Parr: We need more consistency!
Redcar Bears team manager, Gavin Parr, has urged his side to become more consistent as the “Agilia” Bears welcome Berwick in the club’s home Cab Direct Championship opener with tapes up at the ECCO Arena at 7:30pm.
Parr, in his debut year in charge, knows more consistency is vital, ” We want more consistency as a side, so far this season it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster.”
The former rider knows that a win will be important as the club look to put together a good run of results with the Bears having 3 back to back home fixtures, ” It’s important to get the win against Berwick and then try to take that result into next week’s fixture against Poole.”
Parr isn’t concerned about the form of Danny King with the former British Champion not hitting his exceptional high standards in recent weeks, ” Me and Danny are in contact daily and nobody is more frustrated than him after the good start to the season he had. Danny has spent the last two days in the workshop trying to find out why he’s not been able to get out of the gate but Danny is a model professional and I have no worries about him at all.”
The former Redcar Cubs manager is not reading too much into Redcar’s 55-35 defeat at Scunthorpe, ” Scunthorpe is a unique place to go and they have a surface like no other in the league. You can go to Scunthorpe one time and do reasonably well and then another time things can go dreadfully!”
Parr, is looking at the positives with the Bears claiming 4 wins away from home so far in 2023, ” Instead of thinking about the Scunthorpe result, I am thinking about the 2 fantastic results we had against Glasgow and how we can take them performances forward.”
Redcar are hopeful of welcoming back long term illness victim Erik Riss with Parr explaining how the German’s participation in tomorrow’s meeting will be decided, ” Erik had a really good practise session at Redcar on Sunday and apart from him aching after not being on the bike for so long, there wasn’t any concerns surrounding his brain fog. Risky has two appointments tomorrow with neurology and the eye specialists and he will let us know tomorrow evening whether he will be racing.”
Redcar have Richard Lawson on standby to race in case Riss is ruled out with the side otherwise unchanged from the Scunthorpe defeat.
Meanwhile, Berwick hand a debut to ex Edinburgh man Jacob Hook who has replaced long term injury victim Nathan Stoneman. The Bandits will be aiming to stay undefeated in their league campaign with Berwick’s only other Cab Direct fixture being a home win against Scunthorpe. The Bandits will also be aiming to end an horrific sequence of results against the Bears with Redcar undefeated in their last 8 outings against Berwick.
Fans are reminded that under 16’s are admitted free with a paying adult whilst supporters who are unable to attend the ECCO Arena are reminded that the meeting will be available LIVE at www.redcar-speedway.tv
Redcar “Agilia” Bears
- Danny King 8.57
- Danyon Hume 5.48
- Erik Riss* 8.24
- Jason Edwards 4.24
- Charles Wright © 7.67
- Connor Bailey 4.09
- Jake Mulford 2.70
™: Gavin Parr
*= If fit
Berwick Bandits
- Rory Schlein 7.95
- Jonas Knudsen 5.00
- Leon Flint © 7.26
- Jye Etheridge 6.09
- Thomas Jorgensen 7.40
- Jacob Hook 4.00
- Connor Coles 2.07
™: Jamie Courtney
