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Regardless who isn't doing what we hoped they would , watching Bomber every home meeting , especially when he misses the gate , is why we love speedway . That meeting was in danger of getting away from us last night as mid meeting Berwick looked the stronger side , but our captain , with some incredible overtaking , inspired us to the win .

Parnicki is a hell of a prospect. Very exciting at such a young age. He should have no issue getting sponsors going forward after this season. Fair play to him.

No disrespect to Harris or Scotty both absolute icons of the sport in this country. However, I’d rather gamble on the best rider in the world coming in even if he doesn’t perform as well round foxhall as perhaps scotty would. We need to keep attracting new riders over to Britain and I would argue the same two riders guesting in almost every meeting for various teams throughout the season is an example of wrong with the sport over here currently. Need a bigger talent pool and bringing the top boys back here is only a good thing.

Scores at home 7,6,7,12,2,6,8,11 Away 4,9,0 (withdrew injured),11,5,11,8,3,5 Signed on a 5.19. Only got less than 5 in 4 meetings, one where he crashed and withdrew failing to finish a race. But no actual Berwick fan is calling for Drew Kemp to be dropped.

Inside gate , racing line , front wheels ahead of the rest, turns his bike and it’s all 4 back. Boy rides with balls. Nobody yelled and booed yer skipper when he nearly fenced him on bend 2 . Rose tinted glasses me thinks.

Toruń were awful today and it wasn’t like they were out gated either, leszno worked hard for that win

The Starting Marshal should bring them nearer the Tapes.Take leaf out of Polish Speedway virtually no rolling and much more tighter control riders bike position and nearer tapes. Riders ignore the Starting Marshal over here and ge away with it too much.

That’s the biggest mistake they made with this years team building Blodorn instead of Brennan, but it’s easy with hindsight isn’t it.

Can’t understand the hate for Dickson tonight on the meeting thread and on this one. Hagon was going better than Jye at that point of the meeting and was mixing it and I fancied he could’ve have beaten Worrall if Bomber hadn’t tried to send him in to the back straight fence on the second lap. Garrad had to take another ride as it seems to me his 2 minutes exclusion in Heat 8 doesn’t count so therefore had to take heat 14 at that point, Kemp then as seems to be the case, went missing in a big race leaving us the unlikely task of overhauling Bomber in Heat 15. Kemp and Kerr both made it too easy for Bomber to pass them in earlier races, I know he is almost impossible to stop when he’s charging but maybe don’t leave him the width of a bus to come round the outside of you on the last bend. Too many what ifs and maybes but I’ve seen a lot of people pinning the loss on the TM which baffles me when out of the 4 “Bandits” in the team only one really showed up, if it wasn’t for a couple of good guest bookings which I’ve no doubt Stewart had a massive part in sorting, we’d have been a mile off against a fairly underwhelming Glasgow side. Regardless of all that, the season is well and truly over and all we can do now is make a couple of changes and see how some riders stack up for next season.

Some idiotic Glasgow fans booing Drew Kemp after heat 15. No wonder nobody likes you

Glasgow were deserved winners tonight Impressed with Smith at reserve

Another toothless Bandits performance.

A bit like it use to be and who cares. Watch Mauger, Briggs and many others. Not some sanitised version of the sport you have today. It makes for entrainment and nothing else. Well done Scott for rolling back the years, long may it continue. If you want clean cut racing don’t watch speedway.

Obviously called the Cheetahs for a reason LOL

At 17 I reckon that Parnickyi the Ukrainian lad riding in the top league in the World is outstanding, had some good battles with Emil, looks very much an SGP rider of the future unless something derails his progress. Rode well last week as well in the SGP2. Very entertaining meeting.

I read that Kolodziej has lent the Ukrainian his equipment and pit crew. Fair to say it's working out like a treat at the moment.

Ben Cook showing very strong form in Poland... (Where it counts)

Mitch Cluff was the lad on JP's bike. They are team mates in Poland. He loved Ashfield , said its so much fun to ride and the banking is brilliant.

Happiest man in Ashfield last night had to be " the Grand Monarch " . He will have been in his element dishing out all those exclusions in heat 8

Personally, I didn’t think Hagon did anything wrong and the correct decision was made. He was holding a tight line and I felt Pijper leant heavily on to him. Just my opinion……

At least he tried something,don’t think it made any difference to end result.When you have a No5 who needs replaced in Ht13 you are in trouble anyway.

Because Dickson got it terribly wrong. If there was a chance Hagon would have scored in 13, then surely that translates to an almost certain win in heat 14? If riders underperformed, then they rightly can be called on it too. Doesn't mean the TM gets a free pass on bad decisions. The only defence Dickson can have is he thought ht 8 counted as a ride for Garrad & at the last minute was told he needed a 3rd ride, so had rode in ht 14, otherwise he should have been in ht 13. Dickson certainly didn't cause the loss, that was the riders. But it could have been closer for the bonus point with more shrewd team managing.

Not if Osbourne offered to fund the building development in partnership with a property company eg Taylor Wimpey or similar?! The Council cant afford to fund new buildings themselves. Having said that, if/when the time comes there will be a helluva fan protest.........!

And now Basso, is a 9.86 to set foot in the championship thanks to the extremely ill thought x1.5 rule . Worrall is gate and gone, you saw that tonight, but if he isn't away from the gates you can guarantee he isn't going to pass. With all the "replace this rider replace that rider" I just don't see letting Worrall go benefits us at all.

Exactly my feelings. As much as I love seeing Ipswich win and competitive again after years. The thing that has me buzzed the most the last few seasons is having 1/2 of the best riders in the world at the club. I’d pay to watch Doyle and Emil race alone. Also bringing exciting young talents over like Rew always gets people interested. Speedway is has and always will predominantly be about entertainment and putting bums on seats as much as winning. Ipswich are a well run club and wouldn’t continue to persist to employ top riders (likely at significant outlay) if it isn’t of benefit to the club and the sport in the UK. The work the ipswich team/sponsors put into bringing Emil over here arguably made it possible for other clubs to start bringing back some of the bigger names.

Didn't think we would have pulled off a win, but well done Tiggers, if only Leon could ride like that at Glasgow, was good actually seeing the heatleaders score points, loving Jack Smith's tenacity and hope he has a great season, our weak points are obvious and even Ace seems to have gone backwards. A change is definitely needed, but the question is, who is out there?

He's lost it.

yes where was he at Sheffield Thursday night.

Can't see Vissing getting sacked after a 4k signing on fee.

Yes- 2 Poles have to be in top 5 - 3 if the U 24 rider is Polish.

Meeting postponed until tomorrow morning 10 am UK time.

Had a 2 minute exclusion which does not count as a ride so had to have another ride

Nicholls rolled at the start in every race apart from heat 13. Should have been excluded earlier in the meeting.

Very strong performance from the Monarchs last night. Changes to the riding order worked well.

That's a bit ridiculous. Kemp for example has been good this season, you don't drop him due to one "poor" match. Besides he scored his average last night. Strange people don't complain about his inconsistency in the good night lol! The other riders team places could be under threat.

The starting Marshall was waving his hands at Jack like a petrified matador . It’s not as if you can’t see the clock. The move on Hagin by Bomber could have been a nasty one but it wasn’t so I’m sure Sam takes it as a learning tool and carries on . Big future for that boy me thinks

He has to hog the limelight in Local fixtures

scotty rolled on most starts last night super heat was a tiny roll but he did roll massive roll in possibly ht 11 and let go id love to have heard the heated debate after meeting to be fair to roynon he looked to improve a lot in his last race but he will never be the rider he was years ago nothing better than watching roynon in his day

Great performance last night where everyone rode to their potential on the same night which doesn’t happen very often, Josh and Justin untouchable, paco the same apart from his last place riding with a snapped chassis. Kye with only the one dropped point, Lasse nice and aggressive which was good to so see, Connor was steady and could tell young max had been out for a few weeks. Despite the score some good races chucked in there too.

Think whoever was in heat 13 , whether it was Etheridge, Hagon or Garrad , there was a good chance they weren't going to beat Harris and Worrall . Hagon would have been more effective in heat 14 .

It’s not just that he isn’t going to pass that’s annoying …….he doesn’t even make up any ground when behind. Yet, when he’s in front, he can stretch out a lead. Frustrating to watch but as said, can bang in important points.

As a nation, we are not good at things that require clarity and conciseness. We like to think we are, but we are hopelessly wrong. It’s not a speedway thing, it’s a cultural feature.

Track was poor again, Bears were extremely lucky tonight, middle order are average at best, but I’ll take 2 points!!

I don’t think anyone hates him as such he is a steady Eddie type rider and will always chip in with important points. It is and it’s just my opinion he replaced a box office rider in Basso and let’s be honest who would you rather watch. unfortunately diluting the product has ensured riders like Basso had too move onto pastures new.

Can’t believe I forgot he already has a Prem spot. Thanks Phil! (Decent bottle of wine this though!).

Managed to fight off tough competition at the beginning of the year to keep Etheridge, I heard.

Horrendous refereeing in the Super Heat, spoiled a good meeting. Feel for Nicholls, can understand Schroeks anger, referee should be embarrassed.

I wouldn’t risk either- check their websites as tickets go on sale normally around 14 days prior to meetings. edit just checked both teams- tickets not on sale yet but i expect them to start selling next week.

Eh? He was a SPEEDWAY rider. Committed s crime and was released on license. Was back riding SPEEDWAY at Scunthorpe in amateur meetings. How is that not relevant to a SPEEDWAY discussion?

Personally I don’t think the record books tell the whole story . For one thing records tell us that Jerzy Szczakiel was almost on a par with Ivan Mauger if judged purely on the occasions that met but I would suggest that anyone who put them in the same bracket had taken leave of their senses. Ivan IMO was probably the best ( or shall we say most successful ) rider of his generation if judged on w week—in week-out basis, assuming we say Fundin, 5 or 6 years older belonged to a previous generation, as finished his 5 World Championships before Ivan won any of his. How would you guys match those two ? Then we have Briggo. More erratic on form but at his absolute best I don’t think there was a rider so far ahead of the opposition except arguably Fundin who I didn’t see at his best so can’t really comment. My outstanding memory of Briggo is winning the last of his British finals at West Ham. The No. 2 gate wasn’t working and nobody did better than third off of it and even Ivan ran a last from it . Then. Briggo came out off No2 and a made it look like it was the others that weren’t working as he waltzed to a 15 point maximum. Then we’re does Ronnie Moore fit into all this? I have seen him described as the most naturally talented rider that ever sat on a speedway bike . I only ever saw I’m at the back end of his career when he came back from retirement after 6 years was past his sell by date , but still better than most could ever hope to be, and probably one of the most stylish riders I’ve ever seen. Where does he fit with the others ? Great Sport to have us all talking like this years later.