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I described this as a must win for Berwick so from that point of view it was a successful night with the home team grabbing all the points.In truth Berwick made heavy weather of beating a Sheffield team that ran with virtually four riders,with Albin,Koppe and Knight passengers. Star of the night was Simon Stead who raced to a faultless,effortless maximum,he was backed up by Wells and to a lesser extent Haines and Hall,sadly Sheffield lost Hall to a nasty looking Ht14 crash to looks like an upper arm injury.Hopefully it isnt as bad a is being feared and he will be back soon. Very worrying to see so many empty spaces on the terraces last night,but in all honesty if you serve up that kind of entertainment on a track thats prepared like that then you certainly cant blame people for keeping their £13s in their pocked.From the gate racing all night with only two (count them) two passes all night after the second bend,excatly what Sky will make of a meeting like this when they turn up goodness only knows. Looking forward to next week,Workington turn up next week and have their go at finding a secong racing line round Shielfield,and with Edinburgh & Redcar not racing that night,if they turn up with Dyer & Cook as guests it could get very untidy for the home team.Question is how many will be there to see it giving theres a GP that night and the entertainment that that series is serving up.

There was far fewer there tonight than last weeks meeting with Edinburgh.

From the gate racing,virtually no passing,what else can you say.

Simon Stead will ride tonight.

Progress.

Reserves have been Berwicks achillies heel in the last few meetings,but they should be far to strong for their Sheffield counterparts.

Dry overnight in Berwick and its dry right now.Theres one or two clouds around but mostly bright if a bit on the chilly side. Hopefully Stead makes it for tonight but Summers is a decent choice of guest if he doesnt.Still fancy a Berwick home win though.

Given the strengths of the Edinburgh team 37pts round Armadale for any away team is a bit of an achievement,for Berwick to get 37pts round Armadale is a bit of a miracle.

Its reported there was a hastily arranged between the riders and our track team after last weeks defeat to Edinburgh.Hopefully those opinions from the riders will at least have been taken on board and where ever possible acted on,of course ask seven riders what track they want and your likely to get seven different opinions,but theres got to be a happy medium for all concerned. It cant be that hard......can it.

Weather forecast fairly reasonable for this match,there will be drizzle over night and possibly into tomorrow morning,but by lunchtime that should all have gone leaving a bright and dry afternoon and evening. I hope Stead will be fit,and be at Berwick tomorrow,he is a class act in the PL.However if hes not able to give his best I hope Sheffield go with a guest,theres plenty of decent alternatives. Claus Vissing.

Other than Berwick and Sheffield there are four other PL tracks racing tomorrow night,so theres reasonable scope to bring in an adequate guest for Stead. But please Sheffield no r/r.

Amazed to read of problems with the Redcar track,given numerous posts by the great and good from Redcar about the Newcastle track,I thought their track was the mecca,the gold medalists if you will of the PL.

You wanna try Berwick.

No disrespect to Sheffield but this is a must win for Berwick,no ifs no buts,a must win.

Never really thought it before but now I think you are as daft as your posts suggest.

Giving his performance last night at Wolverhampton,ex Bandit Robert Branford hasn't half given some PL promoters a nudge.

We`d all like another rider in the team,Alden wouldve been in my 2013 team all day long,but I dont think changes are what is needed right now.Theres no rider out there who could come in right now with a view to a 1 in 1 out change,therefore it might take more than one change to get the desired effect and thats just not going to happen,rightly in my view.

Edberg flies in and out for Berwick meetings,as does Aspegren.Bellego and Barrett are the only two Berwick based riders.

Home win,if Ashworths back or we use a guest then it will be a home win by 16-18pts,if we go with r/r then it will be a home win by considerably more.

If Berwick decided to loan out Edberg for the 2013 season,that loan money couldve gone to Edinburgh for Dyer,but Berwick went with one of their own.Personally Im happy we went with Edberg,what we need now of course is to see Alex do it where it counts most,on track.He is capable of hitting big scores at home but needs to produce away from Shielfield to,and no amount of postings on social networking sites will do that. A big score this saturday and a metaphorical up yours to his doubters is whats needed.

Im quite happy to go with guests to cover Ashworth,Alden stepped in last week and theres no reason why the club shouldnt call on his services again. If there is a crisis of confidence with Edberg then it may be better for him and the club to stand down untill he finds his feet again,though how he goes about that is another matter,time on the bike would seem the natural thing but right now thats where the difficulty lies,and a ready replacement isnt obvious to me given the averages. To sum up Id stick with Edberg,and hope he comes through this by scoring points for Berwick.

Oh for goodness sake have a word with yourself,I wouldnt know of any arrangement between our promotion and Edbergs dad,and in truth care even less.His Edbergs points or lack of that my main worry.

I thought everyone knew. Edbergs performance was dire last saturday,he looked uninterested and slow.Must admit I didnt hear and abuse towards Edberg but Im not excatly close to my friends over on the exit of turn two,who you and Teal choose to abuse.

Dont think theres any suggestion that Edberg or Edbergs dad has any say on team matters or anythingelse to do with the running of Berwick Speedway.My biggest concern is the points he scores for the team,and on the front its a case of can and must do very much better.

The riders have asked the track team for less grip in future meetings.