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The one with the broken wrist?

Joe Haines?

As was evident on Saturday past, Berwick's success or failure might lie in their choice of available guest. Club website says he will be named today - more likely late tonight, when updates are usually posted - and that will allow us to make better forecasts of the end result But with good weather promised, the £10 offer continued for another week, the burgers sizzling and a confident glitter of Diamonds coming up the road, I am hopeful of a bumper crowd rolling in to see the meeting. It is really important we urge our friends (on Tyneside as well as Tweedside) to come out and support the sport on Saturday.

Instead of starting 2011 with sixteen teams - Ipswich, Plymouth (swapping leagues with Stoke) and Leicester arriving - the PL was cut to 14, and decimated further going into 2012 by Newport's suicide. It is plain to anyone that Belle Vue would benefit from "doing an Ipswich" - if only until their much-publicised new stadium comes into being -- as even any hand-out from Sky cannot under any circumstances defray their turnstile losses and EL rider-payments. The most-successful 'lower league' was the old National League of the late 'eighties, run indepedently of Rugby and able to retain the money generated by their own, always-financially-successful shared events. Let us collectively sigh for a return to those simpler, happier days.

Very good summary of the situation. Well set down. PL is in a better place this year than last, as the end-of-term competitions (play-offs, Young Shield) at least have targets set up to aim for over the final fixtures. Weather (mainly) and the compression of fixtures into the four-day schedule to which you refer haven't made it a perfect scenario just yet. Where the PL is still suffering is from losing two clubs when Birmingham and King's Lynn were force-fed into the EL to save the situation caused by Coventry and Peterborough's toys-out-the-pram idiocy in the winter of 2010/11. Ipswich have proved that it is far from suicidal to move leagues -- let's hope, from a PL perspective, at least one EL club follows them during the coming-all-too-soon winter months.

Actually, a newcomer wouldn't care. They would see motorbikes going sideways -- the names, and true affiliations, of the riders would mean nothing. It would be great, because they would see what we sometimes don't -- short, sharp four-lap dashes between four crazy men. Ignorance can be bliss.

I love the Ippo thread! Jeff Scott will probably do his next book, just quoting your incredible statements. As a bible, it would be right up there among the top two.

Sounds like you Diamonds are full of confidence just now. C'mon up to Berwick on Saturday (£10 to get in, children free) and we'll find out how good you are!

As you are including the currently-injured Cookie and Roynon in your ten, where is Ricky Ashworth's name?

Thankfully, Poles (or to be pedantic, PZM licensed riders) are not permitted in the Premier League.

Aw c'mon! Surely you think the injuries, the silencers and everything else is purely the fault of John and Chris Louis?

Why should he not? Category 3 foreigner. Rule 17.2.1 His nationality has nothing to do with it, by the way.

Oooh, so that's Lee Complin out of your plans?

To quote this year's rule-book: 'A rider with an assessed average will have a new average upon completing 4 home and 4 away fixtures" That's regulation 17.4.4

Why should there be a guest for Nicki Barrett? Guest at No 1, r/r for next in line. Remember Seb Alden is back tonight

Jimmy Grajczonek tonight and Jimmy Kus tomorrow. But sadly Jimmy Replacement for unlucky Nicki Barrett

ACU/BSPA and SVEMO have a written agreement over certain events which precede others. All in all, their history is of a good relationship. Poles make and break their rules to suit themselves.

Correct. 5 and 3 in league. He also rode in a number of KO Cup matches, which is the bone of contention between Glasgow and the BSPA as to his being an asset or not.

Sigh. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. To get an AVERAGE you need to contest 4 home, 4 away league matches To become an ASSET you need to contest 6 home, 6 away league matches I'll just add that changes to your 1-7 cannot be made after September 12th, unless it is to reintroduce an injured rider while dumping his direct "injury replacement". Also (the "Paul Bentley rule") if a rider is in your final 1-7 at the end of a season, but not included in your opening 1-7 the following season, you can't later bring him back in!.

Not really. The teams posted against the fixture say that, but may be out of date (they suggest Pepe isn't riding, although I think he is) But the press release issued this morning and copied to the site definately indicates r/r for Seb and Lasse Bjerre as guest, which would be for Ricky. Think you'll find the smallest Dane in the world will be No 1.

Aw, c'mon lads! Let's get 2012 done before we start the "Berwick 2013" thread (which will still attract at least 1,000 posts by Christmas). In addition to scoring ability (proven and potential) it is necessary to consider who are assets of other promotions, who are on Berwick's retained list. To be discussed. When the season's over, and we've nowt else to do!

Bandits website indicates usual line-up, but without naming the guest. So that'll be 1. Jimmy The Guest, 2. David Bellego, 3. Nicki Barrett, 4. Robin Aspegren, 5. Sebastian Alden, 6. Mickey Dyer, 7. Klaus Jakobsen What about the Comics?

Why would you want Nicki replaced? He has looked fine to me, and seems to have fitted into the Shielfield scene pretty well. He won't become an asset this year (although his average will change in October) but to want him replaced (by whom?) seems a bit excessive.

Actually Swindon?

Isn't that called a season ticket