If clubs cannot manage to complete their fixtures in a 9-team league between the beginning of April and the end of September, there is no hope. Berwick's first scheduled home meeting was 4th April and their last scheduled reserve date is 26th September - that's 25 weeks. 

All the Scorpion  knockers on here, have gone very quiet about wooden spoon position😁

Its a fair cop, the cartel is to blame, the cartel is to blame!!

Still looks a tough ask with 2 home defeats already, but they now look better placed than Plymouth. Could do with taking points off Edinburgh & Berwick.

Maybe a factor, but, for me, it's the huge drop off in the number of riders capable of holding down team places... Hence the majority DU just to provide 15 teams of the "desired" levels.. In the 70's, hundreds of lads tried to be Speedway riders, and "training schools" were the norm at many tracks... Now, so few come through, that the "old heads" actually keep the sport going..    

I would say the introduction of air fences, has definitely been a factor in riders going on into in to their 40s. Riders bodies in the 80s and 90s took a lot more punishment with solid fences taking no prisoners, hence imo thats why a lot of riders didn't make it past their mid 30s.