Parr: Let’s improve our home form!
Redcar team boss Gavin Parr has urged his “Agilia” Bears to improve on their poor start to the season on home shale as the Redcar Bears welcome the Berwick Bandits to the ECCO Arena in the Cab Direct Championship with tapes up at 7:30 at the ECCO Arena.
Despite the side’s away win at Workington, the team boss still has concerns over his side’s form at the ECCO Arena, “ We are trying to improve things at home but we do have to put it into perspective that Scunthorpe are brilliant at our place. We do need a good, strong home performance to back up the result we had at Workington, so let’s hope we can start the weekend off with a win!”
Parr is also wary of the threat the Bandits pose, with the visitors refreshing their line-up this season, with the Bandits also tracking Tom Brennan as a guest for the injured Lewi Kerr, “ Berwick have Tom Brennan this weekend who is in the form of his life. Danyon (Hume) will be out to prove a point after the numbers didn’t fit for him to return to Redcar and they have a very good reserve in Bastian Borke. They also have Drew Kemp who rides our track well and to be honest, the Berwick team as a whole look like a good outfit.”
Redcar bring in their former skipper Ben Barker to guest for the side in both meetings against Berwick this weekend with Parr looking forward to seeing Barker’s style once again, “ We have Ben in the side this weekend and I am looking forward to seeing his leg trailing style around the ECCO Arena again. You know what you are going to get from Ben and that’s 110% effort. Ben likes our track and the Berwick track so that bodes well for us.”
Parr has also praised the Redcar faithful, with Parr shining a light on the travelling support at Workington, “ When we went over to the fans after the Workington meeting, we meant that from the bottom of our hearts. Me and the promotion have had lots of sleepless nights after our start to the season but overall, the fans have been superb and they were great at Workington.”
The Newcastle born boss is also full of praise for Jason Edwards, who hit a superb maximum against Workington, “ Jason is a real deep thinker and he studies where he goes wrong. When we were last at Workington he scored 2 points so he was on the phone to Danny (King) and they analysed what he was doing wrong and they solved it and that showed in his maximum on Saturday. Jason was also out every race to watch and learn more and more as the meeting progressed.”
The promotion have drafted in the aforementioned Ben Barker to guest for the side with the former skipper no stranger to the Redcar supporters. Jason Edwards will be looking to keep up his stellar recent run whilst Jonas Knudsen will be hoping to hit a big score against his former club.
Berwick have a number of riders who enjoy the ECCO Arena including Rory Schlein, Drew Kemp and Tom Brennan. The Bandits also track two former Bears in the aforementioned Danyon Hume and Jye Etheridge whilst Bastian Borke has started the season brilliantly at reserve.
For any fans who are unable to attend the ECCO Arena, the meeting will be live streamed by our streaming partners, Tapes Up Productions at redcar-speedway.tv
Redcar Agilia Bears.
1- Charles Wright (c) 8.12
2- Jonas Knudsen 5.51
3- Connor Bailey 5.53
4- Jason Edwards 5.32
5- Ben Barker (G) 7.87
6- Jake Mulford 3.20
7- Ben Trigger 2.25
TM Gavin Parr
Berwick Bandits
1 Tom Brennan (G) 8.80
2 Danyon Hume 4.93
3 Jye Etheridge 5.76
4 Drew Kemp 5.52
5 Rory Schlein 7.73 (c)
6 Freddy Hodder 2.00
7 Bastian Borke 4.30
TM Stewart Dickson