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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.

Can’t see Emil hitting 16 either. I think it’s time to accept that this Emil isn’t the same Emil we saw before his crash at Sheffield. He’s clearly riding within himself and not taking any risks. He’s sat behind reserves this year and shut off the throttle when he’s got to their back wheel, sitting behind gusts at Foxhall for four laps a prime example. This will be an issue because Emil if often outgated and it’s the weakest part of his game. Lynn also have good trappers in the team so I’m not expecting him to hit the same big numbers he has the last couple of seasons. The gloves will probably come off in September for the play offs when the Polish season ends which I suppose is all that matters.

I’ll be absolutely staggered if Brennan, King and Ellis only muster 17 between the three of them. Lynn is one of their better away tracks.

Lynn are woefully slow in getting previews and information out at the best of times. I know the Ipswich admin has been left frustrated many times in recent seasons waiting for declarations from Lynn so the Ipswich admin could get the meeting previews up. Wouldn’t bet against them already knowing he’ll not ride tomorrow if he is intent on not riding. We’ll probably find out at some point tomorrow.

Was gonna say the same. He held his hands up and admitted he got it wrong so fair play to him for that. His honesty was refreshing.

Couldn’t agree more! Helped out myself in the past. On a hiding to nothing really.

That’s thrown a lifeline to Kings Lynn. Very unexpected result. Well done Birmingham fair play.