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Surprised at Hawkins going for Doyle over Brennan in 15. Tom took a while to get his set up right but once he did, he was absolutely rapid in his final two rides.

I thought Jason Edwards was excellent last night - really proved he is one of the best RS' available. I reckon the Ippo promotion need to send some flowers or champers to the person at Birmingham who decided to tell the BSP office that Sammy Hagon was a permanent replacement for Jason rather than an injury replacement!!

Is it to much to ask of the expert commentator to actually know what the rules are regarding awarding races?

In fairness to Joe, it is like a decent Amateur Non League Football player being asked to play in the Premier League against some of the best in the world... Riders of Joe's level (and there are quite a few), shouldn't be riding in the top tier... Does nothing for the spectacle or the fans, and even less for them...

The leading riders were on lap three when the race was stopped with a considerable gap between the two Leicester riders and the remaining Ipswich rider. In awarding the race the referee concluded that the third placed rider had little or no chance of catching & passing the either of the Lions riders ahead of him. In making such decisions the referee does not take consider hypothetical scenarios such as the remaining riders could fall or suffer engine failure. It was the correct decision and a shame the commentators fail to understand that it’s not when a rider falls but the position of the leading rider that determines the state of the race.

Or simply beaten by a better side? Ipswich have a stronger team than Leicester, it’s pretty simple really.

I've seen clearer images with a potato. How can you claim that shows anything?

Through to what? It's the final!

Smacks of being an attention seeking thing, wants to be a hero, look at me back from a coma to race again blah blah blah. Rather he was just remembered for being a great Champion of his time and concentrated on enjoying life with his young family.

Rew will be back at Foxhall next year, so it's an obvious guest choice...

They’re split second decisions though for a rider. He had his wheels in line and opened the throttle and was making a pass. Stick or twist? Keep it pinned and make a pass in a grand final, or shut off and lose the opportunity. To be fair track was a little tricky early doors, quite deep and heavy. Had that been later in the meeting when it dried and slickened off a bit more, he could have made that move stick. Certainly don’t blame the boy for giving it a go.

I don't think we choked this time, more like Ipswich have the strongest team in the league!

Two or three races involving TomB and Emil were top entertainment!

Fair play to Will for trying to stay upright after Danny King clearly knocked him off. Correct decision to exclude King.

Thought there was some decent racing at times 🤷🏼‍♂️ ok wasn’t a thriller, but there was some good races in there. Wasn’t as good as the Sheffield meeting in the semi, but thought it was better than both semi’s at Foxhall and the NSS. Fingers crossed Adam isn’t too beat up. Been in the wars a bit.

And to me this is what makes good use of the wildcard.

You can breathe out now 😂

Dug out my aged 9-10 t-shirt from 27 years ago and jokingly held it up and said to the Mrs I reckon I can still squeeze that on you know 🤣🤣 must be a good omen the shirt is coming with me Thursday!! Uppa Witches 🧙

Ipswich 1/14 Leicester 8/1. Might chuck down 20 notes on Leicester at those prices! Hedge my bets so at least I’m compensated if we balls it up on Thursday 😁

It was nice to see us win at Leicester with 6 riders 👏🏻 stops that argument about Sheffield finishing top and thinking they are the best side! They couldn’t beat Leicester with their 7 riders so no chance they are the best team in the league after last night 🏆 All you heard all season when Witches were top is that “wait until the play offs” from other teams… well we waited and only Leicester and Ipswich made it! Best two teams in the league then or still up for debate? 😉 If we lose it I’ll be disappointed but I do like Leicester, their fans, and their team / manager. Let’s just make Thursday an amazing atmosphere from both fans and good luck 🤞🏻

There was a lot of faulty air horns last night 😂😂

Think Parr said they had a replacement for Riss but deal fell through or could have been the cut off date,but something stopped it happening.

That was a pretty good meeting, the Leicester track provides good opportunity for racing and of course the tension was visible. I expected Brennan in heat 15.

Really? They won by 8 at your place earlier on in the season! In fact they were beating just about everybody until they lost Doyle and Thompson in the space of a few days which punctured the Ipswich tyres. Neither Doyle nor Thompson have actually been the same since those injuries either. Thompson was going like a train and riding like a seasoned heat leader until he broke his wrist. Hasn’t hit those heights since and neither has Doyle. That could have provided an opportunity for others, but the strength of the side means they still looks like comfortably coming out on top.

Ha, only due to the nothing meeting after the cut off🤣

Well it is on a cheap android so only one step up from a spud Then taken in a pitch black room from about 5 metres away off a 100 inch screen with pictures via a projected mirrored to WiFi connected signal Finally it needed to be zoomed and cropped to meet forum limitations All in all I'm happy with the results

I’m saying nothing until after Thursday 😁

Douglas was both wheels over off turn 2 Should go for that

The referee has been Leicester’s best scorer the amount he has given them

Woffinden will do about three GPs. He'll be stone last in the standings and then will jack it in citing his injures from the season before. Picking him has really turned the sport into a complete mockery. It's either backhanders or some proper delusional people picking the wildcards. btw who does the picking?

Woffy is a ridiculous selection.Friends in the right places.Suppose he is handy as the resident DJ.Absolute Joke.

Yeah, definitely not to the promoters and FIM who decided them, or him but just everyone else 😁

Happy with Rew! Feels like it is still the witches team, I really like Rew and would love to see him help us lift a title after nearly doing so for us previously… this guest feels like we’ve just got our sub from the bench, rather than a guess.

Should have been Sayfutinov

There you go, got Rew.

I think when he came out of reserve he struggled in some meetings and he did moan on tv about the track prep not suiting him. In general he is a rider most people want to see and as I have said elsewhere it will be a sad day for all of us when he retires.

I honestly don’t see the big deal here and think some people are overreacting. They’ve done all the team meetings in huddles etc etc. you don’t do that constantly throughout the build up to the meeting, and throughout the entire meeting do you? You’ll have moments where riders will be sitting alone in their pit chairs while their mechanics go to work. What are they supposed to do in those quiet moments? Sit and stare in to space? Some riders like to have a look on their phone to help them relax and relieve a bit of pressure. I don’t see the big issue. If they were doing it instead of joining in a team meeting then fair enough but I don’t think that was the case was it. Let’s be honest, your manager just had the hump because the meeting didn’t start the way he’d like. But it was still very early when he had his little rant and it was ill advised IMO. Quite possibly ruined any good positive atmosphere they had.

Too right there. Mine only came to life after heat 15

Really enjoyed my first visit to Leicester last night, good crack with the home fans near us and nice to see so many other witches fans make the trip made a great atmosphere! flicking through the races this morning to watch again with replays etc. have to say while there was no contact Dan T was harshly excluded - olly called this on commentary saying he was taking avoiding action when he lost control. All four rider made a good start fighting for the same bit of track, basically by excluding him and not calling that first bend bunching to me the ref is saying next time don’t lock the bike up to avoid Ryan Douglas on the outside Dan just ride your normal line and send him into the fence and I’ll put all 4 back in because you bunched up.

We were robbed of more box office action there! I’ve no doubt Emil would have hunted down those in front of him the way he was going. May not have caught Fricke this time, but would have certainly put him under pressure as he was far quicker all night. Emil was a bit unfortunate actually. Douglas locked up in front of him and made it difficult for Emil to avoid him.

OK,so Woffinden being picked is surprising to some but at least it fits the definition of wildcard, rather than just the next three after the top 7.

You shouldn’t dismiss riders who are still teenagers (how do you encourage youth?) but there has to come a point when you say a rider has had enough racing experience to conclude that further improvement is unlikely.

The big blurry bit is the centre green being churned up by the back wheel

Looking at the crowd, I would think there are a fair few dominoes and crib leagues short of a few players this evening in Leicester...

Not so sure about all this praise regarding Mr Dickson, he's dropped some clangers with Leicester in the PL, he binned Dan Thompson off, signed the likes of Craig Cook & Troy Batchelor had Nick Morris & Richie Worrall. Started this season off with Cook & Hagon when neither should have been anywhere near a Lions team place, has stuck by Drew Kemp & Joe Thompson for far too long... he does talk a good game though, I'll give him that!

Looked like he was more interested in picking which of his riders to pin up against the dressing wall first.

He needs to be in the GP's instead of Woffy....

Disgusting. If Wroclaw's 2nd best rider nearly beat Zmarzlik, imagine what Wroclaw's best rider would do. I will be boycotting the GP series.

April Fools Day has been cancelled next year, because no amount of pranks can match the unbelievable stupidity of the FIM right now...

it is a very simple idea, but complicated to get people and riders to agree to it.. but would be a great leveller, for the riders who dont have the big budgets that some of the top riders have, but it would be a great way to reset the British speedway leagues, this could thats why i said complicated., costs are the problem with speedway at our level of support , but probably cheapest way to restart, good luck with what ever you can come up with,