Ipswich Witches 2026

[Steve Irving]

If Thorssell is out of the picture, it HAS to be Jeppesen doesn’t it? Forget his up and down form for Birmingham, it was clearly a poor environment to race in with all the uncertainty and every rider there didn’t do particularly well understandably. But in his 10 meetings for Berwick he settled straight away and averaged 9.67 with bonus’ and shot straight to number 1.

Leicester are built in a similar way to Ipswich and are the only ones with Kemp and Gilkes who could push the Ipswich reserves, but Jeppesen and Edwards should be dominant over all the others who look weak in that area.

Edited 8 hours ago by Steve Irving

[ouch]

10 hours ago, Phannan said:

Depends on whether Brady can be arsed this time 😁

The last ten fixtures at Foxhall prior to the witches title winning year were DLLLWWWLLW with one of those losses being a last heat decider. 50% success rate for the witches. 

Last year was a disaster for The Aces particularly the early KO cup fixture where Brady was saving himself for the final GP some 22 weeks later.

[M.D]

I hope it all works out for Mayfield, for the good of the club and British speedway.

[MajorMauger]

20 hours ago, JamesHarris said:

I seem to remember 20 years ago the then promoters of the Speedway Grand Prix bought into Reading. They renamed them the Bulldogs, threw shed loads of money on riders and didn't even win the league. The whole business model was unsustainable and a year later is all went boom.  I hope for you Witches fans (assuming they will still be called that) history does not repeat itself. 

I hope that Mayfield sports are more savvy than the old GP organisers were when they bought Reading in the 00's and made many mistakes like p@ssing money on ridiculous wages and changing an iconic nickname. I trust someone has mentioned the ill fated Reading Bulldogs venture to Mayfield sports given its likely they won't have any knowledge of it? 

 

Also Ipswich speedway is a completely different level to what Reading speedway in the 00's was as the Witches must be the best supported track in the Country while Reading at that time wern't well supported and had been subsidised by the greyhounds at Smallmead for many years.

[ShanoXtra]

Interesting comments from Mr Coleman on BBC radio Suffolk played after the town match yesterday.

[Hamish McRaker]

19 hours ago, Steve Irving said:

This you?

Not guilty!

[Hamish McRaker]

18 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said:

Weird that Ipswich are just referring to their new owner just as "Coleman" without his first name.

The statement revealing the new owner on the Ipswich website doesn't use his first name   

https://ipswichwitches.co/mayfield-acquires-british-speedway-champions-ipswich/

And the statement that the new Ipswich promotion have sent to the BSPL again also only uses his surname.

It's only in his open letter to Ipswich fans that he reveals his first name!

 

Despite the teething problems with the new promoters' press release, I'm not going to be critical.  The BSPL promoters I have spoken to recently seem welcoming of Richard Coleman and think he'll be an asset to British Speedway.  Hope they're correct.

 

 

 

 

 

 

More cock up than conspiracy, it is to be hoped

[TB1]

22 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

Interesting comments from Mr Coleman on BBC radio Suffolk played after the town match yesterday.

What did he say?

[IainB]

24 minutes ago, TB1 said:

What did he say?

Interesting comments obvs 😂🤷‍♂️

[Aries]

44 minutes ago, TB1 said:

What did he say?

Didn’t “have the pick of the rider market” due to how late this deal happened, so basically tempering expectations for this year, but they’ve already “got an eye on where the club will go beyond this year”. My personal take on it, was it sounded like we’ve already suggested. Stick with us this year, real business starts next year. 
 

Also discusses UK speedway in general and the state it’s in. A lot of it was just repeating what was in the press release. 

[Aries]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rp7m
 

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