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https://ipswichwitches.co/raceday-guide-belle-vue-h/ Reluctant to say this is a formality because sometimes you can end up looking stupid, but in reality this SHOULD be pretty straightforward to progress to the next round. Zach far far better here than his brother was so Belle Vue will be stronger here this year so expecting a decent contest. Always good watching Kurtz around Foxhall, really fast here.

Battle for 5th? Who do you see below these two to finish 7th?

App Store for IOS, so for iPhone and iPad/Mac. It’s available on the Google App Store as well I believe for Android devices. Couldn’t be without it tbh

I had to download an adblocker to deal with the ads. Adblock Pro I can recommended.

Does it take an absolute age once you hit “submit reply” for posts to upload for anyone else?

Emil started slowly last year too but he’ll get it together soon enough no danger. He was his dominant self from mid season onwards so not concerned by a slow start.

Think that’s what you call laying down a marker.. It’s a good feeling looking at every heat and thinking at worst you can get a drawn heat. So much strength in depth in this team. Much more to come from the top two as well so it shows the strength of the team when they have off nights and still win comfortably. Lovely to see Danny fit and happy! The two boys at reserve also very good.

And our old friend @AceBelle laughed at both of these posts. 😁

Mate my predictions are absolutely guff always have been 😂

You’ve got a better memory than me Baldy! Can’t even remember much about this morning let alone years ago 😁

I’d snap your hand off for an 8 point defeat right now. Not sure we’ve ever got that close before? An 8 point defeat and I’d be extremely confident on Thursday at Foxhall. Emil wasn’t on the pace in the Peter Craven last week, in fact he looked awful. Maybe he was trying things, maybe he wasn’t. But we’re going to need double figures from him here. We look such a strong side on paper and we won everywhere last year with our full side except here. This track is an obvious issue for us. King, Ellis, Dan and Jenkins all scored poorly on every visit although Dan had a decent meeting from reserve first time out scoring 9.

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That didn’t happen throughout the entire meeting Steve.

Has gate 4 always been bad btw? Absolute graveyard!

Good lad Tom!

Wasn’t a heavy crash but landed on his left shoulder which is obviously a concern. Took a while to get to his feet but once he did, didn’t seem to be in too much discomfort. Fingers crossed he’s ok for tomorrow. Didn't look on the pace all night though tbh. On the flip side, Ellis and particularly Brennan did. Well done to Tom on winning the Ben Fund.

Comfortable home win for me.

Just looked at last years results, we really do stink here don’t we 🙄

Nowt wrong with that. Get out there and get on with it 😉

I know you’re hard of learning, but read through today’s postings on this thread very carefully, then when you’ve done, read through them carefully again. Then apologise to Aries who was actually sticking up for you..

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What I will say though about Leicester, they’ve never been shy in making changes so although the starting line up isn’t a title winner, it’s how you finish that counts the most. The side in the latter months could look totally different to the one that starts the season.

Leicester were never gonna challenge this year whatever with all due respect. They only just made it through last years semi (with huge help from the ref) against an injury ravaged Ipswich without our top end so this year having Howarth instead of Lawson they don’t have a snowballs chance. Just don’t think an on the way down Cook with all his issues is as big a loss as it seems.

Not sure it makes a huge deal of difference to the strength of Leicester tbh. Cook is a busted flush and has been for a while. Having said that, now is the time Drew made his move and stepped it up a gear. Was THE next big thing only a few years ago and hasn’t made the jump many expected. Time to deliver.