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Gee thanks Well done lads, puts us in a good position for a play off spot. All apart from Worrall played a part, but special mention to Risager who is having a fine season.

I agree TBH and I know plenty who share that view. CL is the promoter and it's his call obviously, but that decision is now costing him money as the attendances for the last few meetings have been shocking.

Not sure it's good for Ellis' development to be riding regularly for a track (Lakeside) he hates? Maybe there's a deal to be done there to bring him to Foxhall full time as an asset.

Well clearly not in Rohan Tungate's case and he rather foolishly admitted it!!

That has definitely hurt us this year, the fact we could only use a NL guest for him. Louis mentioned a month or so back that he didn't regret signing Ellis, but for me it was a mistake. The amount of meetings he's missed already for us is ridiculous. Not the lads fault obviously, but you have to question the wisdom of signing a rider you KNOW will miss several meetings. All very well saying if we get to the play offs he'll be available, but we have to get there first!

Yes, Plymouth in the semi final.

What I'd like to know is, did we look nervous Mr May?

Tweet from Mike Bacon of the Ipswich Star today @Mike_Bacon: 'Why do they think there's any pressure on us?' Back Page @ipswichstar24 paper today Louis hits back at @casesrebels @ipswichspeedway Anyone have the paper today and know what that's all about?

Whenever Ipswich run on an off night, it hits the attendance quite badly here unless it's a Saturday. The other week we rode Redcar at Foxhall on the Wednesday and the attendance was really poor. Yes a visiting team missing one or two key riders may affect the attendance too, but probably not as much IMO. We're missing Worrall and Ellis on Friday, couldn't the Somerset promotion have re-arranged this to another day so we could have our full line up? The truth is, this season has been a farce in BOTH leagues with riders missing here there and everywhere. It must be nigh on impossible to try and arrange a fixture list to enable all meeting to go ahead without missing riders. Just got to put up with it I'm afraid.

Oh dear a heat 15 duck for Risager again, cue Rolando Great point lads.

What a load of old tosh!! If he's called it off the fans getting value for money wouldn't have been the first thing that went through his mind don't kid yourself. As for "Well done Rob, what a pity other clubs don't give their fans the same consideration", as you've posted that on the Ipswich Vs Somerset thread, surely you're not implying that the Ipswich promotion should have postponed this meeting because Somerset were turning up without one of their riders??

Risager has been Ipswich' most consistent rider so far this season, was again consistent in this fixture, scoring 9+1 in his 4 programmed rides, and STILL the lad gets pelters from some of his own teams supporters. Unbelievable. For the record, Worrall and Risager were my two for heat 15 too.

And I'm guessing you just want to have an unnecessary pop at Louis? Where does LOUIS now say gate 1 will help him? All I can see is off the cuff comments from the webmaster. No quotes or comments attributed to Chris Louis whatsoever.

Where does Louis say that?

Very true Shadders and you're not alone either, very few stadia are up to scratch these days unfortunately. Foxhall was looking tired and hardly state of the art before having a load of money spent on it recently. Not everyone has that sort of cash for improvements I've heard this before, but I don't really get it. When the blert Aljack was around maybe, but apart from him I don't see it. Maybe I've just not paid enough attention..

Possibly also there's little contribution on here from the Rye faithful? Perhaps the likes of westhamboy and rocketBen and the sort that will only come on if their team wins..

As been said Rye isn't a happy hunting ground for us so very pleased with that! Looks like a great performance from Captain Hawkins he will have enjoyed that I'm sure! Good to see Gino chipping in with a good solid away performance too. Hope Ellis is ok.

I assume no problems with the weather?

I have to be honest, I read it the same way as Zodiak, and also thought it was completely unnecessary. A simple well done boys would have sufficed, without the need for a sly dig. However, reading the EADT this morning, I've completely changed my mind. Interview with Tungate.. "I Haven't been too bad at Foxhall but away from home I've just been lethargic and lacking motivation. I've been arriving at meetings not in the zone. I know this" Lethargic and lacking motivation? He'll never get anywhere in this sport with an attitude like that. Fans will support riders who are struggling with confidence or machinery as long as they see effort is still there. But a half arsed attitude to meetings won't be appreciated. Hawkins' tweet it seems was bang on.

Tweet from Captain Ritchie Hawkins.. @rhr_211: Boys all pumped with that 1! Great to have @rohantungate turn up for an away match #witches #teamwork Ouch

Nobody implied it would be "straightforward", it was a suggestion and certainly not a reason for someone to get their frilly knickers in a twist. The meetings are today and tomorrow, not today and Saturday so I wouldn't have thought riders, mechanics etc would fly in for today's meeting, fly back out again tonight and then fly back in for tomorrow's meeting, that would be silly. It's short notice obviously, but there's been occasions in the past where rained off meetings have been rearranged for 24 hours later. Was very unlikely to ever be an option, but I don't think it's as far fetched as made out above.

Tungate continues to disappoint. He's been woeful so far this season. Manzarez' best away score to date, good lad.

What has that got to do with it? The point is that Rohan Tungate hasn't proved anything yet to suggest he's anything but an inconsistent 7 point PL man but his name is not Morten Risager so he gets a free ride. I get a little sick of the anti Risager stuff on here. When he has a good meeting he hardly gets a mention, when he has a stinker the "crap" Risager stuff comes out and the finger is pointed, despite other members of the side scoring even less. It's like the "rotten apple" guff that came out last year and that he was a "billy big balls" and bad for team spirit as he was apparently causing rifts in the camp. And yet we've had Ritchie Hawkins, and Adam Ellis' father state that this year the team spirit was "awesome" and the best it's been.

A la Rohan Tungate?

This.