Wouldn’t mind a top two of Flint and Thompson. I don’t think Flint’s ready to be a number one, but Thompson might be. Add Zischke and Hooder, that’s a promising first four. I do like the idea of Vinnie Foord joining Hodder at reserve. Gutted Berwick have retained Morris and Battye. Think they’d have been huge additions with every possibility of adding to their average. Wouldn’t be surprised to see KJP back, but hope it doesn’t happen. Doubt Harris will be back. Sad, but this has been a poor season by his usual standards. He didn’t say as much, but his post-meeting interview against Scunthorpe last week had tones of a leaving speech.

Think Harris will only go if he wants to. The owners go on about wanting to keep providing the best, most exciting, racing and when Harris is on it you get that better than most riders. He has been quite inconsistent this year but that's made his average lower which helps for team building.

He was warming his tyre before heat eight which is an illegal action, as deemed by not just the sport of speedway, but FIM. The rules on it are black and white: if you do it, you’re excluded. Cairns did it and wasn’t. He subsequently won the race and until heat fourteen, it was the only time any rider had done so from gate three. Like I said, I really rate Cairns and found him pure entertainment against Redcar. We could all argue until we’re blue in the face about whether or not he gained an unfair advantage, but the rules are very simple; it’s illegal. Here’s the incident:

Surely stay well clear of Kemp next season. Hes about as useful as a wallet full of johnnys in a bar full of lesbians. Batchelor would be my first name on the team sheet, hes been brilliant for Worky this year. Jeppesen has dropped off massively in the second half of the season, if it was purely injury related then he would also have to be a cert.

Dan Thompson and Flint as top two. Throw in Tate Z and a strong reserve and build around that. Pedersen will probably feature on his average. As i said earlier in season, Harris has dropped off a fair bit this year (despite Berwicks resident Dick telling me other wise) and theres not much value in him. Hes getting on in age now as well.  

When we beat you in the semi final at your place, the cameras shown alot of your fans leaving the stadium at heat 14.    I out on my belle vue Facebook group that you seen the aces now f off home. A little joke, and the response from people was wild saying this is not football. That that attitude elsewhere we dont need this in speedway.    Well yes, yes we do need this. It needs to become tribal.    Ive always said get rid of the family sport image because end of the day its bikes with no brakes, with riders risking there life every single heat. Thats extreme. And should be sold as an extreme sport.    I said to one speedway club owner. I wont name sorry, we need to bring in betting firms on race nights. More people will come if you can bet on races at the track. And his response was we dont want that type of people at speedway. Crazy   Bring tribalism back