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Trapping is Emil’s biggest weakness! Doyle can trap with the best, but on the occasions he does miss the gate it normally doesn’t take him long to hit the front. He’s box office at Foxhall. Your top four had little resistance and were never likely to. The Ipswich team is beaten, easy pickings with little fight left in them.

It isn’t just you, it’s killed the atmosphere and enthusiasm stone dead. It’s got to the rest of the team now too as alluded to by King last night. Him, Rew and Thompson are now riding a level below what we’ve seen previously this season, it’s drained everybody. Hawkins has made a rallying cry on the official website as you’d expect him to do, they still need to try and get people through the door, but the truth is it’s become a chore to go. Just have to muddle through these next few weeks, and then go again next year.

Nicholls for Doyle, Zach Cook for Ellis and R/R for Sayfutdinov. The sooner this season ends for us the better. https://ipswichwitches.co/raceday-preview-belle-vue-rowe-motor-oil-premiership-r2-h-2/

Course we would, but it is what it is.

Wouldn’t be surprised! Kurtz certainly will.

Was never going to be anything else tonight despite what the Sheffield fans were predicting. It’ll be the same on Thursday. Only track conditions early on meant it wasnt an even bigger victory.

It’s his usual Foxhall form.

I said earlier tonight would be the complete opposite of Thursday. Thursday was dry, slick and easy to ride. I’d heard a whisper that tonight was going to be a difficult track. Last year it was a difficult track against Sheffield in the cup due to weather and the Sheffield boys didn’t fancy it. The track conditions were then repeated a week later in the play offs to take the Holders out of the game. I’m afraid it’s a case of win at all costs this evening. Weather has been fine, and this is the most difficult the track has been all season long. That isn’t a coincidence.

as I expected. I don’t think this is an accident either..

From a fan point of view I agree, but it ain’t us paying for them Roger. Maybe they think we’ve already qualified so why pay a fortune for Lindgren? As I say I’m only guessing apart from Nicholls. Maybe we will have another top guest or two. Probably find out later this evening, they normally put a meeting preview up for a Thursday straight after a Monday review meeting.

He was corrected by someone there and he did admit on air that he was wrong and he did correct himself during the broadcast. I never said loads were leaving, I said there wasn’t a “mass exodus”. But there were definitely people leaving and not just one or two either, I saw them.

Ritchie had already said Scott had been booked for all the remaining Thursday meetings at Foxhall, so he’ll be riding at home to Birmingham in a few weeks also.

They might, I’m just guessing. But I think Nicholls has already been booked for Emil, so IMO it’s likely to be R/R for Doyle, and then a guest for Ellis. If Batch rides well enough tonight it might be enough to keep him on on Thursday. I could be totally wrong, we’ll see.

He is you’re right, but Doyley even more so. Averages over 11 at home. The pair of them are irreplaceable but let’s hope we get Emil back at least so we can have a go in the play offs. On the Holders, I’ll be interested in seeing the track conditions tonight. I’ve a feeling it’ll be a little different from last week..

Probably not Belle Vue Thursday, but I think we’ll have enough to beat Birmingham in the last fixture, possibly. Pretty sure it’ll be Nicholls, Batch and R/R for Doyle, Emil and Ellis against Belle Vue. That has defeat written all over it.

Ellis is a heavy hitter at Foxhall too Badge. Normally King would be the fourth strongest home rider in the team, but we go in to tonight’s meeting with him effectively the strongest home rider. That’s the task facing us this evening. And yes Bewley is wearing a Witches bib this evening, but as has been said, he really is terrible here.

Probably. Only Belle Vue not riding and Blodorn is guesting for Lynn. It’s for Ellis, not Emil or Doyle. Batch has ridden well for Worky this year and knows Foxhall well. If he has his gating gloves on he’ll contribute decent points.

If you don’t win tonight then you’ll never win at Foxhall. It’s a golden opportunity as you full well know.

Agree but they don’t have a choice it seems due to Ipswich not yet having a televised home fixture. If they switched this one to Leicester, they wouldn’t be able to fulfil their contractual obligations as none of the other two remaining home fixtures for Ipswich can be moved to a Monday.

Our home tv meeting was due to be Belle Vue on July 15th which was postponed. We have to have one as stated above.

That’s an old statement, but the contractual obligation thing there is interesting. They haven’t shown a meeting at Foxhall yet so I guess that clears this one up.

Maybe the websites haven’t been updated yet. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they switched the TV fixture elsewhere.

It happens all the time. How often do you see stands empty in football grounds when their team has conceded a third or fourth goal? Happens in every sport including Speedway. It doesn’t make those people more or less a fan than those that stay so we’ll agree to disagree. You could argue that those that leave care more than those that stay. Some people love their teams in whichever sport so much, that they can’t bear to sit and watch them get tore a new one. Everyone is different.

This a pretty extreme case though Steve. Of course teams have been hit by injuries in the past, but I can’t remember an occasion where anyone lost both of their top two on +9 averages. There was a short spell mid season where we were without Doyle King Ellis and Thompson. That’s three of the top four! It’s been a bonkers season for injuries and is a testament to the other members of the team that we’re still in the discussion around finishing top with a few weeks of the season to go. There’s still hope Sayfutdinov may return in time for the play offs, although I didn’t like what I heard on Thursday. Have to wait and see on that one.