bigeddiechek

At last a knowledgeable post on here, rather than poorly formed opinion! Some people have the knives at the ready, hoping for a defeat on Saturday. One thing is for sure, we are certainly looking a lot stronger than the woeful Diamonds that visited us on Saturday. I'm not sure some of our closet Diamonds fans would have enjoyed that!

According to Berwick website, off.

That wasn't what I was referring to

Some dubious team management by Mr England helped us along too.

I'm encouraged too by what I saw last night, Sarah. I hope Ben makes a quick recovery, it was a bad spill. He can into the 3rd bend at some speed, total commitment, even though it was a friendly meeting.

You're right, and there is always the need to keep the asset base at a certain level. I liked what I saw last night.

Two pretty evenly matched teams,I would concur.

Quality post Paulco. Fantastic to see the Tigers getting excellent ownership in place. Here's hoping for a successful season.

Just like you said sow.

Same could apply to a few Berwick Speedway folk, except add a decade or so on to that, plus unpaid. Your point about cheap shots is spot on: but, this is the home of the cheap shot.

What a haver! Or is it hayver? Jim, well spotted, how did I no you would get it? I think the best one from the Bandits' newsletter has to be the appearance of Jorgenson's twin brother.

It's quite interesting how the required immediacy of the Internet has pushed aside proof reading. Even the BBC website has typos. This phenomenon often provides a source of great entertainment, as we all no!

You've lost me with that one Taffy!

Great bit of media coverage

Great to read about the good crowd and decent racing. Hopefully a good start for the Panthers (result aside), we need them in British Speedway!

I mis-read your post. I get your point now!

Likewise on Saturday, not quite sure what your point is!

Surely not a bad thing though?

I don't know much about VIP and Supporters Clubs, something that I've never really got into in any sport I follow: but a free bus to Glasgow is a pretty good move for the fans, I would have thought?

Heard reports that Doolan has picked up where he left off last season. Very encouraging. Less than a week to go!

I think certainly the polyfoam fence has saved a lot of potentially nasty injuries since its introduction at Berwick. I've heard a few comments from various people that the silencers cause a lot of problems. I'm not going to try and relay as I don't fully understand it. I'm not sure that the delays themselves can be stopped, so maybe when the gasp do occur something needs to be ready to drop in. I don't know what though, nothing I can think up really excites me.

I agree, and it was the one thing that newer fans find really difficult. I don't know what the answer is to that.

I really think the camps are a bit of a dead end. People go to the camps wanting everything on-site, and the camps want all the customers to want to stay on-site. Making sure there is coverage in Hotels and B&Bs could attract some more, it really depends on the reason for a visit to Berwick. It will be interesting to see what interest Peterborough get from their local sports club offer. I tried to organise it with another sporting club that I am involved with last season, and not one taker. The Sky meetings have converted a few regulars that come with me, and a few occasional visitors. There was a much bigger crowd, so that perhaps says that there are more people out there to get. The only thing I can think of is the profile of it being live on Sky. That would say to me that speedway as a sport maybe needs to be presented to the public differently. A former rider maintains that it should be sold as an extreme sport. I think he is right, not necessarily change much on the track, but change the perception of the sport. That, however, would take a LOT of resource to do. Still one of the biggest problems I have is the moaning that goes on. A few people that have come with me were really put off by that, it completely spoiled their night

The holiday camps - although would seem a good target in principle - are not a fruitful target. There have been initiatives before. I know for a fact, but I cannot divulge further!

Also on Radio Borders, live pre-meeting interview with John Anderson.