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Completely agree, bellego still a bit of a worry for me but impressed with the team so far. And what is good to see is all 7 putting the effort in, that goes a long way for me too, I hate seeing riders pull up on the third lap when last etc. really hope jakes shoulder injury isn’t too serious, Josh Bates should be a good guest at home on Monday

Ipswich have tweeted he’s out for Monday, Josh Bates in to guest. Further updates on the extent of shoulder injury to follow

Were you at the meeting?! If you weren’t your opinion has zero credibility. If you were then you were watching a different speedway meeting to me! After their first rides both were good value in all of their other races, Tobi was leading comfortably when his bike let go on him in his retirement, he passed Lawson in heat 14. Scott raced hard all night, passed Harris on the track, couldn’t have been expected to do much more realistically.

Great result! All 7 riders scoring important points, cut out a couple zeros and engine failures and we’ll be really rocking and rolling! I know pboro aren’t the strongest team currently but can only race what’s in front of you - big 4 points!

Think this one will be tight! We’re due an away win having got ourselves in good positions in most of away meetings so far only for one or two to let us down! Hopefully they can finally all do it on the same night! I’m going 44-46 witches to nick it!

All this nonsense about team suits making it hard to tell who’s who makes me laugh! They all have different colour helmets and the program and announcers will tell you who’s wearing which colour helmet in each race it’s pretty straight forward

I also wasn’t aware of this! I thought that was the point of a 5 man squad for a 3 man event?

But my point is only 3 of the 5 squad riders will be riding in Manchester on Saturday and bomber will likely not be one of them fit or not fit! So would make little difference taking a break now for a week or two to properly rest his hand so it can heal! The final in Russia isn’t until July 20th so plenty of time to be fit and ready for that meeting should rosco decide to call on him. i’d have thought the only way bomber is to be picked for the finals is if his form in the next month or two is phenomenal so riding injured and scoring 1 point at home isn't doing much for his cause! Craig cook qualified for the grand prix in Togliatti so I firmly expect him to be in the 3 with woffy and lambert having had success on the track previously.

Right now by riding when not fit enough to ride to his full capability he’s letting his teams down and would be doing the same riding in the SON - is he going to be in the pair in place of lambert or woffy?? No

I kind of see what you’re saying but equally bomber literally has a broken hand right now and if he took a couple of weeks off to rest he could return stronger and in the interim we would be able to utilise guests! at the start of the season he was racing hard and doing well - since the injury it’s clear he’s struggling to race the bike hard through the bends and turn on different lines

It’d be an awful lot easier to cover if he admitted he wasn’t fit enough to ride and we could utilise guests in his place! No wolves riding today so could’ve used Schlein, masters, nicholls all of whom would for sure have scored much more than his paltry 1 point. if there’s no time frame on a return sign Craig cook in his place on a 28 day I jury replacement contract to begin with and then see where we’re at. Cant see us getting anything away at Poole or Peterborough in the Next two meetings with Harris in the team continuing to struggle

I stand on exit of second bend so saw it from other side whereby it looked like Cameron passed him on entry to the corner and Anderson turned back into him - contact wasn’t on entry to the corner ie cam riding into the side of him and pushing him off, his back wheel passes Anderson’s front wheel without touching him at all and the contact is between the handlebar and cams right side as he turned back. I guess the refs view is more similar to yours from otherside of the track either way it was a strong move from cam and perhaps a little desperate? Was likely both our boys would pass him during the four laps easily

Harris needs to swallow his pride and take a break to get his hand stronger, letting us down at the moment. everyone did well enough, well done bellego much more confident performance on a different engine. king looked considerably quicker on Heeps bike practising briefly after the meeting - his practise start on back straight seemed to drive a lot better than those during the meeting on his own bike. Hopefully can get his gear going better sooner rather than later! Heeps shouldn’t of been excluded in reserve race imo - he’d passed Andersen who then turned onto him causing his own fall

Depends largely on Harris fitness - potentially slick day track so gaters paradise which will not suit him, He’s not looked fit enough in last few meetings and lambert will be much better than last time so need bomber to lead form the front could this be bellegos last chance? Without a significant upturn perhaps it should be.

Ah thanks Neil for the info, this hadn’t occurred to me given Craig had a prem average from last year. I also thought the conversion rate was 1.3 so for sure looks a bit easier.

Potentially difficult to bring cook in now the averages have changed and we’re above the limit - once above the 42.5 limit you can’t add two averages together and split differently - only straight swaps so only rider cook can come in for is Harris unless we were to drop below the 42.5 and redeclare 1-7 so to drop Lawson and bellego for example 6.93 & 6.14 = 13.07 but need to lose 0.78 so I think Craig is 7.63?? Which would leave 4.66 for another rider....does that strengthen us? Who’s available on that figure?

Kennett, Bates, Auty, garrity, Pickering, Douglas 6 championship riders that would all be an improvement on bellego’s current performance level imo

Losing patience with bellego, 2 Pts tonight and we pick up a point! Lawson away from also a worry. Harris letting us down by riding when not fit - if he was genuinely not being hampered by his hand injury then he gets more 3 I would think. missed opportunity to get at least a point tonight, shame well done to the other 4 boys scored well

Good to see Bellego have a great meeting in the SEC qualifiers this afternoon, winning the meeting! Will do his confidence the world of good!

From my viewpoint yes batch had right be unhappy with KP - he’d lost momentum locking up on 4th bend but just turned left on batch anyway going into 1st bend - it was pretty dangerous and credit to batch for his bike control to avoid a big crash - a lesser rider would’ve t-boned KP, I’m sure some may say KP was in front so can ride whatever line you want but you have to be safe as well - I’m all for hard riding but also fair. That being said I don’t think KP was being dirty as such he knew he cocked up on the 4th bend and I think dived across out of desperation to hold the position before he’d thought about it - seemed quite apologetic after the race knowing it was a silly move - but understandably batch was defiant as the red mist had well and truly descended upon him as a result of him probably being pretty sh!t up by the incident! tobi in my opinion had no reason to be upset, there will always be some contact sometimes when racing closely, especially in first couple of bends - in this case the contact was right in front of me - appeared minor and didn’t really affect his momentum, having not been to Foxhall before I think he was caught unawares by Cameron cutting back and generating so much speed up the inside off of the second - a common Foxhall manoeuvre glad to hear you enjoyed your first visit to Foxhall, it’s a long way from Swindon so nice that it was a worthwhile trip!

That they would - I like both Shanes and zach, both hard working and have ability but look a long way from getting 8pts between regularly at this level at the moment. they're both still at second string/reserve in the championship so even at that level it’s not their job to beat the likes of covatti, Heeps, Allen, Jacobsen, Barker, summers, palm toft etc. And if they do it’s a good ride and a big well done to them, yet that’s who they’re coming up against at reserve in top flight and then in that scenario it is their job to beat these guys....tough on them and don’t know if it actually helps their development or not at this stage?! can’t dispute the top end strength of Swindon for sure but you’ve only got to have a couple of off nights for one of them and they’re vulnerable home or away - there is no plan b if they’re not firing!

Disappointing to let Swindon get a point. When you’re at home and a reserve scores 16 points you should be getting at least 50 as a team. Bellego looking a very weak link currently - shame as he looked good first couple of meetings and then his speed, gating and confidence has just fallen off a cliff. Although he got an important race win late on in the meeting bomber was not for tonight - couldn’t hold on early meeting when the track was heavier. King very poor. KP did ok gotta watch them jump starts though, and not surprised batch was angry with him, from my view on the second bend his left turn on batch looked pretty psycho! Lawson did ok don’t anyone would dispute Swindon have superior heat leaders and he held his own. Heeps looked quick again - strange to be only be given 3 rides... Jake Allen take a bow! Musielak very impressive on his first visit to Foxhall.

Depends on busters influence at Ipswich...can you really see cook getting a ride at any of the east Anglian clubs now? Lawson showed last Thursday he can beat good riders at Foxhall but he’s got to up his game away from home. i thought it was hard on bellego him losing his ride at home Thursday - hadn’t done much wrong and we’d effectively won the match. He needs to improve away from home also as does king. He never should’ve been in ht15 at Swindon Jake should. impressed with Krystian so far seems to be learning fast and not afraid to mix it.

Lidsey will no doubt improve throughout the season - I have to say in the off season lots of people on here seemed to regard berge as a trump card at reserve and wanted him in their teams....can’t say I’ve ever really rated him at all - mostly seen him at Foxhall where he’s always been poor, and a couple of times at Sheffield which again been very inconsistent. So imo your reserves did what I expected last night - Lidsey improved every race looks a fast learner he’ll do better on his next Foxhall visit Cant really see why bewley is riding at 3 away from home currently, surely would make more sense to put Worrall at 3 which would take a bit of pressure off of wells who also seems to be struggling early season

They had 8 race wins to our 7 but also had 12 last places to our 3!! And 6 of their race wins we nullified with a 3-3 so pretty positive all round imo