GeneralMelchett

Just to say that whilst gate and hold on is a feature at Foxhall - Jason was of course the master of getting past people at Foxhall - but I do recall one race with DanB where he flew past someone to claim a win -i might even have been one of Jason / Emil I would have to look it up! It was definitely mentioned on this forum post meeting as he made up a huge amount of ground to claim the pass.

Wasn't there last night but same for the match with the Lion's Tobi tailed off badly in the latter heats as he couldn't find anyway to pass people despite trying really hard to from what I could see! I do think moisture in the track is tough this year due to the really warm dry weather - when did Ipswich last have any meaningful rainfall?

I know some people questioned Scott's inclusion but i'd say he's definitely earning his place this season. Good to see Tom back getting wins and oh wasn't Danny missed getting 4-12 love that!

I will give the Tigers there due I have seen them putting a lot of content out on social media of late - I hope they can get a few more through the turnstyles. I think the issue with streaming is whilst its great for people who have no chance to attend a meeting, for example I am never going to drive to to say Workington, it also means the locals can stay in watch it and save money so the stay aways are perhaps having a disproportionate effect on the crowd levels. I've been to Ipswich twice this season so far and to my mind crowd levels are down on 2025. Part of that maybe the loss of top line riders like Emil, Jason etc, part of this might be due to lack of competitive sides visiting, or Steaming etc - who knows a- without open and transparency in attendances we have no chance to judge for ourselves. One of the things I would like to see is Mayfield saying right last week we had 2000 in or whatever it might be! When Neil Machin stepped down as promoter in April 14 the Tigers had a very modest deficit on their books - in 11 years this has ballooned to 500k+ which co-incides with operating at the top level! Machin was always insistent (if i recall things correctly) whilst he was promoter they would never operate the top level!

absolutely no issues form me - When he was at Arena he was known as 'Awesome Richard Lawson'

He is a true old National Leaguer in many ways - combined both and probably did / does pretty well out of it. Means he has an income out of season too.

I can think of worse guests to go for actually - I've seen him lower the colours of Jason and Emil at Foxhall previously, if he gates he's often difficult to beat! I would counter argue that Sheffield never have a better chance to win with Klindt replacing Jack 😉

Until this period of 'absence' Lawson was doing exactly as expected a reliable scorer with only three lasts in over 40 rides

hero!! wont have otherwise

High Wide and Handsome I reckon! A couple of ones that I always recall and they actually started to grate on me a bit - 'he's going to wind it on round the outside' - 'Cuts back to the inside' both these phrases usually resulted in no passing!

I think the issue about the comparisons is we are comparing (generally) the one off final era to the GP era and you can't. Loram was an outstanding racer in the Chris Harris mould and was Screen and to a certain extent Smudger but they often lacked the consistency - although Loram did bag a title! Regardless of era etc to be crowned three times is placing him almost alongside riders like Mauger, Olsen, Briggs, Rickardsson, Crump, Hancock, Gundersen and Nielsen etc in terms of greatness purely due to the numbers of titles they all won.

I remember his debut at Sheffield all those years ago 0,0,0, - the following week i think he scored 11 or 12 and it was clear he was going to be good! Long and happy retirement to him and thanks for all those wonderful SGP and World Cup nights!

Putting my support of the Witches aside the league needs this 😉

TY - looking forward to it even more now - sadly i am designated driver so no beer for me

Good result for Lynn - all of a sudden they are in the play off spots!! their home defeats may well ultimately do for them BUT for now there are 5 teams going for 4 spots!!