mikebv

Wow. Great race... Hume!!!! Holder??

I hope they do....

Rew not being at reserve after the semi has had a big impact... The Ipswich reserves are miles away from being good enough to ride in the top league unfortunately.. With Rew at reserve the two lads struggling tonight would only need to have tsken 3 rides each and he could have taken six.. As it stands the reserves will need to take 8 races which means not much hope of a Witches heat advantage in those races..

Start rain dancing Chris Louis.....

Guest riders on for a good few quid I would think....

Gate 3 for Emil and Doyle... They will be hoping for more from their other races... Ipswich reserves are not good though and have lots of races up to heat 10 so heat advantages for Ipswich will be hard to get with their last places...

Ten heats and called? Ippo need to slow this down.......

The TV deal will now be divided by 6 rather than 7 so a few more quid for each club.. I don't think a 14 team "big league", as has been suggested would be something the current remaining five teams would want given the revenue differential...

Come on the Ipswich Witches..... Beat the Sheffield Stars/Panthers/Bandits/Tigers.... Emil and Doyle will need six wins and heat advantages in 13 and 15 I would think..

Doyle was a good six inches further back than the others... The starting procedures in the UK are laughable... The outside rider aims left, and the inside rider aims right... Referees are clueless...

Nonsense... My first hero as a five year old was Alan Wilkinson... A proper speedway rider... Just like Doyle is....

100%... The issue was that not many are Doyle and Emil's level, hence the track beat them.. Emil lifted a couple of times and almost ran over Doyle, but just controlled the bike as if nothing happened.. Pickering and King seemed to handle the grip also, but the rest simply were not capable of attacking it.. Hence, the racing as a spectacle suffered... Best of luck to Ippo on Thursday...

You have been waiting to send that havent you....

I am suggesting that they are of a higher level.. One is probably the second best rider in the world, and the other has been on the top step, and is consistently, wherever he rides one of the best riders on view.. Robert is a bit like Dan, genuinely talented to a top ten level, but found wanting in those "tough moments" that seperate the true best from the next best..

I get winning in a final is great... And Doyle and Emil, and Pickering to be fair, showed the track could be attacked.. But, honestly, the racing was crap... A whole straight between riders .. And I was there to watch the same last week... I am happy Ippo won, but it was rubbish to watch as a Speedway fan.. Steady's face did make up for a lot of that though...

Not many Tigers fans on here tonight... If they win by 20 on Thursday I bet there will be..

Box office too... Interesting to see how the two truly world class riders on show tonight could handle the track... Men and Boys springs to mind...

"Signed for a big club".. "You should have signed for a big club"... "Signed for a big club"... "You should have signed for a big club"...

Chambourcy Nouvelle ...! Cushty Robert, Cushty....

Who are Sheffield cherry picking for the home leg? Come on Ipswich... Doyley and Emil 23 between you (8-4 in 13 and 15), and game over... Can Ippo cherry pick a better reserve? A bad cold maybe for one of them? Anders Rowe maybe?

It is clear, given his style, that he is concentrating on nothing more than "getting around the bend".... Which for a Speedway rider in a top Division team isnt great..

And that is all that matters....

His "style" is truly awful....

Hume...

HUGE race coming up... Could easily be a 1-5....