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Agreed

So with that in mind certainly for a team around Ipswich it would make sense to have Heeps Allen and covatti all will clean up at reserve and hold their own in the team and ensure good a good reserve all season. Perhaps a revision to my initial suggestion swapping nuts for sarjeant would then fit? looking at it differently however i think the key is finding that rider or riders that have a breakout season and really improve like Swindon have with Rasmus and we have had with Heeps and Allen, and maybe to a lesser extent for wolves Douglas Potential breakout candidates for next season in my opinion (in no particular order) luke becker Krystian pieszczek ryan douglas josh pickering broc nicol ellis perks Jordan Stewart all of these boys potentially have at least a 2pt increase in them next season with the correct attitude and equipment Other new riders I’d think should be considered would be Charles Wright and Eric Riss, Charles appears to be on the up and Riss goes great guns at Foxhall, Musielak, batchelor and Ellis also good at Foxhall and Swindon can’t keep all their top 5! jonas jeppesen the young Dane has had a very decent season on the continent this year and looks a real racer could be a potential trump card at reserve - if we managed to keep niels for a full season next year too then that would be helpful for him learning English tracks to come over and learn from a top Dane

Interestingly he has always gone well at Foxhall - obviously can’t say if it’s a favourite of his or not but has always gone well there

I only see improvement in Nico riding at reserve, in the main team not consistent enough. Heeps far stronger at home for me and would get the nod if it was either or.

Allen Heeps klindt niels covatti king nuts if it fits that’s the 7 I’d go with

Lol!

Quote of the day

Everyone bashes Foxhall, but Chris Louis has tirelessly tried to improve the track within the constraints placed upon doing so over the last few years, and often cites how difficult it has been making it better for the current bikes and how they ride! In addition being honest in my opinion when the weather has played ball this year in the days leading up to and the day of the meeting the track has been prepared very well and produced good racing. This week leading up to Saturday there’s been heavy rain on and off all week with Friday afternoon being particularly torrential! jack holder was a disgrace last night, irrespective of whether it’s a real or fake injury if he’d have brought the correct attitude attacked the track and given his all trying to help his team reach the final he wouldn’t have fallen and hurt/not hurt himself - there’s no valid reason a rider of his ability couldn’t race hard last night, he just didn’t fancy it. up the witches, well done to all our boys dug deep all scored important points and we’re in the final!!

Or people did criticise the German gp track but it’s not the Poole track so it hasn’t got a swarm of angry Poole fans who will vehemently defend anything to do with Poole irrespective of the rationality of said criticism or heaps of evidence just because

See you there! Bringing popcorn

If Hawkins wasn’t giving all the boys all their rides and utilised Allen and tac sub, I think Harris was getting by klindt anyway he’d lined him up and was faster, could say you got lucky in 15 with niels falling and being excluded when leading. im not saying I thought witches were better and deserved to win but some subtle things going a bit different and it easily could’ve been 49-41 or 48-42 which I think would’ve been a fairer reflection, Poole always looking like the winners but witches keeping it close ish

Heeps shouldn’t have been excluded couple of races pulled back when riders had only punished themselves so no need as shovlar says king then got away with a roller don’t think niels would’ve fallen in ht15 if grajzczonek hadn’t have slammed into him - admittedly it was a tough call more a racing incident than one rider blatantly knocking another off but I feel it was the contact from josh which did enough for Niels to fall

Score line flattered Poole imo, was a much closer meeting than the score line suggest although that said I feel Poole were always going to win. Track was poor throughout. Ref decisions were poor throughout. expect that to be the worst we’ll see Niels from the tapes for the season, he’ll be sharper in the playoffs I’d have thought. heeps is great at Foxhall, needs to be doing better away in playoffs if we’re to stand a chance

Tbh in reference to the tactical while in agreement Hawkins regularly fluffs the use of tac sub. He did make a point of saying in meeting preview the result of tonight’s meeting doesn’t have any affect for us but it’s a good chance to get some extra practise and test some things during the meeting so perhaps it’s agreed everyone getting all 4 rides tonight as we may we’ll be back here next week in playoffs

Nice blue groove to go with the bumps now too

Just because it was good the other day, that doesn’t bare any reflection on the track tonight does it. Riders are bouncing into the corners and in that last race jack holder looked exceptionally tentative

Joke of an exclusion that for heeps

Let em win 50-40 tonight so they win the league pick us and then return in a couple of weeks and win 46-44 the underdog tag will suit our boys no end, just like early season! Still a big ask but I think people are silly to be completely writing us off in the playoffs, you never know what might happen!

Nick Morris rolling average is 5.32.....whats not attractive about that!?

They’re over two weeks - Monday & Thursday each week, all 4 meetings are on bt. The home leg at Foxhall is 26/9 Thursday.

Agree however they tried that the other year with the one rider over 8pt average, can’t remember all the splits but one example is wolves had to choose between Lindgren and thorsell, they chose thorsell, did Freddie then sign elsewhere? Nope just dropped uk and hasn’t been back

Even if 3 teams were to leap at the chance to come up, where are the riders going to come from? Neither Ipswich or peterborough have had a true no.1 this season - is adding 3 teams all of a sudden going to attract 6/7 top riders back here to strengthen the league up!? Not like btsport would be chucking loads of extra cash in the hat to help them go and entice these riders is it unless they want to see a 10 team league made up of 5 man teams??

So of the 4 dates proposed dates for the semi finals Thursday 26th is only one I can’t make because of work and that’s to be our home leg whoever we’re facing gutted! Watching on my phone in the pub or restaurant it is then

Certainly didn’t put up much fight when bomber passed him early in the meeting - tbh he seemed caught unawares to me tho as he was looking for Ellis on the outside on lap 1 looked again second bend lap 2 and bomber was sailing by! but later when Allen and king teamed up for a 5-1 over him you can’t say he wasn’t trying everything it that race! He was all over them, all over the track trying every which line he could!

Along with Rasmus Jensen and Heeps