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By now the club must have their team,and are talking to the riders.Of course they need to have a back up plan,but if they are putting a team together by waiting to see whats left after the other clubs are taking shape then that can only end up one way. Pies & burgers.

If you look back on my previous couple of posts you will find I agree with this point about selling season tickets to customers,who have as yet dont know what team they will be watching.

Carr certainly got his named around towards the end of last season,picking up guest outings for Edinburgh,though I cant see Edinburgh going into next season with Worrall & Carr at their reserve positions.

Its was our team manager Ian Rae who said he wasnt sure if Carr was up to racing in the PL full time,something I agree with him about,though unlike me I think Rae will have had his opinion changed by now. You bit about trying to sell season tickets to customers who done know the team I agree with,but your wanting to have a team signed yesterday posts are becomming tiresome.

Berge would come in on a 5pt assessed average.

Any chance that Berwick have in getting a new asset should be taking so yes,signing young Berge would do the job.

If Carr is one of the reserves then the other needs to be one of the highest averaging reserves in the PL.Firstly because all top teams have at least one reserve whos able to be among their teams top scorers and the other it will take the pressure off Carr who is bound to struggle in meetings at times.That would rule out Branford,and sadly Starke,who IMO would be one of the reseves for next season,a Starke Branford could work.

The 2014 Berwick team being one of them. I agree that this team will never see the light of day,after the first set of averages we`d have three brand new assets.My thinking then would to make a team change or two bring in another new rider,Dimitri Berge,let him get a true average,then at the end of the season we`d have seven or eight club assets and a team of our own riders for 2015. I think this is what this promotion shouldve done,when there was an air of optimism,chance missed.

Vaclav Millik 7-00 Zdnek Holub 7-00 David Bellego 6-36 Liam Carr 3-00 Gino Minares 7-00 Seb Alden 7-37 Adam Ellis 4-25

No Andrew Tully in the Newcastle team named today, could he be a Bandit in 2014.

If your allowed on Twitter,you will realise that Ritchie Worrall has said that Newcastle did offer him a contract but as he is looking to race in Poland he had to look elsewhere. Good on him for trying to further his career by racing regularly in the EL and Poland.

The Newcastle promotion and management have a history of getting the very best out of their team,Im thinking that whatever the Newcastle seven is that will continue in 2014. Other promotions could do worse than learn a little from them.

No matter I hope we wont be seeing Magosi in the 2014 Bandits team.Yes he did a decent job in his previous career with Berwick,but that was some ago and IMO he hasent really done anything since then that would warrant a team place,hasnt raced over here,and hasnt excatly set the world alight with racing on the continent. Also,if he left Berwick under a bit of a cloud with part of the current promotion then that would scupper him signing still further. For a rider to make speedway pay to any decent degree then they must race in at least 2 leagues,probably 3,and if a rider isnt prepared to commute from Berwick on a saturday to Poland on a sunday then he really shouldnt be in the job.

Ive been sat here in a state of suspended animation since the last bike left the track at the end of last season waiting for this moment. Soon I can breath.

I've got that signing announcement feeling.

I said nothing.

Welcome to Berwick.

And the very best of luck to him.

In seasons gone by it was reasonably easy to name 5-6 or the following years Berwick team,this time round because of so many under performing riders in the team last season its not quite so easy.Bellego & Carr seem nailed on,would you want to take a chance on Alden,would Smith return and would Berwick want him if he goes Longtracking.After that its anyones guess,IMO this is going to be a huge team for this promotion to put together.

LEWIS BLACKBIRD ‏@lewiblack 5m @SpeedwayGB £40 a point elite league. 3point guarantee?? Cant do it and I'm gutted. Hope all the NL boys stick together on this????! Trouble ahead ?.

As you say there will be plenty takers for Lawson,though living just up the road from Sheffield might help matters.

Masters has tweeted that he has been signed,that could easily be for Scunthorpe.

Berwicks fortunes did not improve with Kennett in the team,lets hope he fairs better at Rye House.Cant see him riding to his starting average but once he attains a true average Rye will be able to make a move or two on the team front. Attack the post and not the poster,its a lesson Id thought you would have learned by now,though personal attacks are normally a sign of an arguement lost.(how I wish I could use an appropriate smiley.)

Might do Barrett good to get away to another club for a season or two to rebiuld his confidence,he clearly didnt do the job he was brought in to do though having one or two injuries along the way didnt help. Maybe we will bring in a new asset as a replacement.

Every chance that Nicki Barrett wont be back at Berwick next season,giving his scoring record round Ashfield he might make more than a half decent signing for Glasgow.