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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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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.

I'D be more inclined to believe that statement if it came from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. And that's a FACT

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

Particularly impressed with the way after every heat the riders from both teams were congratulated or commiserated by their colleagues at the gate.. Same with the reactions to defeats by individuals as they crossed the line.. Looked like it certainly meant something to these lads.. Maybe these lads would even know what the score was if asked by an interviewer?

So another away defeat last night and no point despite only needing a shared heat 15. With only away trips to Belle Vue, Swindon, Wolves and Poole x 2 left it looks highly unlikely that an away win will be achieved this season. Even winning the rest of our home meetings probably wouldn’t be enough to finish top four. Unfortunately I feel that the club has taken far too long to replace Proctor and while Cook was a good signing the injury to Riss came at an awful time and unfortunately Lewis has taken several matches to get going after dropping to reserve. All a bit of a mess really. Get Riss and a proper number seven in and maybe they’ll prove me wrong but it doesn’t look good and the season could effectively be over before the kids break up for the summer.

Careful that case has still to go to court

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.

The BS originated from Rosco who lied in the first place. No fault of anyone else.

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

One very lonely, unhappy rider in the pits tonight was Ty, last time I saw a rider like that was the evening before Lewis Rose "took a break" from speedway. He has been our "superguest" for several seasons and normally rides our track well, I understand why you want him dropped, but think he's really down in the dumps.

Was thinking a 5-1 in heat 14 would be helpful but didn’t really expect it with Kerr going so well. Lawson getting the better of Lambert R in heat 13 though was my highlight otherwise it would have been 39 - 39 at that stage. Only three last places out of 15 emphasises the team ethic the Witches have at the moment. Another great contribution from Heeps, despite his arm aching from carrying a heavy collection bucket for the benefit fund. Hope the collection went well.

If Rosco hands Starke a team place then I'd lose the will to live....he's surprised me how poor he's looked ...gotta be someone like Douglas for me he's in the form where he could pop out and beat decent riders

What idiot picked Wells as a guest

Sometimes it's best to say nothing,,,

What i am about to say has a level of common sense applied to it so BSPA look away now. Start of season pre book a weekend dates for NL Fours, Pairs and Individual event. Prevent and Championship team running on this day and/or make it clear that these meetings take priority. Should a Championship team need to re-arrange on a date and/or a rider signs mid season again make it clear that these meetings take priority. Once the dates have been set, the venues booked etc then stick to them that way you don't cheese off the paying public who stick with the sport despite the great efforts from the top to destroy it. Keep it up Mr Pipe doing wonders so far

Ive heard its Simon Lambert,

I think it just sums up British speedway!!! Words fail me

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

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.

Both Jordan and Ben started on a 2 point average and now Connor is doing the same. That makes it a total of signing three 2 point averages