Bash

6 men teams which would help with doubling up/down. More fixtures.

Always thought that this wouldn't go ahead as it would be almost 4 weeks from the last meeting staged and people probably wouldn't go. You only need 12 riders for this meeting so an ideal time to bring some new riders in to have a look at them as there would be only 3 Ipswich riders available, Coty, Nico & Cam as I wouldn't think they would risk Drew in this meeting.

So Ipswich have thrown the whole towel in now and completely given up. Season over in three weeks, will be glad to see the back of this season and hopefully we will have more fixtures next season as this year has been a joke.

Wow that was a surprise not. How the management could put a team out like that and expect to win. 5 heat wins at home with no number 1 or 2 at home how do you expect to win. Thank God for Captain Lambert otherwise the defeat would have been a lot more. Man of Match Tom Bacon. Apart from Garcia and Kemp (as you can't expect much as these meeting are just for experience) the team was an embarrassment. Surprised Ritchie didn't say how proud he was for taking Peterborough to a last heat decider, but we didn't deserve anything from this meeting, outgated & outfought. Well only 3 home matches to go until our season is over as can't see them running the 16 lapper.

What a complete and utter balls-up, can't see anything but an away win tonight. Is that the best guest they could get replacing a 8.90 man with a 6.30. See our injury jinx strikes again when we are using RR before the meeting has even started. If they had got 2 guests in the first place we would've least had one heat leader, they won't ever learn.

So, we have two guests booked for tomorrow night at Scunthorpe with the same amount of fixtures on both nights. Why don't we have two tonight or do they think as we are at home we should be able to cover easier. Hope nobody gets injured tonight as we will struggle again. You would think with all the injuries we have had when using RR that we would go into every meeting with a full quota of riders, as we never seem to name a number 8.

Not being funny but when was the last season we started with a few challenge matches or an individual to give our riders track time. Other track still run their annual individual meetings, so why don't we still run the Star Of Anglia or Billy Sanders Memorial meeting anymore.

Can't believe we are using R/R on Thursday, haven't they learnt anything. All the other meetings we have a guest for Danny and now we have our top two out we only get one guest. Is there anything in the rules that only allows one guest.

Craig Cook never left the refs side all through this, in his ear all the time. He rode in wet conditions in Sweden on Saturday, as a nobody in GP racing he is a lemming following the rest. Bet he didn't complain then. When an experienced ex-rider says the track is raceable, they should've given it a go.

Got to feel sorry for Chris Louis and all the track men tonight all that hard work for nothing. He did everything the riders asked and then they still refuse to ride. When they interviewed Tai at the Grand Prix Saturday he said we as riders can ride wet tracks but not when it's raining. So what happened today. Cook rode Saturday, but threw his dummy out again tonight. The Glasgow riders looked like they never had any intention to ride and if we had a different Captain than Rory it might have gone on. They should've sent one rider out from each team to try the track, to not even give it a go is a disgrace. The two Captains obviously don't give two s**** about the fans who pay their wages as I've never seen them move so fast running back into the pits when asked to explain themselves on the mic.

No thanks, not even in the same class. Surprised it's taken this long to be dropped.

So you didn't read the article in the Speedway Star what Nico said about the incident this season in the Championship Shield meeting, and the Peterborough Management stopping the Star contacting Ostergaard.

Amazing what a rider can score when he hasn’t got someone trying to take him out. Nico could race without having to look over his shoulder at every turn. Ipswich would’ve won this meeting if they had some reserves. 13+3 against 2+1 was the difference. Some good close racing and our top five was more than a match for Peterborough’s, but 2 points is better than none.

The trouble with the dust last night was not surprising as Richard Lawson said the track was slicker than usual so they tried to water it early on in the meeting but couldn’t after heat 10 as it would’ve been an ice rink with no material to soak in. From an away supporters view there was some good racing usually when Nicholls was involved. Nico tried hard but was so wide he had the speed but was probably riding a lap more than anyone else!!!! Mark Riss was consistent 1 point for Edinburgh earlier in the season and 1 for us. Didn’t expect anything from the reserves. As for Heeps the first race summed him up, made the gate and went from first to last as he was tying himself in knots every corner. You would think with losing his wolves job he has to have a long hard look at himself to get back to what he was doing last season. Lakeside deserved to win as effectively we were a two man team, but we did miss Connor’s double figure score.

You beat me to it Badge, no one is going to ride in it while the playoffs are in full swing.

Great to get 4 points tonight, but like I said last week don't judge this team against Redcar as they are bottom for a reason. Next week will be the true test with Lakeside home & away and Peterborough away. Still concerned about reserves.

Riss wasn't that good when Edinburgh were here earlier in the season. He was easily beaten in his first ride, and won against a half fit Danny who then withdrew from the meeting. He didn't trouble the scorers after that. As people have said he was dropped for a reason by Edinburgh. With regards to Wallinger he has a NL average of 5.64, not exactly tearing it up and doesn't appear in any of the team line-ups. Agree there are better options out there, someone mentioned Ryan Kinsley who has an average of 9.68 better than Danyon.

Do you really think this team will maintain the home crowd, wouldn't be surprised if the crowd was down on Thursday.

Not impressed with the changes made, but time will tell if they are for the better. Just don't judge this team on the two meetings against Redcar as they aren't exactly the strongest team out there. Will be interesting to see if Garcia can get double figures at Lakeside like Connor has both times.

I'm just saying we struggle when the reserves have to cover RR this season, if we have a full team we should be okay but this season we haven't had that much with injuries.

After the two results last night this was only going to be a home win. The Ipswich team is not built for using RR for either their 4th or 5th in the averages as we needed at least one strong reserve to cover this.

Thanks for explaining that I thought a NL no.8 could be used like a reserve in such circumstances like last night. Still it would be better to have a no.8 named as what if the two riders had crashed out in their first rides.

Well Ipswich were tipped to be one of the favourites but injuries have taken there toll so we had to be first at something

With the way this season has gone with injuries and the lack of fixtures, just can't see us making the playoffs. I hope I'm wrong but realistically can't see it. Agree we need to try to get Campton & maybe Proctor for next season.

When will the Ipswich promotion ever learn. With all the injuries we have had over the last few seasons they still go into a meeting using RR without a no. 8. How much does it cost to have a national league rider at the track as a no. 8. As you can only use riders with averages below the injured rider for IRR at least we would've had 2 riders in heat 14 tonight, it probably would still have been a 1-5 but at least we would've had 2 riders in it.