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That's a helluva change in headline to this thread, curses to those Panthers.

Cook will need to make a few decisions at the end of the season, if he wants to further his career and become the best rider he can be he needs to move away from the PL and get into Poland and/or Sweden. If he wants to pick up relatively easy money for the next few years then he continue in the PL for Edinburgh and have a doubling up team in the EL.

Agree with you. From the first time I saw Pedersen racing in an early season challenge meeting at Berwick you could see he was a talent, and has gone on to realise that talent. Nicki is box office, even if its for the wrong reasons at times, and speedway will be the poorer when he calls it a day.

Glasgow may have missed out on Bellego as an asset but from what I`ve seen young Berge has something about him and could be easily as good as Bellego.

Newcastle are more than a decent team round their own track, and as last night showed have plenty race winners in their team.

Just Berwick`s luck that Berge returns for this one, as you say he could be Glasgow's match winner. Aye your right there.

Vissing may well have aggravated his knee injury when falling in his third ride as he was well out of sorts for his last ride. Doolan has had his critics of late but he rode well last night, hopefully the new bits on his bike are doing the trick. IMO Berwick can be proud of their efforts last night, maybe more race wins was needed, but all they played their part in a good night speedway, though looking at some other social media I`m wondering if I was at Newcastle last night.

Decent nights racing in a meeting that had everything, falls, controversy and some good racing. Berwick were well in this meeting, and could probably have pinched a point or two but seemed to run out of steam towards the later races. Doolan and Kus were good for Berwick, Jensen and Wethers were ok and Carr deserved more for his efforts, however Berwick were let down by their no1 Vissing who sadly had his worst night of the season so far. Lack of race winners were Berwicks un-doing but they can be proud of their efforts. King and Kerr were excellent for Newcastle, turning point for Newcastle was after having two poor outings Lindgren then went undefeated in his last two rides which went along way to open a gap in the scores. Highlight of the night IMO was a Berwick fan who decided to walk up to the pits to throw a load of bile at Simon Nielsen, after making a bit of a testical of himself beat a hasty retreat.

Try telling that to a number of Berwick fans over on the Newcastle v Berwick thread, they have a similar situation with Bellego.

Wasn't me that brought up the subject of any ban so go rant with the poster who did.

Unless Berwick claim Bellego is withholding his services, which he isn't, he wont face any ban. I am amazed Berwick haven't announced this fact.

Had Bellego really wanted to be at Newcastle tonight then I think he would've been, it seems Peterborough are having the same issue with Lasse Bjerre.

It isn't only Peterborough that are affected by riders struggling to return from Italy, Berwick are minus David Bellego for their trip to Newcastle, though you have to question the wisdom of why Peterborough would agree to ride against the PL leaders a day after the first Final where it was always going to be likely that Bjerre would be in it.

Everybody blames Screm.

That doesn't mean to say its not true, surely your not one of the merry band that needs to have it officially announced by the club before they believe it, I thought better of you.

Really. Just before six o'clock referee Margaret Vardy and team captains Derek Sneddon and Matthew Wethers made the briefest of track inspections and the inevitable decision was taken to call off the Knock Out Cup quarter final first leg. At that stage the stadium was being lashed by heavy rain and the track was long past repair. Berwick had been relatively dry all day but drizzle started falling at 4.30pm and got worse and worse after that. Supporters travelling down the A1 to the match had to endure dreadful driving conditions only to arrive at a very soggy Shielfield Park. Both teams were keen that this fixture would not create further fixture congestion later in the season so the match has been re-arranged for this Wednesday, 23rd July with a start time of 7.30pm. Taken from Edinburgh's Twitter page.

Tonight's meeting has been re-arranged for this coming Wednesday at 7-30pm.

Sad really as I believe this thread could've been very entertaining over tonight and tomorrow.

To be fair to the club, right up till 4-30pm IMO the meeting would've been very much on, the drizzle turned to rain which then turned to heavy rain. I`m sure at 6pm when the meeting was called off there would've been little alternative. Probably not much of a consolation to those who have to come any kind of difference but there you go. As I look out now the rain has all but stopped.

Called off just before 6pm, of course the silver lining to this particular cloud is that come the re-arrangement Berwick should be back to full strength with Bellego back in the team.

Forecast now showing rain till around 7pm, then becoming drier. I`ve been confident of seeing speedway all day, for the last couple of hours we have had steady now heaving rain, I leave now in hope rather than confidence.

Rain heavier than before, still misty, weather has closed right in over the last hour or so.

We have a heavy mist and drizzle in Berwick just now, it seems there has been rain all around Berwick today which has all missed Berwick, until now.

Drizzle has started again.

The weathers Gods have certainly smiled on Berwick today, the forecast heavy showers so far haven't turned up. Its been dull, misty and grey all day and but for a sprinkling of rain around lunchtime its been dry, so looks like we will get a meeting tonight. PS I wouldn't mind a pound every time we here the word smug from the centre green this evening.