allthegearbutnaeidea

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.

It was sarcasm.

Why do people keep suggesting Bastian? He let us down last season and then put a statement out moaning about how the club treated him and that he was fit and that Berwick were lying.

I’m happy it’s not Hume, that’s all I’ll say. Leaves it being a newcomer on a 4, and Smith as the reserves I’d think, unfortunately.

Oh dear we’ve found the simple one

What momentum does he need? Had a full season at Berwick bar the opening 2 / 3 meetings and dropped a point off his average. He’s not a kid anymore.

To quote you - “To maintain the standard at the 2026 level you would need to find 25-30 riders at or close to the standard of Harris,Lawson,King,Nicholls,Wright etc “ You choosing to use 5 of the top 10 averaged riders in the Championship is just trying to sensationalise your argument.

Why do we need 25-30 Championship number 1’s to maintain the standard of the Championship, for 5 more teams? It would be the likes of Ben Cook, Lidsey, Chris Holder, NKI, Klindt, any of them wanting to stay in Britain, which plenty of them will with a decent fixture list, coupled with a few newcomers to the league on assessed 6/5/4 from around the world, and the next 5-10 NL riders to step up. It would certainly stretch the Championship out and racing wouldn’t be near as good due to the differing standard of riders, maybe you resort to 6 man teams instead, but you don’t need 25 number ones, you’d get them from the Premiership I think. BV - Ben Cook/Blodorn/Lidsey Sheff - Chris Holder Lynn- Klindt/NKI Ippo - Brennan/Rew Leicester - Douglas/Becker Northampton/Pboro - Tungate/One of the above

Want - Etheridge, Lambert, Perry Expect - Hume, ?, Smith

Tragic reading this for a Saturday night

You’re coming across as an entitled pillock whether you mean to or not. Virtually all Championship clubs are getting 600 as a poor figure, and upwards of 3k as a higher figure for league meetings, which of course is the reason why none of them are for sale or pulling out the league, coupled with not paying £1K per point for their superstars. Wages should not be 100% of turnover, it’s basic business.

You just don’t get it do you? Yes we should all bow down to the Ipswich way, and have gone bust by April because we’re paying the town’s average salary on one rider every week. You have a great sponsor in Guy Nicholls, and get a good crowd from I’m sure successful promoting, but that doesn’t mean everyone can follow you. Team speedway has levels, the nine teams in the Championship are in that league because the promotors feel that is where they are most sustainable, for the FUTURE OF BRITISH SPEEDWAY. But the Premiership clubs, oh no, Championship clubs must follow them, as they’re saving British speedway, look how healthy and sustainable they are. Birmingham only lost a reported 500K in 2 or 3 years, Oxford couldn’t afford to pay underperforming ‘international superstars’ come the end of the season. Belle Vue lost an absolute fortune as usual, but presumably have someone to bail them out, possibly Council grants? Sheffield put up for sale, Ipswich put up for sale. Lets all down to the Ipswich way, if we did, there wouldn’t be a team sport in this country. Half would fold trying to pay £20K a meeting to a foreign superstar, and the other half would follow the Ipswich promotor and put the club up for sale when they didn’t get their way at a meeting. Who’s buying those clubs? No one with any sense, that’s for sure.

Yes but he hadn’t been announced when he posted that had he.