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Good to see that Joe Jacobs has been snapped up already Joe Jacobs joins the Cobras

Greetings Last Saturday Bandits4Eva and myself decided to take a trip to the Berwick Bandits old stadium at Berrington Lough... This was my second attempt to find it, the last being last November when hopelessly unprepared I spent a fruitless afternoon driving down various country lanes while B4E was in the hairdressers... This time armed with an image in my head courtesy of Google Maps and a rough idea where I was going I succeeded. Here are a selection of photographs.. Apologies for the poor quality due to the 2.0 mega pixel camera on my 4 year old Sony Ericsson mobile phone Photos from Berrington Lough Here are directions for those travelling fans visiting Berwick who may want to take a look for themselves From Berwick: Take the A1 south Take the turning signposted B6525 Wooler You'll pass through the small village of Ancroft after about a mile and a half. After around another mile there is a narrow unmarked country lane on the right with a small letter box on the corner... Turn up this narrow lane which is approximately 10 feet wide. Keep on up the lane, passing a driveway with a the stone sign "Berrington Law", until you see a blue gate on your right just before the lane bends sharply to the left. There is a house on the corner of the bend. The blue gate is the entrance to the stadium and was padlocked shut when we visited. The land is private, so you'll be entering without permission, but if you feel brave, climb over the gate and walk the 400 or so yards down the rough gravel road that bends to the right half way down... This will bring you to the remains of Berrington Lough Stadium. There are more photos on the excellent website www.defunctspeedway.co.uk It's hard to believe that the stadium hosted top flight British Speedway for a season with such riders as Nilsen, Tatum, Ermolenko and Nielsen riding round the tiny track!! If you visit in the summer months and don't like flying insects then this probably isn't for you!! Best of luck

Yep, only U21 meetings so far... Len Silver said an air fence at Rye would ruin the view for a large number of the crowd... The Rye House catch fence does a fine job

No, it certainly doesn't!!!!

Haven't had an air fence at Rye House for the 2 FIM meetings held there

You can't go round saying things like that and upsetting the Kings Lynn supporters... They have enough probelms as it is

Whats Chris Neath got to do with it?

I'd love to know where these people usually watch their speedway!!... I'm on the edge of my seat here

It's the occasion more that the result Bruno you're spot on... I couldn't care less if a GB rider won each race by the length of the straight, as long as they get through tonight, because I think they may struggle on Thursday. Bugs stopped play?

Cor!!! you lot are hard to please... Why don't you switch over and watch something else instead?

Can't see why Shane was excluded in heat 2... Ok, he slightly locked up coming out of the second bend, but in the recent Rockets vs Monarchs PL match Matthew Whethers locked up in the same place in heat 15 causing the closely following Jordan Frampton to fall... Frampton was excluded... Almost identical incidents with two different conclusions... Do the referees have a special coin they toss to help make their decisions or is there some logic involved?

Playing cricket with my son far outweighs anything that may or may not happen to Rye House... Unlike some, speedway is quite low on my list of priorities at the moment

I fell asleep half way through, possibly due to running around in the park this morning playing cricket, possibly the Sunday roast I consumed before the speedway... Whatever caused my afternoon torpidity it didn't help that the racing was uninspiring early on... Apart from Holta coming from last to first I can't remember another incident of note, apart from Gollob being let back into a heat he should've been excluded from due to a very lenient referee. I hope tomorrows meeting is more inspiring.

Romford Speedway went to the wall after one local resident campaigned over noise... He won his battle, Romford closed and he moved away from the area soon after

Greetings Steve... I spoke to your old school pal Chris at work who mentioned you may be coming down south, possibly to Lakeside?... Unfortunately I had to miss your visit to Rye House this year, but the reports I had were that your guys were great entertainment... I'll definitely be looking to come to see the side if they appear down at either Rye House or Lakeside and sample that weird Black Country/Californian accent!!!

He's not the 10 point rider he was ten years ago... I'm surprised he's still bothering to be honest

I didn't see him mouthing off to be fair, but Jason Doyle was earlier... It looked like cola in Wards glass, but could've had something a little stronger mixed in with it Thanks to them getting chucked out we nicked their table

I really hope the BSPA amend the result in favour of Scunthorpe, then perhaps we can put an end to the hysterical rantings by some of the posters on here... It's getting rather tiresome now

You must have more important things to think about surely? ...ironing, hoovering, dusting...

Lady, If I wanted to be lectured on what to do or say I'd have stayed with my (now ex) wife!!!!!

Probably got troubles at home

Nah, we were close to the start line Cheers... I'll give it a go tonight

It worked for Mildenhall in 2004 with Danny King

Take a deep breath for gawds sake before you burst an artery.. You must have more important things to worry about surely?... It's only the National League anyway. There are already two threads covering this subject, so why do you think it deserves another? What's more worrying is the state of the education system in this country... your spelling is shocking!!

Where does it actually say he was paid expenses?