Fortythirtyeight

With Armadale being a doubt I can see a couple of their riders heading to Berwick as a few have been lost to Workington. Danny Phillips is a Berwick asset isn’t he ?

So where does Jack Thomas fit in ? Main Body ? Or reserve ?

You can’t see anything out of those glasses and why ? He isn’t going to have any home track advantage !. Although he really should be adding to it this season, plenty of talent but too many ‘F’ and ‘EF’s’, hope he makes it to that ‘next step’ this year.

You’ve obviously never raced !

It’s the team manager edition you will need to watch.

If Comets are looking for local lads Ben Rathbone now lives in Workington.

Have a listen to Bears Live TV, that will give you a couple of starters, but the clue is already there.

As King has gone to Redcar, he certainly hasn’t gone for the money. More than one rider has recently agreed to sign for a club but then made excuses and signed for someone who has waved the ‘ cheque book ‘ , and it isn’t Glasgow !

Maybe that clubs being honest with their supporters about finances might stop some of them winging about the lack of this and the lack of that and not signing the likes of a Tai Woffinden instead of an Ashley Morris ?

Any rider who improves his average by 1:5 points has done incredibly well. I’m sure that if he just improves on the assessed 2 the club and the fans will be happy. Remember Tom Wooley ? the Redcar fans loved him.

Well I know the match took place as I was there but it may not have been on the date published.

Not exactly a surprise with the current cost of living. The ‘ Free ‘ bit will benefit some but the club still has to pay the council the bills and no doubt a slightly higher wage bill so a rise was to be expected. Still cheaper than some championship clubs and you get second half racing every week so more races for your money.

Shows you how daft speedway rules are when Ashton Boughen gets lumbered with a 4:95 Average after just a month of league racing and Killeen is still on a 3

22 April Redcar    23- 13 Teesside 29 April Teesside 12- 24 Redcar 13 May Teeside 18-18 Berwick 20 May Armadale 5-29 Redcar 21 May Berwick 18-18 Redcar 1 July  West Lothian 20-15 Berwick 2 July Berwick 26-10 Teesside 8 July Armadale 16-20 Teesside 8 July Redcar 23-12 Berwick 22 July Armadale 7-26 Berwick this was the last set of results given out officially, I’ll dig out the results I know after 22nd July.

Redcar and Teesside results from the team managers and the teams Facebook pages, which are quite good .Some others off the only 2 updates given by the ‘ league co-ordinator ‘. Most of the refs didn’t know the rules so didn’t bother taking details or just gave out wrong results. I can troll back and get the last lot of results but won’t have scorers or heat details.

Jenkins may not ride in the NDL if he gets a Premiership place combined with Poland and Kiean Boughen is no where near NDL standard yet.

I think every club in the championship spoke to him but he only agreed to sign for one…..Glasgow.

Only as a guest.

Teesside FIP Tigers rider statistics; Edward Davison. Matches 7 Rides 20 Points 39 Bonus Points 1 Maximums: Full nil , ‘Paid’ 1 . Match Average 8:00 Laylen Richardson. Matches 7 Rides 21 Points 19 Bonus Points 8 Maximums: Full nil, ‘Paid’ 1. Match Average 5:14 Dan Mcteer. Matches 6 Rides 18 Points 33 Bonus Points 3 Maximums: Full 1, ‘Paid’ 1. Match Average 8:00 Cooper Rushen. Matches 3 Rides 9 Points 22 Bonus Points 0 Maximums: Full 1. Match Average 9:77 Also rode: Rocco Webb 2 matches , average 6:66. ( including one ‘paid’ maximum. Morgan Leonard 1 match, average 4:00 Zach Gallacher 1 match, average 9:33 Logan Ferry , average 6:66, also appeared in the away fixture at Newcastle who later withdrew from the NJL. and so all statistics were expunged from the records. Pl W D L F A Pts Redcar Erimus Insurance 8 6 1 1 190 94 13 PTS Berwick Speedway Academy 8 4 2 2 150 114 10 PTS Teesside FIP Consulting Tigers 8 4 1 3 157 126 9 PTS West Lothian 8 3 0 5 108 141 6 PTS Armadale Angels. 8 1 0 7 69 199 2 PTS

Whoever the 2 pointer is , he isn’t going to get much riding in the NDL with only 10 matches or less .

There are a number of examples of only ONE promoter being at a club, you only have to look down the road at Redcar who have only had one on a number of recent years under Havelock and his follow up Keay. And before anyone mentions it CVS was not a promoter but a director as the rules did not allow you to ‘promote’ at more than one club but then we know how rules can be interpreted in speedway .

Bit touchy aren’t we ? I simply asked where the riders were to come from ? Grass track is in just as bad a state as speedway, very few meetings , even less youngsters on proper slide type machinery. You are actually right in that we don’t do enough to encourage people into taking up the sport but that’s a vicious circle, they see the state speedway is in and don’t give it a second thought., but it’s not me you want to be having a go at, try the BSPL!

‘Pay’ comes in many different forms in this sport .

and ‘policed’ by the very people who give them….

Winning shiny objects means little to most riders, money means a heck of a lot more.