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Firstly, I was not referring to any of your posts, it’s was the one which was claiming it will never happen. I have never said a return is imminent, just that maybe closer than we have been what with everything but a long way from imminent I’m not party to anything specific but I know things are going as well as they can at this stage, as has been detailed in press releases from the group and interviews which are in the public domain not least on the NBNF podcast with Jeff Davies. I know first hand what it is like to lose a club, I’m a Bradford fan so you don’t need to tell me about super domes and roofs. Even more frustrating is they have a shale track down and still no speedway but that’s another story. Should anyone wish to hear the interview with Jeff Davies it is in this episode here, it’s a few weeks old but nothing has happened in the meantime to make this update any different or less positive at this stage. https://pod.fo/e/2c96c6 So whilst not getting anyone’s hopes up but the to say it will never happen is equally wide of the mark. Let’s see, this is not just a petition, people are working to try and make this happen and they deserve our support. Many have supported it, we’ve spoken about it on BSN to help drive the campaign for public backing, and the support has been excellent. We all hope it has a good outcome, anybody can say it won’t. One of us will be right 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

Boughen needs replacing

one poster in particular seems very touchy that Ipswich have lost

When you look at the Trophy you will see Sam Hagon's name on it twice in the last 2 years, there will be no comments section engraved on the cup. It is a case of "how many" not "how", you could say he was lucky, but I have found the harder you work, the luckier you get ! It is not his fault the system is set up for a winner takes all final, but it was there for all 4 riders to take advantage of, you just have to accrue enough points to get to the final, then in the most important race you need to want it more, and make your own "luck"

How you can say Hagon was the best rider on the night. Yes he won the meeting, under a winner takes all system. Both Thompson and Cairns beat him in the heats. He lost to Harrison in the Semi. All three rider in the final outscored him in the actual meeting. Thompson only dropped on point with Cairns dropping just two. Hagon scrapped into the semi as the lowest qualifier! having to win his last ride to do so. The original line up for heat 19 had Dan Thompson in it. Hagon was quite fortunate on the front. For needing to beat Thompson to squeeze into the semi would have been a tall order. So congratulations to Hagon for taking his chances, but best rider on the night! No not in my opinion. Would you have said said Kubera was a better on the night than Lebedevs, Lambert and Lingren? in last weeks GP. I would suggest no. The system played into his hands. Should he have deserved a chance of getting in the main GP final on six pts? I would say no, but just like it was for Hagon it was the rules. Stupid but still the rules. Could you have imagined the uproar if he went on to win the final and was awarded 20 pts after only amassing six in the actual meeting.

You can’t sugar coat this. You might have injured riders and be gutted but why should belle Vue and Sheffield fans have sympathy for you. We are all fighting for top spot. It’s not gloating about injuries, I wish the injured riders well as I’m sure others will. Ipswich fans getting on there high horses for nothing here. tells me your worried

Everybody saw that coming unless you have no speedway knowledge I think Sheffield would have lost at King’s Lynn if it was r/r for Holder and Hume for Kerr And to gloat over riders being injured just shows a lack of class Every Ipswich fan congratulated Leicester tonight …. Yet we get weird accusations of us lowering our averages …. Then the Belle Vue idiot and now a Sheffield fan gloating …. Belle Vue who we thrashed twice and Sheffield who we held to 2 points …. I’m sure if we have our full 1-7 back we aren’t exactly worried

I'm pleased with the reserve choices. Always better to go with ability / who performed best in qualifiers etc. Nothing against Sam Hagon, but if he couldn't qualify for the British final, how can he expect to compete against GP riders. When the youngsters are good enough they'll get their chances, till then, that's what the SGP2 is for, the next batch of future stars.

All the cup competitions should have designated dates like the football. Year after year we have the same situation with cup fixtures.

Think you might need the practice

Great ride from Lidsey.... Last to first....

@R87 is the poster who said "good riddance" when Wolves closed lets not forget. There is still much work to do in the fight to keep Coventry running again. While Brandon is still there though (albeit decaying) never say never. I wish them well.

As I’ve said before I always feel Leicester are our toughest opponents at Foxhall You would prefer Bewley Kurtz and Lidsey over Fricke Masters and Douglas all day long ….. but at Foxhall the 3 Leicester boys go better then the 3 Belle Vue boys Add in that Blodorn and Zach Cook are generally awful and that Becker and Howarth aren’t … and that Belle Vue reserves are poor generally …. Then you can see why Belle Vue are probably the better 1-7 but at Foxhall we are more likely to beat Belle Vue easily as opposed to Leicester And Leicester absolutely deserved it last night

It is the same with most individual meetings, its all about qualifying for the final stages, Dan Thompson was the best rider in the meeting and most likely would have won without injury. I thought Sam deserved it as he came from the back to qualify for the final and also in the final to win it.

The only rider Hagon could conceivably replaced (staying under the limit) is Tobias Thomsen. Hagon's 2025 ave 4.35 (4.87), Thomsen's 5.19 (6.67). Well done to Sam for winning the meeting (despite not being the best rider in it) but that doesn't mean Poole made an error in not wanting him back.

His head completely in the clouds regarding the Alexander stadium! £6,000 rent per meeting, meaning tickets for his 600 crowdwould have to start at £100 before you even get tothinking about paying riders, cloud cuckoo land, ……………………. i make that £10 per head The rest might be right to be fair.

Good to see Sam finding some kind of form again, but it's been a long time coming. Mind you pity he found it again when against Poole, re the U21 final well that's racing for you, take the luck when you can. The question of course is can he maintain this level of success?

Many of us saw this coming but were hopeful the others could see us through. Well done to Leicester for taking full advantage. Fair play to them. When you operate R/R for your No.1, everyone else has to chip in with valuable points. Bringing in a reserve that you know is not going to score many points means you're effective a 5 man team - very dangerous. But the thing that has annoyed me, is the state of the track AGAIN. Similar to the Bank Holiday, there were blue grooves appearing on the entries to the corner, not as bad but they were there. This meant there was only ever one racing line. Nobody was using the outside which was the only thing that was getting graded with the new shiny tractor. The temperature and weather was normal in the few days before the meeting. So there were no excuses. Not only did we lose but the racing was poor. Not good enough.

I just said I don't rate him would rather have Thompson or Cairns in my team

Spot on post hagon only won the final with a desperate move. Don't rate him personally the Thompson twins and cairns far better.

Where has he took pleasure

I always felt he has under achieved in his career thus far - despite the obvious bit of leicester winning being a bit of a blow for the Witches - its good to see both him and Rowe having good seasons.

Everything that is wrong with British speedway in full view tonight…terrible track and an even worse pundit/commentator…absolute shyte.

Don’t understand how they can get track prep so wrong weekly at Oxford. Have they not got water down there.

The draw was made live during last Fridays stream of the Scunthorpe v Glasgow meeting and paired Glasgow and Redcar along with Poole v Oxford but this doesn't seem to have been published anywhere. Why? Neither Glasgow nor Redcar have a team fixture tomorrow which seemed the obvious time for the Redcar leg given Glasgow have the SGP2 the following night at Ashfield. Anyone know anything about what is happening?

Yep you are both right.....I checked Wikipedia for those I wasn't sure of and there is NO mention of that. So when I saw yours and norbolds comment I checked my own records and yes he's definitely there.

Team manager must have threatened him with a return to Birmingham 😄

His Polish club will be sending him back 😂

Needs to ride for Birmingham to keep himself sharp 😁

Looking at results in the hunt for the league title in the last six meetings each at Foxhall, the lions have won once (not counting last night), the stars haven’t won at all, the tigers once and The Aces four times. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/team/ipswich-witches/

I notice that when a rider goes down in Poland the TV cameras don't shy away from showing the rider on the track after the crash unlike coverage in this country or in the GP's. Always struck me as strange to not show it because when you're watching in person you don't turn away and start looking at people in the crowd, you're normally looking at the rider on the track to see if they're okay.

Graham dury, once you understood him and the way he was, if you didn’t get him he was an arse, good rider, promoter and team manager who cared deeply for the sport, had many long chats with Graham over the years about the sport and had the privilege of him as team manager at long Eaton, while promoting at Birmingham he offered me the team manager job which I refused and he said he respected me for not taking it just for the sake of taking it

I wonder if he wears them during a race... too kool for skool 😎

must admit i do like him. Not in that way, as a racer. 🤣

It would be boring if riders were the same characters but drabik and czugunow are weirdos

dont think oxford would say that

he's a legend in his own house.

Lawson will be doing that next month aswell

Don’t shoot the messenger, but this in Poland today: However, everything indicates that Jason Doyle will return to competition sooner than expected. On Thursday evening on the X service, Eurosport commentator Michał Korościel reported that it is almost certain that the Australian will start in the upcoming round of the Speedway Grand Prix. It will take place on May 31 on the track in Prague. It will be exactly two weeks since Doyle's fall in Warsaw, which is full of admiration.

But if you watch the forecast rather than listen to the clowns in front of the map, not much rain is forecast, everything is bone dry, so it will be like a sponge soaking the rain up. Just bring yer brolly 2morrow just in case 😄

Should have went for Joe T, but that ship has well and truly sailed. Think Jody would be a better option around Saddlebow Road (maybe sign both and have one as a no.8 so they are interchangeable) if that still exists…

There wasn’t a blue groove, just lions were better full stop. They gated better and we couldn’t cope, Ellis made the pass of the night and howarth did something similar so the outside was working but people were overcooking it and losing speed on the exit of bend 4. Brennan wasn’t on it tonight and Hume could never fill Thompsons void. Thompson is a bigger miss than Doyle as this point in the league IMO. He beats his opposite number by a large margin and can take on some of the big boys, with Thompson we could have covered RR a lot better.

Perhaps not a surprise at the result. In their positions both Doyle and Dan are irreplaceable. Results are going to be iffy for a while for the Witches until both the injured boys are back. They will be in the play offs and so long as that injury curse stays away there isn’t a team that will match them. No surprise to see certain fans rubbing their hands with glee at the Witches losing at home. It’s the only hope they have of their team winning anything this year.

Meeting reserve in 1977

The resident prat is back again Leicester was always going to be our toughest home meeting they have riders who can ride our track and not guys like Blodorn Lidsey and Cook who are only used to winding it on which is why your mob are useless at our place Well done Leicester totally deserved on the night

Been somewhat disappointed with Brennan this year, thought he might have kicked on a little. No Dan T is a massive miss at reserve...

While Mark did get a good score, he only actually beat fellow 3.00 riders. Now I'm not slagging him, that's his job as a home 3.00 rider, so well done to him, but the jump to Champ level is massive. So don't know if he'll gain anything from it. If they wanted to give someone from the Academy side a shot, what about McGurk or Marson, maybe not likely to score, but have a greater chance of beating someone. When I can think of literally dozens of stronger riders not being used, that's what makes me think the promotion have "given up on the tie"

Makes sense to say yes... Two consecutive nights means zero time to get fit should anyone crash on Friday.. Bringing the next in line over in less than 24 hours would be unrealistic I would suggest, so promoting Harris into Saturday would be the easier option.. Edit. And also means competitive racing when, or if, they are needed..

Don't think it matters whether Zagar rides or not....it wont make a blind bit of difference to the rest of the season!!! His attendance will make no difference to the gate receipts.....he's past his sell by date!

I guess you could say he's a reserve because of his ability & a GP rider because of his nationality. Obviously he wouldn't be a reserve in most teams, whoever moves to 6 in the Lynn team would be a second string elsewhere. But much more was expected of him, however he should score a bundle from reserve!