sparks123

Good to know you will be ok for the start of the season. Didn't see you at the track on Sunday morning so I take it Saturday's track work took it's toll on you?

No but there are no other divisions matches that night (in UK). I looked at Lasse Fredriksen teams (probably from last season) and Grinsted was one of them. They race that night and I think have also signed NBJ. If my memory is correct then he also races for Berwick who are at Poole the night in question. I will look in the speedway star after the date to see if any Edinburgh riders are racing that night but that's why I mentioned Berwick.

Why didn't Poole race Edinburgh on 29th April when Berwick are there for a one off meeting. Having checked the fixtures Edinburgh are not racing that night. Birmingham and Redcar are racing that night in the KOC so not to late.

I don't think the clashes were to bad last season? At the Edinburgh v Berwick match at the end of July an Edinburgh fan told me that tonight's meeting was the 5th clash of the season with Glasgow. Two of them were with fixture fillers with the inter league challenge and the Caledonian riders championship. Even at 5 clashes for 4 months (April - end of July) I wouldn't say its a big problem.

Hope your right screm. Hopefully Leon will go there as it will help him on the smaller tracks although I would suspect the track to be slicker for NL meetings than it is for Championship meetings.

Think Berwick did that at the start of the season (through sponsor (think it was Clear Energy)) for the first 3 or 4 meetings. George will possibly be able to confirm as I can remember buying a ticket or 2. Think it was announced along with them sponsoring the first Berwick reserve to be quicker in heat 2 than the winner of heat 1, first Berwick rider to score a maximum and first Berwick rider to score a paid maximum (or I could be making it up).

Wonder why the league didn't just have 1 meeting (home and away) with each team in the league and have 2 Trophy groups (North and South). It would give all teams the same matches (16) and everyone would have another trophy to race for.

Its usually done the way it has been done for next season. This season Edinburgh, Scunny, Leicester, Newcastle and Berwick received bye's. Matches were Edin v Scun and Ber v New. Only Leicester had to wait to find out their opponents. It allowed these 2 matches to take place when the teams wanted (as stated by another poster) and they were completed before the three matches from the previous round.

It's hard to judge a team at the start of a season on previous averages. Take 2018 with Workington, Peterborough and Lakeside having 3 of the 4 lowest team starting averages. Did any of these teams make the play-offs?

Bewley?

Wonder if he will get a top league place to start the season then get a converted average from there (4.43x1.6 =7.09).

Would have said the same about Chris Harris with Ipswich this past season after signing with Peterborough (or Craig Cook)

See Aaron is back for Berwick again.

Says it's off on the SpeedwayGB site. Restaging date is 27th Oct. Was going to take a trip down for this as well after Glasgow being rained off on Friday.

Did Maksym Drabik not finish in the top 10 Polish Elite league averages (for Wroclaw) this season. He was at reserve all season. Could make it that only Brits can be at reserve during the season?.

Why give Brennan a reduction? Eastbourne scored by getting Newman in this season for Brennan's average. Why should they score next season with Brennan getting a reduction? If he was to go to another team in the league then I could see no problem if they decided to reduce his average.

Well done Bartosz. I hope Emil learns how to race in the semi finals (had first pick 6 times and never won a semi final all season). Had the most points in the qualifying heats all season (Emil 108, Bartosz 103 and Leon 96).

From 1st September Gappmaier 6.09 and Etheridge 6.03 so at the time of the meeting Danny is above Jye in the averages.

Nick Morris has only done 3 meetings for Somerset (just as many for Eastbourne) so seems to be no qualifying standard.

Would be better if Jamie explained what was happening with the scheme over the PA when there are no tractors etc. He could then advise that there is a table (or otherwise) set up and any interested parties can speak to an organiser to set up their number(s). The spectators then get the same information and you could possibly process more applications (as you could have to keep repeating yourself if more people come to the table at different times). Maybe it could be put on the home page or be a news item on the website as people on here have said lots don't use social media (only look at the website for match previews etc). Either way lets hope all numbers are taken.

Just looking at the fixture list on the BSPA site and it has Berwick racing a double header with Glasgow and Edinburgh on 7th September. When is the cut off date for fixtures?

It is strange the 3 times Berwick got away for major heat advantages the races were pulled back for starting offences (Wright and Greaves moved first when Aaron and Kev got warned). It seemed to be ok for Redcar riders to jump in 9, 11(back wheel spinning), 13 and 14 (best jump I have seen for a while). I only noted after 2nd Berwick warning.

Lets hope the family still attend the speedway. I wasn't having much luck with a work colleague (who goes with one of his friends) despite reiterating that the British champion was at Berwick and how often does that happen.

Wonder how the Bandits will do against the new British Champ on Saturday night. Think Danny King was at Berwick just after winning three or four years ago.

That isn't you being childish earlier Blobby is it saying other clubs might look at this now.