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Hopefully we'll see a far better performance from The Bandits this year from when lost to the Witches last season

First of all well done to the Diamonds on their win. It seems its back to square one for the Bandits as their inability to make a decent start proved to be their Achilles heal yet again , saying that despite the result I enjoyed the match there was enough decent action and controversy to keep everyone happy. I've just watched it back on Sky + and thought it came over well plenty of positive comments from Nigel lets hope the Sky cameras remember to come back , Finally a massive well done to all involved for putting on a great show

Check out You Tube , I'm sure they'll be there

Probably not selected never rode fro Hammarby in last weeks fixture

The pre meeting entertainment will be the usual array of X/Factor rejects and failures along with an 80's pop star on the comeback trail , those who want to see it will be there , those who don't wont .the Real entertainment starts when the anthems stop and the tapes go up , lets hope for a meeting which is a huge improvement on last Saturdays bore fest in Prague but with a similar end result .

No Kelvin on duty for this one , Chris Louis on duty as the co-commentator with Charlie Webster on interviews

I'm sure it was in rules at one time that a team had to nominate a No8 when operating R/R

Seem to remember that a few Edinburgh meetings failed to beat the curfew back in their Powderhall days

Unless you can predict the future how can you possibly predict who Denmark were going to be drawn against and how the tournament finals would pan out ?

What a difference a week makes , from the lows of last weekend to tonight, all the riders looked keen and they were all chipping in with wins. Paul Starke's win in ht 11 was fantastic especially with the added pressure of Kozza going off a 15 metre handicap ,.Robin seems to have found his mojo again and looked like the rider we know he is had genuine speed tonight and looked up for the fight, maybe dropping Alex and bringing in Eddie has given them the proverbial kick up the backside whatever it was its worked , also IMHO that's the best the tracks been all year

I'm feeling a lot more positive about this fixture now after todays news , with R/R operating for Bellago it will still be a tough night but I think Berwick will have enough in the tank to get a home win and put some much needed confidence into the team.

Once again the promotion at Berwick have pulled another rabbit out the hat with these changes , if Eddie Kennett puts a few more bums on seats then whatever he's costing will worth it .Hopefully this will kick start our season , one that was in danger of slipping away even at this early stage of the season . Onwards and upwards

According to Denis last night its R/R for Bellago

not unless he joined the grand prix circus without us knowing

has the same basic shape as Berwick and has been used for world finals / GPs for years

Maybe they should tell him to look at last nights GP from his homeland , long straights with tight bends and plenty decent racing

What about his two last places , was that doing his job ?,his last place in heat14 , a heat he shouldn't have been in in my opinion went a long was to costing us the match

The racing was a lot better last night , unfortunately for us Nick could not repeat his form from Friday night but I wouldn't use that as an excuse plenty of teams have come to Berwick in the past with guests who haven't performed . The form or lack of it from Edberg and Aspergren is far more worrying though .

The lack of passing , entertainment and the poor quality of track isn't a problem that Berwick are alone in its all over the country , just look at some of the meetings featured on Sky . The meeting on Tuesday at Lakeside was a complete bore and that's not the first one , no matter how loud Nigel & Kelvin roar most of the racing is poor with guy with the fastest bike not the best rider winning. Speedway in general needs to take a long hard look at itself before its to late

personally I think that the new exhausts and the way engines are prepared have a lot to do with it , bikes or the riders don't seem to like to much dirt

A win is a win , and that's about all you can say about tonights match still a long was to go yet with both the team and the racing surface . Comics up next and they will have some proper reserves

On a night when we needed all the guys to be on their mark unfortunately there where week links in chain tonight , Alex and Robin had particularly bad nights and questions will need to be asked about the performances of certain riders tonight , particularly our reserves although Nicki did improve in the later stages of the meeting , Edinburgh had 3 riders who only scored 6 points between them with a half decent score from our reserves we could have won this , anyways that's the league cup & the KO gone now , onwards and upwards bring on the premier league .

An already tough task just got a lot harder

The damage was done in the first leg of this tie , Ricky is not where we should be pointing the finger of blame for losing the tie its the guys who underperformed at Shielfield who need to shoulder the blame in this one

A very poor performance in the home leg came back to haunt us tonight , but after been so far ahead we should have been able to put this one to bed , this is an absolute shocker :mad: