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You could say that they're in fact bleeding the rest of the Speedway world dry by drawing all the riders away from other leagues, especially with their U24 league and the imposing of riding limitations. The lack of riders in those other leagues leading to a reduction in their crowds. They're doing the test of the Speedway world no favours at all. They certainly weren't subsidising the SoN and some rider wage expectations are certainly not subsidising non Polish Speedway... and don't forget their "World" Champion who rarely leaves his home country 😉

Sounds like the type of things British promoters would have said back in the 70's and early 80's and look at us now. Back then we were the Speedway powerhouse with everybody else struggling to get a look in. We didn't like it when all these World Championship qualifiers were being held in the back of beyond and the arse end of nowheresville. Poland are in effect killing the rest of the sport worldwide with riders being attracted to the ludicrous amounts of money on offer like moths to the flame (or flies to the 💩). It's down to the FIM to keep them in check but they seem to have little interest in Speedway other than the SGP series.

This time next year Drew... we'll be millionaires 😂

Doesn't it go "on ice", didn't that happen to Horton when he was stringing the Coventry story along?

I do think Mr Morris comes in for a bit of undue stick regarding his position as CEO of the Premiership. First of all there's only so much he's allowed to do, the buck still very much stops with club owners. He's brought quite a few new sponsors to the sport, has been instrumental in bringing in some foreign talent and has improved the way the sport comes across on TV (from the Speedway side) with the branding and banners etc. Yes he dropped a massive bollock by fixing the pay off semis last year but has also admitted that was a big mistake and will hopefully learn from it If there were somebody like him liaising with tv during the sky years we may not be in the total mess we now seem to be in, who was the TV meeting coordinator back then? Jim Lynch?

2027 though, It's time for non-Poland Speedway nations to get their retaliation in first. It's clear what they're trying to do playing us off against Sweden & Denmark both with failing leagues if the vibe I get off of here is true. It's time for SVEMO, the DMU and whoever it is that runs Speedway in the UK to work together and put it back to Poland by saying if you ride in Poland you cannot ride in Swedish, Danish or British Leagues. A few riders would have some decisions to make then, let Poland have the tier 1 riders and the rest can ride in the other 3 leagues. Denmark on a Wednesday, Sweden Tuesday & Thursday and UK the rest of the week. If they could also get Motorcycling Australia involved they'd be more than enough riders to sustain the 3 countries leagues.

There's been enough talent retiring over the last number of years to fill every team in the league, but for one reason or another they've been lost to the sport.

It looked quite healthy, despite it being a nothing meeting. A little disappointing that there was no real support from thee defunct clubs, maybe because this was the 3rd attempt at staging it, though there was a sprinkling of those fans around but I've seen more Wolverhampton identification at Leicester this season than I did last night. Maybe Peterborough would have been a better choice than Wolves as they seem to have a more realistic chance of returning than Wolves. Or Cradley with a big push to get Heathens fans in to maybe get that project pushed over the line. One little bug bear of mine... I know it was an end of season knockabout type of meeting but would it really have hurt for the riders to have done a lap of victory after a race win to keep the fans engaged on a cold night? From memory only Leon Flint, Luke Killeen & Bomber came round for applause after heat wins. A few more did after their last race, Lambert, Nicholls, Lawson, Scott. They should be coming around after every race win, I'd dock them £50 out of their wages if they didn't.

Why do you think this will happen?

I don't follow any of the "save" groups on TwitterX (only Cov, I probably should follow the rest) but I generally always get to hear about any need for action through re-tweets and then post them on here under the relevant topic. So it does appear that the save Swindon reach is not as far as some of the others i.e. Coventry, Arena, Rye House etc. Which I do get to heat about... Just an observation.

The "call to action" was only posted on TwitterX 6 days ago, doesn't give fans much time to act. I only actually saw it this morning and tried to notify others in here, only to realise it was too late. I'll send an email in now instead. I'm going to the 4TT tonight... Wayne Broadhurst is riding for Cov! He must be in his 50's!

With question marks over the government's motability scheme I doubt the Glasgow promotion would be looking at bank rolling a promotion to the Premiership without the club being self sustaining, which I doubt it is even at Championship level.

The thing is... I saw something on TwitterX from the save Swindon group with a link saying see our response to Studley Grange and The Abbey and a call to action, I followed the link, did as they suggested and register an account with Swindon Council so I could send my objections in only to find that the deadline for responses had passed sometime ago. I was in the process of copying the links to this topic for others to do the same. Without wishing to be disrespectful the save Swindon group seem to be a bit disorganised compared to other "Save" groups, Coventry being the gold standard. I'm sure they're doing their best but the lack of comments on this forum regarding Swindon tells it's own story really.

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He was nailed on for Belle Vue a few seasons back only it never happened!

It says it all really when a family steeped in Speedway history doesn't want the sport at the stadium it owns and runs.

If his TV career is over, he'd probably be looking at 2 leagues?

But don't forget the happy clappy brigade will have you believe that Coventry, Peterborough, Cradley, Swindon & Wolves are all coming back and that Northampton are going to join them... just as the next club closes.

Nothing too extravagant just a very tidy style on a bike

Mick Poole

2 BSPL directors (half), Bates and Ford, although they will have involvement as the BSPL Company seems to own most of BSFL.

Yes and no... Louis and Godfrey are directors of both companies, BSPL also has Damien Bates and Danny Ford... as usual it's a very tangled web speedway has weaved.

Hmm 🤔 But what is the "link" with 'Arry? He's not named on the board of directors. There's 4 directors: Godfrey, who has overseen the decline of British Speedway to it's current state. Louis: A forward thinking promoter and ex rider. Painter: He seems to have done a tremendous job in attracting sponsorship to the GB Speedway team despite that team rarely actually riding in this country. Clayton: No idea 🤷‍♂️ BSPL Ltd are named as a person with significant control: Nature of control Ownership of shares – More than 50% but less than 75% Ownership of voting rights - More than 25% but not more than 50% All of the money put into the company, £32k, seems to have been put in by the BSPL. It very much seems to be a BSPL vehicle and not a great deal to do with 'Arry.

Haha, it's already been done? I should have known 😂

That's not what Pareto's Law suggests 🤔