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Exactly the reason why wearing Diamonds gear sticks in ya crop. It's like he is mocking the fans and has no sympathy for the loyal fans.

Time for a bit of honesty from the club

He wouldn’t have time, he is too busy up Grants back end.

Plymouth have got 2 guest riders

Well they are listed in the line ups so are riding. This is a match. Belle Vue need to make a statement. Ipswich come here looking for a point. And they could get it. one things for sure. It’s going to be a great meeting with good weather. School holidays are on. So hoping for a healthy crowd for the club

Our opponents were disappointing but let's not disparage them. That was a team that achieved a point at Armadale only 24 hours previous .. granted they had Leon guesting at number 1 scoring big points Bomber and Leon were simply sublime.. 2 of the easiest maximums you will ever see at Berwick.. and that was including Bombers phenomenal heat 13. In the form they are, especially if Leon is able to ride in the pairs, you've surely got to look at them as dark horses! Paid 9 from Theo and paid 17 from our guest superb guest in Jordan Jenkins is the sort of back up that wins you meeting in these fashions! Nathan looked like he could've been in for a good night... The ground he'd made up before clipping Harry McGurks back wheel showed he clearly had the speed .. just glad to see him get up from what was an alarming spill! Thank the lord he managed to get himself off the bike! A good win on the night for both Berwick teams sent the fans home happy!

Thank you for your response Brian, great to hear from someone who is more knowledgeable on these matters than from those who are so dismissive & yet know little about the facts.

Many present day speedway people seem to have distorted ideas about the history of Birmingham Speedway. The "blame" for the 21 year delay in bringing speedway back to the City cannot be attributed to the City Council, but rather to the intransigence of the then owners of not just the Brummoies current home venue, but that of the owners or controllers of the various alternative venues within the City which were explored. The then owner of Perry Barr Stadium, Maurice Buckland, made no bones about his attitude - he wou;d not have speedway back at his stadium at any price - and until he sold out to the GRA in 2004, he never wavered from this stance. Hall Green Stadium, also owned by the GRA until its demolition, were more accomodating, but casual enquiries convinced them that it would be impossible to secure planning permission due to the venue's close proximity to housing. Bordesley Green, not then owned by the Council although it was eventually taken over by the authority, also produced numerous excuses for rejecting approaches to restore speedway there, both on the original track and on a proposed new track on a different part of the site. In fact, the only involvement with the Council was an enquiry about the possibility of the speedway club using Salford Stadium, the City Council having had other offers which they felt were mpre appropriate. True, there was an initial difficulty in securing a planning consent for Perry Barr and it was at first refused on the casting vote of the Chairman of the Planning Committee, but a second application was emphatically approved. As far as the Alexander Stadium being a potential Grand Prix venue is concerned, the stadium is primarily an athletics site and is the headquarters of Birchfield Harriers, but is wholly owned by Birmingham City Council and it has been widely reported that the Council are anxious to justify the vast amount of money which they have spent on developing it, by finding more commercial uses for it. I don't believe that Birmingham City Council is in any way "anti-speedway" and it is my opinion that were a serious offer made to use it for a Grand Prix, the Council would certainly consider it. As the organisation of the Grand Prix meetings is outside the remit of the Speedway Control Bureau and the BSPL, any approach would have to come from those who now promote this competition, but the stadium is there, it has the capacity, and if they want it, they could go for it.

Do you know much about Birmingham Council? It took Tony Mole 21 years to persuade them to allow domestic speedway in a stadium lots may call its 'ancestral home'. The Alexander stadium rebuild has cost the earth and the locals have lost a great park too. So I very much doubt they'd allow those dirty smelly noisy bikes anywhere near it....unfortunately. Unless someone can persuade them that lots of of troublef free ££££'s are likely to flow into the hotel and transport systems......hmmm could be something in it, but they'd have to be talking big bucks for the council I'd suspect.

Some cracking juniors in Poland.. Quite a few seem to be able to lower the colours of GP stars..

Not only that but really and truly I’m sure they’ll have less people in because bar Harris and basso I’m sure it’ll be a very one sided event, people won’t and shouldn’t part with there cash too watch a mediocre make shift team

For sure not expecting a win as such, but 100% our mentality going into to every meeting now is that we can and are trying to win that meeting, home and away. batch been getting better and better lately, tungate an unknown but went well at nss when he was a home rider, and the track most similar to the continental tracks he’s been riding all year so it’s the best track for him to return to uk speedway at I’d say. real shame this meeting isn’t being televised

Things could've all been different if Steve Park had been a better negotiator then. Bah

Looking for a point!!!!????? We’re coming looking for a win mate!

I thought the referee got that call right, IMO Jenkins tried an outside pass and ran out of room.

Jenkins wasn't taken off, he tried to go round Kasper, got in the deep stuff and slid off. He also got away with one when he took off Ben Morley in heat 8. Both meetings reminded me of the National League in the 70/80's when Southern teams would come up and at the end of a tour be stuck with injuries and get hammered. Same when Berwick used to go to the likes of Eastbourne and Mildenhall and regularly get 60 put on them even in 13 heats.

But that's a comedy show that doesn't pretend to take itself seriously...

pretty much the same with most clubs why would they not bring play off forward and run them in decent weather rather than a wet september/october

Your obviously close to Lewi. If they had stuck by you for 10 years despite your form hasn't been the best. Then you had £1000's from a testimonial. Left before the parade on our last win.... Has said he was relieved to go. Why not step down??. I think a professional should of done the right thing. We all know last years collarbone didn't play up for a day . Why not ride your last meeting, say thanks to the fans, ride your arse off to show them they made a mistake??

Don’t think it’s too long now till members of the crowd are asked to ride

Plus the main thing is that racing against faster (the fastest) riders makes him go faster and facing them week in week out means its sink or swim. Both he and Lambert have gone to a different level since riding in that league regularly.

But would he have progressed at the rate he has without an Extraliga spot? Doubtful I'd say. The top division in Poland is the place to be if you have aspirations of being and becoming world class, the sooner Brennan can get himself there the better for his development

The hospital has confirmed that I have broken my left scapula, so it’s now going to be a little while on the sidelines! Thank you to everyone at Berwick Speedway for all their help & support and thank you to everyone for your well wishes! The recovery starts now

Lots of clubs already operating Spectator Replacement

I wondered how long that would take. Lynn were Fan Dabi Dozi last year winning one match while you guys romped to the title!

Good meeting that.. Torun seemed most pleased with the result.

But there also in grave danger of throwing away the income of the paying customers they will have left at this rate for the rest of this season Still think there will be no Peterborough Speedway next year,

Will #8's be named or is it further cost saving??

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/video-vault/race-action-berwick-v-plymouth/

As regards tickets and app, I just got mine and it was pretty trouble free. Apologies if any repeat of previous but.. 1. Went to Google Play and downloaded SEE Tickets Wallet.to my phone. 2. Went onto SEE Tickets website and created an account. 3. Went onto SEE Tickets site on my laptop, found the GP and selected my tickets. 4. When prompted for my SEE Tickets account details I entered them. 5. After the sale went through I logged back into SEE Tickets website on laptop, went to 'My Account' then 'Orders' and could see tickets in there. 6. Logged into SEE Tickets wallet on phone and they're in there fine. Looks like a lot of faff, but took me 10 minutes. I wouldn't blame SGP etc for this, there may be some contractual thing with Stadium etc.

Yes, this would have made a good TV meeting, but pleased it isn't as BV will get a good crowd as it is not on the box. This should be our toughest home meeting, Doyle always goes well, no matter where, and King, Batchelor, and Tungate, on their day will cause problems. Tungate has had some very good meetings at the NSS, but also has had some shockers when he let BV down. BV riders will have to watch out for Doyle dive bombing them into the third turn if he has not made the gate. (rare). Am expecting a great meeting, cannot see a walk over for BV as in recent home meetings.

Eurosport are only showing Sunday`s SGP 2 on Discovery + and Eurosport player !!

They can only try. The racing at Cardiff has been poor for a number of years and the attendance possibly reflects that now. I know Cardiff is all about the atmosphere, pre-race events and the overall weekend however its the racing that interests me, and it needs to be good to justify the cost of going there, which it doesn't IMO. From 10 GP's this year, 4 are in Poland, why can't we have a second one in the UK i.e. Manchester. The SON there last year was superb, its a racers track and I would pay to go possibly along with many other northern based fans. As it is the GP series needs refreshed. Discovery are serious broadcasters and if they want to grow their tv audience they need to have a think about the tracks which can deliver this. Vojens, Malilla and Prague are absolute bore fests and I'm sure their viewer stats will confirm this. Taking GP's away from these tracks may mean you lose the audience in that country so its a difficult call to make however year after year they deliver FTG riding rather than racing. There has to be better out there, hopefully.

Teams confirmed in Torun Torun v Wroclaw Torun 9 J Holder 10 Lambert 11 Przedpelski 12 RR(ZZ) 13 Dudek 14 Zielinski 15 Lewandowski 16 Affelt Wroclaw 1 Chugunov 2 Panicz 3 Woffinden 4 RR(ZZ) 5 Janowski 6 Kowalski 7 M Curzytek 8 Bewley

I agree that excess painkillers is a rule-break but certainly wouldn't warrant the same kind of ban as hard drugs as an example and if they tested and banned use of soft drugs regularly no doubt others would be caught. The issue with Speedway has always been Promoter and finacial pressure on riders to ride when in pain and probably worse now than ever with such a shortage at top end of teams.

Need batch to be on form for that and tungate to get dialled straight in. But if they do then yeah. You could be looking at that

Just over an hour to run 15 heats well done to all

He will need a bodyguard for the amount of people he has p@ssed off ,surprised he hasn't gone into hiding .

Well wasn't expecting that score as good as Berwick were, their opponents were woeful,what a night for Leon and Bomber and brilliant guest Jordan, Bombers double pass to get from third to first on the third and fourth bends was sublime.Would like to see the Courtneys get Oxford into the top league next year and have Bomber in both teams also keeping Leon at Berwick possibly with Jonas and his brother (Visas allowing for the whole season) and the rest of the team made up of up and coming riders like Jordan Jenkins who bust a gut last night instead of more experienced riders who don't give 100% every race.

Whether he won his first ride or not,I don't think that is the point being made here.

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Jordan Jenkins was a revelation & would scored more if he hadn't been knocked off(by his own Redcar teammate).

It has an SEC round 3rd september.

Probably because he`s not in any of them.

Ryan Douglas, by far. The best visiting rider this season. Bringing Bickley in, bad choice. Brings nothing to the team

Sink or swim maybe but I remember people on here wetting themselves thinking how dominant Musielak would be in this league but he's only managed a GSA of 8.09 (7.67 away from Sheffield). Holder has been even worse in the UK. Perhaps it's here where riders are developed

That’s a great tribute to a brilliant servant to British speedway.

Several No1's pocketed some real top money from Sky's millions... Then promptly "foxtrot oscared" from racing in the UK the very second the money stopped...

The BSPA had the very large chunk of Dosh, during the early sky years...... sadly no vision. The sport just makes me so cross should be one of the best sports out there.

Speedway has three main issues which stifle its development and growth.. One. The operating model. Simply it is designed to give the owners something to spend their money on that they enjoy. There is no plan for growth nor development, hence putting out "any adhoc Speedway", regardless of credibility, integrity, or relevance, is the objective, rather than running the sport like other "respected, relevant and succesful" sports' do, with genuine "worth winning" Championships.. Secondly. A complete lack of capability (or maybe desire?) in marketing the sport nationally through a nationally recognised marketing company, instead we have tracks doing "their very best" locally, using well meaning amateurs, (although trying to sell the current operating model would be beyond even the best advertising agencies I would think).. And Thirdly. A lack of a consistently successful national team with which to live off the coat tails of. Ten to Fifteen years from now of GB winning individual and team events, including Test Matches, would paint a very different picture for the sport domestically than it does today. (Yet in the 2nd Div we dont even have Rising Stars which tells us all we need to know about how important growth and development of GB riders is to some).. The whole thing is fragmented and disjointed, and unless it every comes together under one voice leadership then it is never going to be successful.. Succesful sports have successful leaders in charge, making tough decisions for the greater good. Leaders who have contacts in the wider media, marketing and business world.. Should Speedway ever allow itself to have the same, then it has a chance.. If it chooses to persist in following its narrow minded, myopic operating model and business plan then it wont..