and if that means paying off somebody else's debts to be able to run Speedway on a ready made, proven successful, track then so be it, this is hardly Russia vs Ukraine or Jews vs Arabs, it's Speedway and with no track running any meaningful Speedway in the south east and that be sat there doing nothing is an absolute scandal with the sport being at an all time low at this moment in time. There's more chance of Eastbourne happening than asking Peterborough to run PL when they don't even have a track... and whoever asked them to do that shouldn't be anywhere near our sport!

Yes, but... it's amazing how the mind can be focused when a large sum of money is thrown at you. And if that's what it takes to get speedway back at Eastbourne instead of a suicidal attempt at trying to make Northampton work, then it should be looked at as a priority.

Eastbourne is surely the most logical answer to a 6th team, it's a speedway town and has a very large catchment area in the south east of England.

Lawson a lot less likely to injure himself plastering than Cook bowing to his Polish paymasters imo.

Yes, I'm well aware of the different "situations" surrounding the tracks I mentioned, but as far as I'm aware, they all have an oval track within a functioning stadium and are to all intents and purposes "ready to go" should anybody be foolish enough to stump up enough money.

Eastbourne, Sittingbourne... Newcastle, Skegness?

I thought it was...

Sounds like Trump & Putin 🤔😂

Has a Birmingham look about it 😂

Dudek maybe? There's been talk of him coming over for the last couple of seasons... ain't cheap though

Somebody remembered the fans... at the very last moment 😁

At least 2 of you entered the Christmas spirit 😂🎅