JamesB

I agree. The amount of whinging on a number of threads is really starting to get on my nerves. On the Updates thread tonight, there seems to be a series of posts about people no longer attending speedway at Foxhall for various reasons. It seems to me that some individuals as is their prerogative have decided to no longer attend but as a general principle I would say that the average crowd this season is appreciably better than last. Personally, I appreciate the fact that I still have a speedway team I can watch and support and will continue to hand my money over as long as either it or I are still around. Anyway, back to tonight's meeting. Another solid performance and another great guest in Lewis Kerr. Not the best of meetings with a number of heats pretty strung out.

I think Kevin is very good, he always manages to make me chuckle.

Yep, I'll be stepping in. Won't be up to Sue's standard, but I'll do my best.

A really average meeting apart from heat 15. As has been said by a previous poster, I am not quite sure how the Panthers ended up with 41 as they really were pretty average. Not quite sure how JCF thinks Holder was beaten by home track advantage as in his first two outings he gated and was then passed easily by Schlein and King and beaten by a distance.

Hope Kyle's injury is not serious, however I was impressed with Campton last week at Foxhall so hopefully he will be decent cover. It's going to be a long night with both sides operating r/r and even longer if Sarjeant repeats his gating performance of last week.

Wow. I thought we would struggle to get a point, but to win by 12 away from home is an excellent result. Great to see that Connor won heat 14, that lad deserves a lot of credit for knuckling down and improving week on week.

Some very heavy showers st the moment six miles north of Ipswich.

It's been raining very heavily 6 miles north of Ipswich for the past half an hour. Hopefully, this misses Foxhall.

Looks like Berwick will need to find an alternative for Hopwood. Fell in his first ride tonight and then withdrawn.

Sue - Happy to help. I tried to PM you, but it says you cannot receive any more messages. Let me know if you need me to do the updates tonight.

Thanks. He must already be pencilled in for 2018. Am I correct in thinking that he would still be on a 2.0? If yes, then that would be a real bonus as he would probably have achieved circa 5 this year had he stayed injury free.

When interviewed during the Berwick meeting, Hume said that he hoped to be back on a bike soon. Has there been any further update as I missed the Workington meeting due to holidays? Are we getting close to the management having to take a decision on whether he replaces Mountain or Greaves? I know that Mountain is trying hard and has improved a bit recently but for me he has to replace Mountain.

I think that's pretty unlikely. If you assume that both Ipswich and Peterborough win all their remaining home meetings then that gives 63 and 51 points respectively. That means Peterborough would need three 4 point away wins from 11 meetings to draw level and that assumes no more away points for Ipswich.

The track does seem to have some grip this season but it doesn't look overly difficult. You only have to look at Greaves last night. A new reserve who hasn't ridden the track before and he seemed to have no problems.

The meeting was ruined by Douglas' nasty looking crash. If he got away with minor concussion then he's very lucky. Hope both he and Stefan are back soon. Sedgeman looks to have worked the track out pretty quickly and Greaves had a positive first meeting but Conor remains a concern.

It was good to watch a more competitive meeting. James Shanes - what a performance. Let's hope he is up for coming in to replace Danyon.

The BBC weather forecast seems to have deteriorated. They are now forecasting heavy rain between 1700 and 2000 rather than the previous light rain.

The light rain has arrived at Witnesham exactly as predicted. Not serious at the moment, but a few hours of this as the forecast predicts would I imagine cause problems. Probably going to be touch and go.

A good win, but a pretty poor meeting. Wilson-Dean looks a good prospect and he was the only Panthers rider to turn up and give it a go. Holder scored a few, but I wouldn't have said he was really winding it on. Hope all of the knocks are not too serious and everyone recovers quickly.

A good performance with everyone contributing, however to be fair the Bandits offered very little. The margin could actually have been bigger had it not been for Nico's blow out and Danyon making a couple of errors whilst in the points. There aren't going to be many visiting riders that beat Danny and Rory at Foxhall this year. The next two meetings away from home will give a good indicator as to how good this team could be.

I think that looks like a decent team in the context of the points limit available, however I have written that more than once over the past few years. If Rory can stay fit then there has to be a 1 - 1/2 point uplift there. Danny should clean up and hopefully the proposed track changes will suit Nico's around the boards style. I am not quite sure about Kyle as he has never quite reached his potential in the second tier, however I am not unduly concerned about the reserves as there will be a number of a similar standard across the teams and I think we have two of the better ones. Time will tell, so roll on March so we can start to see if expectations will be met this season.

Well done Somerset. The better team and well deserved. The Witches never got going. No complaints, if you had offered me the play off semi final in early June, I would have bitten your hand off.

The lead is a bit bigger than hoped for, however if the team maintain the recent level of performance at home it can certainly be turned around. I know Josh scored well in the league meeting but from memory, I don't think he normally does that well at Foxhall. Also, Foxhall is not Rohan's favourite track. Should be a good night.

Good to see MF back and fishing.