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Apparently Barker wants to ride even though he was advised to take a week off ! Probably wants a go at North , although they don't meet till heat 10 and he's on a gate outside of North ! As far as Davies is concerned , why would anyone want him to be British anyway ?

That was really too easy , and there was me thinking Glasgow were going to be the league whipping boys this year , I've changed my mind after tonight . Really good to see Mortens continued form and even better to see him riding a much wider line this evening . A very good team wide performance and great choice of guest who in my opinion is actually as good , if not better than Doyle round Foxhall . A speedy meeting on a cold damp night and well done to all involved for getting it on considering the rain and hail at 6-30 ish .

Gates now opened so I assume it's all systems go It's gonna be one small crowd though !

Gates still not open 6-55pm , think they might be leaving any decision till late after the last fiasco ! Still light rain btw .

Hail in Foxhall rd now ! I ain't going in yet . Gates not even open at 6-45pm . Not looking good but some clearer skies coming behind the black clouds !

Weather can't make its bloody mind up , how the hell is Bob supposed to get the track right ? Could be tricky for the lads tonight , both teams !

Some nasty looking clouds in town and a few spots of rain , what's it like Foxhall way ? Actually just been on roof of a building in town centre and there may be even a few flakes of snow in the air ffs !

Just looked at Plymouths website and that's saying Ricky Wells is their guest for tonight so is Lawson confirmed anywhere ?

Just looked at Plymouths website and that's saying Ricky Wells is their guest for tonight so is Lawson confirmed anywhere ?

That's a dangerous thing to say bruv , sods law says he'll have a blinder tonight although traditionally Foxhall is not one of his better tracks .

Anyway , back to the meeting , on Cookies previous visit he was rivaling Rene Bachs record for the most jumped starts and getting away with it , so hopefully he can achieve the same for us ! Although the curse of the Witches no1 race jacket can strike anyone at anytime , so we will have to wait and see .

I think Cook is a good choice of guest as Doyle is obviously busy with Birmingham ( not that im sure he would want to ride here again after his confrontation with Morten ) Hopefully this should be plain sailing into the cup semi where we will find much more difficult opposition ! As it's already a rearrangement lets hope the weather is kind and we get this one out of the way .

Having printed out my score sheet for this one and looked through the various match ups there could be some decent racing . You do however have to believe Doyle will get the vast majority of his points if not all from his 6 rides but its difficult to see where too many more are going to come from . After all , in the League cup meeting the other 5 Somerset riders only accrued 17 pts between them ! The missing Morris can only be a big loss for them . I'm hoping/expecting a reasonably comfortable home win with everyone staying safe but you can be sure the Rebels will be hell bent on making up for their last performance at Foxhall !

Well , I heard Makinen was in the pits at Leicester helping out ! It does make you wonder if he's going to return ?

Well done to half the team , not sure what to say about the rest !

As a footnote on Mortens performance , he is a confidence rider as has been said before . While browsing the updates site I noticed he has had a couple of good performances in Denmark on the 1st and 3rd may including outscoring the phenomenal superstar MJJ in one ( huh hmm ) Did well in Denmark and came back and looked like a different rider on Monday . Perhaps he should try this more often !

Admittedly I'm across the other side of Ipswich to Foxhall but there's rather a lot of dark looking cloud building up this way , no sun now .

Well its a beautiful sunny day for an afternoon out at Foxhall , shorts out for the first time this year ! My only hopes are that everyone stays safe , some decent racing and a comfortable win for the Witches .

Well I heard Dakota North is getting out of the Speedway altogether and starting up a fencing business . Although without him riding there won't be as much need for new ones will there ?

Dak took out Barker big time , put him straight into the fence ! It was totally uncalled for as Dak couldn't win the meeting anyway . In the interview after Barker in not so many words said he would be getting his own back !

That probably sums up either your physical or perhaps mental age Worky"BOY" to be iterating the previous sarcasm !

Whatever the circumstances that occurred the celebration of " Great! " to someones misfortune is uncalled for ! I understand it was a first time home texter who is obviously very biased but more constructive comments would have appreciated . However the Witches simply weren't good enough and we're well beaten by the better team . Again well done to the Comets .

When was the last time Workington lost a home meeting ? I would say they are definitely one of the better teams in the league but to go from a 20 pt defeat away and then turn in a 32 pt home win against the same team shows a massive home track advantage ! Don't get me wrong , fair play to them on a superb turnaround and they took full advantage of a dire Witches performance . Ipswich have a long way to go if they are to compete for anything this season and this result proves that big time !

Yup , well done to Workington , their home advantage appears to be far greater than ours ! I know the texters and updaters on the updates site are using their own phones but " seriously " ? ' Woop Woop ' ' Woo Hoo ' and then ' Great ! ' to Bens engine failure are hardly constructive comments . Given the form Cams been in please let him be OK .

Cracking result tonight and a good points return from everyone ! Doyle a great choice of guest , scored well but showed that the Witches no1 race jacket is capable of stopping even him from getting a max . The victory could have been even bigger had the constant " jumping the start " by the Workington riders been called back a few times . A special mention and well done to Ritchie Hawkins on his return this evening , no last places for someone out of practice to me was remarkable . Also for MJJ fan clubs benefit , Rene spent most of his time at the Bach apart from when he got flyers from the gate ! I still think this tie is far from over and hope the Witches can progress to the next round , Workington are a completely different proposition on their own track ! Side issue , does anyone know if Ben Barkers OK as he withdrew from the Brit semi finals after 3 rides ???