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Better start this off then! Nico confirmed broken ribs so out for a few weeks - a revert to last years riding order of heeps at 3 and Rory 5 with Lewis Kerr in for nico at 4! must win for the witches need to start getting some confidence in the camp! palm Toft an astute choice of guest for Newcastle given how well he went for Peterborough the other week - but I’m confident we can get the first win of year nevertheless! although cam only scored 4 points Monday he passed and held off kildemand for a third place and finished with a win over grazcjonek so let’s hope he can get going at Ipswich now too! Just needs to make some starts! riding orders taken from witches website Ipswich: 1. Danny King 8.87 © 2. Michael Härtel 5.20 3. Cameron Heeps 6.93 4. Lewis Kerr (g) 7.49 5. Rory Schlein 8.58 6. Connor Mountain 3.33 7. Danyon Hume 2.00. Team Manager: Ritchie Hawkins Newcastle: 1. Ludvig Lindgren 7.21 © 2. R/R for Tero Aarnio 5.02 3. Michael Palm Toft (g) 7.02 4. Matthew Wethers 5.65 5. Lewis Rose 6.49 6. Carl Wilkinson 4.97 7. Ashley Morris 4.88. Team Manager: George English

Second bend was dreadful today - you could see them bouncing over a couple of bumps so then as they land grab a handful of grip and get launched towards the fence fairplay to lakeside rode hard and deserved the result felt sorry for nico found himself in the wrong place a couple of times needs to maybe make better decisions! heeps needs to make some starts desperately german looking more and more confident Reserves need to work hard - need more from them both at home impressed with Ellis last Friday and tonight - all on the new godden engine will be interesting how long before we start to see more and more of them! If people keep getting beat they’ll soon be wanting one!!

Here’s hoping there’s more grip on the outside for this one!

There’s not an automatic right to all four back no - but standing on the second bend it was clear to see all four made a good start together it got nipped up and Bowtell from gate two made clear contact with haertel and haertel with Morley on the outside - both continued on trying to save it and subsequently fell of on their own but it was a clear case of first bend bunching and the ref denied the paying public of a speedway race with all four riders back in! Wouldn’t have made much difference to be result but just seemed a very harsh decision on the two young lads racing hard for the first corner!

Yep pretty much sums it up!! Felt sorry for haertel - only got 2 rides didn’t really see the sense in taking his third off him not gonna learn tracks by not riding them! Shocking decision in heat 8 to exclude the two riders btw if that’s not 4 riders making a good start and bunching I don’t know what is!! on a side note I believe Ellis was riding the godden engine all night tonight - both man and machine impressive.

Ironic after all the rain offs the first meeting we have such a drying wind the track was slicker than slick!! Does not suit our boys! Good start for the German! reserves dropped too many points from scoring positions and that was the difference - king too slow in ht15 rory said after he made a mistake but he ran out of room because Danny too slow! early days but the lack of track time really showed - well done Peterborough came well up for the contest and deserved the win - impressed with palm-toft

Yep correct decision! Forecast looking much more optimistic for Peterborough on Sunday! So let’s hope it stays fine, itching for a speedway fix now!!

Encouraging to see both Connor and danyon score some good points tonight in NL challenge - 12 from 5 and 10 from 4 rides respectively, should be a good confidence boost for them to get the season going!

It’s a real shame if the weather wrecks the double header this Friday! I’ll be at Foxhall whatever if there’s a chance it’s on but I won’t be travelling away if the forecast is still so poor! Let’s just hope it changes and blows out before Friday!!

Feel like it’s a good opportunity for us to take something away from this meeting - lots of our boys go well there and we pushed your much better looking side close last year - however it’s looking quite likely that it could be the first meeting of the year for the witches which will favour your boys for sure so I’m going for a panthers win but us to pinch a point 47-43 something like that!!

Thanks man! I may head over anyways but appreciate any updates!

Anyone in Ipswich today? I’m assuming there’s no point me coming back to see if there’s any practice on this afternoon?!.....

Drozdz at 3 would suggest he’s settled to his home track very quickly in practise - can see Belle Vue a comfortable winner tonight....looking at the head to head in the lineups can only realistically see batchelor outscoring his opposite number in Drozdz at 3 around Belle Vue, maybe Wajtknecht against Etheridge ...but anything less than 15 point lead and I think Swindon will have a very good chance to turn the tie around! Makes for interesting viewing from afar and a great meeting to get the season started with!

thanks! Best get up to the diner for lunch on that day then!!!

Anyone know if there’s some practise planned sometime between now and good Friday!?

Well he’s riding for Redcar this year....maybe he wants to get over here and test the equipment he’s brought over

I don’t mind the new logo..... could be a lot worse look at poole’s website muchly improved - good to hear guy nicholls suggesting as long as he’s in business he’ll be involved in backing speedway!

Haha my bad on worrall

Kyle howarth stepped up last year and with no s.worrall/josh g/cook/masters in the league this year will easily hold his own stepping up to number 1 lasse and wright are very good heat leaders and both will be formidable at home. bates frankly has the ability to go as far as he wants in the sport - just needs to get his head right consistently - showed signs of that last year so potential to improve kurtz is fantastic at Sheffield and has become more and more solid at number 2 year on year shanes could be one of the leagues biggest improvers this year smith has bags of potential just waiting to be unlocked - nevertheless he’s improved every year in his short career so far...... im an Ipswich fan so no tinted specs - I really can’t see the weak link here....

Discounting injuries which always play a major part... I see three mini leagues in one top 3 ipswich/Glasgow/Sheffield finishing in any order middle pack fighting for 4th lakeside/Scunthorpe/Edinburgh/Redcar/Workington bottom end fighting to avoid wooden spoon Newcastle/Peterborough/Berwick For me the top 3 are the clear strongest but then thereafter that it’s a bit harder to call - at Ipswich our success hinges a little on how quickly the German lad settles and the injury returnees... lots of people saying lakeside nailed on for top 4 - I think they have a long tail - never really rated Morley - and Ellis/Newman engine room looks somewhat inconsistent and prone to crashes/injuries - but one of the biggest Home advantage track in the league!

Ah pleased about that! Been wishing for us to be awarded one of these events for years now! Extra meeting on the calendar too!!

It won’t happen but this would be good to watch Bartorsz Zmarzlik Emil Sayfutdinov Tai Woffinden Shamek Pawlicki Piotr Pawlicki Andzej Lebedevs Vaclav Milik

And to think you were all worrying about the prospect of ostergaard riding at 5 this season.......come March you could well be seeing him in heat 1!!

It’s all very well claiming at Peterborough we’re behind this that and the other but lakeside tried to sign nicholls and kennett months ago, were told sorry they’re not eligible for championship racing this (something I think is unjust and ridiculous I might add) but rather than sulk and get to nearly February without an alternative they said right what are we going to do then that’s messed our plans up.....put their heads together and signed Lawson/morris, similarly Lawson was going to Sheffield until this happened - Sheffield aren’t still sitting here saying we should be allowed so sign scotty or lakeside should have been so we can have Lawson - plans changed they were proactive got on the phone to lasse and brought him back i genuinely think it’s ridiculous that kennett and scotty and maybe Hans (although don’t know if he really would’ve dropped down) have been blocked, seems a pointless rule harshly affecting very few riders and achieving nothing, but it’s not like they’re not allowed to sign for just one club....it was the same for everyone, it’s equally unfair to move the goalposts 3 months later to benefit a couple of teams when everyone else has built their teams within the parameters set out.

Perhaps to be clearer I should have said interesting guess at what the riding order might be - thought it was obvious this being a forum that it was a fans opinion and not an official riding order I was responding to.....thanks for clearing that up in case anyone else was confused hard to suggest where klindt might end up in the team - think reserve is unlikely but doubt he’ll be at no.1 all year - I just thought it was interesting that different people saw quite different orders for the same lineup - some team lineups the pairings kind of pick themselves - never a bad thing to have options and versatility in pairings.