Berwick v Poole 27/06/26 KO Cup Semi- Final 2nd Leg 7-00pm

[Trackrat]

4 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

For those that haven’t seen the Rushen / Etheridge incident. 

 

That intent on taking him out, hit the fence himself 💦

[Gavan]

I think Berwick should be kicked out of the competition for what Etheridge did

In the first running he had another rider kick out at him 

In the second running he was taken wide and fell 50/50 incident 

But for Jye to get up and throw 7 or 8 punches at another rider was disgraceful…. Does he not know the other rider is only young?? How dare Jye be infuriated to this level

If only Jye had walked over to Rushen and just slapped his shoulder then every speedway fan could have understood his frustration and nothing more would have been said ….. even Rushen would probably have laughed it off 

But what Jye did was nothing more than assault and really takes the shine off of the win ….. 

[Fromafar]

Great win for Bandits.Everyone contributed in great Team effort.Not Poole’s night with Cook and reserves having a poor night.

[foreverblue]

Well done Berwick, great team performance.

I thought it was nice of Poole to let Berwick win!! 

[Fromafar]

16 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Well done Berwick, great team performance.

I thought it was nice of Poole to let Berwick win!! 

Memories of 1989 the last time Poole let Berwick win ,Thanks👍

[Steve Shovlar]

I remember Berwick v Poole at Berrington Lough where Poole’s John Gould’s bike cleared the safety fence and narrowly missed the fans standing there!

[mac101]

1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

For those that haven’t seen the Rushen / Etheridge incident. 

 

If you show the first running of this heat you can see cooper clearly kicks his leg out to stop jye getting over him into the corner, before riding into the side of him and crashing the ref asked to see it a couple of time and maybe gave coopet the benefit of doubt in that one and maybe thought about that when making the decision about the rerun 

[Nickinho]

1 hour ago, Trackrat said:

That intent on taking him out, hit the fence himself 💦

Good hard riding from young Cooper, Jye just couldn't find the outside gap he wanted. Throwing punches at a rider who was on his bike was disgraceful although it was a rubbish punch.

Edited 2 hours ago by Nickinho

[Steve Shovlar]

12 minutes ago, Nickinho said:

Good hard riding from young Cooper, Jye just couldn't find the outside gap he wanted. Throwing punches at a rider who was on his bike was disgraceful although it was a rubbish punch.

Should imagine the rule makers will be summoning Etheridge to explain himself. Throwing a punch at a minor carries a severe penalty. 
 

 

[PersonalResponsibility]

I don't watch BSN so didn't see the original running, but that exclusion was a complete non-event. Rushen moves slightly wider to avoid his teammate, he doesn't even run Etheridge to the fence.

Can you imagine Etheridge in an Ekstraliga first turn? I know he wouldn't be within 50ft of any other rider, but if he thinks that's hard riding...!

[Trackrat]

13 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Should imagine the rule makers will be summoning Etheridge to explain himself. Throwing a punch at a minor carries a severe penalty. 
 

 

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[eric i]

I thought poole were going to win the treble this year. I expected Bowes/Newman maybe out the door soon.

[Deltalima]

IainB, British Speedway needs our youngsters to gain experience from the best in the world and I for one have no problem with them wanting to do just this. We need more backup to Bewley and Lambert and riding just in our domestic league isn’t enough. Tom Brennan and Dan Thompson are getting there but it takes time and effort and I fully support any British rider wanting to go down this route.

[old bob at herne bay]

Thank you , Mr Shovlar. 

Well,  rushings from gate 1 was unable to hold his line into turn 1 , in order to avoid his team mate in the white helmet colour, chose to change directiom and take a very wide line out of turn 2.  

So from gate 1 he ended up on the extreme outside of bend 2. 

the yellow helmet rider was left with no where to go after rushings sudden change of line out of turn 2.  

Was it deliberate - I don't think so - but in the first running of the heat he allegedly kicked out at etheridge ? He needs to keep his right leg on the footrest - not showboat around the track like a rodeo star. Something for his coach to tell him. 

 

The only other possible decision the ref could have made was "all 4 back" but after rushings effort in the first running , guess the ref had seen enough ... and Poole were the away side. 

The handbags afters - ha ha .  Rushings is in with the big boys now ... not in schoolboy racing. If he dishes it out he can expect it coming back to him. 

He stuffed Luke Harrison earlier in the season ... word gets around in this sport. Refs are clearly watching out  for the tasselled cowboy  🙂 🙂

Any news of whether Lawson will be suspended for withholding his services last Wednesday in Denmark - and was a guest facility actually allowed for a rider who missed the meeting for "illness" ?????