Roger Jacobs

I have never considered passes off Bend 2 as actual overtakes - they're part of the opening of the race unwinding. I appreciate that it's subjective. As for crowd figures ... nobody knows them. Again, any estimates are not only guesses, they are also subjective - ask 10 Ipswich fans and they'll have different ideas. What BV fans consider to be a good attendance at the NSS will also vary.

Your lack of comprehension and failure to grasp context is hilariously sad.

Anyone going to Foxhall tonight who could provide texts for the Live Updates team? If so, please contact Lozzzaaadax and/or reply on the Updates thread: https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/23531/ipswich-belle-premiership-2025-30pm Thanks!

Only need to open two turnstiles then 😉

But ... why only for a draw? What's wrong with 46-44, 47-43 or 43-47, 44-46 - the losing team has the opportunity to pull back some points in a thrilling end to the meeting. What if some teams never see a drawn match, and others have two, three or four? What's so special? Indeed, if the BSPL likes to have an extra heat, why not have an extra heat anyway?!

Part of Regulation 10.3: “In the Premiership and Championship Leagues a rider taken out of a team through injury cannot be re-declared in that team, within 28 days.” This was introduced to stop teams from re-declaring “Willy-Nilly”, and also to be fair to whoever was brought in to replace them - hence the replacement has become known as being on a 28-Day deal. To be fair to the Witches, Jenkins had a nasty injury and it wasn’t clear how long he might be out.

I reckon the best pass Monday night was Heat 5, when Kurtz drove off the inside of bend 4 to pass both Pickering and Morris. Not close-your-eyes-wall-of-death bravery, but well-calculated intelligent riding.

He can’t ride for the Witches until the 28 Days of Edwards’ injury replacement expires.

Easier to find out than to ask! Kvech will be 24 in October. It's easy to forget how young Kvech is when he always looks as if he's in his 30s.

Well, they definitely needed more than 4 from Kerr to win!

You made it sound like he would just be chucked into British racing …

The Live Updates team is struggling to source a Texter for this meeting, so: a) is anyone going (at all?); ii) if you are, please can you text? Let me know asap, thanks.

He completed 6 competitive rides - not just a second-half run-out …

Perception vs Averages is amazing. Howarth started the season on a Rolling Average of 5.05, and is currently 5.39 - while his 2025 average (without BPs) is 5.43 …

Four more rides … surely he knew after one or two more that he wasn’t feeling right. No problem - just slog myself into exhaustion, because I don’t have to bother with the UK.

You're looking at the solution from the wrong angle. Most tracks cannot ever be changed. It's the machinery that needs to be reined-back - last night provided another example of how these super-tuned bikes can't deal with deep and/or patchy shale. Take the edge off their power, so they don't lurch or pick up dramatically at the slightest hint of a change in surface.

Gibberish.

You really are hilarious - desperately trying to make points that aren't there.

The SCB was rightly criticised for implementing a regulation against Workington, because they never stated which regulation it was. I e-mailed to ask, and never even had the courtesy of a reply.

Did the Lemon say anything to Bewley and Kurtz before the Stupid Heat? Bewley throttle-jockeying off into the distance was of no use to the Aces - if he at least tried to hold up Sayfutdinov, and maybe even let Sayfutdinov go so he could try help Kurtz ... as it was his huge margin of victory in the race was of no benefit at all, when he could have at least tried all-or-nothing.

You're the one who's debating it, with all your ifs. As I have stated several times, we will never know that would have happened if Lidsey rode, so there's no point in predicting one way or the other.

I think you mean T/S. as you can tell, I prefer no to do "ifs", even so, if Lidsey had ridden, it would have been a different match, and we will never know the heat results of at the very least the heats he rode in - if you want to have ifs, you can't assume everything else remained the same ...

They only had three turnstiles for the visits of Ipswich. One response was, "get there earlier"!!! Another was "buy in advance" - but with KL's record for call-offs it can't be that tempting for visiting fans ...

I said all this when it was first introduced. The final heat in a match that ends as a draw is the exciting crescendo - that's it! The final heat in a match that ends 46-44 or 44-46 is most likely a tense or exciting crescendo - why is that result any different to a draw? The Stupid Heat is a gimmick. The usual BSPA/L "good idea" that is accepted without any testing or wargaming.

That has to be one of the funniest (and most accurate!) responses ever to one of the forums biggest trolls. Congrats!