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Steady on…

Absolutely.

Some good racing there tonight I thought. Ellis always in the thick of the action.

I don’t support Kings Lynn. It’s an opinion. The guests were good, but I’d also expect Basso and Musielak (or a.n other of his standard) to score 19 between them at home. Leicester have picked up the last few meeting and are now showing a bit of form, but they’ve been pretty poor most of the season. Lynn have a decent looking side when everyone is fit. Injuries and the problem with Musielak at 1 has killed them.

That team with a firing Musielak comfortably tops Oxford and Leicester. Their strength is at reserve. Look at Sheffield and Belle Vue in comparison.

Mon the Stars. Iversen riding really well atm. Becker isn’t a number 1 so did OK with 7+2, but if Lynn had a firing Musielak or A.N other scoring 12/13 at home like a true number 1, then they’d be play off certainties.

Would you like some tissues?

Of course it would! You’re living in cloud cuckoo land if you don’t think Hawkins would have got stick if he’d selected by far Ipswich’ most important rider in a dead rubber heat and he’d picked up an injury that ended Ipswich’ season stone dead. It’s a cast iron certainty he’d have been slaughtered on here today. The chances of him riding in it and getting injured are slim at best, but it’s still a risk nonetheless which makes absolutely no sense to make. I don’t accept the “short changed” nonsense either because we were running with Rider Replacement so Emil still took to the track five times which he would have done if they were running with a full septet.

I wonder if we’ll get our “guest” man a team suit for 4/6 meetings in September instead of a bib? Make him essentially a proper team member in effect

Well reasoned post Siggy. As for Monday, Uppa Stars!!

Absolutely. Fans have been starved of action recently and as you say, school holidays have now started. As for the result, I think Tel is being a little mischievous there. Yes, it was a meeting that we SHOULD be winning, but I didn’t see anyone predicting 55+ for Ipswich leading up to the meeting. I personally predicted a very tight meeting as most did, and if Kvech had ridden like he has previously at home and done a little better, it would have been just that.

Why? The meeting was over. Hawkins has explained his decision which at the end of the day, is his to make and the only one that matters. Jenkins had only had three rides because he was replaced in an earlier ride when the result was still in doubt. Giving him his fourth ride when the meeting was already won makes sense to me. He’s the one rider we have that seems to be struggling and a little low on confidence, so they gave him his 4th ride to try and get him going and get a confidence boost and by all accounts, despite not beating a Lynn rider he rode well in 15? So that may have been achieved. I understand people want to see the best riders as often as possible, that’s obvious. But sometimes you have to get over your disappointment and try and understand why certain decisions like last night are made. We have bigger fish to fry and have already struggled to navigate missing riders through injury pretty much all season.

Disagree with you totally. The meeting was won, and we have a cup final and the play offs to come. This is the very track that we lost our number 1 and STILL haven’t managed to replace him. Both Emil and Rew are both hugely important to any success we’re hoping to have this year. Lose either and it’s season over. You don’t risk either if you don’t need to, I’m sorry but that’s just bonkers to do so. I understand people being disappointed at not seeing them, but you have to be sensible here. If Emil was put in heat 15 last night when he wasn’t needed and he picked up an injury, I can guarantee this forum would be flooded with people this morning slaughtering Hawkins.

https://ipswichwitches.co/raceday-report-kings-lynn-41-49-ipswich-rowe-motor-oil-premiership-r2-a/ Hawkins explains his heat 15 decision here.

And much better is what we got. Well done boys.

Sayfutdinov goes well here like he does most places, and he’ll more than likely score more than anyone else on either team. But he ain’t unbeatable, Kvech will lower his colours at some point I’m sure of that. Rew hates the place and Ipswich still have fitness concerns with three riders. So it could genuinely go either way.

You can accept or not accept anything you like fella.

TBF there was no tapping up involved. Ipswich have nothing to do with Musielak not returning to King’s Lynn. They’ve simply enquired as to his availability once it was known he wasn’t returning to Lynn. Whether you believe it or not is up to you of course.

Daniel Smith is correct unfortunately.

Can’t see it personally. It’ll be Lindgren.

Me too actually. Great entertainment and the NSS would suit him down to the ground.

Next season. Probably.

Just remembered Rew scored a big fat zero from four rides here last time out. We’ll need much better from him this time that’s for sure.

Think this will be tight actually. Cook wasn’t particularly good here when Birmingham visited, 4 points. The same here will do nicely Think a lot depends on the fitness of King, Ellis and Thompson. King and Ellis still being hampered by fitness issues according to Hawkins and still not 100%.

With his season winding down by then, that can only help in his availability you’d think. No Birmingham clashes I can see on the fixture list either. Just a Leicester v Lynn fixture on the cup final dates. Let’s see if we can source a replacement first though. We’ll know one way or the other pretty quickly now. That’s still my preferred choice but if it doesn’t happen, I hope we don’t go in to the most important fixtures where trophies are decided, using different guests for home and away. Pick a preferred choice, and go with him for all the fixtures.