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Unfortunately today`s British Under-19 Final at Mildenhall has been abandoned after Ht5 due to rain. Leon Flint had won his first ride while Kyle Bickley came off while leading his first race.

To be fair to the promotions they are caught between a rock and a hard place as to when to call off a meeting. Do they chance it on an iffy forecast hoping firstly the forecast allows for the meeting to go ahead and secondly enough people turn up for a wet meeting without them losing a fortune, or do they call it off early enough to save riders and supporters the time money and effort in getting to a stadium only for it to fall victim of the weather.

To be fair the communication between the majority of clubs and its supporters is rotten to put it mildly. But in the situation Eastbourne finds itself in you would think more effort should be made to keep their fans updated on fixtures etc.

Championship league table should make worrying reading for Berwick, they have ridden more meetings than the four clubs below them and have only a two point advantage over bottom club Kent. League table below. M W D L 4W 3W D 1L L F A Pts 1 Poole 13 5 0 0 2 1 1 3 1 640 529 31 2 Glasgow 14 5 0 1 1 3 0 3 1 651 579 31 3 Edinburgh 16 5 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 742 687 31 4 Redcar 15 5 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 686 633 31 5 Scunthorpe 17 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 777 747 31 6 Leicester 14 6 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 681 575 27 7 Eastbourne 11 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 3 494 494 18 8 Berwick 16 5 0 3 0 0 0 1 7 679 759 16 9 Plymouth 15 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 6 625 704 15 10 Newcastle 13 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 494 633 15 11 Birmingham 9 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 384 426 14 12 Kent 13 3 0 4 0 0 2 1 3 528 615 14

Kent`s away fixtures at Berwick in both Championship and NL have been re-arranged for Saturday September 4th. Eastbourne`s northern tour of Berwick and Newcastle scheduled for next weekend now postponed to a later date.

Eastbourne`s northern tour to Berwick and Newcastle scheduled for next weekend now postponed to a later date.

Berwick v Kent off tonight both in the Championship and NL.

Comes as no surprise to see an early call made on this meeting. Hopefully the weather improves, Eastbourne get the money troubles sorted and we see a meeting next week.

A bit like last week with Plymouth Kent come with two big hitters up top so much like Plymouth it will depend on how the others do as to how competitive Kent are going to be. I would expect a similar score to last weeks. Not so sure about the argument about a team doing well at Armadale will do well at Berwick, but if thats the narrative some choose then fair enough, I`m sure we will be reminded of this later on. Weather forecast for today, currently raining and has been for a while. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2655819

To be honest if the top young Brits really want to reach SGP etc, they need to be racing in the top two Polish leagues and Sweden racing against the top guys week in week out. Doubling up between Championship/Premiership will give them a very healthy income but on the international stage will do very little for them.

Maybe they are hoping most supporters dont find out.

Berwick did used to run a bus from Berwick when the speedway was at Berrington but some weeks it would turn up with only a handful of people on it. As you say now the speedway is back in the town there is no need to run buses.

They say that every year.

Ben Basso makes his debut for Poole tomorrow night at Redcar. https://poole-speedway.com/news/view/2021-08-19-SKIPPER-HOPING-TO-GET-HIS-WISH-AS-PIRATES-HEAD-FOR-REDCAR

As I said something similar to Monday`s efforts at Kent, this time though Berwick lulled Birmingham into thinking they might just nick a point, before the usual collapse in the later races.

I predict something similar to last nights efforts at Kent.

You are correct he is racing for Grindsted in their home meeting against Holsted.

It might have been mentioned somewhere on here, and its bound to be on our official site but why is NBJ missing tonight.

Well done to Berwick for helping Kent to their biggest home win of the season.

Don`t the Dugard`s still own the stadium.

What a great bunch the BSPL are, lead by a great Chairman.

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Hearing that Simon Lambert has been called up into this meeting.

I think they are on about next Sunday where Freeman will miss the meeting against Kent as he is named in the British Under-19 Final at Mildenhall.

If that figure is true, how on earth has it been allowed to get to that. Seems crazy to me from both sides.