Ipswich v Belle Vue PO Semi 1st Leg

[Rob B]

Less then 24 hours to go and not even a thread. No interest?
Both teams at full strength.

IPSWICH: Richard Lawson, Scott Nicholls, Danny King, Tom Brennan, Tobiasz Musielak, Kevin Juhl Pedersen, Jason Edwards.

BELLE VUE: Brady Kurtz, Norick Blodorn, Peter Kildemand, Zach Cook, Jason Doyle, Tate Zischke, Will Cairns.

[Rob B]

After that atmosphere at Torun tonight, bet Kurtz and Blodorn can't wait for the same at Ipswich. 

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

13 minutes ago, Rob B said:

After that atmosphere at Torun tonight, bet Kurtz and Blodorn can't wait for the same at Ipswich. 

When you are racing the outside noise sort of passes you by, you tend to get caught up in the actual racing until after the meeting but even saying that you can create an decent atmosphere with 500 people and being Ipswich you would think there would be well over 1000, so really it’s the type of people that are there rather than the numbers, clubs need to start thinking about rent a crowd to start creating an atmosphere which I believe a couple of clubs have tentatively tried 

Edited 21 hours ago by THE DEAN MACHINE

[foreverblue]

1 hour ago, Rob B said:

Less then 24 hours to go and not even a thread. No interest?
Both teams at full strength.

IPSWICH: Richard Lawson, Scott Nicholls, Danny King, Tom Brennan, Tobiasz Musielak, Kevin Juhl Pedersen, Jason Edwards.

BELLE VUE: Brady Kurtz, Norick Blodorn, Peter Kildemand, Zach Cook, Jason Doyle, Tate Zischke, Will Cairns.

These line ups are the biggest mismatch in play off history, hope Ipswich nick a win on the night for their fans.

[Rob B]

9 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

These line ups are the biggest mismatch in play off history, hope Ipswich nick a win on the night for their fans.

Both were built to the same points limit. 

[foreverblue]

32 minutes ago, Rob B said:

Both were built to the same points limit. 

Yes true but Ipswich look like panic buys, it looks like Ipswich shopped at Aldi and Belle Vue at M&S!!

[False dawn]

44 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Yes true but Ipswich look like panic buys, it looks like Ipswich shopped at Aldi and Belle Vue at M&S!!

Sounds right, but I bet the riders weren't price matched 🤣

[Aries]

7 hours ago, foreverblue said:

Yes true but Ipswich look like panic buys, it looks like Ipswich shopped at Aldi and Belle Vue at M&S!!

It was literally cobbled together a few weeks before the season started as everyone including “Rob” knows 🙄

It’s been a crap league this year with two of only six clubs being out of it before a wheel was turned in anger and it’s been done to death. Belle Vue realistically only had ONE challenger this year who then lost their top rider and couldn’t replace him.

Hopefully Sheffield will get Fricke in for the play offs so a Belle Vue-Sheffield final is at least mildly interesting.

Edited 12 hours ago by Aries

[Phannan]

If Brady puts in the effort tonight then the Aces will have a good chance. If he does his usual Foxhall can’t be arsed performance then the Witches will never ever have a better chance to beat them .. etc etc 

[FAST GATER]

43 minutes ago, Phannan said:

If Brady puts in the effort tonight then the Aces will have a good chance. If he does his usual Foxhall can’t be arsed performance then the Witches will never ever have a better chance to beat them .. etc etc 

He's all but got one hand on the World Title who could blame him for freewheeling a bit ,I'm not a fan but he or Lambert deserve the title if they beat the GOAT !

[bellevueace]

10 hours ago, foreverblue said:

These line ups are the biggest mismatch in play off history, hope Ipswich nick a win on the night for their fans.

I would say King v Kildemand, Musielak v Doyle, Brennan v Cook are fairly equal especially around Foxhall. And not a great difference at reserve, I think either could outscore their counterpart. I wouldnt be that dismissive of Ipswich tbh.

[TTT]

Need to stop Belle Vue from hitting the 40 point mark just to keep things interesting imo.

Can't see it happening at all tbh and I'm expecting a win on the night but only by a couple of points tbh, 47 - 43 to the Witches.

[SPEEDY69]

If it's as slick as last time I expect Belle Vue to win this, far quicker off the start line.  Ipswich have had a great season, KOC finalists and close for 2nd/3rd in the final standings prior to play-offs but I said in March BV would walk the Premiership this season and so it's been proved, Doyle has strengthened them further and Zischke looks a different rider this year.

[SPEEDY69]

If it's as slick as last time I expect Belle Vue to win this, far quicker off the start line.  Ipswich have had a great season, KOC finalists and close for 2nd/3rd in the final standings prior to play-offs but I said in March BV would walk the Premiership this season and so it's been proved, Doyle has strengthened them further and Zischke looks a different rider this year.

[YeOldPitGate]

10 hours ago, foreverblue said:

These line ups are the biggest mismatch in play off history, hope Ipswich nick a win on the night for their fans.

You should have been a Lynn supporter in the mid 80's Bobby Schwartz and six reserves v Oxford led by Neilson, Wigg and Cox , followed by Cradley with Gunderson, King, Phil Collins and Jan O'Pederson, when you were relying on Steve Redgeling to get north of ten every meeting you know your in trouble.

[SPEEDY69]

Didn't you have Simmons and Lee in 86 as well, or was Lee doing the okee cokee?

[marko]

It will be slick, probably the only Ipswich rider that would want more dirt down is King so he will be voted down 6/1 

Belle Vue with Tate at reserve will take this, they can even afford to carry Brady if he is in self preservation mode which at this point you can't blame him, unless Ipswich have Lawson and Nicholls go sick in the 2nd leg and are replaced by say Ben Cook and Chris Harris, this could be one of the biggest aggregate wins in play off history I think.

[YeOldPitGate]

2 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

Didn't you have Simmons and Lee in 86 as well, or was Lee doing the okee cokee?

 

2 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

Didn't you have Simmons and Lee in 86 as well, or was Lee doing the okee cokee?

Can't remember re Simmo, Lee was brilliant one meeting in every four, he would get double figures then in the other three either terrible or missing.

I remember a few years later when he was back at Lynn again and his nerve had gone he was following Andy Merideth who was a junior wobbler at the time, Lee kept lining him up perfectly coming out of the corners but just didn't have the bottle then to make the pass. Might have been the year Knight went to Berwick to make way for yet another Lee comeback.

[marko]

3 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

Didn't you have Simmons and Lee in 86 as well, or was Lee doing the okee cokee?

Lee only rode 15 meetings, according to the complete history of the British League, he failed to turn up for a meeting in June, the club suspended him and he did not ride a bike again until 1991

Simmo only rode 10 meetings

Over 40 matches including BL and League cup, Lynn won 4, draw 2 and lost 34, biggest tonking at home 23-55 to Cradley, biggest tonking on the road 60-18 at Oxford

[SPEEDY69]

4 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

 

Can't remember re Simmo, Lee was brilliant one meeting in every four, he would get double figures then in the other three either terrible or missing.

I remember a few years later when he was back at Lynn again and his nerve had gone he was following Andy Merideth who was a junior wobbler at the time, Lee kept lining him up perfectly coming out of the corners but just didn't have the bottle then to make the pass. Might have been the year Knight went to Berwick to make way for yet another Lee comeback.

I used to be a regular at Lynn from 89 to about 96 and remember Lee's second/third coming - I think his starting was a big issue as he'd been used to tape bending in the 70s early 80s and did not really get to grips with it.