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Some shocking posts about Tate and using him to have a weak pop at the club as a whole lacks class. This lad was showing bags of promise before his awful crash, a crash that saw his bike dismantled whilst he was still impaled on it. There’s a few posters on here who delight in sticking the knife in with comments like “sick note” and “turd” for riders still working through the after effects for racing injuries. It’s a special kind of scum that gets their kicks that way.

this clown could of been in a wheel chair, but he is still helping to prop up British speedway.

Witches would have won if it wasn’t for Kurtz and Bewley

Great interview with Ipswich’s new owner. You can tell he’s of the mentality to make the necessary changes to save British speedway. Let him and the Facenna’s run the BSPL. We’ll be prime time next season.

Sacrifice entertainment for silverware , win at all costs and all that ? Fair enough, each to their own, but when fan numbers drop you'll have the answer to why already. For Berwicks 1st meeting of the season and fair weather the crowd was less than great, I'd be more concerned about how to get more fans back rather than how to bore off your current remaining fans.

Danny has got of to a good start this season, good to see.

Yeah but we can’t sell out 10,000, Belle Vue can’t get half full 3,500 or whatever the mini stadium holds without a temp stand 😂 Ipswich are the only club who actually gets a good crowd.

well i went down on my motor bike only takes me 15 mins rode into south stand car park saw a 30mtr que. thought must be a sell out so rode back home.

Ipswich fan can’t comment on an empty looking stadium place is full of empty seats

Good question! There doesn't seem to be another Cooper Rushen on the horizon so I guess it's "stick" rather than "twist". Freddy had a whole season at Berwick in 2024 as there was no answer then either. Really 2026 is a make or break year for him and Sam Hagon too. As there are no obvious replacements, by implication the same is true for Tigers season. Interesting times!

It will be up to Connor/his family to decide if and when anything is released not the club. The club asking people to be patient and not speculate seems very reasonable to me.

Laurence Rogers has asked fans not to speculate and an update will be provided on Connor Coles once there is one to be released.

Hodder has really not really improved with 2 Full Seasons at reserve.

Oh yes, Berwick are renowned for silverware and winning at all cost, with poor crowds. Haven't made a semi final or the play offs for 12 years for crying out loud. I’d argue there was more there on Saturday than what was at Ashfield, albeit down to Glasgows great away following, but if you think that crowd was bad, for a small town like Berwick, you’re very badly mistaken. Berwick Rangers attendance which I believe includes all tickets given out, and season tickets, not just people through the gate, recorded an attendance of 545 in the afternoon, and having walked through the car park, I can say there was easily 3x as many cars for the speedway, possibly 4x. The track was poor, and it may of been deliberately like you suggest, but we aren’t allowed access to it from around 1pm-5.30pm, and it was forecast to and did rain from 11-12, thankfully the rain didn’t amount to much and we were good to go, but if it had been prepared differently, and more rain arrived, we could have been in bother.

Tricky one to call this due to it being our last fixture before the German GP. Both Brady & Dan (and no doubt Norick) won’t trouble to scores too much as they will be concentrating of their forthcoming world championship bid. I’ll go for a narrow witches victory sealed in a heat fifteen advantage. Above post produced by AI when asking for a prediction using BSF as source material.

Pretty decent effort to be fair from Lidsey beating Fricke x3 on his home track. Jaimon Lidsey - 3, 1, 1, 3, 1', 3, 3 = 15+1

i heard someone saying he changed to his second bike but im not 100%

You’re taking the pi$$ here surely. Ipswich get double the crowd Belle Vue get and that’s being generous.

Brennan announced as Wildcard for the GP's at the NSS.

I'm fairly sure that it says on the website and numerous Social Media posts that upgrades are coming in may to allow direct viewing on Smart TVs. Also lost of advice re using phones, laptops, firesticks etc

I’m afraid I don’t have confidence in Jack he is inconsistent from race to race.He been riding 10 years without really stepping up at Championship level.Wish him well though.(will be happy to be proved wrong).

Kerr's never ridden for Belle Vue, he's also been on the injury list more than off it (bar last year). Zischke came in for Mountain (4.36 in the prem) and at the time was averaging 2 points higher than him in the Championship in what was his first season over here so a change that on paper could improve their side. Unfortunately he only lasted 1 meeting before his bad crash and Belle Vue unlike most teams, have stayed loyal believing he will come good again. What British rider would come in on a 3 that would score more this season around Belle Vue?

Is Bangs expensive have a feeling it was mentioned in the past he had learned from Picko when it came to charging just thinking Ippo coming in late but with a bit of money behind him might have been the only team to meet his demands.

I'm sure that Connor or his family will update the world when they are ready.

Will be keeping a close eye on Speedway Updates tonight! Drove past the other day just to get the feel of the drive - ten days to go!

Why they don’t go back to just calling it the European cup I’ll never know. Calling it the Champions League when a club finishing 5th enters it is daft.

At the end of the day we only need a reserve that doesn't mean the best you can hope for in a heat is 3-3

Have to disagree regarding crowd level. Looked very good ,be surprised if there are any bigger crowds during the season.Maybe if we are in the running for Silverware there might be.Personally thought it was an entertaining meeting,I’ve seen a lot worse.

I'm still waiting for a reply from them as to why they docked Workington league points last year... as soon as I get that I'll follow it up with this 😂

A shame he was the only rider who could be arsed to come round and acknowledge the crowd though... compare that with the BSN meeting at Worky yesterday where it was noticeable that after the majority of races the winner went round to accept the applause of the crowd, both home and away riders... it costs nothing

As a lifelong Brummmies fan, I got so disillusioned with the sport that I walked away from it mid season 2024 and haven’t been to a meeting since. there are many similarities with the start Northampton have had to this season , joining the league at the last moment and all the ensuing problems that brings, with the last few seasons at Birmingham. I have thus learned not to have any great hopes or expectations of the upcoming season . I got used to under strength teams snd often, deeply frustrating snd disappointing team performances. I am going to give Northampton a go as they are anew team and thus, I do not have to support any team that I have been “against”, for year after year . all I ask of my new team this season is that all riders and management give it 100% at all times and adopt a positive attitude to a difficult season with a view to being able to start next season on a more even playing field with the other teams where team building is concerned. Can I wish everyone connected with Northampton an injury free season and, one with as few problems both on and off the track as possible. To me, a success season will be one where it hasn’t been embarrassing to admit to being a Northampton fan and more importantly, one where the club grows snd there is not in any doubt about them running again next season

A bit like the league championship then...

You do know the meeting is at Kings Lynn

I reckon it will be announced when the new APP is available in so many ways that even a referre couldn't miss it.

Contact BsN they will sort you out, very efficient when I first had a problem.Its the same App you just have to register with anew Password and that old App will work

And sometimes outside the rules ! I have firsthand experience of this the MDL was such a friendly bunch. Young riders learning track craft, experienced riders using it for practice etc etc ! One team manager’s approach was when fielding an illegible rider “your points won’t count but they won’t get them” once people like them got involved the MDL lost its charm ! Not sure why, maybe Godfrey wasn’t getting the numbers in his amateur days an “SCB MDL coordinator” got involved (can’t remember his name) and hey presto killed the MDL as we affectionately knew it !!

What are the concerns with Hodder, out of interest? I ask out of genuine interest because so far, my biggest concerns are our British U21 and SON2 champions. Hodder hasn’t been spectacular, but am I correct thinking he’s delivered his average in every meeting so far at the very least? Surely anything more is a bonus, no? I imagine his 9 paid 13 across the two legs of the play-off final secured his spot this season.

They've got suits

Thank you for the reply, very much appreciated.

Indeed. I saw after Mitchell Cluff’s first home meeting at Armadale a couple of Edinburgh fans suggesting he should be replaced by Max Perry. The grass ain’t greener. Best feed what you’ve got. I think it’ll generally be a tight league this year and I’m all for it.

I'm available to run after a lawnmower on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon 😄

Have you got a full deck? Because that's twice you've now posted my clear mid table prediction for Leszno. Using your logic would mean that you class any prediction of a Premier League Football Team finishing 9th-12th as a relegation candidate.

I'm already a bit concerned about Mario Hausl and Freddy Hodder. Hodder looked dreadful at Ashfield last Friday and Hausl only achieving six points and a bonus point from 3 meetings after arriving on a 5 point average doesn't bode well imo. Maybe he will get better but i can eventually see him being shipped out like Ashton Boughen was a year ago. He just cannot gate.

I thought Tate looked quite good in Aus over the winter so I'd expect him to get good results in the UK this year.

Mechanics fault id say 🤣

Crowd had to be over 1,000

It must be difficult when there's football on a Saturday to prep the track, Berwick never been renown for lots of passing,we have what we have and that's it, I thought the crowd was very good,if you thought that was bad you should see it when the southern teams are here

A lot more than 2 and a bit points, in the short term would rather have a guest for Vinnie, but unfortunately Jamie is out of his depth and needs replacing sooner rather than later

Think one problem with Sheffield is the limited viewing areas - most tracks there are fans dotted around the entire track to take applause from. That said it never used to bother riders in the past

Will do 👍🏻😂