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To be fair Baldy, it seems as though we had our team sorted pretty early, and there was clearly a confidence that a visa would get sorted for Holder. That confidence ultimately was misplaced mind you. There are riders out there (NKI/Bjerre) who don’t want full seasons but will make themselves available mid season. There’ll be options later on if things aren’t going to plan.

Too early to tell. We’ll know a hell of a lot more after a meeting or two. I wouldn’t write any team off from a play off place based on their starting septet. Changes will always be made.

BTW, 8.21? How on earth do you “reassess’ to that odd figure? Was it a case of stick a 3 pointer at reserve and we’ll give you a random figure to fit him in? Anyone know what our team total is?

More pleased to see Drew in the team in all honesty. I know the majority will love the fact a legend is back, but I have serious doubts personally. I fully expect expect him to start the season very slowly, but after a month or two the hope would be that old habits return and things slip back in to gear. We’ll see.. Edit: Hopefully he does the Ben fund and a few other pre season meetings so we can get a rough idea of where he is at.

https://ipswichwitches.co/2020-witchesjason-crump/

https://ipswichwitches.co/2020-witchesdrew-kemp/

Have to agree tbh. Seems they’ve pinned all their hopes on Holder getting his visa, and with that not happening this late in the day they’ve now got very few options. As you say, seems a bit desperate. Crump will generate a lot of interest, purely because of what he once was, but he’s not going to trouble the heatleaders even in this watered down league.

This one? Does seem to be something exciting..

Fingers crossed

I just posted above yours that surely something needs to be clarified this week. I’m normally one of the more patient sort but even I’m starting to get a bit fed up with it all now. But having said that, I’m sure they could easily have completed the team before Christmas but it obviously wouldn’t have been the team they wanted. Let’s see who the heatleader is and fingers crossed CL would have been proven absolutely correct to play the waiting game.

Must surely hear something this coming week? If not definite signings then an update at least on the search. The timeframe CL put on signing his heatleader has expired..

One odious little turd. Had a horrible inkling the Panthers hadn’t announced him as we were holding him back incase we needed him!

Tungate confirmed

Will be interesting to see who finishes the team for sure. Clock is ticking mind you and decisions will have to be made pretty soon. The riders themselves will need a little notice to prepare themselves for the season.

That wasn’t from Louis, that came from someone on here

Whether it’s the coming season or seasons after, really looking forward to watching Drew Kemp in Witches colours. The boy has so much talent and has a bright future.

Behave ffs! That’s totally unfair

They now unfortunately have a decision to make. Continue to play the waiting game on whoever it was they were waiting for, or give that up and go a different route like Baldyman’s suggestion.

Still can’t get my head around this today. I have Ipswich Witches twitter notifications switched on, and when you get a notification it only reveals part of the content. It said “Ipswich Speedway are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Danny Ayre..” I fully expected to open the tweet fully and read that his Mother or Father had passed, but to see it was the lad himself made me nearly drop my phone. Absolutely heartbreaking it really is. His poor family and friends, thoughts very much with them at the moment.

Can one of the mods either merge, or lock this thread as someone else started the same thread a fraction earlier than me. Thank you in advance.

Utterly tragic. RIP

Didn’t Rossiter deny that?

So who is this “other rider” if it’s not Holder? Anyone care to share instead of persisting with this cloak and dagger nonsense?