allthegearbutnaeidea

Oh yes, Berwick are renowned for silverware and winning at all cost, with poor crowds. Haven't made a semi final or the play offs for 12 years for crying out loud. I’d argue there was more there on Saturday than what was at Ashfield, albeit down to Glasgows great away following, but if you think that crowd was bad, for a small town like Berwick, you’re very badly mistaken. Berwick Rangers attendance which I believe includes all tickets given out, and season tickets, not just people through the gate, recorded an attendance of 545 in the afternoon, and having walked through the car park, I can say there was easily 3x as many cars for the speedway, possibly 4x. The track was poor, and it may of been deliberately like you suggest, but we aren’t allowed access to it from around 1pm-5.30pm, and it was forecast to and did rain from 11-12, thankfully the rain didn’t amount to much and we were good to go, but if it had been prepared differently, and more rain arrived, we could have been in bother.

Speakers been poor for a long time on back straight unfortunately. Reid Battye has made himself a fans favourite on home debut, fantastic from him. Solid from Jye and PK, should be a strong partnership if Dickson stays with them. Palovaara done his job on paper over the weekend, but having went to both meetings, I thought he was fairly poor, but consistently beat who he should, maybe I’m being a tad harsh? Decent opening weekend, the next two weeks will see if we can get through either of the cups.

Is everyone looking at a different forecast to me? Met Office is showing no signs of any speedway

I don’t think he will be…☔️

Met office forecast not looking good

Sums up how much interest Poole fans have on youth speedway in this country.

Berwick have one to announce very soon hopefully.

But they literally had a NL team last season.

got wise to Kemp? He’s dropping the championship as he’s signed for Daugavpils. Could only really sign for Oxford or Poole to go with those commitments

I’d love to see your workings for this. There will be 63 Championship riders this season, plus from last season, Kemp, Borke, Gusts, Heeps, Knudsen, Nagel, Boughen, Starke, Klindt, Polis, Bowtell, S Worrall, Z Kennedy, D Kennedy, Voulas, Hook on the sidelines. I’ll remove the unlikeliest ones and you’ve still got around 74 Championship level riders. We’d require 98 for 14 x 7 man teams. 24 riders to find, a few Premiership will drop down to the one big league, riders like Iversen who aren’t good enough in Poland anymore. Say that leaves 20 spots, 10 to be foreigners coming in on assessed averages, and 10 NL riders moving up seems fair, but you could easily get 20 Aussies/Americans/Danes to come who aren’t involved in the top leagues, this is presuming we stick with 7 man teams, we may go 6 and then suddenly you’ve only got 10 spots to fill (14x6=84 - 74 riders =10). So no, why on earth would Jack Smith on a sub 3 be a second string, stop over dramatising, Championship riders aren’t going to leave the Britain.

Poole, Plymouth and Edinburgh obvious. Scunny - Ablitt, Lambert, MPT, Harrison Berwick - Assessed 4 pointer. Worky - Who knows… Cookie, a 5 assessed and a 2 pointer?

There’s so many places where this team could have been far better, and the Smith signing is certainly one of them.

So as predicted, Berwick pick 28 year old Jack Smith rather than the young man who showed him the way round Shielfield Max Perry

Forgone conclusion then?

But has a broken back

Scunny I’d have had Lambert and Perry as final two and I’m sure majority of others would too.

Or not.

Yes, an assessed 4.

They’ve signed Jack Smith… Everyone knows it.

There’s not much out there to fill the gap if it’s Paco and Kye, and I can’t see either of them not being in the team.

Disagree

Do you really think Max Perry would be asking for more money than Jack Smith?

What an absolute shambles. Hang your heads in shame Berwick promotion.

Max Perry, and about 8 years younger too.

It was sarcasm.