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Stay at home and watch the World Cup , or come to Berwick and watch The Bandits? No contest I'll be on the terraces in my usual spot watching The Bandits . Just like a marriage you support Berwick for better or worse only with Speedway there's no divorce. As others have said it looks highly unlikely well se a Bandits win but as Jimmy Greaves once said " it's a funny old game "

Not really surprised with the score, the only positive thing to say is that at least there where no injuries

Finally after 15 hts a decent race

Nothing exciting so far

Back in the day when you could do practice starts without helmets , they turned the caps around to stop the blowing off

Easy home win I'd say just hope all the riders stay safe

Bandits Facebook page reporting that there's no serious injury to Jye, just heavy bruising good news after what looked a pretty heavy fall

Any news on a replacement for Jye ?

Very hard to come up with any positives from last night , the performances from Kev & David apart it was a very disappointing night with the injury to to Jye just compounding the misery,. I'm not sure what was wrong with Danny but he seemed disinterested particularly in ht 12 , Barker slowing down to allow Coty pass shows how bad it was . It was always going to be a tough night but TBH right from the off we never looked like we where going to win , when you lose a 1-5 in ht 2 the signs aren't great , but come the next meeting I'll be there cheering on the team , as Brian Cox once sai " Things can only get better " can't they ?

First of I'd lik to wish Jye all th best after a very nasty looking accident. Secondly well done to The Bears great team performance solid scoring all the way down ,. Thirdly a big thanks to Josh for all his efforts tonight ,felt for Alfie Bowtell in ht 14 he had a definite point only to be let down by his bike . Really disappointed with Danny tonight especially ht 12 where I thought he was embarrassing, the usual 100% from Kev & David unfortunately you can't win with two man teams

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Hard to say which way this will go , I guess the performance of the guests in each team and how new guy Joe Jacobs goes will be important, could be busy night for Jye tonight . Going by last Saturdays display Ben Barker could seriously hamper Berwick chances of getting revenge for the defeat earlier in the season

Having Rory in the line up is not a situation I'm very happy about but I doubt it affected the attendance, nor would it stop me going to Cardiff if he'd become champ . Personally I don't think the wildcard should be decided by the result of the British final , as for the turnout I think it would improve if the meeting moved to a Saturday evening this would allow more people to travel from around the country without the problem of having school or work the next day

Will Josh bring his flip- flops ?

Why stop at flip flops ? Surely he should have been wearing gloves , protective glasses & ear defenders too , also I'm not sure about shorts and a short sleeved T-shirt it's possible they could also be construed to be a safety risk as wel . Personally I couldn't care less what's on his feet and I can't say I'm surprised that's what he was wearing seems fairly normal footwear for most antipodean folks especially speedwayriders in my experience

It's very educational on here , since I joined I now know all sorts of way to insult others that I never knew before lol

Weather ok I take it ? Not sure about Bridger didn't race last night

Great victory tonight with everyone picking up a race win . Really pleased to see Luke get a race win , when we finally get seven fit riders on the track we should be hard to beat at home

Hopefully Jye's good form last Saturday night will continue, with Payne unavailable it looks like he will have at least on extra ride , maybe more if Lewis isn't fit enough to take his place

Never understand the point of stealing speedway bikes , what you going to do with it once you've nicked it ? It's not as if you can use it on the road is it ? How would you offload it there a big black market for stolen bikes or spares can you flog it on eBay ? Surely the speedway community isn't that big that any stuff that comes on the market would soon be identified

The fans dont matter though do we

So was this just a ploy by Auty to get more cash or sponsors ?

Another tough match in a long line of tough matches for The Bandits , I just hope everyone on both teams stays safe .

Any updates on the fitness of either Lee or Ryan ?

Really chuffed with that tonight , plenty close racing and an excellent well earned and hard fought victory only downside was Lewis's horrific looking crash , hopefully it will just be concussion and a bit of bruising . It's a longtime since I've seen team riding as good as Nick's tonight . Pleased to see Jye get among the points . Maybe we don't quite need Ethan Hunt just yet