Ipswich Witches 2026

[mikebv]

10 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

I don't remember it as a weak league year at all.  Give them some credit, they rode really well as a team to win.

For several weeks that season, Sam Masters had the No1 average in both leagues at the same time..

[SPEEDY69]

19 minutes ago, mikebv said:

For several weeks that season, Sam Masters had the No1 average in both leagues at the same time..

Your Aces team had Bewley and Kurtz, Brennan, both Worralls and Charles Wright I think - the play off final at the NSS and seeing Scott beat Bewley was great if you weren't an Aces fan 😁

[TTT]

Mayfield have done well to get PHB in, Didn't see that one coming as I assumed he was nailed on for Belle Vue earlier in the winter. Didn't think he was coming over after they announced Kildemand.

Think PHB will be better on the road but will give it 100% whilst providing bundles of entertainment for the fans and that's all we can ask for.

I would've signed Brennan, Lawson and Musielak anyway for the Top 5 after Doyley and Emil's departures, I think that's a rock solid Top 3 in a weakend League where Brennan and Musielak have huge scope to improve, Rocket Man will do what he always does and that's score consistently well where he'll roughly finish on the same GSA.

I'm glad Nicholls is in the side after he revealed that 2026 is likely to be his retirment year, It's only fitting that he finishes his career off at Ipswich imo.

King is King, Should be good for a minimum of 7 Points a night at Foxhall, Away from Home is a different story but we can't win the League in 2026 anyway so it's irrelevant.

Overall I'm relatively happy with the 1-7 considering the circumstances and I only would've swapped King for Klindt.

 

Roll on to tapes up.

[89buttons]

38 minutes ago, TTT said:

Mayfield have done well to get PHB in, Didn't see that one coming as I assumed he was nailed on for Belle Vue earlier in the winter. Didn't think he was coming over after they announced Kildemand.

Think PHB will be better on the road but will give it 100% whilst providing bundles of entertainment for the fans and that's all we can ask for.

 

The signing of PHB has really cheered me up, it was always going to be hard so late in the day to bring over a top no.1 but in the absence of that bringing in an exciting newcomer to the league from the continent is a good show of intent from the new owners and offers additional excitement and intrigue to see how he fairs on these shores

[Hamish McRaker]

Museilak must be due for a testimonial soon? And Scott could be too, even though he's probably already had at least one? What about Danny King?

[Fortythirtyeight]

1 hour ago, TTT said:

Mayfield have done well to get PHB in, Didn't see that one coming as I assumed he was nailed on for Belle Vue earlier in the winter. Didn't think he was coming over after they announced Kildemand.

Think PHB will be better on the road but will give it 100% whilst providing bundles of entertainment for the fans and that's all we can ask for.

I would've signed Brennan, Lawson and Musielak anyway for the Top 5 after Doyley and Emil's departures, I think that's a rock solid Top 3 in a weakend League where Brennan and Musielak have huge scope to improve, Rocket Man will do what he always does and that's score consistently well where he'll roughly finish on the same GSA.

I'm glad Nicholls is in the side after he revealed that 2026 is likely to be his retirment year, It's only fitting that he finishes his career off at Ipswich imo.

King is King, Should be good for a minimum of 7 Points a night at Foxhall, Away from Home is a different story but we can't win the League in 2026 anyway so it's irrelevant.

Overall I'm relatively happy with the 1-7 considering the circumstances and I only would've swapped King for Klindt.

 

Roll on to tapes up.

King costs half of what gating tart Klindt demands.

[Aries]

35 minutes ago, 89buttons said:

The signing of PHB has really cheered me up, it was always going to be hard so late in the day to bring over a top no.1 but in the absence of that bringing in an exciting newcomer to the league from the continent is a good show of intent from the new owners and offers additional excitement and intrigue to see how he fairs on these shores

Totally agree and I felt the same when we signed Rew. We should look to do one of these every year in my opinion because it freshens things up and gives us a look at a new rider. With all due respect to the others, we know exactly what they can do and how they ride because we’ve all watched them a million times. PHB gives us that intrigue and something different.

[Aries]

2 minutes ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

King costs half of what gating tart Klindt demands.

And for a very similar output. King actually has the higher average.

[foreverblue]

8 minutes ago, Aries said:

And for a very similar output. King actually has the higher average.

Rather have King anyday, he would not give up like Klindt does.

[Steve Irving]

5 hours ago, Aries said:

Looks like King remains as Captain. The “Club Officials” page has been updated today

https://ipswichwitches.co/club/staff/

So do they have a new presenter currently or not? That role is hugely underrated IMO and can go a long way towards the meeting experience. The few times I went there last year, I thought the fella presenting was excellent and one of the best I’d heard. Shame if he’s given it up/been ousted.