Aries

Met office now has rain from 7am, and now stopping at 2pm with no further rain all evening! It’s changing every half hour..

Well drizzle all day should help in that regard! Driest spring on record and a lot of tracks have suffered with dust and blue grooves this year it’s been that dry. Just depends how heavy the rain is, but it’s due to stop around 5/6 pm at the moment.

He doesn’t. You must have him confused with someone else. He was released by us a few years ago because in Louis’ own words, he just couldn’t get the hang of Foxhall and was so poor at home.

Forecast hasn’t improved. If anything it’s gotten a little worse. Met office has continuous rain from 8 in the morning until 5pm, BBC which tbf is the least reliable I find, has rain from 8am until 2am Friday morning. Forecast changes daily though so let’s see what the more accurate forecast will be tomorrow morning. Still no news on the Rising Star for Lynn.

The Cup would be a bummer but I’m not sure losing a few meetings in the league would be a bad thing. Fourth position will do fine, with averages being kept as low as possible, particularly Dan’s with next year in mind. The way he was riding he might have ridden himself out of a job for next year! The target has to be get everyone fit and firing in September. IF we can do that, I don’t see another team that would beat us over two legs.

Hawkins said Janowski was asked to guest but turned it down. Begs the question, why ask him in the first place? He scored 4 from 6 rides at Foxhall a few weeks ago and looked genuinely awful. Emil, Brennan, Ellis and King taking rider replacement rides was always the better and right choice surely?

Their fans are an insufferable lot they really are 🙄

Probably best to call it off now tbh save the aggro of travelling plans for everyone involved 😁

R/R for Doyle, Hume for Thompson. Rising Star for Lynn TBC

I do. It’s unlucky yes, but the bad luck has to sit with the side that are missing said rider. There should be no situation here where a rising star (effectively a novice) can be replaced in his programmed rides by a Grand Prix rider.

Absolutely.

Yes, Ben Cook simply can’t ride it for toffee. They want to pray there isn’t too much rain because this is the only chance of progressing as they’ll likely get. A re-staging with Ben Cook in the Lynn side and Ipswich at full strength would give them zero chance with all due respect.

I don’t think anyone was suckered in. Starting is an essential part of Speedway as we know and so much concentration goes in to watching that little release trigger to get away the quickest. Any slight movement anywhere would cause a rider to drop the clutch. I don’t believe anyone deliberately moves to get another rider excluded either. As I said, so much concentration goes in to watching the tapes that you’re bound to get the jitters from time to time and drop the clutch too early.

I don’t think that matters anymore. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but that average won’t be used.

What about being declared fit to ride, but then gently slipping off in your first ride and then “aggravating” an old injury and being unable to continue?

Just a little? 😂

Bit of rain around Ipswich Thursday. Could do with a rain off tbh

Beat me to it. Think he’ll give it a go. Brave lad..

Well done Brummies 👏🏻

Never saw that coming 🙄

Difficult to prove either way isn’t it? It happened earlier in the season. He WAS struggling with a bit of an injury at that time though if my memory isn’t letting me down, but it’s something that’s open to abuse. It’s basically a free tactical substitute isn’t it? A rider at rising star shouldn’t in any circumstances, be replaced by a senior reserve. If a rising star is injured and can’t take remaining programmed rides, then that team has to take the bad luck and go with one rider.

Wonder if we”ll see a repeat of Boughen pulling out after a ride(s), and a GP rider taking his remaining programmed rides….

Not sure Jenkins is in good form? He’s struggling a little with a reoccurring injury that he’s aggravated recently. Pulled out of his last ride for Oxford last week. There were two tracks I was almost sure Ipswich would be winning at, one is Leicester, and the other is here. Our riders go very well at both tracks. But that was with a full strength side. We’ve lost the worst two riders we could have at both important ends of the team. Thompson was averaging more than Emil this year and second in our averages behind Doyle. When he’s replaced by someone scoring two or three points at reserve, that’s a huge swing in the overall score.

I personally think this gets overplayed. Harris is nowhere near as bad as his reputation suggests. Emil on the other hand, is one of the worst gaters I’ve ever seen. It may well be his diminutive size meaning he can’t get his weight over the top of the bike to fully let the clutch go, but his starting technique is awful.

Harris is a better gater than Emil! I’m not kidding either. Take your point about the Lynn track, he may feel confident enough to give it a bit more of a go with the wider surface we’ll see.