dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted December 12, 2016 Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 One point for me is that whichever team is relegated shouldnt be forced to dispense with riders to meet a points limit. They should have the chance to regain promotion with the same team or at least to the same points total even it this means they have an advantage from the start. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted December 12, 2016 Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 (edited) Weird logic. I'd argue there are no teams wanting to be relegated into the Championship in football but it still works! Don't be deliberately obtuse. Obviously if you promote some teams then you have to relegate others if a league is at its maximum practical size. You know the point I was making - speedway struggles to make a viable top league as it is without forcing out teams willing to ride at that level. Until the Elite Premiership, or whatever it's called these days, reaches 16 or so teams then there's no point relegating anyone unless they voluntarily want to drop down. Edited December 12, 2016 by Humphrey Appleby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Don't be deliberately obtuse. Obviously if you promote some teams then you have to relegate others if a league is at its maximum practical size. The point is that for every team that doesn't want to go up (or down) there will on average being 1 team not wanting to go down (or up). If everyone wants PL football then you have 3 happy teams going up and 3 sad teams going down. In speedway is everyone wants Championship speedway then you'll have 1 team happy to go down and 1 unhappy at going up. In any promotion/relegation you'll have winners and losers - even if the winners are not the winners and losers you might expect in speedway. Plus the league are not a million miles apart. Fans often ask can the league winners keep their 1-7 well a team moving up in speedway can now. In fact Somerset more or less have! Probably made less changes than if they had stayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 When the promotion/relegation thing was first announced after the AGM, wasn't there also something about 'parachute' payments (similar to footie) being considered for the relegated club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebrum Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 When the promotion/relegation thing was first announced after the AGM, wasn't there also something about 'parachute' payments (similar to footie) being considered for the relegated club? CVS said they were looking into this but isn't a definite at this stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Chris Louis has stated the Ippo side has been put together specifically to win the Championship so that they can operate at the top level in 2018. I shouldn't take much notice of what The Director of Speedway says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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