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2 hours ago, paulnolan said:

I'm sure Lemon tried really hard 😀

Whoever does it next has an even harder task as the team Mark assembled is currently almost a point over the limit (3rd best actually) and no other team has ridden less home meetings than the foxes so I can only see that total going up.

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7 minutes ago, Bagpuss said:

Surely Batch.

Could be him or Zagar. Zagar is completely washed up now and I doubt he is cheap either. Has fallen off hugely this season.

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3 minutes ago, TheSmiler said:

 

Adam Ellis & Mitch McDiarmid replace Matej Zagar & Troy Batchelor. 

I am baffled how Klindt has kept his team spot. Truly.


 

Klindt talks the talk.  Big points for Rybnik in Poland yesterday no doubt next outing will be 3 or 4 points again whoever he’s riding for 

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Fair play Northampton, their management is doing a better job than us witches at the moment and I mean that. Good race nights, good team building, taking action on replacing riders when they can. We could learn a thing or two from over there. I really hope Northampton don’t finish bottom! I said Ellis should have replaced Lawson for us, we won’t win anything anyway, so at least give us a good team spirit and get people enjoying coming to Ipswich instead of sitting in the pits next to that moody bastard Lawson.

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Surprised Batch has gone....

Been decent recently...

Does Mike need him, or Matej, at BV come play off time..?.:D

Fair play to make the changes though, Matej just phones it in nowadays...

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3 minutes ago, topaz325 said:

Makes Northampton weaker in my opinion.

I would have agreed, but Adam Ellis could make the GB team, so I am sure he would want to show what he can do...

Particularly head to head against those who maybe are currently ahead of him given his absence from the UK...

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11 minutes ago, topaz325 said:

Makes Northampton weaker in my opinion.

And mine - dropping Batch when he is seemingly in good form and at reserve doesn’t seem a great choice to make - but I suppose the promotion are damned if they do and Damned if they don’t!  Can only assume that he might be out for a bit and they want to ring the changes. 
 

Ellis - I would have been happy to see him at Ipswich this year - he will probably be better than Zagar. 

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Zagar has been rotten of late and Batchelor is injured (and can't stay at reserve forever). Ellis at least gives fans a "home" rider to cheer for (if they're that way inclined) and I know I'm more forgiving of a youngster developing like McDiarmid that a journeyman on his way out. Positive changes - shame Wright for Klindt couldn't come in, too.

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Dropping batch is an outrageous decision to be honest. He's posted today saying he has been doing physio and would have been back for this week's fixture.

You've now replaced batch who in his last two meetings had top scored for Northampton with a young Aussie who has never rode around Northampton or many of the Premier League tracks at that.

Baffling decision, especially when you have others in the team scoring close to zero every meeting.

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