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The Track - It is safer than it was a few years ago yes and I agree that that is the most important thing but is the track good for racing not really mainly down to shape I think but I'm not a track curator so that's just my guess. Ben Barker - A good signing and probably could get a few faces along that aren't massive speedway fans as most people with a passing knowledge of speedway know who he is and it is nice to have a big name number one. Vissing and Doolan - Two key riders this season and I was pleased to have them back. Pricing - Very much on a par with most of the Premier League but I personally think speedway in general is over priced. Kids Entry - I don't have kids so I'm not exactly sure of the deal and it would be interesting to see how many families it enticed along. Stadium - Has been improved I do believe a lot of this has more to do with Berwick Rangers to make sure they keep up with SPFL standards as a speedway venue it is streets ahead of a lot of other stadiums. Newsletter - I don't subscribe to so I can't comment I wait until Crescent Girl spreads the news from the centre green on here. Programme - I personally think it is one of the poorest in the league and always seems to contain mistakes its streets behind the one you get at Newcastle so I only really buy it to keep the scores it is cheap enough at £2 though. Posters - I haven't personally seen them just the banners in the town centre I know Berwick Rangers do them and put them in local shops I did not know we did. Additional Meetings - It has been fantastic to see these meetings on our doorstep and a lot of that has to do with how good our stadium is compared to other speedway stadiums, they are always well attended and provide a nice break from the usual league meetings. Sky - As above well attended and enjoyable to see the show come to Berwick. Apart from Ben Barker, Claus Vissing and Kevin Doolan though what out of the above will attract people along every week? It's not me that they need to win around though it's your speedway fans of old who have stopped coming and your new faces that you need to get along. I will come to as many meetings as I can but how do you get Joe Bloggs, his wife and two kids to decide to have a night out at the speedway. They probably aren't interested in Newsletters or Programmes, what they are interested in is if they spend £30 are they getting a good night out, good value for money, good entertainment we need something to create a buzz like a sky meeting does. It's like a conveyor belt if 100 fans fall off each year and don't come back for one reason or another you need at least another 100 fans to start coming and Speedway in general needs to start coming up with ideas to get the fans along.

I would agree we did very well last season and exceeded most peoples expectations. Currently though we have a struggling team and dwindling crowds which is what the promotion need to address. The addition of Richard Hall should sure up the team and add some depth but they need to address the crowd issue. You say we need to all turn up to help this and I agree but you can't as a promotion expect people to turn up and spend there hard earned money if they feel that it is not worth the money The promotion can't wait till everybody comes and then start making changes that's just not how it works. You need to make changes and improve things to entice people back through the door its a pretty simple business strategy. If you owned a shop and people stopped coming in to buy things from you, you wouldn't just sit around and wait for them to come back because they wouldn't, you would find out why they weren't coming, address the issue and try to entice them back which is what the promotion needs to do.

If you look in the Berwick 2015 thread everyone on there is agreeing it was a good move replacing Luke with Richard and I agree something had to be done and Richard is an experienced rider who will add a bit more depth. Personally the reason I have a moan about certain things isn't because I want the club to fold it's because I want the club I support to be the best it possibly can be. I'm not saying I know all the answers or I could fix it all I just want to try and improve things where I feel we could do better and come up with some suggestions. Surely you can see that so far this season has been nothing short of a disaster for the club. A string of home defeats, some unfortunate injuries, an inconsistent track and dwindling crowd numbers have all resulted in us all fearing the worst for our club. I am one of the biggest critics out there but it's through nothing more than wanting the club I support to be the best it can be and be able to compete with the likes of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Somerset and Ipswich. The few people that I do know that criticise are very similar and only have the best interests of the club at heart. Nobody wants the club to close but I think everyone's different views on the matter have made people perceive what I would view as constructive criticism as a scathing attack on the club and promotion.

You've taken the words right out of Scotts mouth

Neither did I but I left as soon as Alex crashed as I guessed that would be the end of the meeting.

I'm astonished more than anything. You normally seem to be in denial about how poor the meetings have been so far this season.

You get people moaning in all walks of life though every single place you go you will find that and I find it astonishing that people would not turn up because of that I've never heard anything like it. I know plenty of people who have stopped coming recently but for the more obvious reasons as stated above entertainment, poor results and so on.

What do you mean step up to the mark?

Slaver

You been on this?

All racing is real racing I'd rather win the league cup than nothing.

That's why they charge £17 to get in.

Totally agree after two home defeats on the bounce I am totally deflated and the thought of watching two poor teams hardly excites me We should win by ten but it's nothing to be excited about Scunthorpe are weak this season.

We will be lucky to get 30.

Can't complain paying that if your as good as they are year in year out I wouldn't mind paying an extra £2 if we were as good as them.

I think you'll find your in the minority I stand with a group of maybe a dozen some like me attend as many meetings home and away as possible some are a more casual fan that doesn't follow speedway and Berwick as closely as myself Not one of them were happy after last night the result combined with a poor nights entertainment I will go next week if I can I'm not going to walk away because I care about the team and I would find it hard not to go but it know a couple that won't be coming next week and they don't come on here posting it either but like many others they can't see the value for money You can bang on about bad luck and yes it hasn't been an ideal start injury wise but whoever they bring in for Matic and even when Barker is fully fit I simply do not see how we can compete with the likes of Edinburgh, Glasgow and so on and if the entertainment does not improve I can only see crowd numbers falling I don't know what the answer is whether it's a case of if nothing improves make team changes or whether we need to make the track a bit rougher but something needs to be done Maybe the promotion should have a fans forum evening so we can try and help but after the whole thing with the Supporters Club and VIP Club who knows? I'm just saying you seem to be in the minority I agree more people come on here to moan than anything else but I think if you asked every fan who turned up last night whether they were happy with what they saw then I think the 'moaners' would be in the majority.

We would have been better tonight without Barker.

You can blame the track as much as you want and I might be in the minority here but I want us to win more than anything whether it's a good meeting or not if we lose I'm disappointed As poor as the track was the Monarchs had there gating gloves on which is paramount at Berwick, the riders should be getting more flak imo.

Best laugh of the night 😂

In a word embarrassing Beaten by our closest rivals and no entertaining racing at all Barker clearly wasn't fit enough I didn't think this team was up to much when it was announced and I think even less of it now.

Rider replacement should help us but is Barker 100% yet? We should probably win this but it's Edinburgh and Cookie so I can see an away win being on the cards after we take a healthy lead and blow it. Cookie to clean house and then slate Berwick on twitter

Fair point I was just going by the official greensheet averages on the BSPA site

I thought Simon Stead finished top of the averages last season? Stead, King and Cook are the top 3 in the league imo with Barker, Kennett and the like not far behind The difference is, all of the above apart from Cook have found there level Cook still has a chance to progress.

That teams as bad as my Leigh Lanham shout.

You obviously haven't seen half the teams Berwick have assembled over the past 10 years then