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I sit in the stand and as you say the red lights came on almost straight away, sad thing was the in field track staff seemed oblivious to the whole thing, almost for a full lap.

With the tracks being reasonably similar in size and shape there`s no reason why Berwick cant make a meeting of this, alas that hasn't always been the case, hopefully this time will be different.

IMO it should be based on who has the best chance of getting a GB rider into next years GP series, right now given the form of all the GB riders Nicholls deserves that chance, should he want to of course.

Largely unimpressive first half of the meeting with virtually no passing and from the gate racing, that changed for the second half of the meeting with inparticularly Jensen lighting up Shielfield with a thrilling last to first in Ht8. Workington with two 5-1s in Hts 10 & 11 looked to have a winning lead but Berwick set up a thrilling Ht15 with Vissing and Wethers being the Bandits hero`s, though Vissing might have got away with a jump start in the re-run of the last race having already been warned for jumping the start in the first running. A welcome win but you still get the feeling there`s parts of the team that are under performing, if Berwick are to do anything in the PL this season they will need a fully functioning team. What a good signing Vissing is turning out to be.

Giving the younger riders a go I understand, though by now you would think Rossiter would have known Danny King was never going to get to any GP series anytime soon but he has still been given one of the places.

Then IMO Nicholls should at least be asked.

Not even the poet laureate could find the words to describe the beauty of Berwick this morning. No worries weather-wise for this meeting.

What Gollob was an alleged arsonist when he was younger.

Weathers set fair for Berwick tomorrow, its been gorgeous today and more of the same tomorrow though it will be a bit more breezy than today.

Maybe he`s was just counting the thirty miles that goes out in the North Sea.

The form Nicholls has started the season in you wonder if he would fancy at least having a crack at getting back into the GPs.

Don't you know drinking on an empty head can be dangerous.

I suppose having a large catchment area gives you the chance to promote your club to more people, but the point remains if those people you are preaching to aren't listen you could have as big an area as you want. Take London, biggest catchment area of them all yet no speedway team. As others have posted speedway is dieing on its rear end right now, lets hope it gets back to where it could and should be very soon.

It doesn't matter how many people are in any catchment area, its all about how many people get their backside trackside to support their speedway.

Hugely interesting, but irrelevant, not unless you want to post average attendances at these tracks compared to Berwick.

Much like you after finding out your mate`s been humping your bird.

Sadly for the Tigers this could get very....very untiday.

Could I put forward David Bellego in this category.

Edinburgh have been successful on a consistent bases over the last few years, as have Newcastle, they seem to be able to manage on track success with off track stability so why cant Berwick.

PIRATES reserve Kyle Newman sustained a ruptured thigh muscle in a crash at Peterborough last night, an X-ray has confirmed. The Poole-born youngster was riding for Plymouth in the Premier League Cup when he fell in heat 12 while trying to pass Ales Dryml at the East of England Showground. Two sets of X-rays were carried out yesterday and today respectively, with the second revealing the thigh problem, although Newman escaped without any broken bones. The Fast Track rider has been in superb form in the opening two meetings of the Elite League campaign.

Might have been the cleaner there.

1 Rye House 28 14 0 0 6 1 7 1448 1133 12 53 2 Berwick 28 14 0 0 5 0 9 1371 1208 11 49 3 Sheffield 28 14 0 0 2 0 12 1361 1249 11 43 4 King's Lynn 27 14 0 0 3 0 10 1305 1185 7 41 5 Edinburgh 28 12 1 1 3 0 11 1323 1263 10 41 6 Isle Of Wight 28 13 1 0 2 0 12 1363 1237 8 39 7 Workington 28 12 0 2 2 2 10 1282 1287 7 37 8 Newcastle 28 13 1 0 1 1 12 1251 1338 5 35 9 Exeter 28 12 0 2 1 0 13 1263 1343 6 32 10 Reading 28 10 0 4 2 0 12 1281 1310 4 28 11 Somerset 28 10 0 4 1 0 13 1250 1317 6 28 12 Glasgow 27 10 0 4 1 0 12 1243 1241 5 27 13 Hull 26 10 0 2 1 0 13 1129 1257 5 27 14 Stoke 28 10 0 4 1 0 13 1230 1347 4 26 15 Newport 28 4 1 9 1 0 13 1097 1482 2 1 Hardly runaway winners, although I agree that towards the end of that season it was likely Rye House were going to be Champions, but Berwick put on a creditable challenge and ended up second, a second place that is a million miles away right now. Fair point but Kus guested the season before at Shielfield and scored double figures. IMO its a tad unfair to be having a go at Kus, I agree he needs to be scoring more but looking at last Saturday night, it cant be acceptable that a No1 is only scoring 3pts at home.

Newman had x-rays last night that showed no break to his leg, however because of swelling some of the x-rays were unclear so he will have more x-rays today.

I`m sure that's true but my answer was about Mr Doolan and his possible lack of prep for this season.

He has signed for Gniezno in Poland but hasn't yet featured and the Czech league has yet to start, so track time has been limited to this country where of course Berwick have already lost two meetings to the weather. His scoring has not been anything to write home about so far, but he is capable of more, hopefully that will happen soon.