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... And then there were 4?

Literally anybody that is willing to do 4 laps! I'm not interested in what he's done for Berwick, for Leicester, my team, last season, he failed to finish more races than the rest of the team combined!

Anybody that can finish a race

or... just that last lap will do for starters 😠

He cares so much that he can often be found trailing round at the back aa mile off the pace or on the centre after 3 laps!

Is there still room for Kemp?

Is everybody going to let this name pass without comment?

I can imagine dreamboat Phil would be well up for it 😂

There's a new player in town though... 'Arry's Awnings?

It's called a Briggzebo 😁

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I'm tired of repeating myself... with an adjusted format there's plenty of riders available for such a small number of teams in operation.

4 guests and R/R in a "team", not amateurish? You're having a laugh 😂

Do you think? I only ever went to the play off televised meetings and they were still very stop start with nothing going on between ad breaks. I suppose Mr Morris did standardise the track grading intervals so it probably seemed more like a non televised meeting even when the cameras were there due to this.

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.