Steve Irving

It seems to really bother you that Ipswich get bigger gates than Belle Vue despite your all singing all dancing super duper track! What are you arguing against here? You’re having a sly dig at Ipswich fans for saying people follow a winning team?? Of course they bloody well do are you stupid?

Is this a typo and you meant to put 30 points? I can’t see any conceivable way Birmingham restrict this Ipswich team to a maximum 10 point win around Foxhall whether Birmingham are at Full strength or not.

I’m not sure it makes a big difference. I like Hume the boy is a trier, but he’s probably the weakest number 6 in the league and would score next to nothing on the road. You’re obviously getting the trade off at the other end with Kerr or Sedgmen replacing Woffinden, but you’re also getting Rowe back down at reserve which strengthens that area considerably. The original line up looked unbalanced to me and not many Sheffield supporters were full of optimism judging by the predictions thread. This looks a much better balanced team to me

Bet they make a better fist of it than Belle Vue.

The team that finishes top should be champions. The top four at the end of the season should then contest a semi and then final for the knockout cup so there’s still the target of a top four place to aim for. That would also eliminate the farce of one club getting a bye and riding less cup fixtures than everyone else.

It’s definitely worth finishing top as you’re all but guaranteed a bye to the final facing either Lynn or Leicester over two legs with all due respect. Unless of course “commercial reasons” comes in to play again. Without injuries Ipswich will be finishing top that’s a given so it’s most likely Sheffield and Belle Vue battling it out in the other semi.

Just shows the ridiculous strength Ipswich have got. They have a reserve coming from the back and passing a 2nd/3rd heatleader on his own track. They may have conceded a 5-1 in 13 (conveniently?) but you have to be a fair few points up on them to beat them by that stage because they look strong in 14 as well as the obvious in 13 and 15. Brennan in 14 with Jenkins (or Dan Thompson if they want to make a switch) means they’ll be big favourites for heat advantages in the final three heats.

Hagon look devoid of any confidence sadly. Leicester should bring in Joe Thompson. He’d score points around Leicester at least.

He isn’t though? If anything Wrights machine is nearer to the dividing line than Ellis’ is so if anyone should have been moved over it’s him!

See this is the problem when you spout biased blinkered drivel on here, sometimes the footage gets uploaded and you get caught out. Want to retract your biased lies Lucifer? Ellis never elbowed Wright or anyone else from the moment the tapes rose, to the second he crossed the finish line 🙄

Pi$$ off.

He’s going to be a star this boy. He has box office entertainer written all over him. Heard a whisper that a premiership club have already agreed terms with his family to sign up as a club asset on his 16th birthday. Been doing plenty of laps there already.

You’re generalising and taking one comment from one poster and another from a different poster and wrongly claiming that it’s all coming from the same person and they are being contradictive 🙄 You’re also (no shock there) making absolutely no sense whatsoever. It’s far easier to build a team of seven riders up to a points limit (unless you’re Oxford) than it is replacing the best rider in the league like for like mid season. You’re comparing apples with oranges. Sheffield couldn’t replace Woffinden either. It’s almost impossible to replace those guys. It certainly ISNT impossible to build a team up to a points limit though.

You’ve even got that wrong 🙄

It undoubtedly brings more pressure which in turn can then affect confidence and affect results in those heats you’re describing where he could/should be beating riders of his own level. He needs to get away from 1 sharpish.