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At Belle Vue, some of the fans jackets came out with the Ark, I doubt they will ever buy the modern ones. The problem is getting a jacket or shirt that you can wear other than at speedway, as some of them are far too gaudy, also that shiny material does not look good on someone with more that a trim figure. The design of the Belle Vue badges, is very boring, jus the club logo, gone are the days of John Jones, when you got a good variety of designs over the years, and please Belle Vue get rid of the badges with stud fittings. As I see it there will not be a new badge coming out for 2021, except for the year bar, I hope I am wrong, as being a saddo, I have collected speedway badges for several years.

I too noticed the age group of most of the fans in the main stand, nothing against them as I am an oldie too. What an opportunity considering the amount of Funeral Planning advertising there is these days, to get some sponsorship for speedway, a ready and nearly there audience.

The problem for Berwick speedway seems to be a track around a football pitch, which tends to make for narrow straights and entrances and exits on corners. I believe Hull had the same problem, and when Odsal ran its first meeting in 1946, no rider managed to get around the first turn, and they had to make quick alterations. Unfortunately most tracks are forced to make a track that fits the existing stadium, rather than having the luxury of a blank canvas to work on.

Not the greatest of meetings racing wise, heat 12 only decent race, they could have saved a lot of time by just running heat 16, which decided the outcome, Dan lucky to get a re-run as he was last when Kemp fell. Let's hope Belle Vue put on a far slicker presentation, as the meeting ran at a snails pace last night, there did not seem to be any clock at the start gate, so the riders took ages to come to the tapes. I did donate, as I had watched the meeting, but will think twice before paying to watch at Berwick again, what were the so called improvements made to the track, didn't look any different to me.

The Chieftain Stand was I believe knocked down in 1991, as it had an asbestos roof and Health & Safety deemed it unsafe. The stadium then looked quite smart then, not like the tip it became. Stock cars wrecked the back straight, as they used it to park the cars.

If as the government have proposed, that they may bring in, that all over 70s must self isolate, which could be possibly for months, will definitely affect speedway crowds, that is if speedway is on. I wonder how they will impose this self isolation, and what will happen to the many elderly who don't agree to this isolation, which is draconian.

Ronnie Russell's George Medal sold today for £50,000. BBC news.

I hope he doesn't, as he usually got a flyer out of the gate in the final. So far that field is very evenly matched and anyone could win it on the day. So would expect some close and exciting racing.

Palin ,Bickley and Bailey a good top three ,but a very long tail, will be a battle all year for the reserve spots.

This is all getting very childish and tedious, time for the mods to lock this thread.

If we have signed riders, why don't the club just release the news, as with other clubs signing riders, and usually keeping riders from the previous season, you get left with a smaller and smaller list of riders that are possibly available for BV. If rumours are true, it looks like BV and Peterborough are going to have a long season, with little reward. If they did sign Zagar, that would be the me missing a season, cannot stand the rider, one of our worst No1s and probably the most expensive.

You are right coldace', heat 15 can often make the difference between winning a meeting or getting the away bonus point. I do not see any team getting near Swindon's top two pairing, with a combined average of 17.78.

If as rumoured we loose Fricke and possibly Bjerre, we are going to have a problem getting an out and out No1, to replace Fricke. With batch now resigned for Swindon the most likely rider that they will release would be R. Jensen, who had a big difference between his home average and his away average. That leaves B, Kurtz, J Holder, and N Klindt, none of whom are No 1s. so that looks like we will be going with strength in depth. Unless we can tempt a big hitter from abroad, which would take up all the TV money, or we find a big sponsor.

Great news for Sheffield and British speedway, a rider who love him or loath him will put bums on seats. Ay idea what average he will come back as. ?

From a Belle Vue fans point of view, welcome back as a local rival. I can remember many great meetings between us when we were last in the same league. It also could sort out our bank Holiday fixtures, and should bring a lot of fans to our meetings against each other. We could even re-introduce the Northern Trophy meeting at the start of the season in 2020, as a great warm up to the start of the season.