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And who was sponsoring the meeting, only his personal sponsor, surprise surprise!!! Should've given it to Richie Worrall, if only we had kept him as back up to Danny like a lot of us wanted. Well I think we can say goodbye to the play-off this season 4 points from 12 at home won't get us there, you need to win most at home and anything on the road is a bonus. All does not seem rosy in the Ipswich camp at the moment and we need rid of the bad apples. Be interesting to see what the crowd is like for the next home meeting, because if this carries on it will be only us diehard fools still suffering every week. The track was crap with no dirt on the outside for someone like Nico who busts his balls out wide and was going nowhere, something is wrong. Get well soon Bob!

We had the same thing when we had Richard Lawson guesting and he only had one bike. It's just not very professional.

After it took me 2 hours to do 30miles to get to Foxhall as the A12 was shut I wondered why I bothered after a performance like that. Only Nico came out with any credit. Someone told me that Cooky turned up with only one bike, if that is true it shows like his performance that he wasn't that bothered. Should've got Masters instead. Can't believe someone stated earlier in this thread that Cook and Lanham made us stronger, not a chance. Well done to Newcastle who were the better team on the night. Couldn't believe Phil put the tactical on Leigh Lanham in heat 8 like a lot of people around me. Lanham is having a good season but still is sh1te around Foxhall, only got guest booking as he is local and cheap IMO as his performance when Somerset visited was useless. Should have waited a race and put it on Nico who was on the only one showing some fight and with Tungate in the race a much better chance of getting a result than with Lanham and one of our reserves, but with only 4 heat winners at home you are never going to win. Changes need to be made before it is too late.

Good to see Ritchie slow down before the line to let Gino win the race to help his average. If more Sheffield riders did this for Ty Proctor he would still be in the team and not back home in Aus. Just need Danny to do it or move Gino to 3 or 4. Thought tonight's meeting was good with plenty of passing even from 15m back!! Good confidence builder and lets hope they can keep this up.

Just goes to prove when he was riding for us against poor Plymouth teams he could score lots of points there. Now he is up against decent riders from the opposition he's not doing very well at home. He'll be a good reserve for us next season.

They had a team meeting in the dressing room after the match and that is what I was told was the reason for Rohan slowing in the last race. TBH it looked like he was struggling all night as he seemed to get slower in all of his races after a couple of laps.

Apparently Rohan didn't have bike problems in the last race, he got arm pump. I think everything that could go wrong did and that just summed up the whole meeting. Berwick got the rub of the green and good luck to them. Can't believe Ritchie wasn't put in heat 14 after Stefan binned it big time in his previous race and Ritchie had a good ride in heat 12. Stefan falling whilst under no pressure at all probably cost us the match. I don't think everything is harmonious in the Witches camp and I can only see us exiting the league cup after tomorrows meeting as I can't see us beating Plymouth. Think some changes are required at the lower end of the team as we don't seem as potent at reserve anymore and we have a lot of catching up to do in the league seeing we are rock bottom of that at the moment.

Yes this one does look better but we are riding in Ipswich, Suffolk not Ipswich, Australia!

Surely Ipswich could have got Michael Palm Toft or Paul Starke to replace Nico. At least they are near his average. If we get close to Berwick with this line up it will be a miracle. Another option is Adam Roynon, I know he has just come back from injury but at least he is a racer.

Congratulations to the Tigers who made the most of some dodgy refereeing decisions in the first few heats to get a lead and hold on to it. The Ipswich boys heads apart from Danny & Nico seem to go down. The Tigers then gave the Witches a lesson in gating. Don't know why the ref didn't stop the first two races after clashes into the first bend and jump starts and clashes in the second. You would think being an ex rider he would know better. Surprised he didn't go round on the victory parade lap with his son Josh. Surprised to be saying this but Nick Morris made Jason Garrity look super smooth and in control today. How he wasn't excluded when he locked up in front of Rohan and left he nowhere to go but into him. Surprised he only got hit once the way he was riding causing mayhem behind him as riders didn't know which way to go. Onto the Witches, Cam hasn't been the same since his crash at Peterborough. Ritchie just hasn't started at all since his crash. Was Stefan fully fit after his crash at Sheffield? as he looked awkward on the bike. Thought Rohan was unlucky today, only one of his two exclusions was his fault. Danny faultless after his bike problems in heat one. And what can you say about Nico, carrying on his good form from the confidence of good scores from reserve has given him. Hopefully Ritchie will get some confidence soon as we need the reserves to be scoring like at the start of the season as we have some catching up to do now. The only good thing about the result was we stopped the Tigers from taking all four points in the last race.

At Ipswich on Thursday he was trying to leg trail on the tight bends and it just wasn't working and kept locking up or couldn't turn. He looked alright in his last ride until he was passed and went to the back and then struggled round the corners again.

Rohan has definitely improved since he got his visa, maybe that was playing on his mind and affecting his performance. As well as Rohan, I think Cam holds the key as he seems to be struggling since the crash at Peterborough. The reserve race should be interesting with Josh Bates coming in for Paul Starke. Can't see us winning, but hopefully we can nick a point but it's a long shot on past performances.

I thought the track was pretty good and the only bucking broncos were the somerset boys with their lack of throttle control. They just don't seem to adapt to Foxhall and the only good result for them last night is the fog saved them and they only lost by 18!!!

Shouldn't have been in the final to win it after the ref bottled it in the semi when he fell on his own and should've been excluded. There were Leicester fans near me saying the same.

Not having Barbara Horley referee another Ipswich meeting this season.

Not to me they don't, I only go by official averages, but each to their own.

No, I'm going by official green sheets not Barrow boy's own rankings which mean nothing.

Yes but your rankings aren't official so they mean jack s**t, as you are the only one who knows how they work!!!

He was 14th in the final averages from last season, and only Max Fricke of those isn't riding in the premier league this year, so he is 13th not top 5!

Just about sums this sport up with guests, we are replacing a number 1 on a 8.84 ave with a second string on 6.49 ave, but I suppose with it being Good Friday that's the best we could get.

If he is an asset Ipswich would get priority like Edinburgh do with Cook. Ipswich should seriously look to do this so we get a settled side not having to rely on guests.

I know Chris sold Danny a few years ago but we might get him back for less than we sold him for, and then at least we wouldn't have the disruption of trying to find guests for our number one.

Think Chris will need to get his cheque book out and sign Danny King permanently from the BSPA so we get priority over Coventry. If we are trying to build the asset base to go back Elite League Danny is a good rider to have. This just stinks of the Elite League walking all over the Premier League as usual.

So if you put the teams from the end of the 2014 season against the teams named to start the 2015 season for the teams you named above you don't think they look weaker, really? The 2014 teams would win everytime and that is just my opinion. So if you can't see any potential in this team, it's going to be a long season for you. I think it's going to be a very competitive season.

When your team finishes over the points limit do you really expect to change like for like. The team will look weaker as you have had to get rid of riders with higher averages to get below the limit again. This team on paper is on par with a lot of the other named teams except Somerset who are two points better off than anyone else . Can't wait til the season starts again as this team has potential to do well.