George Dodds

single g&t would be ok - beer is usually belhaven, john smiths or carling - not sure what holiday camp lager is but what's on offer is the same stuff we've sold for the past three seasons with few complaints

any. hot, cold, alcoholic, non-alcoholic, can, cup, pint from either of the bars or the tea-bar

Look it's not happening. The deal is £10 - adult, concession, Berwick, Edinburgh, Timbuktoo, Third Rock from the Sun. Buy a programme get a free drink. Kids go free and get entry into a draw for a body colour. There's enough Scots happy to travel to Berwick to stock up on cheap booze - well on Saturday week they can pop into Shielfield for a tenner before filling the boot at Asda and taking it back over the border. When a speedway club gets £8 million TV money per meeting perhaps they can spend some of it subsidising away admission - although most promoters would love the idea of £25 being "reasonable". Also heard that a lot of old faces are threatening to return - let's hope they do which would surely encourage the promotion to repeat the exercise on a regular basis.

Really? I thought Newcastle and Arsenal in particular were infamous for charging away fans more and giving tiny allocations of tickets to away fans. Worked security at a lot of Midlands grounds and can honestly say not one of them charged visiting fans less than home fans. Really think the concentration is on people in the Borders and in particular Berwick. Any Edinburgh fans would be considered a welcome bonus but the focus has to be on people locally who used to come and say that they now don't because it is too expensive. Well on this night it's not so hopefully we'll see them again.

... wonder if a justgiving page could cover the cost of an exclusion order

The Bandits trying something different for their next home meeting, the visit of the Monarchs. Taken from their Facebook page £10 SPEEDWAY & KIDS GO FREE! In association with our sponsors we are proud to announce that the next match at Shielfield Park Stadium vs Edinburgh Monarchs Speedway on Saturday the 15th of June will be £10 entry for both adults and concessions and kids will attend free! We hope to entice new and old fans to come along and enjoy the Saturday night Shielfield Park experience and we want you to help us spread the word. We will also be continuing our offer of a free drink with every programme purchase. Fathers Day falls on Sunday the 16th of June so this is a great opportunity to treat those Dads out there that deserve a night out and a drink! Please feel free to Like, Share, Comment and spread the word on this fantastic promotion.

not my question, not overly interested in the answer - assumed the questioner had made the obvious move of asking someone who might have the answer rather than making a snide comment just for the sake of it. My bad Now if he/she wants me to try and find out, I'll do so to save him/her the trouble. Always happy to help - it says so on the back of my t-shirt at work

or golden. Think that Duns in the winter/early spring in the borders is a pretty desolate proposition. Once the weather improves perhaps there will be some action - it was the end of may last year for similar reasons. What did the club say when you emailed them the question?

leave my niece out of this - she works hard so she can get to the speedway on a saturday night

too much like work for old blowjob ... much better to get paid for doing nowt aint it collyboy and then whinging about those who don't

Fairly certain that I remember being told at the Fans' Forum the choice of Gapp and Pijper wasn't a choice as, simply, Theo wouldn't fit under the points' limit with the other six in place, Dany did.

they are

and the tractors came out at the end of every heat, instead of every four which meant it often took over two hours to run a 13 heat meeting - which apparently would be too long for some. The biggest reason for delays is medical attention after crashes. Thankfully riders are no longer manhandled onto a stretcher, covered with a blanket and carried through the crowd to a medical room and the rerun called immediately - but proper treatment takes time and sometimes causes delays ... but meetings are rattled through compared to the "golden" era.

oh yes

oo get you Mystic Norm!!, go on what's the lottery numbers for Saturday (and Wednesday, and the Saturday after!)

well if he needs something to drink he can always buy a programme!! From the Bandits' Facebook Page "Shielfield Park is the place to be in Berwick this Saturday night and we are feeling generous... Simply purchase your match day magazine and receive a free drink voucher! Cash in your voucher at any Bandits outlet on Saturday night and receive any beverage of your choice on us" Also repeating the Kids for Free ticket and prize draw - winner gets a Bandits' Junior Bodycolour - which proved very popular on its debut against Sheffield. If the youngsters haven't got a ticket through their schools Buddy will have some at the turnstiles and they are available from the Box Office entrance too.

Only Saturday night isn't the most spectator friendly any more. For those who watch speedway there is live GP on ten of those Saturdays. Two more are taken up by the Speedway of Nations. Two weeks ago the BBC screened the FA Cup Final, this weekend pubs will be full of people watching the Champions League final, the Cricket World Cup will have live games on a Saturday, Wimbledon tennis. While I support a Saturday night club it faces all these alternatives and it is affecting crowds. We're not the only game in town on a summer Saturday any more.

Fair point but the likes of Cowdenbeath, Skegness, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Wimbledon, Buxton, Paisley, Weymouth, Wembley, Sunderland, White City, Oxford, Rochdale - dare I say it, Rye House - all remained as stadiums - and some still do - for decades long after the speedway had pulled the plug.

To be fair it also had something to do with Danny King, Drew Kemp, Broc Nichol and especially Kyle Howarth as well. Sheffield were the first team to arrive at Shielfield this season with all of the riders willing to get stuck in and race. Newcastle and Glasgow had a couple but were mostly passengers, Edinburgh just couldn't be arsed with the exception of Luke Ruddick. Virtually every point on Saturday was earned the hard way and that led to close racing, errors under applied pressure, crashes, a visiting side comeback. Mind you someone on here reckons it was the worst meeting of the season so far ... Seems you can't please some - or maybe they had their whinge set to auto-publish at 21.05

well Joanne Howe posted on Facebook that she had set off for Berwick with bikes on board so ....

He's not even editor of the Speedway Star ... although he used to be. Why isn't the OP demanding the same investigation from the Birmingham Mail?

Berwick does

hard to disagree really - although when riders were paid less and crowds higher tracks still went bust so, while it's the big problem it's obviously not the only one

Suppose it depends how far back you go. Certainly in the 70s a bike blowing - John Jackson, Dougie Templeton, Mark Perram, Colin Farquharson, Dave Baugh all spring to mind. was the end of the night even for some of the big names. The track spare was a bit of a myth I think, some tracks had an old clunker left in the corner. Right about jumping on other people's bikes though but I suppose that was easier in the days of standard parts and set ups. All progress is progress but not all progress is good

to be honest I think it always has been - even going back in the day. But we expect a level of professionalism from riders which was unthinkable 30 year ago - imagine the howls of abuse if a number one rider turned up with one bike, it blew up and he withdrew from the meeting as used to happen quite regularly - but still want them to cut their costs.