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Matt Ford will decree that having missed out on the EL play-offs,Poole become a PL team and take their rightful place in the play-offs.

Like your thinking,to be honest this is the team this promotion couldve signed in year one of their tenure when there was a real positivity about the place and a chance to take a chance or two with team selections,IMO fans couldve seen what was happening with so many new riders.Its similar to what Peter Waite did in his first year with Franc,Makovsky and Rymel.Fans wouldve seen the attraction of the new riders as new assets,but that chance was missed so Im thinking a team like yours would be to much of a gamble right now.

Workington have a reserved fixture that night for the play-offs.

I think its safe to say that the vast majority of Berwick fans would be only to happy to see Edberg back at Leicester next season.

Newcastles Ritchie Worrall and Andrew Tully have been named as guests for this meeting,also there will be a new rider from Europe taking part if all goes to plan. The Berwick promotion visited Ashworth in the Salford Royal yesterday where he continues to make steady progress.

Oh how I wish someone would kidnap that Monster guy.

Agree with you about Aspegren,in general he`s been poor this season so its time to get rid for me to.I thought Alden would've done far better then he has, Id still look at him for a team place as he`s an asset of the club but I can see why others would give him the chop to.

Another fairly predictable defeat for Berwick, but you`ll never get anywhere if you only provide one race winner all night. Agree with you about washing your dirty linen in public, but every now and again it never does any harm for the manager or promotion to come out and criticize certain riders and their performances, it might just give them the kick in the pants they need. If not then the riders become comfortable, thats something I believe has happened at Berwick.

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Then you need to get yourself to Berwick and meet the young fellow.

Thankfully I leave that to others,as you know Im the picture of positivity myself.

Always the best of weather updates at Berwick,its pretty much the only consistant thing about the place.

Ah yes but I think you`ll find they are far more freindly with their English cousins. Plus we might just get a half decent team between the two.

Maybe we could merge and form the Glasgow Bandits or the Berwick Tigers.

Agree with you,hes not my cup of tea but he certainly knows his stuff.

Mr Barrie at Berwick tells us about the race we`ve just watched,like we dont know what was going on.

Top post young man,top post.

Like Berwick were going to get Jonasson turn up every saturday night.

Berwick and Sheffield Speedway clubs have got together to organise a benefit meeting for stricken rider Ricky Ashworth. Ashworth, who is still in Hull Infirmary following a crash which rendered him unconscious on August 2, has been riding on loan with the Bandits from his parent club, the Tigers, for the past two seasons. The meeting will be held at Berwick’s Shielfield Park on Saturday, September 28 and will feature riders representing the two clubs. Berwick co-promoter Ryan Anderson said: “We thought long and hard on what type of meeting to put on for Ricky. This is the Berwick club’s way of doing something along with Sheffield. This has been a real tough time for his family and all those close to him in speedway and at work. “An Individual meeting was mooted but we thought we had to include Sheffield Tigers, his parent club, where he rode for almost a decade, so we are planning a special challenge meeting between the clubs, including guest riders.” The initial plan is a 13 heat formula plus a special second half trophy, four heats plus a final, with a cash award and trophy for the winner. Anderson added: “Obviously, times are hard financially all over and you just cannot keep asking for money, but as always we would expect speedway folks to come together for Ricky. “Our Bandits 2012 Group and Supporters’ Club have been brilliant with wrist band sales, track collection etc and this goes for tracks all over with the monies being collated in a special account for ongoing transfer to Ricky via Paul Ackroyd (Ben Fund). “We will try to get every race sponsored as well as the meeting itself and will be announcing deals as soon as possible including hospitality etc. “We must attempt to keep costs as low as possible and will work on that too.” Im starting a thread for this early as Im sure theres many people out there who will be wanting to make the trip to Berwick.Im sure someone will post the teams closer to meeting time as there may be one or two changes between now and then.

Home win,with Berwicks loss something along the lines of our recent trip to Newcastle IMO.

Dont know his name but the guy at Kings Lynn.

Why does Dyer keep being mentioned,have you not seen his Redcar scores.Dyer was keen on coming back to Berwick,but when Berwick didnt dtep in he went to redcar.Big mistake,still nice kevlars. Alden walked,hardly.He was never signed so had nothing to walk from,for whatever reason. As for Aspegren & Starke,if they arent going to be used by their parent club then they will go where they want,money,convienience etc. No point in looking back to the Peter Waite,we have what we have for good or bad.

Averages will come into it,but Id rather have riders with a bit of ambition and a bit of fire in their bellies. And if your suggesting certain riders are manipulating their averages to secure a team place next year then they`ve been doing it since March in some cases. Face it one or two just arent up to the job.

The actual shape of Shielfield has altered little since speedway returned there,banking on turns three and four being the biggest.In that time we have had some great speedway with passing aplenty so the idea of the track being hard to pass on isnt quite true.Also the Under-21 meeting a few weeks ago proved that perfectly.

Kozza Smith suffered a broken scaffoid and radius in his crash at Newcastle last Sunday.