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As he was last night, he is top guy in the PL and a pleasure to watch.

Credit to Edinburgh on their win, their top two came up with the goods in Ht15 where as Berwick's didn't. You can throw any superlatives you want at Craig Cook, he was great to watch and he has obviously worked very hard on his kit and career and is reaping the rewards now, a pleasure to watch. Steve Worrall has started the season well, and had another good night last night, his score went a large way to get the Monarchs the points. Not my work but there was a stat said to me last night that over the two meeting the Edinburgh reserves outscored the Berwick reserves by 37 to 4 including bonuses, Berwick`s 4pts coming from third places. If your looking a reason why we lost both meetings that would be a decent place to start. Far to early to hit the panic button just yet, however home defeats are go good to everything at Berwick Speedway, to many more and people will find other things to do for their Saturday night. Berwick`s strength in depth met with the approval of most of us, if the team clicks you get results such as last week against Redcar, if it doesn't hit those heights you get what happened last night. Thankfully we have the pleasure of entertaining Glasgow next week, so its vital we get back to winning ways against the Tigers. Once again the meeting was run at a good pace with all the racing over by 8-45, leaving time to get the young riders out to race in their NJL match and I've taken up Mr Barrie on his advice to subscribing to the clubs news letter, I`m looking forward to getting the 1st of these over the next few days. Nonsense it was just racing, two riders going for the same part of the track.

I`m confident Berwick can see off the Monarchs.

Correct, bit cloudy but dry and hopefully will remain so for the rest of the evening. Edinburgh cant win tonight with only Cook scoring, he will need back up, it is vital then that in those races Berwick take the majority of heat advantages, which I believe they will.

Posted 03 April 2014 - 07:49 PM That's it, I've had enough of this place.

Excellent stuff but I will continue to use my own observations, calculations, measurements and reading to get my forecasts. Unlike others I don't need official-dom to form an opinion, freedom of thought is great thing and its nice to be on the outside looking in.

Our season wouldn't be complete if it was to have a least one hammering at Edinburgh, so there`s no point in getting all depressed about it. Edinburgh are a decent team and there will be more than Berwick to suffer at the hands of the Monarchs this season. Onwards & upwards.

After a couple of rotten days weather-wise, the forecast for tomorrow is reasonable. It will remain dry tonight and for most of tomorrow, any rain could come late afternoon into early evening. Still quietly confident of a Berwick win tomorrow.

Am I right in thinking this starts at 6am British time.

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Optimism is my middle name.

Excellent, paranoia, that can be the bases to our case. Since reading your news letter you`ve become a gibbering wreck of your former gregarious fun loving self, frightened to look on BSF to see any offending posts.

You could be considered as many things, most of which I`m sure you`d admit to, but never grumpy. I`d consider defamation.

All testing of equipment should've been done by now in pre-season, and the Berwick riders having had P&P along with a full meeting last Saturday should now have a set up for Shielfield, especially if the track is prepared to the same levels as it was last week and every week from now on, so the excuse of riders getting used to the track or still looking for a set up is an empty vessel sailing on the high sea of lame excuses. Edinburgh will prove a tougher test IMO than Redcar, especially with Craig Cook in their team, but I believe there`s enough weaknesses in the rest of the Edniburgh team for Berwick to exploit. Berwick 52 Edniburgh 40.

Not quite everyone. I think what yesterday proves is there is indeed one born every day.

The re-arranged date for this fixture is Thursday May 15th.

Sad but true, but most of us knew this was the case ages ago.

I`d sell, Mr Check could be your man to sell them to.

Today brought the astounding news from Berwick Bandits' speedway promotion that for 2015 they intend to return to a new, purpose-built speedway-only stadium on the site of their former Berrington Lough home, near Wooler. Promoter Dennis McCleary explained: “We have given this matter a lot of thought, and decided to announce our news today, rather than have it leaked on the internet or other means”. “We are aware how successful big-league racing at Berrington Lough was when we were there before, and have decided to make an immediate start on rebuilding the stadium, with a view to attracting a team capable of emulating the glories of 1991”. “If all goes well, we will apply for elevation to Elite League status as early as next season, and bring the best riders in the world back to Berwick-upon-Tweed”. Fund-raising for the project will begin almost immediately, with the first planned venture being the launch of a calendar, featuring members of the club's promotion in tasteful speedway-themed "calendar girl" nude poses. Dennis McCleary is available to talk about the projected move on 07713-101372.

REDCAR Bears will have to overturn a yawning 20-point deficit if they are to get their hands on the Tees Tweed Trophy. They're also going to have to look a whole lot sharper if they are to open their League Cup account at Newcastle this evening. It's true that early season matches such as last night's at Shielfield Park, the Ecco Finishing Bears' first for the year which they lost 57-37, are primarily an exercise in blowing away the cobwebs. After all, many of the riders haven't raced since October. But it was Berwick's first match of the year too and they dealt out a lesson in gating, leading from the moment they clocked up a 5-1 in heat two and were never seriously under threat from their visitors. New Bears No 1 Richard Lawson won his first race as a Bear, as well as the last race of the evening and was never out of the top two all evening. If he can keep that up all year he'll be a cracking spearhead for the team. But Carl Wilkinson was their only other heat winner, swooping round Steen Jensen to take the chequered flag in heat eight. Hugh Skidmore did his job as a second string and would have increased his five-point return but for an uncharacteristic fall in heat seven while third with the Bears on course for a 3-3, while skipper Aaron Summers was hampered by clutch problems but always looked up for it and snatched a dramatic second place on the line while on a tactical double ride, inflicting Matthew Wethers' only defeat of the night. But Jan Graversen had a stinker of a meeting, falling in heat two and retiring with bike problems before he'd even reached the first bend next time out. That said he was all over the Berwick pair in his first race and fell looking for a last gasp way around them. One more lap and he'd have had them, for sure. Richard Hall will be disappointed with his debut for the club while Luke Crang managed only one point on his first appearance at Premier League level although the former spent some time out injured last term and the latter is still very much a newcomer to the sport and is still on a learning curve. Crang in fact was second in his second outing when he hit the deck. So while the Bears were very much second best on the night and, with their home leg of the TTT lost to the weather will have to get dialled in fast, a big defeat isn't the end of the world by a long stretch - the Bears were brushed aside by Newcastle in their first match last year, remember, but went on to reach the play-offs and the KO Cup semi-finals. "My main observation is that we weren't making starts," said team manager Jitendra Duffill. "Berwick showed us the way into the first corner in every heat, but after that we matched them for pace. "I think every rider showed some promise in at least one heat so we just need to take that and build on it. "Berwick are a strong side and I think a lot of people will be turned over there this year but all over our riders showed glimpses of promise. "A couple of daft engine failures cost us points to but that's what these meetings are all about - getting the gremlins out of the way. A lot of the lads were on new equipment. I'm not going to read to much into that. "Tonight at Newcastle is where it starts for real and that's when we have to get it right." For Berwick Claus Vissing scored a four-ride maximum while former Bear Matej Kus clicked into gear after a sluggish start and won his last two races.

A more than reasonable way to start the 2014 season, and on a bitterly cold night it was pleasing to see the meeting run at a good pace with all 15 heats done and dusted at 8-30.

No problem cuz, glad to have been of service.

Good grief. The season would've started for Berwick & Redcar last Thursday, had it not been for the weather. It would've started for both last night, again the weather intervened, so for anyone out there who is hard of understanding, the season starts tonight.

Did last nights commentary actually happen, there's a dvd in my dvd player, dare I press play to find out.

Bit of a murky start to the day, but it is just about dry. Forecast is decent for the rest of the day so the 2014 speedway season for Berwick & Redcar will start tonight.