Belle Vue v Ipswich March 24th KOC

[Aries]

Merry March! Speedway month has finally arrived. Still just over three weeks until this one, too early for a thread? Meh, who cares it’s been a long Winter!

First competitive fixture of the new season and it couldn’t have started with a better fixture IMO. Will Witches make a better fist of things here than we have in recent years? It has to happen sooner or later, the team is too good not to. A lot will depend on Doyle and how he starts the season. Thankfully, he has two or three warm up meetings before this so that should help. 
 

Within 10 and its job done, will fancy us to finish the job at Foxhall if we can manage that. 

[BluPanther]

The smart money is on a rain off... 😎

[Arch Stanton]

57 minutes ago, Aries said:

Merry March! Speedway month has finally arrived. Still just over three weeks until this one, too early for a thread? Meh, who cares it’s been a long Winter!

First competitive fixture of the new season and it couldn’t have started with a better fixture IMO. Will Witches make a better fist of things here than we have in recent years? It has to happen sooner or later, the team is too good not to. A lot will depend on Doyle and how he starts the season. Thankfully, he has two or three warm up meetings before this so that should help. 
 

Within 10 and its job done, will fancy us to finish the job at Foxhall if we can manage that. 

Definitely 3, possibly 4. Including a very helpful one at Belle Vue a week before this fixture 😉

We should be winning this over 2 legs really. 

[Arch Stanton]

1 minute ago, BluPanther said:

The smart money is on a rain off... 😎

Indeed. Or a frost off! 

[Steve Irving]

Incredibly difficult to predict opening meetings when you have no kind of form guide. In theory Ipswich should comfortably win the tie on aggregate because they have a better side, that’s a fact. BUT, Ipswich have more questions that need answering than Belle Vue. Has King’s hand surgery worked? Or will he still be heavily restricted in his movement? Doyle’s first competitive meeting for nearly a year, will he be sharp or sluggish. You never know how riders start the season either, even world class riders. Emil last year had all sorts of issues mechanically and didn’t get going for a couple of months. He inevitably found the solutions and started blitzing everybody again but it just shows it’s almost impossible to predict opening meetings.