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First visit to Berwick and a nice set up. Looking at the track seemed bare ,dry and packed down hard- with the dubious forecast a no brainer really. Being used to the wide open plains of the EWR, the track seemed quite narrow, enormous long straights and a bit bumpy. On to the racing and very much a gate and go meeting. We were dire out of the gate ,but after a few watering sessions of the by now very dusty track, our boys at last found their gating boots. Congrats to the Bandits another few heats and we might have had a better result but still a respectable final score line for us on our travels. Well done to Lambo on a superb laying down to avoid a major collision with Kevin Doolan. Despite injuring his hand in doing so, he was also so quick to jump up and see how Kevin was and helping him back to his feet- nice to see some rider camaraderie. Sincerely hope Bandits survive good luck for the future. ps why is the F***in A1 between Newcastle and Wetherby always subject to night closures and diversions- 4 hours to get home and not sparing the horses!

Thanks, some conflicting weather forecasts on the net, but setting off 1.30 ish and will check in on here again somewhere up the A1.

Can any Bandit give local forecast mid afternoon before I commit to a 7 hour round trip please.

R/R makes us very weak and we will sorely miss Danny Ayres, we need all 6 to step up their away performances as we have been poor all season on the road. Heart says sneak a point, head says, same old, same old and another away defeat.

You just know Steve and TJ will find some pace and score heavily

Danny Ayres fantastic lad on and off the track. Always gives 100% effort and always gives the fans a wave and thanks. We have had the pleasure at Scunthorpe to listen to his after match comments several times this season and he comes across as a genuine nice guy, quite humble, fiercely self critical and keen to learn to improve at every opportunity. Hope his injury today at Mildenhall has not put paid to his excellent season. Get well soon Danny.

I will settle for a draw but not even hopeful of that with our away form. Probably be a dust bowl with the strong breeze drying even the wettest track after a few heats.

Unlucky heat 15, when on a 5-1 Ben Barker sheds a chain and is spat off the bike gifting Brummies a draw. Curse of the number 1 position continues for us. It was obvious to one and all Jason would take loads of points from this meeting to show Rob the error of his ways. Bright note was young Ryan Kinsley showing his gating skills and his liking for riding the fence.

Light shower over the track now, but blue sky right behind it, so perfect speedway track

Hope Rob has plenty of spare air fence panels.

Only 30% chance of rain ,that's pretty good odds on it being fine. Get some water down Rob and get an outside line to work to give us a fair chance of a win.

Danny Ayres heroics in heat 19 of British Championship can be seen on sports page on Scunthorpe Live site. An awesome ride!!!

If you read my post, my spy said it at 1.34pm

Josh Auty now in British final replacing Robert Lambert. Good luck to Simon and Danny too for tonight's big event

Fair play to the Tigers your heat leaders did what was expected. For us, Danny had his only poor meeting since joining and I am sure he will be totally gutted, as he wears his heart on his sleeve somewhat. Rambo should have had more points with his experience and Ryan is on a too long a lean spell-another victim of young lads making the big jump up a league and struggling. The biggest shocker was the track again. No outside line is a massive hindrance, with our boys searching for dirt that was just not there and going backwards. For a track that had supposedly 1000s of gallons taken off it yesterday, it seemed totally devoid of moisture, with dust flying everywhere from heat 2 onwards. For people saying what a great meeting it was, well perhaps the regular fans have been spoilt and most saying the racing was not so good this week. Josh, Stefan Jake and Ben battled hard but they like riding the fence and we did not prepare the track for home advantage. We can only hope lessons are learnt. Last complaint , How long do we have to endure crap public address system ? Can someone teach Roger to work the P.A system in the bar too!!!

My spy in city centre says not raining and just cloudy, but hey ho, just go up the M18 for a speedway fix at Scunny.

For travelling fans, current weather is cloudy, but dry, light breeze and 16 degrees. Supposed to stay similar all day.

Jason is a good entertainer off track too, we will miss him in the after meeting clubhouse get togethers. You might need a bleep machine to edit some of his comments though.

The official Scorpion word is deafening! Think the supporters will be split 50/50 on letting Jason go and keeping Ben. Cannot knock Ben, he has not had a bad meeting home or away, so Rob and co must have suspected Jason's full recovery for their decision?

Lets wait and see how long the injuries are going to take for Jason and Stefan to resume. We could be forced into making team changes and Ben could be with us to the end of our season.

Agree, strengthens the Lions, Doolan was impressive around the EWR last time out. Think it will be all down to which reserves are on form-hopefully ours. At this moment in time weather forecast looks dubious.

Actually Redcar 0 Scunthorpe 3, but you Wucky fans can just keep boring the pants off us

Yay £2 off admission, that gets me as far as the M18

Never seen a track eat rear wheels! Kyle Howarth wore out his tyre, but remaining 13 riders didn't whinge . According to the Scorpions they had much more severe tyre wear at Somerset last week. Personally I would rather see a racers track than a "technical track" to be better entertained.

Cannot see Stefan being fit after being knocked off whilst guesting in the Premier League again?