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Lawson 10 r/r bomber 8 kennett 7 king 12 heeps 6 allen 7 50-40 witches to continue to impress keeping last places to a minimum, gradually edging further ahead throughout maybe losing heat advantages in ht13&15 expect only Doyle to beat king, with Lawson to continue to impress, seemed to rise to responsibility of no.1 on his back long may that continue! this is all of course if it’s not a rain off as the forecast suggests it quite easily could be! As you can see above I’m ever the optimist!

Apologies league not cup yes. otherwise not sure why my post was so funny!? did you read the original question it was in response to!? You know the one saying just for fun now the season underway and we’ve seen who’s going well etc. Starting from scratch who would you pick in your 1-7...? at no point did I suggest bjerre should leave Belle Vue for ipswich. just to be clear tho if buster hadn’t been so tight and told Kenneth he’s not good enough for heat leader money anymore then he’d have been at Peterborough without a doubt and Belle Vue wouldn’t have had a sniff!

Perhaps Kenneth Bjerre instead of Schlein? He was pretty special when Belle Vue visited in the cup

Not sure I agree with that unless Jake is back 100% fit and back to pre injury form, KP steadily improving at Foxhall and haven’t been able to find a suitable guest for Jake yet....

Of course, but I got the impression from our site they weren’t sure how long he was going to be out, if he had a go in Poland today it’s not likely to be a significant period of time

KP scored 9 in Poland today so his knee obvs not too serious

Haven’t made much to write home about I recent years to add to our rich history no Interestingly tho I remember a couple of seasons ago when sedgmen was getting a load of stick off of witches fans someone tweeted him saying to quit Ipswich and come join a “big club” (can’t remember what their club was) and sedgmen to his credit replied with something along the lines of “who’s a bigger club Ipswich.....gollob, rickardsson, loram, Louis, sanders, hampel.....”

Good question, would’ve picked him over bellego from the start personally

Gotta have a rider willing to come in that’s the biggest problem - who’s out there now cooks gone to Lynn??

Kennett can be superb around Foxhall, and has been in fine form in championship so far this season. I think other than perhaps at Belle vue Eddie is an upgrade all round. Shame for David it’s not worked as he seems a likeable fella but a change had to be made, best of luck in the future David hope you get fixed up elsewhere

Still despite being overwatered it was smooth no potholes you can lose small horse in like on the south coast

Fair enough, like I said won’t pretend to be a track curator just pondering out loud! dare I say perhaps there’s actually too much material on the track?? which adds to it becoming so tricky and choppy earlier on

Jensen and perks appear to be superb upgrades for the Swindon team, makes them look very strong now when muesli back fit

In fairness I was rather impressed with Rohan’s crafty little moves up the inside, nicholls like Harris seemed rather taken aback by the speed Rohan was carrying off of the bends running such a tight line! Not one other rider tried/achieved the same tonight. A good battling performance once again from the witches, Lawson looks to enjoy the pressure of no.1 on his back, impressive wins I ht13&15 which effectively stopped Peterborough gaining a point. bellego scored some important points in the second half of the meeting but was woeful early on - you’d have thought he’s spent enough time now watching people in front of him going faster showing him the lines yet he still seems to ride different lines to everyone else!

First half of meeting looked to me like the base was greasy with a sea of marbles on top! ill concede been much better since the grade at the intwrval

Well that turned out to be b0llux again! Track is shocking - again! Far too loose on the top they’re all just skating across the top like ice in the first turn. Wont process to be knowledgeable in track craft but saw a tweet from a rider can’t remember who last in a discussion about tracks in uk who said needs more clay mixed in so it binds together better - could that be the same for Foxhall??

Can we please not turn a thread for a speedway meeting into an argument about politics.....there’s already 8700000000000000000000 avenues of the internet to debate and argue about the bunch of t055ers!!! so king, bellego, Heeps and coty can take a ride for KP r/r Heeps could be a busy boy tonight me thinks

Fair point, I guess the problem is predominately on Swindon this year then as they chose to build their team top heavy with distinctly weaker reserves - tough on those boys racing their socks off week in week out for little return. cant blame other sides for choosing strength in depth - and to be fair much of our success at Ipswich thus far this season has been due to the strong reserve pairing.

I agree its no good for the young lads confidence riding top flight before they’re ready. Is it not the point of the rule they brought in this season that to ride in the top flight you must have achieved at least a 4.5 average in the championship first - stopping drew kemp for example from being eligible for a top flight spot before gaining further experience. obviously the likes of zach and Shanes have done this but still seem far out of their depth at the top level so perhaps it needs to be even higher? It’s a tough one as others progress much quicker - Dan Bewley for example.

Would’ve tried to get Kenneth Bjerre in as a guest if I was panthers management after his big haul at Foxhall the other week! Maybe he’s riding on the continent? Should be a comfortable home win imo tungate and Bates won’t get enough from 3 & 5 positions for panthers to challenge. I’ll concede it’ll be one of the stronger away reserve pairings to visit us this season both can go well at Foxhall so they could keep it closer if properly utilised. weather could be factor in track conditions and or the meeting even being on, looking rather unsettled next couple of days and keeps changing when and how much rain forecast to hit Ipswich.

I think bomber kept it on in the knowledge that Max is ordinarily a hard but fair rider - had it been pedersen, Lindgren he’d have got off the gas knowing they’re likely to smash him in the fence if he didn’t. Imo it was over the top and I would be saying the same if it was the other way round and an ipswich rider had made that move. I don’t think there was malice in the move, and I’m sure max would much preferred to have finished the race than cause a crash and get excluded, he wasn’t in front he was alongside by at most half a length in front and chose to run that close to the fence - he didn’t have to he chose to which caused the crash - he came across bomber and ran him into the fence - bomber was already there his line didn’t deviate so Max was correctly excluded for being the cause of the incident. people saying oh well they do it in Poland and just get on with it is no excuse to me, have you seen some of the crashes in polish league lately?? Namely the Emil and buszckowski crash at the weekend? Absolutely frightening and completely avoidable. heeps had a superb race with Rory Schlein at Foxhall a few weeks ago getting the better of him finally with a last gasp burn round the outside - when asked about the race afterwards he said “it’s great fun racing closely and hard with someone like Rory as you know it’s going to be hard but fair, you can trust him he’s not gonna try and kill ya!” Surely that’s the sentiment we’d like riders adopt not just “oh I’m half bikes length in front on the back straight get off the throttle or I’m gonna ride through your front wheel into the fence!” theres a lot of Belle Vue fans leaping to the defense of Fricke in this incident but had it been an away rider doing that to a home rider I feel confident you’d be up in arms calling him a dangerous and dirty rider.

Can’t blame him but it’s just another instance highlighting the conflict of interest when one person owns three clubs in the same league - imo it’s farcical. I don’t think realistically we were in for cook anyway, we were always sticking with our 7 but had we of been looking to try and do a deal with Craig the fact buster also wanted him at Lynn means we’d have had no chance of making that signing.

Let’s face it though, if he was available and willing to go to Kings Lynn then buster never would of let him come to us over them - he’ll always put Lynn first

Nicholls guested for Kurtz and scored 11 at Poole and 9+1 at Ipswich so cant see how that was the difference in either meeting.....next excuse

Inclined to agree it’s our weak point away from home, but if Harris reaches peak form come the playoffs as he did for Poole last season then who knows! Good meeting all the way through, mostly hard but fair racing bar the Fricke Harris incident. Pleased for Stevie that he’s getting back the form he showed before that bad leg break. Wells letting the aces down badly need to find someone who’s quicker around the nss. Pleased with a point, glad to see Jake back and come through the meeting unscathed and everyone pitched in. up the witches just keep proving those doubters wrong!