Belle Vue -V- Ipswich POSF leg 1

[mikebv]

Ipswich must have a bit of a concern that the engine room no longer has Dan T to cover them, like he has done several times this season...

Adam Ellis at reserve will be key, and "should" be a difference maker over two legs...

[gjcone44]

I'm not that confident, dont think we will get a big enough lead at home,

[89buttons]

4 hours ago, Gavan said:

Putting Brennan at 5 is huge risk 

Is this Ipswich trying to nullify Lidsey a bit? 
 

Comes up against Doyle twice and Emil once so maybe Ipswich hoping that they can restrict his impact a bit …. But it leaves us vulnerable in other heats 

It’s pairings, had Dan T remained at 6 Doyle would’ve been at 5 and Tom/adam 3&4

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

3 hours ago, bellevueace said:

I still wouldnt be confident at your place even with that, and the big ifs are Blodorn, Cook especially away and the reserves, i know weve done well in previous play offs after not shining during regular season matches but i think this season we have too much baggage in the engine room and at reserve. I think Witches will be a different proposition next week than they were last night.

Certainly woukdnt be all over even with that sort of lead

Equally if it's 10 or less it's still game on too

I think these plays offs are the most open for a while both in the semis and the final regardless of the combination of qualifiers

[Gavan]

This will be won or lost at Belle Vue depending on how week Ipswich do against Lidsey and Cook

Kurtz and Bewley I’d expect 27 points from 

Blodorn and the reserves 11 between them maybe 

That’s 38

Keep Lidseys and Cooks combined scores to 12 and it’s game on 

[Teromaafan]

8 hours ago, ShanoXtra said:

The only person who said Ipswich would win every meeting was Tatum, nobody else. And he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.

Kelvin is a likeable muppet, but there are several (some arrogant) posts on Ipswich related threads, going back several months, implying that the Witches were untouchable if they stayed injury free (not necessarily saying they would win every meeting). Well, they now have their full strength team for the business end of the season but there are quite a few recent twitchy posts on this forum. I obviously would love the Lions to take the honours, but anything can happen. If Ipswich conquer all, I will have no problem with that, but I think that with all the hype over the Witches team, they will be be under serious pressure to deliver. Like some posters have said, if they don't win the league with this year's septet, when will they win it?

[szkocjasid]

8 hours ago, Gavan said:

Putting Brennan at 5 is huge risk 

Is this Ipswich trying to nullify Lidsey a bit? 
 

Comes up against Doyle twice and Emil once so maybe Ipswich hoping that they can restrict his impact a bit …. But it leaves us vulnerable in other heats 

Maybe they feel both Doyle & Brennan wouldn't beat an opponent in heat 13, with Doyle more likely to win heat 12?

Personally I'd have the top 2 at 1&5.

[szkocjasid]

11 hours ago, LisaColette said:

Kind of crazy to think about when in the first month of the season everyone was saying Ipswich were going to win every meeting! 

I don't know if I thought they'd win every meeting, but I did think Ipswich were massive favourites.

I guess that was partly based on them having 2 x near 10 point riders. That hasn't happened this year.

[mikebv]

3 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

I don't know if I thought they'd win every meeting, but I did think Ipswich were massive favourites.

I guess that was partly based on them having 2 x near 10 point riders. That hasn't happened this year.

Not many teams ever get put together where you have quite probably one of the best two riders for that position in the league...

The top two are both genuinely World Class...

Brennan is a perfect third HL level rider, not quite good enough to be a one or five yet consistently, but ideal at Number Three...

Both King and Ellis can be very inconsistent as a 3rd HL, but, again, perfect top level second strings when matched against all the other twos and fours...

And, in Dan T, they almost had a cheat code at reserve given his development this season...

Add in the RS was the best available, (shouldn't he have gone to Brum under the rules?), and you had a team well above the team limit by brilliantly using UK talent in the main...

A huge advantage in team building versus the other three in the play offs, (especially when Woffy got injured), so it means all the pressure is on them to deliver now over the next few matches...

If they all click then, statistically, they win comfortably., however, they won't possibly ever get a chance to put such a team together again, so, that in itself, will bring some added pressure to deliver the trophy.  

[FishersGate]

Really tough to call this one over two legs. Ipswich have been so flaky recently, don't know why but they just seem to not click. Belle Vue again can be flaky, inconsistent and away from have been poor at times but at least Belle Vue have been here and done this before. They have got good experience and at home they can be deadly when it's all clicking. 

Going for a 52-38 home win..

[Aries]

18 hours ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

Belle Vue will win their home by 16-20

I can see this one being the time Blordorn finds his gating gloves and one of the reserves puts in a 6+ night

Definitely has that feel of “we’re going to get battered here” doesn’t it. Only area of the team we SHOULD have the upper hand is reserve and that simply MUST happen because we’ll be second best everywhere else. Ellis needs to step up here big time and needs to do better down there than he did on Thursday. 
 

Hope I’m wrong but I’m with you on the score, 16-20. That performance Thursday was an absolute stinker and all the confidence I had has drained away because of that one result. Dan concerns me in the engine room of the side also.

[Aries]

11 hours ago, 89buttons said:

It’s pairings, had Dan T remained at 6 Doyle would’ve been at 5 and Tom/adam 3&4

This. They’re clearly concerned the engine room could be vulnerable with Dan there, so have put our strongest rider available in there with him to counter that a bit. Not sure it’ll matter too much here though, Doyle hasn’t been good at the NSS for quite a while now.

[Steve Irving]

9 hours ago, Teromaafan said:

Kelvin is a likeable muppet, but there are several (some arrogant) posts on Ipswich related threads, going back several months, implying that the Witches were untouchable if they stayed injury free (not necessarily saying they would win every meeting). Well, they now have their full strength team for the business end of the season but there are quite a few recent twitchy posts on this forum. I obviously would love the Lions to take the honours, but anything can happen. If Ipswich conquer all, I will have no problem with that, but I think that with all the hype over the Witches team, they will be be under serious pressure to deliver. Like some posters have said, if they don't win the league with this year's septet, when will they win it?

I’ve pulled you up on this before and it’s been a while since you’ve regurgitated this nonsense. Right from the start of the season you seemed to take offence at every man and his dog tipping Ipswich to win comfortably and you wrongly labelled Ipswich supporters on here “arrogant”. You haven’t specifically said Ipswich fans this time in your post, but it’s obvious who you meant. 
 

The Ipswich supporters actually were the ones who were much more reserved about their chances because of the way they’ve been burned the past couple of years, it was supporters of other clubs that basically wrote the season off as Ipswich were going to clean house. 
 

When you argued against this, I asked you to quote these “arrogant Ipswich fans” posts, and surprise surprise you disappeared because said posts didn’t exist. 
 

Others joined you in sticking the boot in and it all became a bit bizarre. The usual suspects from Belle Vue joined the party, as did one or two of your fellow Leicester supporters, and unsurprisingly, one vociferous King’s Lynn supporter. None of them could back up the cr@p they were coming out with by actually pulling up the quotes they were all whinging about. The only ones that didn’t seem to pile in were anyone from Sheffield so for that reason, if Ipswich don’t manage to pull it off, I hope they do. 
 

One poster, @szkocjasid , was the one who asked the question, “can they win every meeting” after Ipswich were blowing everyone away early doors. He didn’t say they would to be fair to him, but he asked the question. 
 

I personally hope Ipswich win this and I hope others who don’t have a horse in the race do too. I’ve an awful lot of respect for the way Chris Louis runs his club. A proper speedway man and as it turns out, a very good and professional business man too. If others in the sport ran their clubs as professionally as Louis does his, we wouldn’t be in half the bloody mess we currently find ourselves in. 

[Aries]

Planned on attending this one and alas can’t now make it, or the return next Thursday! Holed up in hospital with a shattered leg and broken hip after an accident Thursday evening 🙄

[mikebv]

1 minute ago, Aries said:

Planned on attending this one and alas can’t now make it, or the return next Thursday! Holed up in hospital with a shattered leg and broken hip after an accident Thursday evening 🙄

Sounds awful....

Best Wishes ..

[Aries]

27 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Sounds awful....

Best Wishes ..

Thank you Mike. 

[Aries]

44 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Sounds awful....

Best Wishes ..

Edited 5 hours ago by Aries
Double post.

[AceBelle]

Weather set to be fine & sunny should be a cracker 😜

[Teromaafan]

1 hour ago, Aries said:

Planned on attending this one and alas can’t now make it, or the return next Thursday! Holed up in hospital with a shattered leg and broken hip after an accident Thursday evening 🙄

Ouch….That rules you out of any guest bookings for the play offs then! Hope you are on the mend soon.

[SPEEDY69]

21 hours ago, Youhave2minutes said:

Plenty of overtaking room at nss but at ippo no.

Why would he need to overtake, he's pretty much the best gater in the world at present.