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I would rather that Wolbert won the rerun of heat 10 as you wouldn't have got to use the mickey mouse tactical ride two heats later as you would only have been 8 down, so you got the rub of the green in that heat. Bewley exclusion was not soft he totally knocked Ollie off and then crashed himself. Fish took Nico off in 13 always all four back. As stated before looked like Danny laid it down but rather that than smash into fence.

We all expected heat 2 to be stopped second time around and Clegg excluded as he already had a warning, the same as heat 15 we expected it to be rerun. The ref was poor all night so the flyers equalled out. I thought at the time that Danny laid it down in the first running of heat 15 but if Fisher rode the track instead of the other riders and left some racing room Danny wouldn't have had to. Fisher is such a dirty rider and is going to seriously hurt someone if he carries on with this type of riding. John Campbell was not very bitter in his report stating most teams will win here. We have won 3 out of 5 at home even with the team misfiring.

I think we were as bad as the referee tonight, what a joke he was. Took three attempts to get the correct exclusion light in heat 2. At least he was consistent with the flyers, after warning Clegg in heat two he let him get away with the same start in the rerun, maybe why he let Danny get away in heat 15 to make up for it. Lucky for the Witches that Riss was missing as only 1 point scored from his rides, sure he would've scored more. I think we saw tonight a rider who even Peter Karger could beat in Jye Etheridge. With the top Aussies skipping the Aussie Championships we get riders like this with Visas who just aren't up to the task.

That's where you have been going wrong Baldy, you should use a hammer . Can't see this change doing much to be honest, it's the top five that need to pull their fingers out, even Morten who has been pretty consistent but should be a 8+ rider in this league. With Oliver Greenwood two of the next three meetings are away to Peterborough, his old team so he should do alright there and people will expect it every meeting. Time will tell and good luck to him as he needs to make the breakthrough into PL racing.

It's like the Ipswich track no dirt on it. The only rider who could seem to be able to pass was Lykke but then again Danes do like slick tracks. When the likes of Covatti & King can't make any ground up on the likes of Lanham it just sums it up. Anyway good luck to the Rockets in the next round, a match made in hell for you Shads. The meeting started off bad for the Witches, can't believe they forgot to put Sarj's dirt deflector on and just got worse. Definitely a night to forget for Sarj. Morten kept up his consistent start to the season and Danyon didn't disgrace himself, but the rest just too inconsistent again. Good to meet Baldyman & Pob and we all agree changes need to be made but probably won't be, but we'll keep going as we love our speedway. I think you will find that Sarj's bike was slowing and looked like it blew up which caused his crash which is why Ben went past.

I'll come and meet you at the interval by the refs box. I thought our track was bad!!!

Are you at rye baldyman?

Let's hope so!!!

Okay fair enough. They need to get the track finished as it changes from week to week or should that be fortnightly to fortnightly as that seems to be when our home meetings are. Nico seemed to be struggling last night, the track looked a bit bumpy, not as smooth as usual, maybe due to stockcars who knows. Lets hope we get a decent meeting at Rye but as I've stated before it seems to be a one line track since they changed the shape, so the Witches need to get their gating boots on.

It's bad enough having a 3 point rider not scoring any points, but to have a 5 point rider doing the same is far worse, you're basically a 37.50 team. I think Karger would struggle in the national league. He was probably signed because of who his father is, did anyone look at his results elsewhere before he was signed..

Okay, I forgot about the Covatti pass on Robson in heat 13, but apart from that and the one I mentioned earlier they were the only genuine passes. Ritchings pulled a locker when Karger went by and Sarj shut off early to the line to let Heeps past. I shall be going Saturday and sit in the stand by the first bend, hopefully it will be a better meeting than last time, but I'm not holding out much hope of a Witches win. I hope I'm wrong. Are you going Baldyman?

There were rumours at the end of last season that he was coming to Ipswich as he didn't want another year of carrying the Rockets.

Not if it was like the league meeting at Rye, they turned the track into a one line track and I only can remember Robbo making a pass all night.

That's typical Lanham at Ipswich which is why he hasn't ridden for the club a lot. Ipswich let that meeting get away so need a miracle to get through to next round, maybe Kennett's van breaking down on route. Why do they insist on having an interval, always happens with the Witches, going well, take an interval and let the other team back in. If they want an interval take it after heat 15 and then have some junior racing.

They tried this in 2012 in the Anglian Junior League but it ended up with riders riding for more than one team as not enough riders to go round.

Can anybody tell me if someone films the meetings at Sheffield this season.

Well if you went on tonights evidence Nico stays, everybody else goes. We have only had 3 meetings so far in a very disjointed start to the season, 1 home meeting in four weeks (what a joke) so we have to give them a bit of time to get going.

Congrats to Rye on the win but apart from Nico we were pants. Worst Witches performance I've seen at Rye in ages. Have to agree if Rye had a decent number 6 they would have a decent team, looking at him he would struggle at NL level. Looks like a lot of work has gone on around the stadium but what have they done to the track. The first and second bends is so narrow now that it is a one line track out wide, if you try the inside you go nowhere so its like follow the leader out wide. Couldn't believe they had a flat track race during the speedway meeting, couldn't that wait until after heat 15. Shame Edward didn't come out in heat 15, would've like to have seen him against Nico on gate 4.

R/R would be Covatti, Risager, Sarjeant and one of the reserves, as Kerr was the higher average rider to cover for Risager at Scunthorpe.

Josh didn't have problems he just got beaten fair and square. Maybe it was the pressure of being joint record points scorer because he didn't score a point after that.

Yes the race track is excellent, agree with the terracing it's all too low we had to stand on some big concrete blocks on the first bend to see past the fans in front of us to see the whole track.

What a excellent meeting for my first visit to Scunthorpe, shame the witches didn't get what their performance deserved with a win, but a draw is very welcome after Thursday night. I know it's all ifs and buts, but Paco breaking down on the last bend while winning heat 2 and on a 5-1 in heat 14 until Wilko crashed resulting in a 3-3 in the rerun. Hope Wilko is not too badly hurt. Danny still looked down on power and Sarjeant's bikes are still a concern. Nico and Lewis were excellent, surprised Lewis didn't get the nod in heat 15. Paco deserved more than his 2 points and Darryl threw away a point when he shut off too early to let Bailey pass him on the line. Chris Louis just needs to put some dirt on the witches track as today proved we have a team of racers if they have the material to work with.

Will be making my first trip to Scunthorpe on Sunday as staying in Stockport after attending Belle Vue's opening meeting. Not holding out much hope of Ipswich getting anything out of this meeting especially if we are without Morten, be lucky to hit 30 but it's another track ticked off. Just hope it's an entertaining meeting after the poor track at Ipswich Thursday.

Have to agree can't believe we haven't got a home meeting for another 16 days. With not running on good Friday we should run on the Thursday. They could've run the star of anglia to at least give our riders some more track time. With rye house not in our league cup group we could've started the season with a challenge match against them. Bit of poor planning with so many new riders in the team to go straight into a competitive match.

I'll be going, been a long winter and want a fix of speedway even if it will be bloody cold.