Ipswich Witches 2026

[siggysigalos]

Seems the new owner's are changing quite a bit, and to be fair, probably the right thing to do, start with a complete overhaul. The Kevin Long thing isn't something we didn't know about as he said at the Presentation Evening in November he was retiring, bit surprised by the Love in Yesterday, as he got rewarded on Presentation evening. Yes he has been very loyal, and as ive been going since 1980, he was one of the better ones in the League over a long period of time, but things change, and i know he will be hard to replace, but he will be replaced and we hope the next person in is just as good, over the past few years in my opinion, there are certainly better people on the microphones at other clubs than Kevin, So Thanks again Mr Long for your service, but definitely the right time to be walking away.

As for the Chris Louis Video, watched it....Once, That's enough, Move On.

As it's been said by so many people(And i'm not saying they are wrong)we are lucky we have got Speedway At Foxhall for 2026,but for me this season, i certainly will watch Kings Lynn at home most weeks and hopefully the odd Thursday trip to Leicester, not forgetting supporting Jordan Jenkins for the odd weekend up in Redcar. So thankfully the Speedway diary is as full as can be expected, Manchester included, so let's get it started.

[TTT]

Now that we know Northampton are running, Mayfield done well to get Lawson in considering he was name dropped for them on the podcast.

[GeneralMelchett]

16 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

Yes they do, I’m not saying I like it but you have to cater for want the public want and things like Bracknell like him or hate him get views and generate interest 

yes, it was interesting to read the new Ipswich promotions comments in the star today - I have a mate who works for the Sheffield Star newspaper and has done for 30 years he says that now Vlogs and short video stories are the order of the day no one reads print anymore (well its much reduced)

[therefused]

10 minutes ago, GeneralMelchett said:

yes, it was interesting to read the new Ipswich promotions comments in the star today - I have a mate who works for the Sheffield Star newspaper and has done for 30 years he says that now Vlogs and short video stories are the order of the day no one reads print anymore (well its much reduced)

you would think speedway at a minute a race would be ideal for something like tik tok...

[noaksey]

4 hours ago, TTT said:

Now that we know Northampton are running, Mayfield done well to get Lawson in considering he was name dropped for them on the podcast.

They have. I had Lawson nailed on for Northampton, maybe Ippo made a better offer?

[M.D]

19 minutes ago, noaksey said:

They have. I had Lawson nailed on for Northampton, maybe Ippo made a better offer?

I would think its that Ippo was nailed on before Northampton was.

[mikebv]

2 hours ago, GeneralMelchett said:

yes, it was interesting to read the new Ipswich promotions comments in the star today - I have a mate who works for the Sheffield Star newspaper and has done for 30 years he says that now Vlogs and short video stories are the order of the day no one reads print anymore (well its much reduced)

Newspaper and Magazine sales dropped around 80% in my stores over the last decade...

My stores would get four cages worth on a Saturday and Sunday, and take two people well over an hour to put in the supplements, and now barely three quarters of a cage arrives .

The demographic of those still buying them almost mirror exactly the demographic of those who attend Speedway in the UK regularly...

There are literally dozens of examples of amatuer sports teams doing their own coverage, vlogs, with several getting tens of thousands of followers on YouTube etc...

An ideal low cost opportunity for Speedway teams to do the same...