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Not sure on George, but i think the lack of information surrounding BWD probably means that's the last we've seen of him in a diamonds race jacket imo.

I thought the 5% allowance was just for using guests at home?

Jack Thomas after his performance last week? If not him then either Ash Morris or Connor Mountain who've previously had brough as there home track. If i was Berwick that's who I'd be looking at personally.

Oh yeah my mistake... different name same rubbish

You should know by now with the bspa it's make the rules up as you go.

Haha nothing is simple in speedway, to be fair though we could bring someone in on a much lower average than BWD has and they'd probably still score the same if not more.

Maybe because BWD average is assessed is the reason you don't get the +5%?

Mr Worrall by any chance? His name got announced and he didn't acknowledge the crowd or anything was too busy being pushed off by his mechanic.

Just one personal gripe why doesn't Diamonds get played when the riders are doing there parade call me old fashioned but I'm sure it's been played since the reopening in 97.

A great score for Bebee today hopefully he can stay injury free and kick on he sure deserves it.

Thankfully for us Batchelor didn't come to the party otherwise this could've been a right hiding. I don't think it was a great meeting personally only the scoreline kept it interesting, pretty much most of the passing was from riders picking up grip going into bend 3 and shooting across the corner. One brilliant pass by Nicholls could watch him at brough all day long. Our reserves are just too weak I like Complin but brough doesn't suit his style at all and Congreve looks so poor I'd rather we had Archie or even Josh Embleton riding they'd probably score the same points.

No one is suggesting wholesale changes, Matty, James, Max & Paul and maybe Complin with a few more meetings should be fairly competitive at home but the fact is the team is too weak to carry 2 riders who've scored about 10 points between them in 4/5 meetings.

It's alright saying if we'd got 12 from Harris we didn't we got maybe what BWD would've got and if Complin hadn't retired he would've got 8 he didn't either. That's like saying if Clegg had made the gate 5 times he would've got a 15 point max... facts are he didn't. The simple fact is the team is just not good enough.

It's been a bit of an embarrassment since he bought the club he might be a great businessman but some of his speedway decisions leave a lot to be desired, the managerial merry go round before last season and it also seems he's not the best at building speedway teams.

I seen Edwards at I think the u19 final at Redcar a few seasons ago and he looked a very good prospect then he's got a great style and always looks in control on the bike. I applaud Redcar for going with Jenkins and Edwards this season some of the reserves they'll face will be difficult but great for sticking with both of them.

Yeah I get that but look at Flint, Brennan they coped pretty well too, like I say if you're good enough you'll be fine ours aren't. But I think our league should've kept the rising stars but like everything the bspa do they just come up with a plan stick with it for a season and that's it.

To be fair it's been like this for years and years, for example look at last season Palin was thrown in at the very deep end and he coped pretty much fine on the whole even beating Bewley at BV who's brilliant around there. If the reserves are good enough they'll cope whereas ours aren't and that's the main problem. It's a simple fact for riders to progress and get better they need to be riding against higher standard riders.

But if you look at it the same way Masters has done it for seasons travelling from the midlands to Scotland and back, Stevie Worrall has done it the last couple of seasons going to Poole and back and last season for us Barker who has also ridden for Berwick and Glasgow so riders will do it.

Yeah I get that, but the riders I named don't ride in Poland and probably not abroad at all, throw in the likes of Richard Lawson, Cook, Wells, Howarth, Barker, Wright and Ostergaard who we've previously had and there are plenty of riders there.

Didn't we have Connor Coles a few seasons ago? He struggled to get around Brough I'm sure.

Is Poland really that big a problem though? In the past we've had Danny King, Robert Lambert, Richie & Stevie, Lewis Kerr but apart from Lambert now in Poland, the others haven't returned for various reasons and last season we tried for Batchelor and he wasn't riding Poland and Vissing didn't ride at all last year but Birmingham signed him so why couldn't we? Nicholls doesn't ride in Poland and he joined a team that's just been brought back no one knows how that will go so there's an element of risk attached to that. I can't imagine BWD and Congreve being cheap usually with Aussies or NZ they generally want air fair paid, plus a van, and somewhere to stay during the season. Now your'e not telling me if you tried to go for Nicholls for example if you dangled a few extra pounds in front of him or Harris yes he rides in France sometimes but I'm sure we could've worked around his schedule he has to pass Newcastle to get to Berwick!

To be fair he couldn't pick a team any worse than we currently have.

Also don't understand why Berwick tm didn't swap Etheridge for Bickley in heat 4 and then swap them around in 6 then by heat 8 Bickley would've had his 3 rides and Etheridge could've taken his other.

Considering Bickley only rode at armadale last week he looks so tentative getting around, and Proctor looks very poor.

At last some good news