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Think the early call off shows the witches were worried the forecast of it raining all day would be true…news flash it was 🤣

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It’s unsettling how balanced and pragmatic this post is, I fear if the forum continues in this vein the space time continuum may implode… quick someone say something to rebalance it - like why don’t Ipswich get artem laguta over for 28 days, he’s got bikes ready and waiting for the call to come! 🤣🤣🤣

Honestly I don’t think they would, from what I see a huge percentage of them lack bike control and track craft, they are good at going fast on big wide open tracks when there’s not other riders near and all have really fast bikes - too fast tbh which has led to some big crashes and several senior riders getting completely wiped out by young kids riding machines too powerful for their skill set and just getting launched all over the place when they catch a small bit of grip or a bump.

Accept he didn’t pass him he rode into him 🤣

We lost that meeting out of the gate simple as that, always going to be hard to cover the loss of Doyle and Dan but we were consistently beaten from the gate all night which isn’t good enough at home, fair play to Leicester they rode well all night, Luke Becker in particular best gating I’ve seen from him he was very impressive all night. brennan and Emil both seem to be having bike troubles/lack of confidence in their equipment, neither looking happy or anywhere near as fast as we know them to be when at their best, needs addressing by the business end of the season. In match report Richie says he’s hopeful we could have one or both injured boys back for next league meeting which is June 12th which is promising, that may come too soon of course but if that’s a possibility hopefully we’ll be back to full strength in June sometime

If that’s the case then should own up and say that

Am I right in thinking getting the inside gates early in the meeting is a big advantage at Sheffield? if I am correct winning the toss and getting gate picks could well play a sizeable factor in how close the witches can run Sheffield, either way I think Sheffield will win at home but gate picks could see either the witches make a good start and potentially run them close or the Sheffield boys hit the ground running and build a big lead from the off

Tbh I just hope we can come through the meeting at Sheffield unscathed, few of our boys have had some big bangs at Sheffield last couple of seasons and it’s an intimidating track! Build a bit of track confidence in this early meeting so we’re in a better place going back there later in the season and playoffs potentially

I said on another thread the other day that the daytime meetings often lead to slick tracks and a lack of home advantage at Foxhall and many other teams fans scoffed at the idea kings Lynn would be our closest challenger at home so far this season, took a while but the boys got themselves in front for a comfy win in the end. be interested to know how much extra revenue a bank holiday meeting brings on the gate and whether it’s still of value to run them as we get decent crowds on Thursday nights and the daytime meetings the track is always tough to keep the moisture in the material to provide grip and a dirt line

News flash no one on either team was contractually obliged to ride in the 2nd half

An alternative to having less teams in the league could be 6 man teams, was 6 men in 1998 when the witches everything, happy memories as a wee nipper from that season, certainly not diminished product by having smaller sides

You only need to get 31 points to be the closest meeting at Foxhall so far…😅 I still think the witches will have more than enough however I’ve stood on the terraces for many slick dusty afternoon bank holiday meetings over the years and watched normally lesser away riders enjoy the conditions and beat our boys, seem to remember palm-toft being a particularly good one meeting when rarely being great at Foxhall! klindt and Lawson can both be pretty handy round Foxhall - particularly when it’s slick and they historically can both trap, Kvech was pretty good at Foxhall last year, I think KL will be good for 31+ points to support my original statement of “the closest an away team has run us so far”

Kings Lynn bank holiday afternoon meeting will be the closest so far this season at Foxhall i would guess, afternoon slick track meeting at Foxhall usually hammer the home track advantage somewhat and lends to away gaters

Be interesting to see who comes out on top in the champion of the evening and how hard Doyle and Emil try to beat each other…I think in general is a smidge better round Foxhall but Emil is bloody quick!

There’s precedent to show that’s more than viable with the massive stock car weekend event they’ve held over the years too

He didn’t say Foxhall was a better track, just that it can hold more fans…which is correct sidenote, (and I’m not saying it’s should or has to be Ipswich where I’m a fan) but I think it would be superb to see a Grand Prix on a small tight technical track like we have in the UK, I love my speedway and the Grand Prix series but much of it is all on the same style big open space tracks. I was never a fan of lakeside particularly but some of the best racing I’ve seen was the likes of Ward and Woffinden round there!

Had a nice style on the bike I was enthused when we signed him up, shame we never saw him in the witches jacket. Has he packed up all together too?

In each of the last two seasons you’ve used Mulford and Bailey at RS, you also sent for young Brit Connor mountain for a hotdog when he was doing a solid job to bring in Tate Zischke. i have no problem with these things but you carry on with this rhetoric of “belle vue are saints” and everyone else are cheats and evil especially Ipswich and it’s just so bloody tiresome, and then tell everyone else they’re trolls!

I’m sure over the course of the season the fact it rains every other day in Manchester will ensure belle vue reach the cut off around a similar time 🤣

You scored 8 points at Foxhall the other week that’s pretty damned abysmal 👍

Stop shouting at me 🤣

The start line incident was 6 to 1 half a dozen the other, they were both lining right up against each other and both asked by the start Marshall to move over a bit - wright is an antagonist and can’t hack it when it doesn’t work! Adam beat him fair and square on the track and afterwards wright went after him like he’d found in bed with his wife ffs…

Track work has made a big improvement to the 3&4th bend - utilised superbly last night by several witches riders and gusts & wright. you can slag the racing off all you want but end of the day we can only beat what turns up to race against us and Oxford were woefully far off us last night. Next home meeting is brummies and muesli usually decent around Foxhall and rew is obviously good here and of course will want to take some scalps at his old track so hopefully next home meeting we get to see a bit more of fight than we did last night or two weeks ago when belle vue turned in the worst performance I’ve seen from an away team since 1998

Tungate was really poor last night, I was particularly surprised at the meek effort from Tungate/sedgemen in heat 11, the experience of those two guys and around Ipswich to simply leave half the track to Dan Thompson just ride a planned cut back from gate 4 with no challenge and piss off down the back straight being 15 yards ahead going into the 3rd bend was embarrassing, kudos to Dan was a great first bend etc but them boys should be embarrassed tbh. gusts, wright had a go, magic did look like he was trying too tbf but he’s not the same rider atm, Killeen out of his depth, Sedgmen and Tungate looked like they were going through the motions tbh