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The Tigers certainly don’t look as strong as the Tigers select side from last year

I’m just so please Chapman never got anywhere near running Ipswich.

I know this topic has gone left field talking about football & speedways reliance on guests and doubling up. The issue is that the sport in the uk hasn’t shown any imagination or desire to grow and become strong in the last 30 years at least. If truth be known it probably didn’t in the heyday of the 70s & early 80s either. I dearly want to see speedway become a sport that is taken seriously & one that has its rightful place as a decent spectator sport. I know that it won’t ever be like Poland here but I’d be happy with decent media coverage and the remaining tracks we have being secure. However to much that goes on now makes that impossible!

I’ve been attending Foxhall since the 80s and I have also gone to various other tracks over the years. The advertised start time has always been the parade time with tapes up typically 15 mins later. All this fuss over start times get a grip.

The itfc event is due to wrap up around 130

Scott Nicholls keeping up 100% Foxhall record for 2024

Guests or a temporary signing as cover I wonder?

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I don’t see any real reason for us to make changes yet. Belle Vue is somewhere we’re always poor at currently top of the league with one defeat. once the averages change if Jenkins & Rew don’t get going then maybe time to change. currently very happy especially as Emil hasn’t got going yet equipment issues I understand.

Ride maybe but put effort in & race that’s debatable!!!

He has been disappointing however he was never going to be the super strong number 1 that some thought.

Dan T is the rising star so stays at number 7 all year unless that regulation has been changed.

Not sure about that. Jordan I’m sure will come good but we’re still unbeaten with a under performing Jordan.

Short answer yes! To win by 12 with no Doyle & Emil having a couple of iffy rides by his standard early on is impressive. Emil was pure class in his last 3 Ellis looked a real upgrade on Riss. King was superb & had real skippers ride in heat 12 Rew looked better than last season improving for sure. Nicholls good value as always however Doyle would clearly have got at least another 5 or 6 points Jenkins solid start think he will come on leaps & bounds. Will really benefit from being around Doyle. Thompson picked up where he left off before injury a real trier. All in all very happy & certainly wouldn’t swap this Ipswich 7 for anyone else.

That’s a decent result for Birmingham. Tungate’s night seemed to have mirrored what happened plenty of times for Ipswich over the years up & down & Magic not the unbeatable number one many were predicting. in all fairness I think it’s going to be a very tight league this year.

Not a bad result for you guys. Plenty of promise there.

No point asking the current fan base as they will turn up whatever. The powers that be need to be looking at what will entice new supporters in other wise the sport doesn’t have a future. One thing for certain is that the poles will call the shots & there isn’t much the uk can do about that & we only have ourselves to blame. while we have been busy devaluing the product on offer here the poles have equally as busy making their product something that tv, business & the public want to be part of……hence they are in a strong position to dictate to us.

Not getting the second lot is quite possibly part of the reason for the sport’s decline. Supporters of most team sports get fanatical about ‘their team’ they might be fans of the sport but wouldn’t dream of going to watch other teams live. Speedway very much plays to the speedway fan while ignoring the fact most supporters of team sport are there because it’s their team. That’s the big disconnect with speedway. It wants to be a team sport but doesn’t offer the tribal team feel. Football for example a Man City fan wouldn’t go and watch any other team, certainly not Man united because they could see two matches a week. More than likely they watch other teams on tv because they are a football fan but first & foremost they are a Man City fan. Please use other clubs as an example if the Manchester one offends.

Thank you

Thank you

It’s that time to ask the annual question……when is press and practice day?

Quite possible at world level, however in the UK I still expect Doyle to be the best Aussie. On the other hand I don’t think Doyle was happen with his set up last year & goes in to 2024 with a new set up & big backing on an individual level from Guy Nicholls

Not sure you’ll be able to repeat in 2035, GB speedway has to survive for 11 years

Came across this BBC documentary on you tube from 1997. Such a shame that nothing has changed in 27 years, although I well remember that many thought a brighter future was just around the corner.

He is hardly likely to say anything else, can’t say we have put together a poor team. little bit like Ipswich in the early 90s signed plenty of poles/czechs & even a Austrian all had potential sadly none achieved it. As for your team I would happily have had Brennan at Foxhall, Worrell is ok the Poles I think will surprise a few. I’ll be honest Milik does worry me. I think your probably destined for the wooden spoon but I don’t think you’ll be whipping boys.