Bagpuss

The last few years are deja vu..... Ipswich Town are in the third division

Not even for season ending injury?

A rider on the decline who is not a particularly nice personality so no great loss really.

The team suits and matching bikes is one of the few things British speedway does well and gets right. No team in any sport in the 21st century should be wearing kit that doesn't absolutely match.

What's the record for the number of pages in a team's close season thread?

Whole season according to the press release.

And along comes the professional sniper You would imagine not as the people who run Glasgow speedway seem to care about British Speedway as a whole and not just their own club.

People? Or just TTT?

Excellent stuff. Speedway is full of conflicts of interest anyway (Campbell compiling the fixtures anyone?) but to have a sponsor and one who will spread the word is great news.

That should have embedded but didn't.....anyway Lindgren & S Lambert announced EDIT sorted!

Ah but how many of those have you ridden

At the risk of sounding pedantic I would say that replacing more than half of the team ie 4 riders constitutes a rebuild personally.

Followed by best turnstile operator, best announcer, best machine examiner zzzzzzzzzzz

Lynn Mildenhall Ipswich Peterborough Long Eaton Buxton Carmarthen Newport Swindon Reading Poole Exeter Trelawny Eastbourne Arena Essex Rye House Sheffield Workington Glasgow (current) Edinburgh (current) Berwick Newcastle Redcar Middlesborough (year after closure unfortunately) Hull (most recent) Wolves Cradley Birmingham Scunthorpe Belle Vue (current and previous) Somerset Bradford Coventry Oxford Cardiff Stoke

Having a discussion about it would be better......

But you are talking about a stronger league twelve years ago. I'd say a better barometer would be his Polish Extraliga averages from the last couple of seasons.

If Ipswich sign him and do a 1998 again it would grate a bit of course but at the end if the day there's a bigger picture, he'll put bums on seats and make the league stronger, I'd much rather see that personally. I can remember him coming to Lynn with Coventry in 2011, the place was packed to the rafters.

I really don't think that's true, surely the majority of folk who attend the six other Prem tracks want to see Sayfutdinov ride when Ipswich visit? Why would they not?

It's a mystery, there was definitely another Eastern European rider representing Ipswich that Good Friday in 1991 but I can't find any evidence of it anywhere online. The only way to know might be if somebody is able to physically produce a programme from their attic.

Yep the chippies at both Mildenhall and Rye House twenty odd years ago when I went regularly were fantastic. Don't generally do food in speedway stadiums unless I have to though as its usually overpriced garbage.

If that's true its quite different to pre season targets but in any case riders need a little bit of pressure if you want to be successful. Not too much but at the same time not ambling around pressure free and unmotivated. Team spirit and togetherness is the key for me though good team managers and captain will cultivate that early on and keep it going even when results aren't great.