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It's amazing that in 25 years of tv coverage they never ever addressed this... which is an indication that points to the rest of the failures within Speedway. If they couldn't/wouldn't address this, they were never going to fix everything else that needed fixing.

No tin hat needed, most people seem to realise this. Presuming that there is no TV deal any longer (TNT still shows as a broadcast partner on the British Speedway website, whether that just contractual or not who knows?) what exactly is the difference in the PL/CL operating models now? With the Polish restrictions coming into effect in season 2027, I wonder if anybody from the BSPL has reached out to the Swedish and Danish authorities, as they will both be in the same boat, to discuss some kind of collaboration to resist or counter these restrictions, a joining of forces to offer riders 3 leagues to ride in with guaranteed reduced money rather than the "gamble" of Poland.

"Speed" was no issue that night 🤔

All that tells me is that Lidsey is getting worse around Foxhole while the others are improving.

Sounds like the timekeeper was in a rush to get away to me 🤔

That path has been trodden before, how long did BSI last? 2 seasons? Before they realised Speedway in the UK couldn't be changed

From the No3 race jacket too, swerving the big races

Put it in your pocket and never let it fade away... or save it for a rainy day 🤔

Poland have already announced their plans for 2027 regarding rider availability and we've done absolutely nothing to mitigate this by starting our league transformation a year before them, it's not even been addressed... we seem to be just blindly sailing on, full steam ahead 🚢🧊

I'd settle for a 2 year plan at the moment!

I'm not blind to the fact that Cardiff was well past its best, but it was allowed to become what it was... but it was still the biggest Speedway meeting in the world for many many years and brought publicity and awareness to our sport. I'm not going to go through all of the Manchester vs Cardiff arguments again but there's no escaping the fact that we've gone from the 2nd highest attended Speedway meeting of the year to bottom of the SGP attendances.

Quite easily, it's this year to year existence that has got us to where we are. They should be issuing a statement now addressing the current issues and putting the building blocks in place for 2027 and beyond, start by scaling back doubling up and introducing a proper youth system... that's just for starters.

Yes, all that... but think of the intangibles i.e. profile, awareness, press coverage etc.

What were the (monetary) costs of Cardiff vs Manchester?

Cheapest ticket was over £60 wasn't it?

I think Hancock did have quite a serious injury (an arm or a leg break), pretty early on in his career though... and didn't he have knee trouble and was one of the first to use the knee brace... memory is a bit hazy, it was a long time ago!

So actually Manchester was bottom and bottom but one with 6k and 5.5k... quite the fall from Cardiff when even at its worst, would have come in 2nd.

Come on let's face it the final is going to be Poland, Australia, Denmark & GB unless we have a mare then it'll be Sweden. That's why the 5 team format suited this competition so well and the reality is there's been no other contender nations come forward since the time the 5 team format was dropped, maybe Russia. This competition would be better run in a group format with the top team of each group being promoted with the bottom being relegated... imo

Storm Goretti has nothing on the storm Garrity has created... I'll get me coat 🥼

There's already numerous topics setup for the AGM... do we really need another one?

A completely different competition 😂 This sport of ours really doesn't do itself any favours with credibility. Might as well seed Ipswich to the final 🤷‍♂️

Please don't mention those 2 names in the Leicester section!

Remind me why Australia have been seeded to the final?

Hoped for... not promised

@THE DEAN MACHINE 👀 If you signed for Leicester we'd have been able to fit Max Fricke in!!! 😉😂