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Absolutely FABULOUS, well done Witches and Stars fans: Ipswich Speedway Supporters Club 2 hrs · What can we say, we've only just gone and beaten last year's total for the Benevolent Fund collection. Tonight your donations totalled a fantastic £2,361 93. A heartfelt thank you to each and everyone of you who contributed. It really is a fantastic amount.

Great advert for National League speedway and makes the recent comments about this standard of speedway by John Cook look very foolish.Racing wise it was much better than the recent televised match at Poole.Credit to both teams with some very good young riders on show.

Only six holes then?

THE hilarious thing is that he's not even a good troll. To troll well you have to give biased opinion, which people may disagree with, but they can't say you're wrong, because it's a matter of opinion. But this troll makes up stuff that is easily verifiable as untrue, and makes himself look a complete plank. What's most hilarious is when he follows up his made up nonsense with the word "FACT" in capitals. But he's given me a great laugh today with the "I know this is true because I know someone who is a mate of a photographer!" On that basis I have a direct line to the Glaziers as I know someone whose nephew is going out with a girl who works behind one of the bars at Old Trafford.

Think its worth in the cold light of day giving Dickie a special mention for last nights performance Since his move to No1 he really has stepped up. The poor night at Lynn on Monday couldve caused some to doubt. Instead he was determined to make amends and did it and more besides

Looks at Ipswich, their top 5 struggle & they’ve Heeps & Allen who bail them out. It’s my opinion on the issue so that’s how I see it. Whenever teams have won leagues it’s because they generally have a strong reserve.

1st in the league and good racing

Apart from that one....

I guess Johnson must have sent the ref a text when Panthers replaced Bates with Wells in heat 10

Popped along last night. Very good result for the Witches, even better that the Stars ended up with nothing despite it being pretty tight until the end. However the 'racing' was dire. All decided by the second bend apart from three occasions, when Cook barged his way past Heeps in the last heat, Lawson nipping past Lambert whilst he was looking round for King and the best race of the night, the battle for third between Jorgensen and Procter in heat three, half a straight behind the Witches pair. Anyone trying a blast round the outside simply went backwards, just one line, follow the leader stuff. It meant yet another long drive home feeling that I hadn't been entertained and why did I bother. Good results are important but the racing has got to be the main reason for going. If it was just about the result you might as well sit at home and use the excellent update service.

Heat 8 & 13 from Monday. Track appears fine to me.

I think you are misunderstanding me slightly... A lot of people on here think the racing was better back then, and that racing today is crap. I'm not one of them. While the sport WAS better (well, British speedway, anyway!), a lot of that was due to the crowds and the atmosphere. What I am saying is that today, even good races don't seem that good when you have a crowd of 47 people and two dogs, and you have a better atmosphere in a morgue... I won't necessarily say the racing was "closer", but it was a lot more unpredictable. If you watch some of the stuff on YouTube, you will see that riders hit grip and speed up, or hit a rut and slow down; the gaps between riders would change suddenly. Now, with ultra-fast machinery on ultra-slick tracks, that doesn't happen. Back then, a big part of the enjoyment was watching the riders fight with their bikes in the dirt! Steve

Do not forget the Sprockets - Kent meeting on Sunday £10 for 50+ races starting at 4pm, meeting thread in NL section.

You posted as if there was some doubt that you had posted something then got a reply of proof! You really are a "prized plum" as THJ has called you.

We all hope it will be but don't know how you can be certain it will be sorted considering how many years they have had to sort it out.

I tend to think and fear Tobi is a bit optimistic on his recovery time...it's a tricky one for us

Awesome Lawson was an extremely popular rider at Lakeside, one of the most popular we have ever had because he never gives up even when it’s not his night, I always look out for his scores and do intend getting along to a Ipswich home match at some point, it’s a canny team they have there and it’s about time Witches had something to cheer about.

The riders you have brought in have been terrific, Perks has done very well, can't remember him scoring less than his average since he joined but if you have another low scoring reserve it will put to much pressure on the top 5 in my opinion, you need at least one reserve who will win heat 2 on a regular basis. The other problem is Jensen's average will shoot up when he has done the required amount of meetings so the team needs to be changed before that happens.

For me an absolute classic of a match. Terrific meeting. Terrific debut for connor. As coldace says. Yesterday was full of English 16/17/18 years olds. All going at it hammer and tongs. No inches given. Best £10 ever spent.

Ha! Bates is another hyped up, totally over rated rider. Never took to him. For me he is a throttle jockey and has no craft or talent on the bike. He is also short fused. Not a good combination.

Really sets up Monday very nicely.Colts have decent lead to defend and Kings capable of pulling back the lead.Looking forward to good meeting,as last nights sounded a cut above what Mr Cook says!!!!!

I didn't hear much of the Ipswich fans until the last two races either!

No, Roscoe has admitted he made a school boy error, and was in fact talking to referee over the radio before heat 14 started

Wow, still in shock tbh, how we won that AND by enough for the stars to get no points. After the heat 12 3-3, where we really needed a 5-1, I thought that was it, having to face Cook and Lambert in 13 & 15, but write this team off at your peril, boy did they dig deep and pull off a wonder. I know many of you knock Ritchie, but he certainly knows how to motivate the TEAM, yes they certainly are a TEAM. Really proud of the lads tonight, especially Cam and Richard. But I felt so sorry for Ty.

That's usually done via the officials in the pits via mike, not on the phone?? Well it is at Ipswich

Great respect (again!) to Dave Goddard for keeping the commentary going in difficult circumstances.

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Eurosport 2 Poland here https://supersportowo.com/stream5.html and https://ustreamix.su/stream.php?id=eurosport-2-polska&token=e69-734-d8c-4b7-aad-3d3-a30-473-19d-ba4-13

You are correct Riss could come in straight away to replace Ty.But come July his average will be above Ty's as long as the website has their averages correct. The way i am looking at it i really hope they will fit both Riss and Douglas in the team for Proctor and S.Lambert.But for this to happen they have to be quite clever,that's as long as i am working with the correct averages from the Lynn and Leicester websites. We only have one league match left in June,if you bring back Riss for Proctor for this then you can't get Douglas in not even in July.You could stay with Proctor for this one or Bring in Douglas for him.If you went for that then on the 1st of July you could bring in Riss for S.Lambert.This is how i worked it out using the respective teams websites for the averages.Although last month one or two averages were slightly different to that of the BSPA website. As you can see i want Douglas in,but if they did get Riss in straight away there would definitely be better alternatives to Lambert at reserve.

FACT'S just ain't wot they used to be!

Did they not sort out a water truck along with the blader and grader etc.....

It’s hilarious the stuff he makes up and in such an obvious manner. It’s all one note though so you may as well block the troll as you’ll only get more of the same.

If we can get him for Danny Phillips, I'm in!!!

Or fewer blobs on the programme from elsewhere in the team. There were far too many last places.

Agree with the above, a great match last night. I'm particularly impressed with the 15, 16, 17 year olds. We need to ensure that they can progress within our league system and not get dropped if it doesn't go so well. They should get some priority; the way Workington stuck with Kyle Bickley last year was admirable and we see the benefit now. Hope some of the heats are on the SGB website, especially the one in which Rowe and Jenkins both went under Phillips on the entrance of bend three and also heat 12 with the battle between Flint and Rowe. Still can't believe the value of attending Colts matches and how some think it is inferior to the Premier League.

What normally happens in this case is that Swindon will wait until the play off cut off date and if there a few points off the play offs and Peterborough are in, then they appeal, win and the points are awarded to Swindon and removed from Peterborough, the wind up merchants do there job, Peterborough fans defend there team and get called whinging moaners the play offs are run and Peterborough's season ends.

Newcastle Speedway just tweeted that they visited TynemouthRNLI and for supporters to keep a look out for when they will be working together again. Call them now, our ship is sinking and we need help, man the lifeboats.

tonight http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-1 and http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html Sunday`s teams Tarnow v Rybnik https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/95289/unia-tarnow-pgg-row-rybnik Wroclaw v Czestochowa https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/94511/betard-sparta-wroclaw-forbet-wlokniarz-czestochowa R/R for Woffinden Zielona Gora v Leszno https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/94514/stelmet-falubaz-zielona-gora-fogo-unia-leszno

The TV box recorded as scheduled, so watched allot of rainfall & about 8 heats. Assume Pirates we're well & truly hammered? Is the racing at Kumla usually as processional?

What idiot picked Wells as a guest

Sometimes it's best to say nothing,,,

Todays update via Facebook Unfortunately Sam didn't have a good night last night due to him having seizures. He is more settled today as he's been given drugs to lessen the effect. We have had a meeting with Sam's Neuro surgeon and we have been informed of the harsh reality that his recovery will be a long one. Keep those prays and good will coming to speed the process up for our little man. Thank you. Claire and Chris.

What have you got against Howarth? Even when he was a Workington rider you didn't have a good word for him, but he's always shown himself to be a regular double-digit rider for the Tigers. Did he once ravage your grannie or something?

Ive heard its Simon Lambert,

Hallelujah. All must be forgiven. As devils advocate had Coles & Phillips been on different sides to the pits as they actually were then the Diamonds would have left with a point.

The NDL doesn't use rolling averages....

reel them in and wind them up easy done mmmmmmm lollollol

Actually, I think this is where this league is finally getting itself sorted and returning to the development league it was always meant to be. There shouldn’t really be places for 35 year olds when there are younger riders available.

Passing up the chance to watch the Zielona Gora/Gorzow derby? I don't think I'd be missing that one if I was over that weekend.

Parking at stadium is free admission is £18 and programmes are £2.50.