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Not the most entertaining meeting you will ever see, but delighted to see a Bears win. Was steady drizzle from about 7:15 until around heat 4, which made the track a bit tricky I thought. For the Bandits, thoroughly impressed with young Liam Carr. Gated very well and looked comfortable out in front. Doolan was excellent too and as quick as I have seen him, and Pijper had his usual meeting at the MPA! Alden was just as i remembered, excellent if gated but not impressive otherwise. Highlight for the Bears was obviously Bellego. Quick all night, and rode some very hard first bends. Made probably the only genuine overtake of the night to pass Alden in heat 4 too. Superb signing if he can keep that standard. Bjerre came back from his injury very well, and would have been another 3 points if he had not retired in heat 1 whilst comfortably leading. Positive signs from pretty much the whole side, Bukhave would have had a win if not for panicking on the fourth lap whilst I thought Nielsen was very solid. Good nights work against what is a very decent Berwick side.

I would expect the order to be: Bjerre Bukhave Skidmore Andersen Bellego Nielsen Payne Tricky to judge the score with no form to really go off. On paper, we do not have the strongest looking team but I think we will be exciting to watch - certainly liked the look of Payne at P&P. Will go for a close away win, but hopefully an entertaining meeting and no injuries.

Simon Nielson at number six confirmed on Facebook. Leaves just less than 8.5 for the final rider so think we can rule proctor out

As expected, Skidmore is back but David Bellego also confirmed (on Redcar facebook)

Would like to see ty back, and think fully fit he should average around 7 at least. Potential risk of him not getting a visa, but is it worth the risk?

Lee Payne confirmed as 3 point reserve

Would take proctor back at Redcar but agree it is a risk waiting for a visa

Now on Bears website as well. Not unexpected, but great start to the 2016 side

Would love to see him at Redcar but can't see that happening!

He was a touch unfortunate with us last season, but due to the injuries and poor for we suffered something had to change. Would imagine a number of clubs will be after him now though

Thoughts on who the 3 pointer could be? Could we see Morley back? Arguably the top NL guy, would he want to come back after being replaced?

Nothing 100% official as far as I am aware but he is pretty much nailed on to be a Bear next season.

I'd be disappointed if Jonas is not back at Redcar next season.

Would be a real shame if true, always enjoyed watching him ride.

Rider I always enjoy watching at the Media Prima Arena. If he was available and fitted in then would be happy to have him. Imagine Scunthorpe would want him back though?

Tentative stab at next years lineup: Bjerre Kus Jonas Anderson Skidmore Tungate Plus two reserves! Great news that the lease has been renewed for 15 years.

A couple of hard moves but certainly not dirty and not particularly close to the fence. Dived up the inside and forced him wide but no more than that. Same as heat four in the race with him and fisher as both riders pulled of the same move and shook hands after the race... Jonas is certainly a talent, really hope we can convince him to come back

Was actually a really good speedway meeting tonight, most enjoyable of the entire season for me. Some excellent racing from both sides, and the result was probably just about fair. A couple of excellent guests for the Bears. Lawson was imperious ,the only surprise was he dropped a point! Wethers was absolutely excellent and probably won us the meeting. Kus was good though and special mention to Jonas B Andersen. Really hope we can convince him to come next season as he is a excellent talent. Couple of excellent races with Ryan Fisher and Todd Kurtz. Full credit to Plymouth who contributed brilliantly to the meeting. Risager was excellent in his first two rides when he gated, but miles behind when he didnt. Ryan Fisher and Jack Holder were very entertaining and maybe deserved more points, whilst Todd Kurtz had one of his excellent STMP meetings. Wright and Simota both very poor though. Good track, decent enough crowd and good racing meant a very enjoyable night for me at least.

i think Wethers is scheduled to guest in place of Roynon.

I had thought it was for Morley? Should be a decent enough signing i think and improve the team.

To be honest I have tried to not say too much otherwise might get in trouble. Sure Mr Worrall will be writing to the speedway star complaining about the redcar fans again..

Any optimism we may have had for the rest of the season well and truly wiped out. Two sickening crashes and what looked like bad injuries. Jan's crash was just one of those things. Lifted out of turn two, and trying to avoid the riders in front of him absolutely smashed into the fence on the back straight. Took a good while to move him, and looked a very bad impact. Bjerre was the result of a very very hard second bend from Worrall. He took Bjerre's front wheel taking him down, but unfortunately left Robbo nowhere to go apart from over Bjerre. Lasse was on the track for 30 minutes before we left, with 3 ambulances surrounding him and you could still hear him screaming in pain. Was sickening. Worrall rightly took plenty of stick the the redcar fans, and thought it best to respond with two fingers. Classy. I hear he threatened to retire in the speedway star last week and based on tonight that day can't come soon enough.

r/r for Kerr as well I believe

I am sure that is correct - can only tell you what was sent out pre-meeting. Would be a massive shame as pointed out above. The annoying things is if Robson had been r/r i'm not sure the result would have been too much different.

The averages were declared pre-meeting with kus on 6.68 and robson on 7.27.