Berwick Bandits give their track a facelift for 2024!
Berwick Bandits continue their preparations for the new speedway season, the club currently overhauling the circuit at their Shielfield Park home. The Polyfoam safety barrier surrounding both bends – installed in 2012 – has been removed and renovated over the winter with new posts and a mesh fence installed last weekend. The starting line at […]
Rory Schlein laser-focussed on success with Berwick Bandits in 2024!
Rory Schlein will be laser-focussed on his role with Berwick Bandits in 2024. The five-times South Australian champion is back for a second season at Shielfield Park but has resisted the temptation to double up in the Premiership. Having reversed his 2022 retirement the 39-year-old was a surprise winter signing but ended his comeback campaign […]
Bastian Borke on joining the Berwick Bandits!
Berwick Bandits latest Viking invader has been given the inside track on his new club by one of the Bandits’ favourite Great Danes. Bastian Borke’s switch from Edinburgh was confirmed last, the 21-year-old from Aarhus lining up at reserve in the much-changed septet for 2024. He has also switched clubs in Denmark where the move […]
Berwick Bandits capture young Dane Bastian Borke
Young Dane Bastian Borke has been announced as the seventh and final signing for Berwick Bandits’ new look 2024 Cab Direct Championship team. The 21-year-old from Aarhus, Denmark, will start the season at reserve forming what looks like a potent pairing with teenager Freddy Hodder, after switching from Edinburgh. Borke joined the Monarchs in June […]
Teenager Freddy Hodder unveiled as Berwick Bandits’ number seven
Teenager Freddy Hodder has been unveiled as Berwick Bandits’ number seven for the 2024 Cab Direct Championship season. The 17-year-old from Rugby has made rapid progress in Belle Vue Colts colours since swapping moto-cross for the British Youth Championships in 2021. Belle Vue snapped him up and Freddy made his debut for the National Development […]
Jye Etheridge returns to Berwick Bandits for 2024!
Berwick Bandits’ new team boss Stewart Dickson has been ringing the changes this winter, but the Borders club’s fifth confirmed signing is a familiar face. Australian-born but very-much adopted Berwicker Jye Etheridge returns for what will be his seventh season at Shielfield Park. The 28-year-old from Newcastle, New South Wales, first signed in 2017 after […]
Berwick Bandits secure Drew Kemp for 2024!
Team manager Stewart Dickson had to be at his persuasive best to secure the signature of Berwick Bandits’ newest recruit. In an interview with Scott Frame for the club’s Total Access! podcast Drew Kemp reveals that he had been all set to give the British Championship a miss in 2024 to concentrate on his burgeoning […]
Danyon Hume joins the Berwick Bandits!
Danyon Hume is the third rider unveiled by Berwick team manager Stewart Dickson. He joins Rory Schlein and Lewis Kerr as confirmed starters in the Bandits’ 2024 Cab Direct Championship campaign. The 27-year-old Buckinghamshire-born racer was a Championship double winner with Poole in 2021, and also collected a Premiership runner-up medal in Ipswich colours last […]
