Bash

Riss wasn't that good when Edinburgh were here earlier in the season. He was easily beaten in his first ride, and won against a half fit Danny who then withdrew from the meeting. He didn't trouble the scorers after that. As people have said he was dropped for a reason by Edinburgh. With regards to Wallinger he has a NL average of 5.64, not exactly tearing it up and doesn't appear in any of the team line-ups. Agree there are better options out there, someone mentioned Ryan Kinsley who has an average of 9.68 better than Danyon.

Do you really think this team will maintain the home crowd, wouldn't be surprised if the crowd was down on Thursday.

Not impressed with the changes made, but time will tell if they are for the better. Just don't judge this team on the two meetings against Redcar as they aren't exactly the strongest team out there. Will be interesting to see if Garcia can get double figures at Lakeside like Connor has both times.

I'm just saying we struggle when the reserves have to cover RR this season, if we have a full team we should be okay but this season we haven't had that much with injuries.

After the two results last night this was only going to be a home win. The Ipswich team is not built for using RR for either their 4th or 5th in the averages as we needed at least one strong reserve to cover this.

Thanks for explaining that I thought a NL no.8 could be used like a reserve in such circumstances like last night. Still it would be better to have a no.8 named as what if the two riders had crashed out in their first rides.

Well Ipswich were tipped to be one of the favourites but injuries have taken there toll so we had to be first at something

With the way this season has gone with injuries and the lack of fixtures, just can't see us making the playoffs. I hope I'm wrong but realistically can't see it. Agree we need to try to get Campton & maybe Proctor for next season.

When will the Ipswich promotion ever learn. With all the injuries we have had over the last few seasons they still go into a meeting using RR without a no. 8. How much does it cost to have a national league rider at the track as a no. 8. As you can only use riders with averages below the injured rider for IRR at least we would've had 2 riders in heat 14 tonight, it probably would still have been a 1-5 but at least we would've had 2 riders in it.

Well after tonight's defeat and more injuries we might as well forget about this season as we can't afford to drop points at home and I can't see where we are going to get any away. With only four of our own riders fit we are going to have to rely on guests, and are they going to put 100% effort in for a rival team. Hopefully 2019 will be better whatever the league format may be and we can have a season without injuries.

Looking at the teams I would say Glasgow should win. Ipswich without Danny King, replaced by Danyon Hume and no reserve. Won't be wasting my money going with a team like that, not a chance of winning. The big question is which Heeps will turn up.

I sit in the home straight stand right in line with the start and Connor just beat Garcia. The ref was spot on with her decisions except for excluding Joel Andersson when it was a classic case of first bend bunching.

I thought this year was all about saving money, with each team having a leg of the final in a 3TT each team would only have 1 meeting less if they made it through to the final as the format is now.

Should've just had the winners of each group going into a 3TT final like they had in the eighties and nineties, then we wouldn't have all the arguments about who the better second place team is.

Another poor performance from Heeps at Wolves last night. We really need to get rid of him now before his average drops even more. If not we might as well write this season off as we won't make the play-offs with this team.

Cam needs to go total crap just going backwards

Thought the Swedes did all they could to get the Aussie out in the lottery of heats 22 & 23. They didn't seem too bothered against team GB as Freddie would've slammed the door shut on Woffinden but left him more than enough room.

The lack of fixtures at the moment is going to come back and bite us IMO. Only 3 fixtures in June is a joke, how is this team going to get some momentum or consistency. With other teams changing their teams for the better I can see us struggling to make the playoffs.

Thanks

Can anyone tell me if the meetings are filmed this year and if so by who. Many Thanks

Well I was probably the only Witches fan there tonight in what look a very small crowd, and what a difference 24 hours make. After I criticised his attitude last night Rory put in a very determined performance tonight, but I wonder if words were said to him after the Ipswich meeting. Cam was named captain which was a surprise as thought Rory would be, maybe a consequence of his actions last night. A good meeting and a score line which nobody would’ve predicted. Man of the match Connor, if only he could bring his Lakeside form to Ipswich. Edward did well seeing as it was his first match back after injury. Cam still can’t seem to find the quick way around but better than the shield meeting. Taylor was out of his depth which was to be expected. Danyon did his job beating his fellow reserves with controlled riding until his fall in 14. Good news that Danny hasn’t broken his arm and hopes to be back in three weeks. Good luck to the Hammers, hope you knock the panthers out.

Edward Kennett according to the official website.

Just seen on the Ipswich website that we have Edward Kennett guesting for Danny.

Be interesting to see who we get as a guest for Danny as all but Newcastle are riding tomorrow and they haven't got anyone near the quality of Danny. Maybe have to find someone from the Premiership. This is one Ipswich fan who will be there but it is only because I promised my Goddaughter I would take her as I only live 7 miles away from Lakeside.

So if Danny has broken his arm who do we get to replace him. The only rider I can think of is Edward Kennett but I don't know when he is due back from his dislocated knee.