Steve Irving

I’m guessing Foxhall is the only stadium you’ve been to. It must be, because if you think Foxhall is a “dump”, then you simply haven’t been to 99.9% of Speedway stadia up and down the country!

Staggering to see some sticking to their guns on this. Some nailed their colours to the mast early doors on this virus with their “glorified flu” nonsense and clearly don’t like to admit they were wrong on the internet. It’s ok to hold your hands up and say you misjudged just how bad this horrible virus was/is!

Only got to page 23. What a bunch of pr!cks you lot are. Didn’t even get to Ray Stadia’s cracking contribution. No hindsight involved either, we were all warned this was coming, but of course it was all “hysteria” and “overblown nonsense”. Should be embarrassed the lot of you.

The likes of Ray Stadia, BluPanther and particularly Bwitcher should be utterly ashamed of themselves for the crock of sh!te they’ve all posted in this thread. Cockwombles the lot of you.

Totally agree I don’t get this type of team at all. Totally uninspiring filled with riders who are way past their best and falling. I’d much prefer to have a young up and coming rider in my team like Anders Rowe or Drew Kemp. Peterborough’s reserves will average more than both of those and for some that’s all that matters, but I’d personally prefer a young local lad making his way up the ladder than one who is looking to top up his pension fund for one more year.

Seth schools at Gold Coast Australia. He’s not going to school and be based in the UK alone at his age the last few years whilst his entire family remain based in Australia.

It does make a difference and yes some are saying exactly that. Some are trying to cheapen the signing by saying he actually won’t be giving 100% and the only reason he’s back is to earn a little money to keep him and his son over here for the year to pursue his son’s racing career. You’ve got the like of Crescent Girl above who is telling us all exactly what’s in Jason Crumps mind and giving us the real reason he’s here, despite the man himself saying it’s a racing decision.

MIKE: Are you bringing the family over this summer? JASON: My son Seth has one more year to do at school and my wife Melody will hopefully come over five or six times during the season. https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/q-a-with-new-ipswich-witch-jason-crump-1-6523564

Ok.

I personally think they’ll end up with similar figures at the end of the season. Good early battle between the two which should bring the crowds in at the Showground. Might even travel down myself for that one.

People need to stop making comparisons to riders in the past who made comebacks. Someone even used his father Phil as an example. But look at the strength of the teams that they were returning to, even the reserves back then were quality. Having a look at the “strength” of the line ups on the BSPA website, I don’t see an awful lot that will frighten him. He’ll still have the measure of your Palm Tofts of this world. 7.5 average or thereabouts.

Let’s have it right, it’s taken until nearly March for him to say yes. Hardly going to be on his list of priorities and his calendar looks ridiculously busy now. No spring chicken either. He was pretty disappointing at the end of last season with Ipswich as well and that was when his commitments elsewhere had dried up. Weren’t some Panthers fans on here saying he was disappointing last time out for them also? Hold his average at best for me.

You’ve been very vocal in your negativity towards Jason Crump. It’s fine to have reservations on what level he’s now at, others have the same reservations. But Crump WILL swell the crowd numbers not just at Ipswich, but wherever Ipswich ride. You know that full well.

Not in terms of gate receipts.

Strange you didn’t seem to go in to any negatives in a previous post when it looked like Peterborough were signing him. As for his style not suiting Foxhall, he rarely dropped a point there and has often labelled the track a favourite of his.