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Seeing as people are naming teams for next season here's mine not sure on averages though T J Adam Elllis Kev Fish Barker Carr Coty

In the mid 1960's Lord Shawcross was commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club to do a report into Speedway , which at that time was in turmoil ( nothing new there then ) , from of his conclusions we saw the setting up of The New National League , of which Berwick where founder members , this of course led to the Premier League we have today .He also recommended that the sport was run by an independent ruling body , almost 50 years later we are still waiting on that to happen ,until we can remove blinkered self interest, and petty oneupmanship from the people running speedway it will never move on

Any of the team would be good . I wasn't meaning as rider , I was talking about using Liam a local guy to help promote the club in the local area .

All great ideas , we've got a local guy like Liam somebody local people can identify with why don we use him ?

If I'm being honest I never expected to win last nights meeting, but I did however expect a better performance than that , especially at reserve, the highest averaged home reserve should not be scoring zero under any circumstances no disrespect no Oliver Greenwood but Edberg & Hall should've been able to beet him .i know the various injuries to key riders played a big part in last nights result but I still feel that we should've done better that that debacle last night , the two 1-5s in the first two heats set the tone for the meeting and Berwick never recovered , when you down the race card there was no obvious heat where we going to pull things back . Looking forward to next weekends fixtures I'd imagine it will be much the same , will there be any Bandits fans brave enough to travel to The Scotwaste Arena ?

Fairly predictable result last night , I'd expect something similar tonight at Scunny

Another reason they would struggle to work is , surely riders would require a guaranteed number of meetings so they could plan their calendar , what happens to the riders not riding ? Do they sit at home and twiddle their thumbs ? Also there's always the chance that one or two squad members could be injured at the same time

I can think of two three in Black and Gold race Jackets that might have copped a ban

nothing new for Bates . he may be fast but he's not in control

He's the one tweeting about the Track

on the subject of the track it was interesting to note that most of the times where inside the previous fasted time of the season , not bad for a crap track How does Liam Carr getting clattered into the fence by Bates ( who was never 100 % in control all night ) , as for Garrity its not if he comes off its when mean there's a problem

He's just throwing a line out to see how many bites he gets , sitting back now and laughing at all the numpties throwing abuse at him as he blocks them

Well the only way to describe tonights meeting is The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly . The good being heat 13 , The Bad being the injuries to all the riders and tthe Ugly being Josh Bates's atrocious. move on Liam Carr .A meeting that was always going to be tough was made near impossible after Liam's withdrawal but some how The Bandits managed to hang in there , mostly down to the awful performances of Klindt and Bellago . Its really strange that anyone who looks at the score chart will think that Edberg had a great night , how wrong could they be he was dog awful his attitude stinks

Yes , been that way since the Socks moved from Newtongrange to The Racewall

I'd sign a speedway loving millionaire to join the promotion and help bank roll The Bandits

The bottom line is that no matter how many new investors come in or if we can find a new "Sugar Daddy " owner , there's not enough people coming through the turnstiles and that's not just happening at Berwick it's all over the country . Obtaining new investors merely lightens the losses for the rest of the promotion what needs to happen is more fans need to turn up , if we had crowds of 1000 + turning up each week things would be a lot more rosier , unfortunately until speedway takes a long hard look at itself that isn't going to happen , people aren't watching the sport in the numbers they used too anymore , why ? IMHO most are fed up with the way that speedway is heading , fed turning up watching teams missing riders because they're off racing somewhere else , fed up with watching poor racing , fed up with stupid rules , it's time to get back to basics merge the three leagues into 2 12 teams in the top league the rest in the other league , lower league to be predominantly British riders like it used to be , no guests allowed and as many teams as possible to have a NJL team to give youngsters a start in the sport

Maybe if you got behind Edberg and pushed he might be faster

I'm sure he'll devote a few paragraphs in his column in next Saturdays programme to it

Its not the bike that's the problem Ever since he came to Berwick I have always felt that Edbergs' riding style is not suited to Shielfield he's far to cramped on the bike and seems to always want to pull it the bike back in rather than let it run , I doubt that he's ever going to change now . after reading his interview in this weeks speedway star unless there's a major change in the sport during the winter its doubtful we'll see Worrall next season There's more chance of me being in the team next year than there is of Kus being in it , if we couldn't afford a transfer fee this year (no matter what price) how can we afford it next season ?

Transparency and the BSPA are words that you wont see together in the same sentence , as far as they're concerned we , the paying public , or customers to use another word are a to be treated like mushrooms - ie kept in the dark

Ach well , on to the next match can't say I'm surprised at the result

How's the weather looking ?

Walking out of Shielfield after a defeat seems to be becoming a regular occurrence this season and it's not something I can say I enjoy especially if the performance has been pretty poor . I've never expected us to be title challengers but all way thought we'd do ok at home and after all what matters to most fans is winning at home especially over your local rivals . Once again making decent starts was The Bandits downfall last night you can't give guys like Cook, Worrall & Wolbert a head start and expect to come from behind all the time that simply isn't going to happen is it ? The form of our reserves is now becoming a bit of a problem and their lack points is costing us meetings . With the play offs now looking out of our reach perhaps it's time to give Liam a run , before someone else gives him a team place . Next week it's The Rockets and the KOC and hopefully progression to the next round , maybe our name is on the trophy this year but there some tough teams left in the completion and one-off them are last night victors

Up for the cup anyone ?

Dick Barrie has been , warned and fined on a few occasions over the years for comment made over the mic