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Leicester Lions 2025
Steve Irving replied to SuperStarsFan91's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Doesn’t sound good does it. Hopefully nothing broken and just a bit battered and bruised. -
Leicester Lions 2025
Steve Irving replied to SuperStarsFan91's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Hopefully just precautionary and nothing serious. Fingers crossed. -
Speedway supporters in a nutshell. Only in this sport will a team get criticised for building the best team that they possibly can, and a team every supporter of a club up and down the country would absolutely love their club to do likewise. Just look at the comments of supporters of Oxford and Birmingham, they’d give their right arm to have this Ipswich side to watch on a regular basis. Absolutely nuts. There has ALWAYS been dominant teams in this sport over the years. Ipswich themselves cleaned house in 98 with arguably the greatest club side ever, Cradley dominated back in the day, Swindon had a dominant side in recent years, and Poole had dominant sides for the majority of their top flight stay. This isn’t anything new so why is this coming out now? It just feels like another unnecessary pop at a club this year that was started off by one poster, and has suddenly become the trendy thing to do.
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Did I read on here there was to be an announcement from Tolley of some sort this week? Or was it next week?
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Well it quite blatantly IS what he said! What’s wrong with you Belle Vue lot none of you can seemingly read!! Is it any wonder neutrals want you to fail and win nothing. Collectively the worst group of fans on here by the proverbial 🙄
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Given what out? Take what back? Your posts are utterly bizarre, you make ZERO sense, none.
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A result that was expected really. Belle Vue are a two man team away from home and when one of those have an off night, this result happens. Lidsey, Blodorn, Cook and the reserves are poor travellers
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FFS stop embarrassing yourself! You come across as having all the intellect of a retarded Hamster. Just stop, please.
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“King’s Lynn boss Rob Lyon said: “I was very pleased to see the result and performance last Monday. It was a convincing win with everyone scoring well, and that’s what this team is built to do at home. “I’m confident we are more than capable of getting a result at Ipswich on the back of that performance” Well he isn’t at all confident of getting a result there is he let’s be honest. I get that it’s all PR and you can’t exactly go out and say you’re going to get beaten, but supporters ain’t daft so don’t treat them like it. Just say it’s gonna be really tough but you’ll give it your best shot and see what happens. That isn’t being negative, it’s realism and honesty.
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It’s always been the case. Never been a fan of bowing to the lowest common denominator and dumbing down the product just so there won’t be strugglers at the bottom. Poole always dominated in the top league and always had the best riders for years. We had the Kings Lynn fan the other day saying they battered everyone in the second tier every single week so it happens in a lower quality league as well. Some would rather drive out the likes of Sayfutdinov and Kurtz so the teams are more equal but that is bonkers. Imagine Poland saying the top boys aren’t riding there anymore because there’s a few struggling teams at the bottom. No he isn’t completely right. The teams at the top will still hammer those near the bottom because if it’s six man teams, they’ll still have the best six riders! If it’s 5 man teams, they’ll have the best 5 riders. It won’t make a jot of difference. You’re always going to have successful teams, and non successful teams. Unlike other sports we do have a points limit in place to try and keep things as even as possible, is there anything remotely similar in other sports that want to be taken seriously? We do have an issue with the top league at present and there seem to be reasons for that. Birmingham weren’t even sure to be running this year because of financial issues, so they’re obviously not at all equipped to be in the top tier. The race night issue was clearly a problem for them as well so that was a factor. Oxford might be struggling because they’ve spread themselves a bit thin running in three leagues. That’s their prerogative of course and they chose to do that. The other 5 teams are all competitive.
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They certainly need a boost from somewhere. Issue as always is cash. Nothing left over here worth going for, so anyone coming over will be expensive and as we know, finance is tight at Birmingham. Horrible situation.
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Ipswich v Birmingham 24th April
Steve Irving replied to Arch Stanton's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
😬 apologies Badge! I’m sure you do indeed make a lovely cuppa. Was just a tongue in cheek comments against the Ipswich naysayers. -
Ipswich v Birmingham 24th April
Steve Irving replied to Arch Stanton's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
The tea lady will be next in the firing line. Makes the worst cuppa in the entire league. Like dishwater apparently! -
it will indeed. Hopefully he has another good meeting and his confidence improves further. Looking forward to this one. I did say the other day I fancied Oxford for a narrow victory, but having looked at the line ups again, I think Brennan for Cook is a very handy swap and I’ll swing it the other way, narrow home win for me.
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Ipswich v Birmingham 24th April
Steve Irving replied to Arch Stanton's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
What on earth is going on here this year? There seems to be a free for all against Ipswich and it’s mind boggling. I’ve been on this forum for years and always found the Ipswich contingent on here to be the most easy going and inoffensive group of fans on the entire forum which makes it all the more baffling. One or two are finally starting to snap and don’t blame them. I’m surprised most have kept it dignified for so long! You’ve had posters like therefused and Teromaafan claiming the Ipswich fans have said they’ve won the title already when none of them have said any such thing, in fact they’ve very much guarded against that and played down their chances!! Daniel Smith claiming pure arrogance from Ipswich last year without a shred of evidence to back it up, none of them came across as “arrogant” whatsoever, and the least said about the Belle Vue contingent the better. You’re all coming across as immature children who are pis sed off because your teams are crap and Ipswich have clearly built the best team this year by a country mile. Grow up the lot of you. -
Two Tier Premiership
Steve Irving replied to Youhave2minutes's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Disagree. The better meetings will be the “strugglers” at home to the top three. The hammerings will come from the top three at home, but the fans of the struggling teams will see the better meetings. The meetings that Ipswich have ridden away have been decent contests. -
I think Oxford might nick this one for some reason. A lot will depend on Tungate building on his showing at Sheffield. You just can’t get away with your number 1 scoring two or three points so they’ll need him firing here, same with Janowski. Riss knows his way around here too so could be a good close meeting.