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Outstanding job by @keith_suffling on our 2017 race suit design which are being made by PRS Speedway. Can't wait to see them in action. 🏁 And a tweet from CL. After this build up they better be good!

Just seen the new @ipswichspeedway team suits by far the best designed team suit iv seen can wait for the fans to see it Tweet from Rory this morning

RIP Bryn. What a horrible year it can't end soon enough!!

You really don't need one for the most basic English grammar. This is one area I always used to agree with Mr Snackette and although I wasn't a fan of his delivery at times, I did understand where he was coming from. I'm not one to specifically pull people up on it, but I admit I do find it irritating to see the most basic grammatical errors. You're another who clearly doesn't know the history of this poster. When it comes to Ipswich, he's a troll. Pure and simple.

Fair enough no problem with that. Can see why you'd have that opinion TBF, I mean why would anyone want Schlein when you've got Oystercard on a near identical average.

Of course he's trolling!! He has a dislike for Ipswich despite his denials which you probably aren't aware of. Whether this Ipswich team is rated as favourites or not is irrelevant. Some will rate them as favourites, other like yourself, may not see what the fuss is about and think they're overrated. But one thing this team isn't as it stands, is a bottom 3 team. That's just ridiculous. He even had Edinburgh higher who at the time had only named three riders. TBF Kerr was a victim of the numbers game as much as anything else. Barker had suddenly become available and Ipswich as a team were underperforming. Something had to be done to try and improve and Kerr was the unlucky one although thankfully he was soon snapped up by Scunthorpe. With the greatest of respect to Kerr also, he doesn't have the same pedigree as Schlein. Would you have been happy to take him at Peterborough? Best case scenario is he lives up to his pedigree and pushes King for the number 1 race jacket, worse case scenarios he doesn't look the same rider as previous years but even then IMO a 7 point average looks modest. I honestly don't see a "gamble" of any sort. Time will tell.

Of course we are, and will start the season as one of the favourites. I wouldn't pay too much attention to phillipsr when he comments on Ipswich because he has a long lingering dislike for our club for some reason.

For the life of me I just can't see this as a play off team at all. Looks poor actually. Knowing the owners trigger happy fingers I'd expect changes fairly swiftly if they lose much ground early on. Looks better than Scunny and Berwick, but that's about it IMO.

Nico will be chuffed! Will suit him far better. King and Heeps as well actually.

https://twitter.com/chrislouisiwsc/status/805705443624546304 Track improvement begins.. And judging by the following tweets, inside line is indeed coming in again as well as a new track surface. Exciting times! New track record in heat 1 of the first meeting next year coming up..

"Worried"? LOL. Peterborough are one of only three clubs that are left incomplete so naturally those threads are going to attract most interest as there's little to discuss on the others. Unless you think as it's a Peterborough thread, only Peterborough supporters should share their views here?

Agree with this. Kennett is a fabulous #1 in this division. Holder has just finished the season as an inconsistent 7 pointer, exactly as he finished the previous season. Absolutely no guarantee he'll kick on to be a reliable #1.

Baldy from what I've read from you on here over the years you'd be trying to pull an imaginary hair out watching Klindt every week

A Brit. Leigh Lanham.

You could add Holder to that. Scored 3 on his last visit at Foxhall from number 5 and looked abysmal. And he'll be their #1! He was just as inconsistent this year as he was last and didn't up his average when everyone predicted he would. If he didn't carry the surname Holder and was a Brit called Steve Parsons there wouldn't be half the fuss. Exactly! Great effort to put that together under 40.

Hume is going places. You're also forgetting that most teams will have at least one rider at reserve who will be the same "risk". We've picked a couple of the plum ones.

Jacobs was also tipped for a very bright future a few years back. Impossible to tell if any rider will progress to have a "future" as good as they hoped. Anyway, the point still stands.

IMO Bates is an awful signing for Sheffield purely for the fact we know he doesn't want to be there! Really don't understand the benefit of going to the local press and stating that you wanted away but were eventually persuaded to stay on on the promise he can jump ship the following year. Why go public wth that? He's been naive there. He's also opened himself up to criticism next season when he's going through a tough period and struggling for points (and it will happen). You can guarantee that as soon as that happens you'll see comments on here that "he's not even trying" and "he clearly doesn't want to be here". What should have happened IMO, is as soon as the lad had said he wanted a move they should have made him available and wrote him out of their plans and filled the void with a rider that wanted to wear a Tigers race jacket. You have to also factor in the perverse way our sport works. Bates doesn't want to have the season of his life and be in a position in 12 months time that he's unemployable to another club because he's not on an attractive average. Just ask Joe Jacobs at the moment! I'll have a little friendly wager with you that Cameron Heeps will add more to his starting average next year than Bates will at Sheffield..

Problem with that is I don't think anybody made a fuss of your team to start with

Think it will have most fans approval Baldy. When you get "I don't know what the fuss is about it's not all that" comments then you know you're in decent shape. It's the condescending "it's not that bad a side and could do okay" comments when you should start worrying!

Reserves are not 2 point gambles. Whichever of the two lads will be at 7 will compare favourably against any other number 7 in the league. The only gamble is going with another at 6 when some teams will on paper have a stronger reserve. As has been said though, there are high hopes for both reserves particularly Hume as we've already seen first hand what he can do. He's made incredible progress in such a short space of time and it's becoming increasingly obvious, what Danny King and CL saw in the lad to make him a club asset when he was a wobbling Rye reserve! I'm not in to making predictions as in this sport things can go pear shaped very quickly, but we'll no doubt start the season as one of the favourites along with Sheffield and possibly Glasgow if they finish their team well.

Don't you worry about us we'll be fine.. Grondal signed for you yet?

Hopes are high for the reserves. Both talented lads and both only heading in one direction. When the team is announced some will immediately point to the fact we have weak reserves but I genuinely don't think that'll be the case. Hume in particular made a big impression towards the tail end of the season with us and Mountain was having a terrific season with Mildenhall before injury. One of them will be a match for any of their number 7 counterparts no danger there, but the risk is going with both of them when we come up against a side built "strength in depth" with a strong reserve at 6. The train of thought is probably that any possible lost points there will more than be made up with the 1-5 but the team is built exactly how I wanted it to be built. Anyhow I'm not quite sure how this thread has turned in to an Ipswich one rather than a Peterborough one we have our own thread for that. Pretty sure Peterborough will look strong on paper too so although it's the only localish derby we have left, should be 4 competitive battles next year!

Nah you can still always build a good side if you're clever even with a 9+ pointer Just out of interest, would you be disappointed if King was named tomorrow as the new Panthers #1? Can't think too many would be TBH even with the hefty average.

As much as it hurts to say, you're spot on here. Since the club dropped down several year ago now, we've failed to land the big prize despite often having a team tipped to do so. Again, spot on. And for a club of our stature that is far too long. We need to get that monkey off our back sooner rather than later.