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Who was the referee last night?

Oh for the days when the top riders rode in the top league and the lower league was for the part-time riders,youngsters and middle ability riders.The championship has become the premiership with a different name.Glasgow just taking advantage of the situation.The real credit has to go to the bspa who have spectacularly managed to completely destroy speedway in this country in the space of only a few years-you have to give them credit for at least succeeding in something.

check the last post on page 14 of continuing decline of speedway by ch958.Maybe nothing to do with football

After last night you could have shortened your post to "is there anyone going to this meeting"

would it not be possible for the bspa, or a marketing agency appointed by them, to distribute a questionaire at every club to be completed by fans who attend meetings asking what their ideas and wishes for the future are.One league?Doubling up/down?Squads?INDEPENDENT ruling body?Surely someone could come up with something easily completed and meaningful.Would any notice be taken of the answers?Doubt it unless the promoters get the answers they want but they can't keep telling us at the start of every season that they are full of optimism following life-changing decisions at a hugely successful conference and then the exact opposite happens every time.It sums up the basic intelligence of the bspa when they can't seem to understand that by ruining the sport by taking seriously unpopular and unwanted decisions they hit their own selves financially.

You missed your opportunity last night with all the A1 cabs taxi people in the sponsor's lounge.

According to Roy Clarke last night he would be missing for 10 days.Mind ,he also asked Nathan Greaves if he would ride as a guest next Saturday if asked.He might be a wee bit lonely if he does come up seeing as there's no meeting.

Warned for jumping the start of heat 14.Bowtell fell off in the restart and excluded.Next restart Newman jumped start again and got excluded from race for 2 warnings.Ref got phone call from pits but still excluded Newman then apologised and let him go off 15 metres which is apparently what Newman must have wanted anyway.Which all proves that nobody anywhere has a clue what any of the rules are.

Would the team be better balanced if Kevin and David were at 3 and 4 and John at 2 for a wee while before going down to 7 (or 8!)

Exactly.Huge opportunity to build on what was a happy,entertained crowd after a great meeting last week blown big time.

he got old.3 meetings in 3 nights

I suppose if it's rained off us Berwick fans can be proud that despite most people writing off our team,at least we'll have been unbeaten in our first three fixtures.

It just seems sad that for a relatively small club like Berwick which probably needs every side pulling together for it to survive,this never seems to happen for any period of time.You can blame current and previous promotions but at least they all had the balls to put their money in and buy the club.You can blame the supporters club but they do raise funds and help the riders and indirectly the club.Surely to God even in Berwick there must be at least one individual with half a brain who can get both sides together and knock some sense into them.If not, the same old future beckons again - half way through the season,bottom of the league and rumours that the promoters are looking to sell at the end of the season.One time though there just might not be a buyer.So to both sides,swallow your pride,forget your egos and try and work together for the future of the club - please

Lock both sides in a room,leave the egos outside and don't let anybody out until common sense and practical realities are discussed and settled.Simples.

What the BSPA really need to do is take into account all the issues arising from conference regarding averages,league set-ups, team building etc.,admit they made a complete mess of things and say 2018-new year,fresh start,lets have another meeting in January and redo the whole thing before 2018 is an even bigger mess than 2017.It won't happen but for the sake of the sport somebody somewhere needs to get a grip on reality

Not could-Should

Aaron Summers 7.98 Thomas Jorgensen 7.10 Kevin Doolan 6.36 David Howe 6.18 Danny 5.11 Jye 5.06 Joe Jacobs 4.67 Total 42.46 Or not

At least 10 years too young for us

Rest of the teams in the league working to a points limit of 42.5.We are working towards an average rider age of 42.5.It's just a new way of team building that's all

Not unless David Bellego or similar at No.1, a 2 pointer like Luke Ruddock or Ryan Blacklock and maybe Jye and Danny if fits

2.11-Ryan Blacklock maybe if he is fit and riding again,Thought he was made an asset last season Might need to be Danny Gapp instead of Jye in your team if Jye is going back to Edinburgh-according to Taffy on post 341

The pairs competition this year might as well be for about 4 teams and hardly worth the rest turning up.Doubt if it'll encourage fans from all teams to rush to attend.The top 3 or 4 teams might find home attendances increase and then decrease as they start winning by a barrowload each week.What it'll be like for teams in the lower bit of the league God only knows.Maybe just as well if it's only one home meeting against each team as it'll get the season over quicker

If he is hope it's a straight swap for Ricky Wells and if not hope he's sold back at a tidy profit.

Signing an expensive looking team built to win the league and nothing less. Sent one rider away to lower his average and come back this year on a nice low 3+ average Promoter on management committee so you can bend rules to suit yourselves Racing on a Friday night No obvious signings the other end of the M8 yet You're not Glasgow speedway any more,you're Edinburgh in disguise Looking forward to seeing the Glasgow Monarchs in their nice red,white,blue and yellow race suits By the way,hope your track alterations this winter are not to turn it into a trick track as well. Only joking-I think

Not according to the club website we haven't.We've got an untouchable at No.1