Steve Irving

Wrong. Then he’s another who doesn’t know his arse from his elbow! Is it any wonder your team always end up scrapping for the dregs every winter when you spend half of it chasing ineligible riders? “Clubs are automatically permitted to retain their existing Rising Star for the following season should they meet the criteria” Flint meets the criteria therefore he’ll be at Birmingham. Jenkins isn’t an option either. Once you’ve graduated out of the rising star scheme you can’t drop back in it despite his average now dropping below the 4.00 mark.

Understatement of the year! Let’s have it right, Ipswich were a better side than Sheffield this year, the results between the clubs when both were at full strength proves that. The table before Emil joined Doyle on the sidelines also proves that. You’ll get some fans come on with “it’s not our fault we can only beat what’s put in front of us” or, “well that’s speedway injuries can happen”, you’ll always get supporters who are desperate for silverware and couldn’t care less how they get it. But the fact is, the injuries to Ipswich haven’t just spoiled it for Ipswich, they’ve spoiled it for everyone else because the clubs that lift the pots will know it’s a hollow victory. Surely as a fan you want to take on your opponents at their strongest so you know any victory would be fully deserved? No excuses can be made by the losing team, won fair and square. Yes injuries do happen of course they do, but losing not one but two 9.5 pointers is bonkers.

And the reason why they were labelled “pick and mix Tigers”. Sacking Brits just before the cut off and then strategically hand picking guests for certain tracks. All very snidey and unsavoury.

He’s not wrong though is he. If anything he’s underplaying it!

You keep saying this, but nobody has lost their top two of the calibre of Sayfutdinov and Doyle. Jacob Thorssell isn’t a comparison amd losing him isn’t quite the same blow is it whichever way you slice it. In any case, those that have been hit have been able to replace those riders right up until the play offs. Play off Bob has rocked up more than once for play offs. Ipswich don’t have that option this year. Musielak would have been in for starters if the new 75% rule wasn’t in place.

Gonna pop down for this one. Haven’t been to Lynn for a few years so looking forward to it.

What about missing Vissing? Paid double figures from his convenient guest replacement wasn’t it?

I wouldn’t call the racing at Sheffield entertaining either. Your lot were embarrassing on here yesterday. “We’re never winning this, you’ll see” “easy 10 point Witches win” “50-40 Ipswich or more”. You were facing a team that has literally had the stuffing ripped out of them, a team missing their 1st, 2nd and 3rd heaviest scorers at home and replaced them with rider replacement, Batchelor and a quality rider who has proven can’t get to grips with the place. Your pretence that you were never winning it was pathetic.

They’ll all be on here tonight saying wow what a win against all the odds. It’s a thing fans do, they’ll know they should really be winning but they’ll play the pre-meeting “we won’t win this one” card in case they don’t. We can all see the team sheets. It might actually be close because the Sheffield reserves are utter mince, but they SHOULD be winning this simply because they have the stronger team on paper. They wouldn’t have a prayer if both teams were at full strength.

Absolutely not. A team that finishes top due to someone else’s huge misfortune who were clearly better than them, doesn’t mean you deserve to finish top. You’ve simply taken advantage of someone’s misfortune. That’s self explanatory.

Lindgren has been a big disappointment it has to be said.

Well it should be. Clubs will never have a better chance than this. “The team that finishes top deserve it”. Nope, not this year if as expected Ipswich now miss out.

Lindgren has been “booked” for both the two legs of the cup final, and all play off meetings. Ipswich have now given themselves every chance of silverware.

Big disappointment from Tungate here. A solid display from him could have actually seen Oxford win this one.

Behave ffs you’ve been on here long enough to know that both Ipswich supporters and supporters of other clubs in general would have given Ritchie Hawkins both barrels if Emil had come a cropper a la Doyley and you damn well know it. Stop fishing for engagement.

This is absolutely bonkers. Doyle would also have made it back in time for his UK meeting if he wasn’t told to get off the plane he was sitting on!! Lidsey’s plane took off, Doyle’s didn’t. They both fly back to different airports also. As for “Doyle’s fault for running a schedule that leaves no margin for such eventualities” have a day off ffs. He has his schedule and his timetable set up that perfectly suits him to get everywhere he needs to be bang on time. You don’t inconvenience yourself by planning to land in Manchester and then spend hours travelling down the motorway to his base in Norfolk on the remote 0.0001% chance there’s a technical issue with your scheduled flight and told to get off the plane!! The facts here, are that the SCB investigated both Doyle and Tungate, and were happy with their findings on one rider, and less so on the other and issued a ban. That’s the top and bottom of it.

Fair enough SS, but I think you’ll be in a minority here. The Ipswich fans haven’t seen their side lift the big one since the all conquering side of 1998. They’ve been starved of success for far too long. I think most fans would prefer to wait for the best possible rider that gives them the best chance of winning the title, than going for an inferior rider now. If that means waiting until just before the cut off for signings so be it. I know going with guests is frustrating, but personally patience is the order of the day here for me.

Rider Replacement and Blödorn for Doyle and King? How on earth are they still 4 points clear at the top of the table? It must catch up with them sooner or later surely! If Emil was on it like last year it would have been the most one sided league since their all star team of 98.

You’re correct and let’s not forget he was only a teen back then. Much more seasoned and classy rider these days and still unbelievably only 29 years of age. Foxhall would hold no fears for him that’s for sure.

You would have done if he was missing obviously let’s not pretend otherwise . Wasn’t it you who lauded the signing of Zagar on here with “drink those tears” after your club made a change after changes were permitted? You weren’t interested in any debate on whether your club had Broken/Bent/Grey area of the rules, all you were interested in was rubbing it in people’s faces on here that your team had strengthened. Yeah, I wouldn’t be taking the moral high ground on this if I were you.

And here we go again. Pathetically ran Speedway club, a complete embarrassment.

No need for “tinted glasses “ at Ipswich. They actually make an effort to get meetings on. They uploaded photos from mid afternoon last year of the track literally under water, but worked their boll0cks off to get the meeting on by 7.30. Same last week, heavy showers on and off all day, if that had been Norfolk you could guarantee it would have been called, but not at Ipswich. The like of Bagpuss who seems to defend his club to the death need to call out his club for once. They’re currently a pathetically ran Speedway club who need a dry week and completely dry forecast on race day to let a meeting go ahead, seemingly because they can’t be @rsed doing any track work if any rain falls. Stop trying to defend the indefensible. If it’s not the weather it’s telling lies about broken pit gate locks because half your team is away on Danish duty. Pathetic club, Lynn fans should be embarrassed. There has been an identical forecast in Ipswich as Norfolk for today. Early morning torrential rain flooded the roads, forecast is off and on showers for the rest of the day. Have Ipswich called it off? No. It may well get postponed if and when more rain falls, but you can guarantee that when it gets called there was zero chance of it going ahead. But that won’t prove Lynn correct and Ipswich wrong. Ipswich are simply prepared to do all it takes and work hard to get a meeting on, Lynn clearly can’t be bothered!!!

But he was powerless to stop the horse from bolting. They just ain’t having Speedway at the Showground and he was told that. He knew he was pi$$ing in the wind and wasn’t prepared to chase unicorns. The consortium have now found that out for themselves. The slanderous accusations on here over the past 6 months from the likes of TTT and the sheep that followed, accusing Chapman of taking “brown envelopes” to ensure the closing of Peterborough speedway have been absolutely staggering.

I don’t think Col likes Ipswich very much. He labelled the Ipswich team “the worst top flight team ever put together” and had them stone last by some distance in 2019 before they knocked Poole out in the semis and finished runners up to Swindon.

Why are some of you Peterborough fans still blaming Chapman? Hasn’t he given Mick Bratley and the consortium his blessing to try and negotiate themselves? How are they all getting on with that? Would you like to update everyone Mick on how much of a better fist you’re making of things than Chapman did?