IainB

Now the 2026 PL season finally seems to be settled with the announcement of Northampton and the fixtures due out tomorrow... is it too early to start thinking about the 2027 PL season?

At least until July last year, when this topic was stated... or the Coventry hearing a couple of years ago 😉😁

Touché 😆

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Fair point, some clubs are synonymous with their race night, Wolves on a Monday for example, Poole on a Wednesday, Ippo on a Thursday. Obviously you ride on the night you think you can get your best crowd... unless you're in the PL of course 🤷‍♂️ To suggest that all clubs riding in one league be limited to a Monday or Thursday is madness.

Kvech and PHB are very far from top riders but are the type of foreign riders that UK Speedway can currently afford. And as for having NDL level riders in a one league format meeting is the ideal way to develop young riders, that's not to say they should be riding against the likes of Kvech and PHB but certainly riders around their level. Monday and Thursday clearly doesn't work for the fans even though it may for the riders but the tail is wagging the dog.

Especially when you've got 3 39+ year olds "bike blockers" in your team, who really should be seeing out their days in the CL at this stage of their careers.

Business as usual then? We can't afford the top riders while Poland are paying what they are, not without a TV deal and a very good tv deal at that. And how you can say that not having a NDL standard riders in a single league is not the way to develop the sport I can't fathom 🤷‍♂️ There are still riders looking to ride over here, Ippo's signing of PHB this year and Lynn bringing in Kvech a few years back shows this and there are other new faces in the CL this year.

Ippo have "bike blockers" Nicholls, King & Lawson in their team at the expense of (ex future club legend) Jordan Jenkins!

Godfrey confirmed no TV weeks ago

"disrespect toward referees and officials" 😂 Should be a bit of a draw card at most tracks I would have thought, especially until he's at least proved himself.

PHB would/could be good 👍🏻

Pavlova

Why are you limiting yourself to Monday and Thursday? 14 teams of 5, 6 or 7 riders any night that works for the club. And before you come back with where are the riders, I've already quoted some 130 odd that competed in the 2025 season. But as the powers that be have decided to cut back on the NDL and even fill those teams with the likes of Simon Lambert and Jake Mulford instead of really developing the youth, I fear that the opportunity may have been missed, 2026 was the season to merge, who's still competing at the end of '26 is anybody's guess. The sport is only heading in one direction currently and that is very sad.

Interesting comments obvs 😂🤷‍♂️

Ipswich Watches ? With new sponsorship from Omologato?

Posted 8 months ago by Roy Nicol, he used to do the Belle Vue and Sheffield video coverage, nice to see he's still around 👍🏻

They also seem a bit light in experience in the management team, while the name Hurry is steeped in Speedway history, I can't help but think that an Adams, CVS, Machin type might have been brought in, in an advisory capacity in their initial season to oversee the admin etc.

Well, that'll have probably gone down like a turd in a swimming pool at BSPL towers. A few home truths delivered which historically haven't been listened to, most notably from the previous Ippo promoter and various other here today gone tomorrow promoters. The majority of the current crop just ain't up to the job, most notably the guy at the top. Coleman will have his work cut out to make any change but let's hope he can succeed where so many others in the past have failed. At the moment we'll have to take him at face value 🤞

But not the PCMT tickets, available from the same website

It'd certainly be interesting to know exactly what that booking fee was for as I booked my PCMT ticket immediately afterwards, using the exact same system and there was no booking fee at all 🤔

Fortunately there is absolutely nobody looking, outside of the Speedway bubble

... but at what price? Any price? P.S. I got my 2 dayer too, standing, would never pay that price to sit 👍

Tickets didn't appear until 10:01 Manchester Time 😁

If you're not going get off the bloody website it's clogging it up for everybody else 😂