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Change for change sake very rarely works though, Ipswich seem to have a capable team on paper but aren't producing decent results on track.

Maybe but as I don't know either I cant comment, but the debate about the best rider to have as our reserve should now be over.

If one or two of your riders don't up their game at Newcastle tonight you might want to avoid the updates between 6 and 9 tonight.

At least the debate between Bates and Ellis, for the reserve place in Team GB, can be put to bed now.

Thankfully for Ipswich at least Danny King turned up, the rest needn't have bothered. Sad to see how far Ben Barkers form has falling away, couple of seasons ago he was one of the PL`s top riders sadly now he looks very much like his best days are very much behind. But for a blip at Glasgow last Sunday Berwick`s form at the minute is excellent, bring in the right rider at No1 and we might just hang onto a play off place yet. Regarding tapes up at 7pm, as advertised, couldn't agree more.

Link on post 141.

Get along to it, but for work I was considering coming to this meeting.

As most promoters do.

Weather for tomorrow looks decent but lets face it, for those of us lucky enough to be in Berwick this week it couldn't have got much worse. More October than June. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2655819?day=1

Not really, you could put a rider out on their own where he could record fast times time after time but no good in a race situation or in a SWC situation. As I`ve posted earlier Woffinden, Lambert, Cook plus one of King or Nicholls will make up our team IMO with the reserve place going to one of Ellis or Bates, Bates being my choice.

Fair enough, I am sure Ellis wouldn't let anyone down, I`d go for Josh Bates. Much more important IMO opinion we get our top four right as no matter who the Under-21 reserve is he may never get a ride.

Not to fussed about who`s fastest, just want to know who is the best rider and who will score points.

Fantastic experience for him, results aren`t important as what he learns now could make him all the better rider later. Would they look to a new rider on an assessed average, or a rider with PL experience who hasn't raced over here for a year or two.

Agree with you, I think the last place is right now between King and Nicholls and at a push Harris though he will need one helluva month to force his way into our team. After that our reserve position should go to Josh Bates.

Meeting off re-arranged for next Thursday.

It is noticeable that reading this thread, the one on the British Final thread and the one on the SWC thread that very few have Chris Harris anywhere Team GB, one wonders if Rossiter will feel the same.

Either way I`d take Bates over Ellis.

A view from the Ipswich site on Saturday`s meeting. http://www.ipswichwitches.co/story/witches-face-bandits

Agree that its a bit pricey just for one meeting, I have main stand tickets for the play off and Final which I thought is excellent value.

Lambert is good enough to be in the four main riders, that could spell bad news for Scott Nicholls who may well miss out.

Having released Mellgren I doubt Berwick would get the go ahead to re-sign him. If he is back racing, and fully fit he could be a decent signing for someone out there.

On his Twitter account Anders is making it quite clear he is looking for a team place. Berwick signed Henning Bager as a short term replacement for Mellgren, then signed Romano Hummell as a full time replacement, now we have signed Daniel Gappmaier as a replacement for Hummell.

Could you give us an idea of what kind of budget Berwick have.

You could very well be right, maybe misses both weekend meetings due to his injury, but Ipswich signed him after he had signed for Buxton, as with other leagues I thought those fixtures that were arranged first would take precedence.

Greenwood would miss the meeting at Berwick anyway as his NL team have a fixture at Stoke, should he be fit enough, but if you right about a head injury he could miss both meetings.