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A message from Laura Morgan the owner of Workington Speedway Tonight Steve, Tony and I have had to do one of the hardest jobs is speedway and that is to tell a rider he doesn't have a team place anymore. We told Chris Mills tonight at the Berwick rain off meeting that we have found it necessary to change the team to try and strengthen it for the remainder of the season. As always from the beginning, when Chris joined the team, he was a gentleman to deal with and understood the reasons behind the change. We have found Chris to be professional and a delight to deal with and he will always be a friend of Workington Speedway. I hope you will join us in wishing Chris well for the future and he is welcome back at Derwent park anytime. Laura News of Chris's replacement will be made in the next couple of days. Taken from the Workington official site.

Its clear Workington must drop at least one more rider to make any kind of change. Their team average is 42-90, Mills average is 3-05, so another riders Workington race jacket is hanging on a shoogly peg.

ChRiS MiLlS ‏@millsy199racing 1h Gutted !! But I will be where I want to be again . No hard feelings thanks to every one who has supported me . Best of luck to the comets Do you get the feeling Mills might've ridden his last meeting for Workington.

The powers that be should really think about making speedway into a summer sport. You have to feel for all the Workington fans who travelled over, some didn't go into the stadium so at least they saved a bit of money. Things looked reasonable leading up to start time, then further rain came just before the scheduled start and to be honest that was always going to be that, though they did try to let the rain pass.

Aye go on you know you want to.

So far Workington have qualified for the Semi-Finals of the LC, and as I posted earlier a win tonight will see them in joint 4th place in the PL, to me that's a decent start to the season but I`m seeing words like shambles describing the teams performance, which IMO it isn't and as Tsunami has pointed out there are teams having a harder time than Workington.

middlo57 1h Lakeside off can't say I'm sorry be full strength next time #piratepride That's the spirit Neil.

Hopefully then we will be pushing tonight's meeting through, though finding a gag big enough for Mr Barrie could be a problem.

Weather has closed in over the last hour, and we are having some rain.

The bit I copied it from was taken from the Edinburgh Speedway Twitter page, take it up with them old bean or have a look for yourself, maybe you can post the bit I`ve missed, but for the life of me I cant find. It was tweeted on the 23rd (yesterday) under the heading "A new era begins". Another madman round here, how would anyone tell the difference. Fair point, I will bare it in mind.

They seem to be a hard lot to please over at Workington, a 4pt away win tonight will see them join Berwick in 4th place in the PL table. This will only be Workington's 4th PL, still lots of meetings and lots of points to race for.

Weather remains the same as posted before, grey sky's and dry.

6-30pm.

Still cloudy but it is dry and has been for some time now.

With averages now changing to a smaller degree over a longer time, riders take longer to move around, but the point is correct that should Kus or anyone else have a spell at reserve that can only be good news for the team. It reminds of the team we had some years ago where Smith, Wilkinson and Piertrasko all had spells at reserve and Berwick had a very good season. Don't see Berwick hitting those scores, I think Workington are far better than that. Could easily be as close as it was last night.

These are the latest Berwick averages issued by the BSPA yesterday. Kevin Doolan 7-16 Claus Vissing 7-12 Mathew Wethers 6-80 David Bellego 6-54 Matej Kus 5-68 Steen Jensen 5-60 Liam Carr 3-00 Team average 41-90. Two things, it looks Vissing will be taking over as No1, and incredibly there is a real chance of Kus going to reserve.

Practice starts at 12-30pm and will last until 2pm, fans are permitted for this, gates open at 11-45am.

As the FIM Grand Prix Challenge event on June 7th is not a Berwick Bandits promotion, we are advised by the BSPA that credit and/or debit cards cannot be accepted at the turnstiles on that evening. Cash only at the turnstiles on June 7th, please! However, cards WILL be acceptable at the Track Shop as usual.

Beware the wounded animal, Berwick`s win last night will bound to make the Workington riders all the more determined to win over here tonight, and their performance a few weeks ago shows that. Berwick will no doubt take a lot of confidence from their win but the Berwick Promotion would do well to make sure their riders don't become complacent, there is a meeting to win tonight and it wont come easy. Weather has started off grey with very light drizzly rain, forecast is this will clear fairly soon. The afternoon will be mostly dry with showers spreading in from the south later this afternoon.

Berwick`s away performances have been in-between shocking and embarrassing over the last few season, so a win at Workington is all the more remarkable. Good to see Liam Carr scoring, ok it was only a point but he didn't have to rely on someone else to get that point and remember the mightiest of oaks start off with a smallest seed. Steen Jensen has giving us a real sting in the tail, and long may it continue. Well done to Berwick.

How typical of Jepson Jensen to jump in to take the limelight when it was NK Iversen who put Denmark in this position.

This has been a busy week in Geneva, with a stream of information coming out from the FIM's headquarters. Much of this was included in our last Black & Gold Bulletin, but knowing extra details has allowed us to proceed with our own plans. As we have provided for previous major events, we will have additional catering on the back straight -- food and a bar -- and our turnstiles will be open from 5pm, with a entertainment programme planned for early arrivals. Edinburgh's Craig Cook and our own Matej Kus will be the competitors with most support of course, but we expect a fair number of visitors from several overseas nations to be coming to Berwick (and helping our local) economy) for the weekend. Matej, Cookie and the other riders are fully aware they are all now just fifteen races away from next season's Grand Prix campaign -- their first five of them on June 7th. Seems it might be a pretty spirited affair! The complete line-up, in riding order, for the meeting is: 1. Chris Harris (UK) 2. Jason Doyle (Australia) 3. Mathieu Tressarrieu (France) 4. Roland Benko (Hungary) 5. Tobias Kroner (Germany) 6. Kenneth Bjerre (Denmark) 7. Josh Grajczonek (Australia) 8. Maciej Janowski (Poland) 9. Linus Sundstroem (Sweden) 10. Tomas Suchanek (Czech Republic) 11. Matej Kus (Czech Republic) 12. Hans Andersen (Denmark) 13. Daniel Gappmaier (Austria) 14. Przemyslaw Pawlicki (Poland) 15. Theo Pipjer (France) 16. Craig Cook (UK) 17. Richard Lawson (UK) 18. Lewis Bridger (UK)

Wouldn't it be perfectly legal for Poole to use a guest, all they have to do is claim either Pawlicki or Lebedev are withholding their services, the rider gets a ban and Poole gets a guest.

Can someone tell Lemon has moved on from Newcastle to Glasgow, his must be getting on so break the news to him gently.

If Ward cant be bothered, or cant make it through injury, and if Middleditch is so keen to use Nicholls, he can come in as a guest for Ward.