crescent girl

Josh G races on a Polish licence, so cannot race in Championship.

Only in line-up. Reserves will stay the same, but Spud will probably drop from No 1.

Bandits will require r/r for Jye Etheridge, covered by NBJ, David Howe and reserves.

PZM licence?

Regular training days are staged. As above, the full Bandits team use it for practice sessions and in 'The Dirt Extra' section of club website, Kevin Doolan's weekly blog is telling of how his Training Day went on Sunday past.

Right now, this afternoon, isn't it pretty good to be a Bandito? Three points clear at the top of the Championship standings with over a third of the matches raced..... The Academy kids sitting on top of the NJL with a 100% record.... Plus Leon progressing in Europe! (stands back, awaits cynical replies...)

Not really. SON can be recorded, Bandits going clear at the top of the table, plus the NJL Academy kids in action, is the main attraction for me.

Don't think the Bandits will line up quite as listed in the opening post.

Kevin Doolan's blog on the Berwick website has some informative thoughts on how the team approached the Brough Park fixture.

Spud's stalking, then his pass, on Tero Aarnio in Heat 13 was sublime.

I'd be pretty sure Jye will be at 3, Dany at 6. But it's a solid squad however they line up!

With Lindman, the average age of the team was 28 years, seven months. With Theo, it will be 30 years, 6 months. Older, but better?

This comes up time and again. Denmark only has priority when the rider is a Dane, not a Brit!

Yes ma'am, away at Armadale on 29th, back home on the 30th. I heard a whisper that, if we make the Final (and why not?) it'll maybe -- just maybe -- be on Sept 1st.......

Ditto on June 29th......

...and it is announced that Bandits will welcome Theo Pijper back to the team from Saturday onwards. Should help, especially at away matches.

Yes, they're on the SGB website for all to see.....

No, because my post was from the car park as l was leaving the pub, and by the time l saw Arch's message (sent 15 minutes later) l was already a few miles away at my hotel. Where, right now, at tapes-up time, it remains dry. But the weather means nothing, as the meeting is off. The Witches live to fight another day!

Well, l'm standing in the car-park of the Golf Hotel in Foxhall Road. It is 5.45. It has definitely stopped raining, and the sky is clearing. Hmmm.

Because (as most people know) SCB regulation 16.5.1(h) requires a rider who is sick or carrying a non-speedway injury to receive a mandatory 7-day suspension from UK racing from the date of the first meeting missed. However, SVEMO do not operate under the SCB regulations.

Sorry, that's pish. Robert Lambert is an ACU rider, and his commitment is to his home-country club. Your Danish riders equally have to go back if their clubs are riding on a Wednesday, as their licences are issued by the DMU. My question would be, why -- if this was clearly going to be a problem -- would Wednesday-night clubs even think of employing one Dane, let alone four of the bacon-munchers? Britain's clubs met, discussed and voted on fixed race nights. Live with it, it's called democracy. Next thing, we'll have people trying to say that, although the majority of the nation voted for Brexit, they didn't really mean it, and can we just do something else......? Oh, wait....

Yip, all meetings at Berwick (including recent British U-21 Final) are filmed by Tapes Up Productions. Available at track of course, and from Tapes Up website.

Foam fence, actually...

While the Witches' faithful (or unfaithful) have rather taken over this match thread now, perhaps I could gently point out that -- right now -- reference to the BSPA website, and the Championship league table shows the Bandits are on top! It won't last, probably not even when this afternoon's results are in, but right here, right now, Bandits are top of the table after defeating two of this season's much-more-fancied sides....... (If I knew how to take a screenshot of the table and paste it on here, I surely would!)

Well, tonight the texter on Speedway Updates seemed to find some good racing...