Hamster00

Clueless

They’ll probably win tonight and the opinions will be: Lewis Kerr is the worst signing we’ve ever made and the sky is falling in because we aren’t as good as last season. Yous should try a season as a Berwick or Plymouth fan.

But you call him worse than you know what in every post, maybe try backing him for a change instead of wanting him binned off after every meeting. Maybe he is performing under par but considering the season he had last year with constant injuries I wouldn’t have expected him to come out flying and I think your expectations are probably too high for him these days a good night for him is double figures but 7-8 will probably be the norm once he gets up to speed, Rowe will be your second HL by seasons end with Kerr and Cook behind would be my prediction.

Can’t help himself, always with his anti Berwick agenda, he’ll be devastated Dick didn’t make the mistake though.

It certainly doesn’t seem that way.

You’re like a dog with a bone, it’s exasperating. You won’t be pleased until the sport is in tatters and you can say “I told you so”

I think what he’s trying to say is there’s two other people who scored 1 point between them who the finger should be pointed at first. Everyone knows what Paco is by now and as an outsider looking in I’d not have expected him to score much more, yes a poor heat 14 but when you look at his performances compared to Thomsens it’s night and day, he’d be the first on to go if they could find a decent replacement imo. I like that the resist to sarcasm lasted about a paragraph but it is good to see you championing Leon Flint for a change.

You always pay more for a live event rather than a stream/pay per view event, that’s not unique to speedway just look at streaming services/pay per view events like boxing etc I much prefer going live as I’m sure most speedway fans do, Redcar streamed tonight but I still went to the live event. I absolutely think streaming brings in extra revenue, people who maybe can’t afford to attend on the day but can afford to pay £10-£15 for a stream brings in extra revenue, people who maybe can’t attend due to work or otherwise may also purchase. I can only speak from what I see week in and week out at Berwick but I certainly haven’t noticed a drop off in attendances since they started streaming a couple of seasons ago.

I wouldn’t call myself an “expert” but I think there’s a few big hurdles they’d have to overcome, maybe this is possible but maybe not, a few I can think of: 1) I’m assuming you’d want the 15 teams (Assuming Oxford would go back to one team) to all be relatively competitive with each other, you don’t want the current Ipswich team going up against the current Berwick team for instance but unfortunately I think those two teams probably operate with vastly different budgets and I can’t imagine the tv money is earth shattering as in some sports therefore what is the basis of team building? Are Ipswich still signing Emil and Doyley while Berwick are signing Cook and Kemp to spearhead? 2) As you say, riders double up so if the standard it to be some sort of Premiership/Championship level riders, where are they all coming from? It seems difficult as it is to attract riders who are committed in Poland, Sweden etc as it is, how do we overcome this? 3) Race nights, some teams are unable to race on a Monday or Thursday evening as the Premiership does now to enable them to sign riders committed abroad so how do you get round that? Berwick are only allowed by the council to do Saturdays and occasional Wednesdays, Workington have no floodlights currently so can only do weekends? Do we move off set race nights and exclude certain riders from this country or do we exclude teams who can’t conform to the schedule? I’m sure theres plenty more questions and hurdles I haven’t even considered yet but those are just a few off the top of my head. I imagine this has been discussed at length on this forum before but to say “why on earth don’t they do this” like it’s some magical easy fix for speedway in this country is quite frankly absurd. You can call me anti one league or whatever and I’m all for trying to boost the sports profile etc in Britain to restore it to its previous glory but it’s nowhere near as easy as you seem to think.

For some teams yes, I think our (Berwick) away numbers are down this year from what I saw at Edinburgh and Glasgow over the weekend. However I think Glasgow, Edinburgh and Redcar all brought great supporting numbers to Berwick, no less than they have in the last 5-10 years I would argue. It’ll be interesting to see what numbers they take to Worky with it being a 3pm start compared to Berwick being a 7pm.

A win is a win as previously stated, nowhere near enough to progress to the next round I’d say. I didn’t expect we’d have enough to overcome Redcar with a top 5 as strong as they have built. I feel most meetings will come down to the last few heats this season at Berwick if the track is prepared to Cooks liking and its as slick as it has been the last couple of weeks.

Because his leg is being held together by various braces on a daily basis. This is the right decision, he clearly isn’t fit enough yet. The problem could/should have been avoided by not signing him back in the first place until we knew for sure his fitness was not a concern, had we done that we’d be avoiding all of this carry on.

I don’t think anyone will be as effective as VP at reserve, the guy was only beaten once in seven rides tonight, he’s a heat leader in a reserves race jacket. Grahn can do well comparative to what he may do in the main body but nobody will get close to achieving what Palovaara can from that spot imo.

Yet all your “observations” are negative about Berwick and you go to watch Redcar by choice instead. Moaning about the Berwick track and Mr Barrie seems to be your favourite hobby horse on here.

Magic gives it his all it seems to me. Bit harsh on Kildemand, he’s just not the rider he was a decade ago and seems out of his depth now in the Premiership, the fact he’s only had a team in Denmark for the last couple of seasons shows how much he’s fallen off standard wise, he’s doing fine at Berwick to be fair to him.

Puts Hagon in to the main body of the team, which he doesn’t look ready for at this point in time unfortunately, been really surprised at how much he has struggled so far and I hope it’s just a blip. We have a very long tail it seems.

Bastian clearly isn’t fit and needs time to recover, understandable. Signing Jack Smith as a replacement however is quite a head scratcher.

Yet you still find reason to comment on it……… Sad.

I wouldn’t say they greatly improve Edinburghs chances as Mr Barrie does but I do think it could certainly work out for them. Jye in theory on his home track for over half a decade, a place where he has scored double figures on many an occasion could absolutely come and show Berwick up, especially if he is in at reserve, I fully expected VP to do well but Jye could do even better imo, purely and simply because it’s at Berwick. Grahn had never seen the place before and as much as I’m a Paco fan, Berwick isn’t his favourite track going on past history. It absolutely could work out for Edinburgh against a Berwick team that will once again be asking Kemp to lead them to victory I think.

I’ll trade you, Cook for Howarth?

Fancy a Glasgow away win, Hagon at reserve is really the only place I can see Berwick being comfortably stronger and we know how well Bomber and Leon go at Sheilfield.

He brought it on himself, he didn’t have to sign Cookie for either Leicester or Berwick but he did.

Think that’s harsh on Edinburgh, they were probably the team with the biggest variables pre season but certainly one with plenty of potential and they’ve delivered on it tonight. In the same breath I would agree it’s poor from Glasgow, a team that on paper looked as good/better than most. Luckily it’s only Berwick next week so should be a fairly comfortable bounce back, I imagine Sedgy’s phone will be ringing for a guest booking for one of the Bandits heat leaders.

Paco I believe was due to ride abroad on Sunday therefore couldn’t fill a spot in the CLRC but also withdrew from the Pairs due to a crash he had at Armadale on Friday.

Where did you get that information from? As far as I can see he hasn’t ridden in Poland for a quite a while now, he also hasn’t ridden in any of the pre season individual meetings across there either. The reason he can commit to Berwick is partly due to his lack of overseas commitments, by the looks of it he is only committed to Britain and Denmark currently and the Danish season hasn’t started yet.