Grand Final 1st leg Leicester v Ipswich Monday 6th October Live on TV

[Steve Irving]

2 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

Interesting Kelvin says best 2 Teams in League tonight.Thought Sheffield finished Top.

The devil is always in the detail. They finished level on points with Ipswich but I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have been the case had Ipswich not had a midseason wobble when they went without their two most important riders at the time at 1 and 6 (Doyle and Thompson). They lost a fair few meetings in their absence that I’m sure they wouldn’t have done otherwise. They were racking up cricket scores early doors until the injury curse struck again.

[Gavan]

5 minutes ago, Steve Irving said:

Dan Thompson and Joe Thompson see Danny King and Jason King, or Kelvin Tatum and Neville Tatum. 
 

 

Neville was a much better rider than Joe or Jason 

Got me thinking about brothers in speedway

Simon much better than Julian Wigg

Scott much better that Shaun Nicholls 

All the Collins much better than Stephen 

I guess the Morans and the Karlssons were close ability wise 

Edited 2 hours ago by Gavan

[Steve Irving]

1 minute ago, Gavan said:

Neville was a much better rider than Joe or Jason 

He was, but the gulf between the siblings was just as big was the point I was making. Kelvin was far better than Neville, just like Dan is far better than Joe.

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

25 minutes ago, 40-38 said:

I've seen clearer images with a potato. How can you claim that shows anything?

Well it is on a cheap android so only one step up from a spud 

Then taken in a pitch black room from about 5 metres away off a 100 inch screen with pictures via a projected mirrored to WiFi connected signal

Finally it needed to be zoomed and cropped to meet forum limitations 

All in all I'm happy with the results 

[Teromaafan]

41 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Looking at the crowd, I would think there are a fair few dominoes and crib leagues short of a few players this evening in Leicester...

Would have been a good marketing opportunity for any local undertakers who could have been bothered to attend tonight.

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

34 minutes ago, 40-38 said:

I've seen clearer images with a potato. How can you claim that shows anything?

The big blurry bit is the centre green being churned up by the back wheel 

[ShanoXtra]

49 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Looking at the crowd, I would think there are a fair few dominoes and crib leagues short of a few players this evening in Leicester...

The crowd was good tonight, Ipswich turned out and Leicester filled it up, more witches flags I’d say. One thing we can all agree on, there was no N Monkeys around which was nice 😂

[Teromaafan]

17 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

Surprised it's taken you so long, witches fans knew that after the spell he had at Foxhall a few years ago. 

You shouldn’t dismiss riders who are still teenagers (how do you encourage youth?) but there has to come a point when you say a rider has had enough racing experience to conclude that further improvement is unlikely.

[Racin Jason 72]

Such a shame there wasn’t a victory parade for all the witches fans that made the journey over.  

[Fromafar]

2 minutes ago, Gavan said:

Neville was a much better rider than Joe or Jason 

Would agree.

[SUPERACE]

12 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

The crowd was good tonight, Ipswich turned out and Leicester filled it up, more witches flags I’d say. One thing we can all agree on, there was no N Monkeys around which was nice 😂

Yes no atmosphere either. 🤣

[ShanoXtra]

1 minute ago, SUPERACE said:

Yes no atmosphere either. 🤣

Foxhall will be where the atmosphere is, not at Leicester. Heard someone as we left the stadium boast about at least 2,000… I’d be surprised if Foxhall isn’t double that.

[Steve Irving]

Surprised at Hawkins going for Doyle over Brennan in 15. Tom took a while to get his set up right but once he did, he was absolutely rapid in his final two rides.

[GeneralMelchett]

36 minutes ago, Gavan said:

Neville was a much better rider than Joe or Jason 

Got me thinking about brothers in speedway

Simon much better than Julian Wigg

Scott much better that Shaun Nicholls 

All the Collins much better than Stephen 

I guess the Morans and the Karlssons were close ability wise 

Huge fans of both of these two, in the BL I considered Shooey the better rider (his league form was certainly more consistent) but Kelly was almost at the end of his carrer in the very late 80's to early 90s!

I always felt PK was the better of the Karlssons, but acknowledge both were damn good!

Advantage Witches for sure but heat 15 is a reminder how it can go wrong, they should be taking a bigger lead to Foxhall. No room to be complacenet on Thursday. Well done the Witches reserves too - whilst Emil gave a great performance as did TomB - Dan and Jason did a complete job over their rival reserves tonight.

Edited 2 hours ago by GeneralMelchett

[norbold]

33 minutes ago, Gavan said:

Neville was a much better rider than Joe or Jason 

Got me thinking about brothers in speedway

Simon much better than Julian Wigg

Scott much better that Shaun Nicholls 

All the Collins much better than Stephen 

I guess the Morans and the Karlssons were close ability wise 

Tom Farndon much better than Sid Farndon.

Peter Craven a lot better than Brian Craven.

Jack Parker better than Norman Parker.

Jack Milne and Cordy Milne, now there's a poser.

[Liontamer]

2 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

This is dire entertainment for the neutral. Crap racing, crowd so old the two small stands total up thousands of years. 
 

Was looking forward to this but zzzzzzzz so far.

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Edited 2 hours ago by Liontamer

[Aries]

Thought there was some decent racing at times 🤷🏼‍♂️ ok wasn’t a thriller, but there was some good races in there. Wasn’t as good as the Sheffield meeting in the semi, but thought it was better than both semi’s at Foxhall and the NSS.

Fingers crossed Adam isn’t too beat up. Been in the wars a bit.

Edited 2 hours ago by Aries