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I have criticized Woffinden in the past when doing interviews, but that was incredible words and incredible sentiment, Woffinden is indeed a worthy Champion.

Woffinden World Champ

Heat 13 reminded me of watching Doctor Who when I was a kid, as I watched most of it from behind a cushion.

Lots of good racing, and great to see Nicki back up to speed.

Fair enough suggestion, though when this has been tried at Berwick before, Shielfield has been busting at the seems, then the following week we get back to the normal crowd. Look what happened when the club reduced admission, and introduced kids go free, lots of free kids but no noticeable increase in paying adults.

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Piotr Pawlicki comes into tonights SGP for the injured Przedpelski.

Reading other threads it appears that changes to rules and make up of all three leagues are at least on the cards, how many actually happen remains to be seen but IMO there needs to be significant rule changes for the betterment of everyone, sadly I doubt see those kinds of changes happening. Agree about advertising, getting new fans along is great, obviously, but it seems Berwick`s problem, and other tracks is keeping their existing customers coming week in week out.

Just be thankful your team was good enough to qualify for the 4TT Final.

Obviously this weeks news that Redcar & Newcastle have secure futures is good, but there is still concerns over Scunthorpe and of course Berwick, crowds are down virtually everywhere, clubs losing money.

There lies the issue, speedway is dying, with the supporters who are walking away not being replaced for many reasons, cost, complicated rules, etc.

Look at the average age of Berwick`s support, its an ageing one, the majority of which wont have access to the internet, so using social media would be lost on them. To be fair to the club they have the social media bases covered, the club has an account on Twitter with over 3000 followers and they are on Facebook, as is the supporters club, then there`s the club news letter, so they are getting the word out there. Other than word of mouth I would imagine the poster campaign will be the next cheapest, the club give these away free, for example there was 500 handed out for the last meeting at Berwick, so again that would seem to be covered. IMO its not up to the local paper to provide free advertising for Berwick Speedway, anyway I think speedway is well covered by them, there is a report on the previous weeks meeting, plus a preview of the next meeting.

Congratulations to all at Redcar Speedway on securing speedway for the next 15 years.

All credit to Edinburgh`s promotion and riders, every year they produce a trophy winning team.

No greater promotion than word of mouth IMO, whether it be bar, restaurant, film, speedway meeting, you name it, ironically costs not a penny.

I have seen some photos on social media of riders kevlars, but to see all 16 riders when race suits in tribute to Darcy Ward will be an incredible sight, but hopefully a one off.

In terms of Poole, and just Poole, Ford has done an incredible job, and made the Poole Pirates the biggest and best club in the EL. He has bent the odd rule along the way, and rode a coach and horses through others, maybe some EL promoters out there need to take a leaf out of Poole`s book, might make things more competitive, might also kill off British speedway.

I think Edinburgh will win tonight, but they cant hog all the trophies, so I will be a Diamond supporting geezer tonight. Shine bright like a Diamond.

http://www.peterboroughpanthers.co/news.php?extend.2653.2&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter If this fixture was organised before his call up to ride in Poland, surely he should still ride for Peterborough, I take it the fact he is guesting makes the difference.

Congratulations to Poole on winning the EL, finished top, won the play-off so have proved to be the best team. Like them or loathe them they are the standard that the other clubs have to beat.

Unlike one or two on here, my glass remains half full, and I am hopeful speedway will continue at Shielfield next season.

All booked up for the Czech GP, thought about going somewhere else next year, and still may do but Prague never misses for me.

Its called promotion, and if the announcement got an extra few along then all credit to the Newcastle promotion.

Anything that guarantees a speedway track for the next five years is good news and should be welcomed, for some of us next season is a million miles away right now.

Newcastle Speedway ‏@diamondspeedway 25s25 seconds agoByker, England Announcement: Newcastle Speedway have reached an agreement with stadium landlords William Hill for a new 5- year lease! #speedway