Ipswich Witches 2026

[TB1]

3 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Christ you better have a huge budget for damage to the air fence every other meeting, how that boy didn't kill himself multiple times over when I used to watch him lord knows.

Was it 1986 when Lynn didn't win a meeting until around July?

[YeOldPitGate]

1 hour ago, TB1 said:

Was it 1986 when Lynn didn't win a meeting until around July?

I think it was later than that someone better informed than me commentated that they only won once which was Swindon away Einar got a 15 point max which meant he scraped above a six point average so Rogers could have him back in 1987, with all due respect to Einar I was hoping he wouldn't make the cut.

We had a truly dreadful team that year we got Richard Knight who went from world beater at Lynn to seven point man which I think in hindsight for a few years prior to Richard's arrival we were so bad we made him look gp standard.

Who remembers Kevin Brice he was pretty much nailed on for fourth place by the second bend but was the best trapper ever, I remember one meeting we were in with a shout against Cradley and it came down to the last heat and Brice out trapped Gunderson like he was standing still the crowd erupted but it was all over coming out of the second bend.

Halcyon days still remember the mental lynn fan "nutter who would sink 10-15 pints in the bar come out every time Richard Knight was getting ready to race shout "Richard Knight " at 20 thou decibels you could have heard him in Glasgow and before tapes even went up he would be back in the bar he never watched a race all season.

He was about 11- 12 stone but looked hard as nails but so long as you nodded approvingly to his Richard Knight war cry you were safe.

[TB1]

1 hour ago, YeOldPitGate said:

I think it was later than that someone better informed than me commentated that they only won once which was Swindon away Einar got a 15 point max which meant he scraped above a six point average so Rogers could have him back in 1987, with all due respect to Einar I was hoping he wouldn't make the cut.

We had a truly dreadful team that year we got Richard Knight who went from world beater at Lynn to seven point man which I think in hindsight for a few years prior to Richard's arrival we were so bad we made him look gp standard.

Who remembers Kevin Brice he was pretty much nailed on for fourth place by the second bend but was the best trapper ever, I remember one meeting we were in with a shout against Cradley and it came down to the last heat and Brice out trapped Gunderson like he was standing still the crowd erupted but it was all over coming out of the second bend.

Halcyon days still remember the mental lynn fan "nutter who would sink 10-15 pints in the bar come out every time Richard Knight was getting ready to race shout "Richard Knight " at 20 thou decibels you could have heard him in Glasgow and before tapes even went up he would be back in the bar he never watched a race all season.

He was about 11- 12 stone but looked hard as nails but so long as you nodded approvingly to his Richard Knight war cry you were safe.

Wasn't stingray in that team as well?

[Roger Jacobs]

1 hour ago, YeOldPitGate said:

I think it was later than that someone better informed than me commentated that they only won once which was Swindon away Einar got a 15 point max which meant he scraped above a six point average so Rogers could have him back in 1987, with all due respect to Einar I was hoping he wouldn't make the cut.

We had a truly dreadful team that year we got Richard Knight who went from world beater at Lynn to seven point man which I think in hindsight for a few years prior to Richard's arrival we were so bad we made him look gp standard.

Who remembers Kevin Brice he was pretty much nailed on for fourth place by the second bend but was the best trapper ever, I remember one meeting we were in with a shout against Cradley and it came down to the last heat and Brice out trapped Gunderson like he was standing still the crowd erupted but it was all over coming out of the second bend.

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1986 - in the British League the Stars won only two away matches (Reading and Swindon), and lost all at home.  They had won two and drawn two at home in the League Cup, but lost all away.  85, 86, and 87 were three consecutive Wooden Spoons for the Deadbeets.

Kevin Brice was one of those remarkable riders who kept going whatever happened.  At Foxhall we called him Binary Brice because his score chart was often just ones and noughts 🙂

[Jonny the spud]

10 hours ago, ArthurRudge said:

Who has taken over then does anyone know yet?

Yes

[SteveArena]

Adam Ellis is definitely in the team then!

[Pinny]

15 hours ago, M.D said:

A guy called Shaun Brown who posted on this site as SCB

@Pinny knows who I'm talking about.

Why only tag me in this? Over half the forum knows who he is.

A disgusting individual who should be locked away for life.

[YeOldPitGate]

11 hours ago, TB1 said:

Wasn't stingray in that team as well?

Who was stingray ?

[YeOldPitGate]

If world titles were judged over the first three yards Bricey would have more titles than Bartoz he could outrap anyone the problem was most of the time he was on a flymo.

Yep those teams during the mid 80's we would be in with a sniff then you would have a critical heat where it was Nielson and Wigg (virtually unbeatable at Lynn) v Brice and Einar

[cowboy cookie returns?]

6 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Who was stingray ?

Ray Morton also rode for Wimbledon in the NL

[GeneralMelchett]

12 hours ago, Roger Jacobs said:

1986 - in the British League the Stars won only two away matches (Reading and Swindon), and lost all at home.  They had won two and drawn two at home in the League Cup, but lost all away.  85, 86, and 87 were three consecutive Wooden Spoons for the Deadbeets.

Kevin Brice was one of those remarkable riders who kept going whatever happened.  At Foxhall we called him Binary Brice because his score chart was often just ones and noughts 🙂

Gosh old KB - we had him at Arena in i think 1990 him and Kevin Teager when injuries hit, to be fair to Brice he was quite effective at reserve seem to recall him banging in a few good scores 

[Steve Irving]

On 1/11/2026 at 12:01 PM, SteveLyric2 said:

So it seems that Ipswich may field a decent 1-7 after all.😉

 

20 hours ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

Yes

 

12 hours ago, Jonny the spud said:

Yes

Again, everyone seems to know who Chris Louis has sold Ipswich to.

Is it Mayfield Sports Events LTD or is it someone else?

[GeneralMelchett]

2 minutes ago, Steve Irving said:

 

 

Again, everyone seems to know who Chris Louis has sold Ipswich to.

Is it Mayfield Sports Events LTD or is it someone else?

We will find out in due course!

[Aries]

Just now, GeneralMelchett said:

We will find out in due course!

Maybe GM, maybe not! I’ll believe it when I see it this time after the last fiasco. I still remember the official website posting pictures of Louis shaking Busters hand and the headline “Witches sold”.

Weeks and then months went by and nothing further was ever said. We now know that Buster backed out of that deal, but nobody said a word, it was all just swept under the carpet as if nothing happened and Louis just carried on as usual!

 

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

12 hours ago, SteveArena said:

Adam Ellis is definitely in the team then!

I expect that Adams presence will be significant in the Ipswich pits in 2026

[Aries]

21 minutes ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

I expect that Adams presence will be significant in the Ipswich pits in 2026

Tune! 😁

[Youhave2minutes]

1 hour ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

I expect that Adams presence will be significant in the Ipswich pits in 2026

Spanner boy

[YeOldPitGate]

2 hours ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

Ray Morton also rode for Wimbledon in the NL

Yes Ray was doing mostly second half's when I was going the stand outs were himself, Sean Wilson and Andy Phillips who was at Wolves.

Martin Rogers heart was in the right place and he always tried to promote the team I can only assume he had a shoestring budget that's why it all looked so good when Simmo and Bill Barker took over we on paper had a powerhouse team of Lynn specialists there must have been 3k-4k at the first home meeting and I think it was us and Bradford who had the financial backing of the Ham brothers who were favourites.

Six months later all the Lynn specialists other than Lance King who had a couple of bad knocks looked dire Bo Peterson went from unbeatable round Lynn to awful.

I loved it when Bill was in charge he used to wander round selling raffle tickets and you could always nab him for a catch up and things did look promising for a while when we had Loram and Henka and the odd glimpse of the old Mike Lee.

[Racin Jason 72]

4 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Who was stingray ?

Maybe ray Morton 

[Youhave2minutes]

10 minutes ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

Maybe ray Morton 

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