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2 hours ago, kelvinht said:

I couldn't possibly comment on the ineptitude of the Oxford team manager....

seen it before a few times when team managing Rye

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Harris 4  lol.  Remember what people saying about what he would do at Foxhall v Ipswich last  last year the final and will always score over ten etc lol

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10 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

Not sure about that. Jordan I’m sure will come good but we’re still unbeaten with a under performing Jordan.

Im of the same thinking tbf, i think Ipi can afford to carry Jordan atm till he finds his feet, he just needs a spell at reserve to get some confidence, young Dan is picking up decent points home and away and Ellis is doing his bit and like been said their still unbeaten so it ain't all bad.

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6 hours ago, orion said:

Harris 4  lol.  Remember what people saying about what he would do at Foxhall v Ipswich last  last year the final and will always score over ten etc lol

I dont think conditions suited him. He is way better than that, Oxford did well considering Tungate missed his flight.

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7 hours ago, chun said:

so nicholls outperformed his average by 4.5 which is a swing of 9pts.  this might have been more had he scored in ht15 as well.  kind of makes a mockery of the sport really

Ummm ... it's why they are called "averages" ...

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10 hours ago, Mr Blobby said:

If Nicholls has the wrong helmet colour on then surely he should’ve been excluded on the 2 minutes there. Or was there more to it like Oxford don’t know the rule book when it comes to changes.

There's a quote from Schroeck in the Oxford report: https://oxfordspeedway.club/2024/04/reaction-at-the-end-of-the-day-were-still-second-in-the-league-table-and-we-know-how-weve-now-got-a-very-strong-side-throughout-and-were-going-to-be-tough-to-beat/

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Schroeck not being too hard on himself.

“No-one is harder on me than myself and I know I made a mistake in Heat 14 and could have put a reserve out with Scott. I’m normally clued up, but there was so much going on towards the end of the meeting and I missed an opportunity there and that does frustrate me. But at the end of the day, the only way we could have got a win would have been to also gain a heat advantage over Sayfutdinov and Doyle in Heat 15, when Ipswich had pick of gate positions"

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Seems Emil still can't get a win in heat 1 - don't think he has won a first heat all season! Apart from Jenkins everything seems to be pretty much ok - he will drop to reserve which will hopefully give him some confidence. I watch a rerun of the Peterborough v Sheffield match from last season and he looked really good.

8 minutes ago, Chris said:

Schroeck was a dreadful TM at Rye House 

Don't recall him being that great there as a rider either!

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1 hour ago, foreverblue said:

I dont think conditions suited him. He is way better than that, Oxford did well considering Tungate missed his flight.

You would think wet conditions would suit Chris Harris than any other rider. Just remember all the stick  i got saying that Harris would not score well  v a decent ippo side.at Foxhall   ..Magic looking great as well i see. Saying all that if Tungate had have showed up they might have won.

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8 hours ago, orion said:

Harris 4  lol.  Remember what people saying about what he would do at Foxhall v Ipswich last  last year the final and will always score over ten etc lol

Strawman argument. Harris's GSA is under 7 so no one should regularly expect him to score double figures. 

He's outscored his average in 4 out of 5 matches so far this season and that's an admirable record, not a reason to laugh at him.

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9 hours ago, 2ndbend said:

Have to say... very disappointed with Jordan so far... he needs to improve if the Witches are to win anything this year. If a change is made. Who?

He's much better than his early season form suggests, Ipswich have time though because the team has been racking up wins.

Hope JJ can bring back his 2023 form back.

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By not running Heat 15, did Oxford get a losing bonus point by only losing by 6?

If so, lets hope Ipswich don't miss out on the play offs by 1 league point from Oxford!

More than happy with Jordon. Clearly on the pace and will score more when in his correct position of reserve.

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1 hour ago, Roger Jacobs said:

Ummm ... it's why they are called "averages" ...

Exactly. If you follow this line if thought to it's logical conclusion why not dispense with all that messy racing and random variations and just add up the two teams GSAs and award the match to the team with the highest combined average. [Think of the savings: No stadium to rent, staff to employ, machinery to purchase, riders to pay]

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10 minutes ago, GeneralMelchett said:

Seems Emil still can't get a win in heat 1 - don't think he has won a first heat all season! Apart from Jenkins everything seems to be pretty much ok - he will drop to reserve which will hopefully give him some confidence. I watch a rerun of the Peterborough v Sheffield match from last season and he looked really good.

Don't recall him being that great there as a rider either!

But being a great rider does not make a great team manager either.

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3 minutes ago, arnieg said:

But being a great rider does not make a great team manager either.

oh completely -  football / sport is littered with great players who never made it as manager and mediocre players who made great managers etc

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