Steve Irving

Why do Edinburgh supporters get so touchy about their riders! It was a fair comparison. Riss looked utter pony for a good while last year and many of your own supporters were calling for a change if I remember rightly! Palovaara is another example of a rider who took even longer to convince but eventually he began to look half decent towards the end of his Glasgow stint. You've got to give a rider more than eight or nine meetings in this country before writing them off that's ridiculous. On today, a few "what ifs" for Ippo, what if Risager was fit, what if Castagna hadn't packed up on the last bend of heat two etc but a good result and much more like the team I think they will be. The key for Ippo will be keeping the top 4 fit as having a bit of a tail can work against you if you're missing a heatleader like it showed today with Risager missing.

Not true. It was a selected 12. Kim Jansson for example, was omitted which led to Ipswich vetoing Briggs' planned Foxhall visit of his fund raising.

The old age problem of different riders having different manufacturers. The illuminous yellow looks great. Not so keen on the mustard yellow on Paco! Could just be the lighting of course.

Not too sure who is looking the fitter and more prepared for the new season there, Ritchings or strawb Whilst most riders hit the gym over the winter to get in shape for the new season ahead, looks like Ritchings has prepared by laying on the couch watching Emmerdale whilst eating Doner kebabs.

Very good signing in Hume. Chris Louis has just signed him up for Ipswich and is predicting good things from him. Will be working closely with Jeremy Doncaster and Chris Louis this season and I believe Louis will be tuning his engines so I'd expect good progress from him this year. Could be a bargain.

If you think that Peterborough side is stronger than Ipswich, then you are either completely clueless, or trolling. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and suspect the latter.

Clearly you can only give your opinion on their team if you're impressed with it!

I think you're being way too pessimistic with Castagna. He'll be far from one of the worst reserves in the league and will put at least a point and a half on his starting average IMO. There is no way he'll just about "hold his average" of 3.33. He'll up it comfortably.

Signing up a team without actually knowing who is filling the last spot is ridiculous. But that's just typical of us really!

Is it just me, or does Lewis Kerr's tweet thanking Lynn and the fans for "the start of my career", sound like a permanent thanks and goodbye? Maybe I'm reading far too much in to that.

You have to take in account the wishes of the rider. From his twitter, it seems he really wants to ride for Ipswich. There are two scenarios here. Either Kerr jibbed off Lynn and chose to stay with Ipswich, or Buster has accepted that it's unfair on both Ipswich and Kerr and has reluctantly released the rider. There's really no love lost between Buster and Ipswich so I'd think the second scenario is unlikely, but I could be wrong.

I think that is a fair comparison. The response to the Ipswich team was luke warm whereas the Glasgow septet have been given the wow factor. King is better than Lawson, Covatti and Barker are both difficult to judge, will Covatti maintain his form from this year and will Barker return to the form of a few years ago? Kerr v Summers you'd have to favour Summers there. Summers has been around a while now but this year he's really kicked on to be an excellent heatleader. Kerr has the obvious question mark because of his injury but he says he has no recollection of the accident and it hasn't affected him mentally. It's a wait and see with him but if he picks up where he left off pre injury then there's no reason why he can't progress like Summers did this year. Very little between Worrall and Risager as the averages suggest. I agree that I'd prefer Sargeant over Lunna. Sargeant didn't want the season to end and was racking up some cricket scores in the closing weeks. I'd have to give Ipswich the edge at Reserve too. I think Castagna is a snip on 3.33 and as I said when Ipswich announced their team, I'm very surprised Sheffield didn't include him on that figure! Have they made another error similar to not retaining Covatti this year? Overall you'd have to favour Glasgow's septet as the safer bet as Ipswich have one or two more question marks but Ipswich could potentially be very good also.

Are they? I'm not so sure. We're really talking about one reserve here as everyone will be tracking a NL 3 pointer. Ritchings will be better than most. When you go top heavy, you have to have low averaged reserves it's a simple as that. Castagna is a shoe in to put at least a point on a 3.33 average IMO.

Would love to See Tungate at the STMP and we were close to signing him before Ipswich nipped in. I think he's Somerset bound though unfortunately.

That's very good business from Ipswich and strange decision from Sheffield. Castagna is a very good signing on an average just above 3. That's one average improver right there. Good team to be fair.

That's easy. Everyone loves a blue eyed fire fighting speedway rider. An ex Copper on the other hand..

And 50p here that he also doubles up/down with Ipswich.

That's the spirit!

Sorry HT, as a Redcar supporter and I've watched the footage several times, I'm still not 100% sure..

I think that's a bit harsh on Louis to be honest. He didn't say he saw the incident and as it was after the race there's a chance he didn't. He also said if he thought it was premeditated then he wouldn't be happy. He did say that he'd had a word with the rider and was satisfied with his version of events.

As a supporter of neither club, I've got to be honest I'm unsure after watching it several times. I wouldn't categorically say 100% that he intended to knock Auty off.

Thought we might have got a point out of this meeting but not to be. Good from Kus, Roynon and Bjerre when he completed the race, not so good from the others. Well done Panthers.

At least some of the comments on here have some credibility as they're based on actually listening to the interview. You've admitted you haven't! Blatantly obvious who your favourite is! How about wait until you've actually listened to the thing before taking sides?

I can understand why you rub some people up the wrong way. Yes you're entitled to your opinion, but you come across as a grumpy sod who always looks for the worst in people and are very much a glass half empty kind of chap who can't wait to criticise. Slating the team manager, a novice who had only just completed his first meeting in charge, is a bit absurd.

Fairy nuff, thought Hawkins was 4.96 until July 1st..