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Any news on our secret, or not so secret, practice session last night.

And you would hope we will have at least Robert Lambert into the final to after tonight's meeting at Belle Vue.

Giving his performance at Newcastle recently I`d be hunting for Seb Alden`s phone number.

Congratulations to Josh Bates on reaching the World Under-21 Final.

Might be touch and go for Jason Garrity making this meeting for Sheffield, he crashed last night racing at Coventry and has with drawn from tonight meeting at Lakeside.

Alden started the season on an assessed average (no me neither), should he score 4pts or more at our next meeting at Sheffield he would then have done 4 home and 4 away meeting, and qualify for a true average which will see him as our new No1.

Psst quick, do an edit, its Edinburgh, but I don`t think anyone's noticed yet. Oh.

Having an inconsistent No1 is of no good to Berwick, but Alden certainly has it in him to win the vital races in a meeting, just hope he can do it on a regular bases. I think getting the No1 race jacket was one of Seb`s ambitions at the start of the season so an ambition realised.

Berwick`s looked to be holding up reasonably well but there seemed to be a drop off for the meetings with Newcastle and then Sheffield last week, which must be a worry as they are attractive opposition. Losing at home doesn't help, lets hope tomorrows practice find the answers to rectify that, and everything is looked at to get the team back winning.

You`d think Proctor would be of interest, but that could mean more than one change to the Bears team.

Lawson is now twenty nine, I doubt any team would sign a rider that has been away from competitive speedway for the length of time he has.

Sheffield Speedway ‏@TigersSpeedway 3m3 minutes ago MEETING OFF| Tonight's referee has called off the meeting v Rye House. Apologies for any inconvenience folks. We are as disappointed as you.

Maybe they could bring a bus load of their friends and family.

And on a mountain bike.

Then with an inconsistent No1, coupled with arguably our most potent scorer going into the top five, there may be troubled times ahead for our team. Lets hope they find the answers in this Saturday practice session so we get a winning team out on track sooner rather than later.

It proves at least that the club is using its wide range of contacts to attract possible riders to the club, maybe this new Dutch rider isn't quite ready yet but could be a signing for next season.

Club spokesman ?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o23Tk8dCcuA A short clip of him practicing.

It is to be hoped that Alden finds the necessary consistency to hold the No1 race jacket, good one week poor the next wont help the team. Berwick look weaker with Bager as reserve, Berwick may need to look at that should Mellgren be unable to come back into the team anytime soon, especially we are to have any ambition of making a play off spot.

http://www.ipswichwitches.co/story/louis-stick-with-us

If the Berwick riders are attending a practice at Shielfield, Workington are having to put on a filler meeting, as was suggested yesterday it would have been an idea to run the second leg of the Border Trophy or whatever its called. Not a PL meeting but better than practice. Reading the Workington Somerset thread it was mentioned that Workington were keen on the idea, to late now though.

Pedersen needs to dump the bird, stop being Mr lover lover and get back to being Mr Angry.

Nothing sucks the atmosphere out of, or empties a stadium quicker than a couple of home defeats and poor performances, lets hope whatever the problems are within the team are addressed now we have a couple of weeks to do so. I am sure our promotion and consortium will meet, if they haven't already, to do just that. On last night Doolan, Pyjper and Ayres were decent and did all they could to at least keep the scoreline respectable, the others inconsistent and poor, and need to use this time off to sort things out, or maybe the club will sort things out for them. As others have mentioned you`ll struggle to carry any rider but when that rider is the No1 its doubly difficult. Take nothing away from Sheffield who were excellent, inparticular I thought Josh Bates caught the eye, far more in control and looked very classy.

Unless some of the riders are riding elsewhere it would make sense but having announced there`ll be no meeting next Saturday it would be un-wise to reverse that decision now, yes there`s the news letter, Facebook page etc but I would imagine there`s a sizeable percentage of our crowd that wont have internet access.

Ipswich Witches ‏@ipswichspeedway 15s15 seconds ago Late change for the Witches tonight, @DanyonHume_ replaces Darryl as his partner has gone into an early slow labour #speedway