Sir Sidney

Certainly not 'happy clapper's as you put it. Plenty of constructive ideas and business contacts were put forward. Much constructive criticism and suggested solutions also supplied, mirroring quite a lot that is put forward on here. One thing I would say, having looked at some of the suggestions and comments in response, is there is a lot of disagreement between fans on what to do. Having been to Poland last year, and having seen the atmosphere created by the drumming and chanting section of the crowd, I tentatively suggested trying that here - to be told by one fan that if I brought a drum near him then he would shove the drumsticks inside me though an opening ( and it wasn't down my throat).

It exists. Every Premiership club has a rep. In addition there is a rep who is not club specific, so that they can feed information and ideas on from fans of Championship and NDL clubs and those with no club to follow. Some reps are more active than others within their clubs. David Lowe at Leicester is a good example of an active rep. The Facebook group Speedway Fans Network UK collects ideas and comments, tabulates those and feeds them to Phil Morris periodically. At the 2024 AGM the spreadsheet was presented to all attendees. It was also available for the 2025 AGM but they may have had other priorities! The challenge as ever is to get clubs to engage with the reps

I might well agree with you, but I was only responding to another poster who suggested BSPL was negligent in some way, without saying what they should have done

It demonstrates again what untapped potential there is when so many people don't know what speedway is

Yes. It's obligatory to provide a certificate, I did query it with SCB a while ago when someone didn't turn up for a meeting after it was highly rumoured on here that they were just giving a meeting a miss. It's approach is that the SCB is in no position to doubt or challenge a medical certificate, but imposes a 7 day ban regardless. The 7 days commences from the day of the first meeting missed, not necessarily from the date of the illness or certificate.

Kurtz will have been required to provide a doctor's certificate to miss a meeting in the UK for illness. The Regs state that you get a mandatory 7 day ban even though a certificate has been provided 010.5 Facilities h) sick or carrying a non-speedway injury. The rider must immediately inform the SCB and their club. A Medical Certificate must be supplied to the SCB within 48 hours of the sickness/injury occurring in which case the rider will receive a mandatory 7 day suspension of his SCB Registration from the day of the first meeting missed. This facility will apply automatically for a period up to a maximum of 28 days. The Promotion may apply to the SCB Co-Ordinator for an extension

What do you suggest the 'powers that be' should have done to cater for a rider incurring significant damage and cost in his first race of the season? - signing on fee? - higher points money? - increased admission charge?

https://www.bellevue-speedway.com/blog/latest-news-2/preview-atpi-aces-v-leicester-481

Of course the riders should read it and assure themselves. But, why in the 2026 Regs does it say riders are advised to take out additional personal accident insurance when it didn't say that in the 2025 Regs? That suggests a change or reduction to me

What that doesn't make clear is whether the same level of cover is still provided, nor why the 2026 Regs advise riders to take out additional personal accident insurance when the 2025 Regs didn't. Further clarification required I think

Twenty 20 cricket rules change during an innings ( power play, fielding restrictions) Rugby Union rules change , depending on where you are on a pitch ( avoiding a tackle, 50 / 22's for example), or depending on which players are on the pitch ( uncontested scrums) Curling allows players to deliberately not score on an end ( blanking the end) People accept it, as long as it is in the rules. Have the KO Cup rules changed since the competition started this season, or are they in accordance with the published rules? I don't know because I haven't looked

There isn't much logic or consistency in the SCB Regulations in a number of areas. We all know that any decent lawyer ( or indeed any sensible person on here) can drive a coach and horses through them. We are just aware of them because we follow British Speedway. Other sports have similarly inconsistent and apparently irrational rules - we are just not really aware of them unless we follow that sport It's certainly not 'only in speedway '

For example: Replays up to, but not including the first round and any rounds thereafter VAR in some games and not others Plenty of sporting competitions have group stages followed by knock out stages. Speedway's only fault here is to use the term 'knockout'.

Only on speedway? Try looking at the FA Cup, possibly the most famous knock out cup in the World, for different rules in different rounds

And let's hope for the sake of British Speedway that it is a success and drives new investment in the sport over here. It's obvious that 2026 is a year of compromise and survival at Premiership level. Of course, things should have been done differently and more transparently. Perhaps things have not panned out as expected. I hope Northampton gets enough support from the existing speedway community to get them to the point of generating sufficient ongoing support.