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Berwick V Newcastle - Live On Sky - May 21st


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Very quiet on teams? Are Aspegren and Lindgren in Sweden Tuesday? If so going by Kling last week for Plymouth it will be National League guests. Also any news on Robson and Kerr injuries and France are in World Cup meeting in Hungary on Monday so is Bellego out as well?

 

There hardly likely to tell the fans now are they? I imagine it will be kept as quiet as possible to get the max amount of fans in then it will be announced before the start.

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There hardly likely to tell the fans now are they? I imagine it will be kept as quiet as possible to get the max amount of fans in then it will be announced before the start.

 

I expect an announcement in the morning. ;)

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There hardly likely to tell the fans now are they? I imagine it will be kept as quiet as possible to get the max amount of fans in then it will be announced before the start.

 

You really are a cynic, aren't you?

 

If the Berwick promotion have shown us anything, it is that they make every effort to tell their public when a rider is going to be missing, through injury or anything else.

 

Website shows 'probable' line-ups, no doubt there'll be another media brief and website posting before Tuesday.

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There hardly likely to tell the fans now are they? I imagine it will be kept as quiet as possible to get the max amount of fans in then it will be announced before the start.

 

Do you REALLY profess to be a Berwick Supporter. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Weather looks ok according to the BBC website, sunshine from 15:00hrs onwards..... :blink:

Hope their right and Berwick get a big crowd going straight from work so it will be 2 cheeseburgers for my tea,
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Hope their right and Berwick get a big crowd going straight from work so it will be 2 cheeseburgers for my tea,

Lucky you. The burgers at Berwick are bootiful

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Bad news David is banned for Tuesday night.Wonder when the club found out maybe someone on here will inform us of that.That imo swings the match in Newcastles favour unless there are more team changes ahead.Adam Mckinna replaces Ludo so i suppose that balances it out a bit.I am very disappointed was hoping both teams would be at full strength with these changes i dont think it will be as good a match i hope i am wrong

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Bad news David is banned for Tuesday night.Wonder when the club found out maybe someone on here will inform us of that.That imo swings the match in Newcastles favour unless there are more team changes ahead.Adam Mckinna replaces Ludo so i suppose that balances it out a bit.I am very disappointed was hoping both teams would be at full strength with these changes i dont think it will be as good a match i hope i am wrong

 

McKinna is no Lindgren,especially with the form the Swede has been on this season in both PL and EL.Agree with you that its sad both teams cant put out full strength teams.

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Bad news David is banned for Tuesday night.Wonder when the club found out maybe someone on here will inform us of that.That imo swings the match in Newcastles favour unless there are more team changes ahead.Adam Mckinna replaces Ludo so i suppose that balances it out a bit.I am very disappointed was hoping both teams would be at full strength with these changes i dont think it will be as good a match i hope i am wrong

Does it really matter when it happened? The fact is that 48 hours before the meeting they have announced it. Many others would not say a thing until the night. Lindgren will be a miss for Newcastle, so I take it he riding in Swedish Leagues?
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Absolute poppy cock the rule for replacing absent riders with national league riders - I can undrstand reserve changes but for riders in the main body of the team it's just stupid in my opinion. This is a showcase event and it's already going to be full of scratched up teams - no wonder crowds are decreasing :mad:

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You would think given the general state of speedway in this country, not to mention TV contracts up for renewal that the BSPA would show some common sense when it comes to picking matches for TV.

 

What on earth are they doing selecting a match between two teams (one of which is already using r/r) on a Tuesday when they know there is a clash with the Swedish league and one or both sides could be hit with absences? I naively assumed they had considered this and there weren't clashes. And why the hell did Newcastle in particular accept the match? For god's sake it's not rocket science it's called planning.

 

Surely when selecting a match for TV and basically advertising PL speedway to the sporting public the BSPA have a duty to ensure they pick a match against two evenly matched sides who they can be reasonably sure will be at full strength. You can't ensure any match will be entertaining but at least do your best to reduce the risk of it not being. To have two sides using NL riders to replace a good second-string and a rider who is basically a heat leader is not selling the PL in a good light at all and in my opinion is just not good enough. Without trying to be disrespectful I have no interest in watching a NL rider riding in the top 5 against Edward Kennett.

 

It might still be a good match but it might not be. The frustrating thing here is that the BSPA have created this situation themselves, this is not down to external forces that they have no control over it's just awful planning.

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