Take mother with you for an extra treat fo her.

It’ll be something like more fan interaction like they tried to do towards end of last season, stuff like social media question with centre green experience, team photo and all that sort of thing I’d imagine.  

Clearly as we all know something went badly wrong & Louis decided he could no longer run a profitable business within whatever the BSPL were wanting to do.    We know that because both he & Richie had been talking about putting together a team to retain the title. Then came the bombshell that he was selling Doyle came out on twitter & said that the had their backs. No one can really blame Louis for getting out if the future direction meant it wasn’t viable for him. No one on here would have done anything differently. Louis ran a very professional outfit not something that happens very often in speedway. Just look at the shambles of the championship cup draw. Yes if the sale doesn’t happen & Louis doesn't have a change of heart I’ll lose my local track. However I still back his decision looking at the bigger picture the direction of the sport I am happy to take the memories. I’ve followed Ipswich since the 80s, however if it’s the end I have the memories of the great sides & the last 3 years have been a blast. I wonder how many of the people who are saying Louis should carry on regardless would be willing to risk their own financial security to keep a business going in an environment that is only heading one way.

Mulford has missed a season so it should be his converted Championship average at 8.74.    After 2 seasons in the Premiership, should the NL really be the place that Mulford has to fall back into?

To add, when selling a business and it’s gets to the due diligence process and legal teams get involved in drawing up the contracts, that’s then something Chris Louis can’t control. He may have been a little naive in putting a timescale out there for a completion, but to be fair to him we were all crying out for an update (me included) and to be kept informed, so he was kind of in between a rock and a hard place.    Now that timescale has elapsed though, as I said he’s going to have to issue a further update sometime this week really with the latest developments or non developments. Well he doesn’t HAVE to, but it would be the right thing to do IMO.  The supporters are sitting and waiting for news now on a daily basis.   

With regards to Boughen he may well have been poorly advised but lets not forget he had the opportunity to continue in the NL but his ego had outgrown it. Natural talent yes but impatient and got swallowed up. Simon Lambert should he be back in the NL no, could he be an incredible mentor for someone absolutely yes. Very few know or acknowledge just how much he did for Danny Ayres progression. Dropping the minimum level to 2.00 is a big worry with the heat leader calibre being drafted in as i can see riders getting lapped not through falls just lack of speed and thats a worry.