crescent girl

I rest my case.

Riders at PL clubs, changing only each month, will have a better, truer rolling average now than EL participants.

Discuss?

1) A week today. Cut off was 20th. 2) No 3) Depends on his having raced in a professional league or not. 5.00 if he hasn't.

Glasgow will be without Worrall. Lawson and Summers ineligible to take r/r for him.

Where's all this expectation of rain coming from? BBC and the usually-ultra-reliable XC Weather both say no significant precipitation after 6am....... Won't be too warm, tho....

Of course I should have. Many thanks for highlighting the slip. Information now on the correct thread.

Jorgensen sidelined for Saturday, replaced by Stuart Robson. Mellgren returns, situation with Wethers not yet known. Tigers at full strength. (from this afternoon's e-newsletter)

Jorgensen sidelined for Saturday, replaced by Stuart Robson. Mellgren returns, situation with Wethers not yet known. Tigers at full strength. (from this afternoon's e-newsletter)

I'll have to correct you, I'm afraid. Engines running in pits from 6.30 -- bikes on track from 7pm. No engines after 9.30pm. There are several amendments, mostly slight relaxations concerning "special" events -- such as when Sky Sports visit -- but current restrictions are as above.

To explain: Strict planning conditions mean no bikes on track until 7pm. Traditionally, Berwick hold parade at 6.50, riders appear for Heat 1 at 7pm.

Newcastle coming with a full contingent? Don't make me chuckle.... GP Challenge qualifier at King's Lynn will have a couple of the Geezers involved for sure.

Perhaps Andre Compton having an average a full point and more higher than Anders Mellgren might blunt the enthusiasm of those seeking such a switch?

From this morning's e-newsletter: ANDERS OUT We regret to report that our popular Swede Anders Mellgren has been declared unfit to race for up to a month. As we are aware, Anders has been battling a knee injury, sustained in a fall at a training track in Cumbria the day before our opening match of the season at Redcar.. He has attempted to ride through a barrier of considerable pain since then, but a further knock this week has made the difficulty of trying to race impossible. He has returned to Sweden for medical treatment and assessment of the ligament damage.. The club has received a medical report and certificate from the clinic in Sweden, which has been lodged, duly translated, with the BSPA office at Rugby. While we await further medical reports, your Olympic Marquees Bandits will operate the rider-replacement facility in both League Cup matches this weekend. Anders's four programmed races may be taken by Theo Pijper, Matty Wethers and Liam Carr.

Edinburgh's John Campbell is quoted (in club press release) as saying: “We need to win tonight (Friday, against Glasgow) and ensure the Tigers do not pick up a point and then we must secure all four points at Berwick tomorrow". Fighting talk from the tall bald one! The Monarchs do have a good record at Shielfield Park however, and Saturday should be Berwick's hardest home-track test so far. From the Olympus Marquees Bandits own media briefing, Kevin Doolan says: "It's Edinburgh, after all. We have to take the threat of them coming here to wreak revenge very seriously indeed -- but with these fans of ours, waving flags and big foam fingers galore, I'm hoping we can see them off and maintain our very real intention of progression to the semi-finals". Bandits: 1. Thomas Jorgensen, 2. Theo Pijper, 3. Kevin Doolan (captain), 4. Anders Mellgren, 5. Seb Alden, 6. Matty Wethers, 7. Liam Carr. Monarchs: 1. Sam Masters (captain), 2. Erick Riss, 3. Kevin Wolbert, 4. Jye Etheridge, 5. Ryan Fisher, 6. Max Clegg, 7. Dan Bewley.

You've got that bit right, anyway -- he is!

It ain't just at the Showground -- Berwick haven't beaten Peterborough at Shielfield since 1998, either! Until this year, of course.

Your guys are next ---- Berwick haven't beaten Peterborough, home or away, since September of 1998. But this season, you're toast!

Getting back to the subject of the thread, this from today's Banditmail e-newsletter: We have many younger supporters who weren't born when your Bandits last beat the Monarchs at Armadale! The West Lothian arena had become a haunted house, a real bogey track for Berwick, with many border folk despairing of ever seeing another win there after that single triumph away back in 1998. In the last century. All this changed last Friday however, as the Olympus Marquees Bandits dug deep to defeat the reigning Premier League champions and League Cup-holders 46-44 in a nerve-tingler of a League Cup match. It was cold and it was damp, but with conditions the same for both teams, your bold Bandits held their nerve in the closing sequences of a contest in which they were never actually trailing their hosts. A win in Heat 14 for Matty Wethers after he smoothly cut back inside Erick Riss ensured at least a draw, but this was just a scene-setter for the last race, which saw Kevin Doolan splitting Sam Masters and Kevin Wolbert to grab second place and cue frantic celebrations! Although we didn't have a huge travelling support (we bet a few of you wish now that you'd gone) you can watch it happen -- we will have copies of the match DVD on sale in our Track Shop this Saturday at just £7. Something to think about, by the way is that Sam Masters scored a faultless 15-point maximum for the home side, but still ended up on the losing team. So, next time you hear someone sounding off that a club "must have an out-and-out Number One" to succeed, just have a quiet smile to yourself and think of Friday..........

No prizes for guessing that all Banditos will be hoping for a home win.

Well, The Fish collected his paid 14 as a guest for Newcastle at Berwick last week, and if he only scores (say) 13 for his own club at the same track, against the same opposition, this Saturday is Lewy going to be jumping up and down screaming "I told you so"?

Ryan was flyin' at Berwick on Saturday night. He had one not-so-good ride at Armadale against Berwick's match-winning Jorgensen/Pijper pairing, but otherwise did a fair job. Doubtless he'll do the business again this weekend, both against Glasgow on Friday and again at Berwick on Saturday. He's also box-office, and speedway needs every personality it can get.

A change in Newcastle's team. Tero Aarnio has withdrawn (that pesky knee again) and will be rider-replaced at No 3. Ryan Fisher will now guest at No 2.

Dan Bewley has the great (no other word applies) Steve Lawson in his pit this term, so expect the lad to get sound racing advice and be shown a great example on how to conduct himself.

Agree on your first point absolutely. On the second, how do we know they aren't?