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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 21:07:33 GMT
One wonders how much longer it will be until the knives start heading in Leigh Lanham's direction. What do you mean by start? ;D  See, remember where you read it first. ;D You are a hard woman LW.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 21:36:25 GMT
Hey I didn't say I started it, did I ? I meant it started pre season as soon as he signed for us. I'll admit I wasn't happy at his signing and yes, I'd rather have kept Morten, but he is a nice bloke and I'd like things to work out for him, but I can't see him mastering the Ippo track any time soon!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 22:00:38 GMT
Hey I didn't say I started it, did I ? I meant it started pre season as soon as he signed for us. I'll admit I wasn't happy at his signing and yes, I'd rather have kept Morten, but he is a nice bloke and I'd like things to work out for him, but I can't see him mastering the Ippo track any time soon! He's won many a meeting for us down at the side of the lake, so I guess it's down to your management team to bring the best out of him.......maybe Mike Smillie should take it upon himself to become Leigh's personal mentor?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 22:17:58 GMT
Problem is Kev, the only track he's any good at is the one by the side of the lake and that wasn't enough for you guys to keep him this season. Didn't do us much good either as he was out injured both times we were in town!  |
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Post by zonkers on May 5, 2009 8:53:10 GMT
Making a 2 hour journey to watch us get thrashed.... Oh bless, I wasn't thinking that at all. You have certainly got a different team to last year's, and thank god without the Hans bloke . Will be much closer I should think, Danes like our track oh and Poles  Well, I was there, Badge. And glad I went in the end too.  Still can't believe we were winning all the way, and by 12 points at one stage too ! And to blow it in heat 15 was gutting. Btw...when did they do the raffle? - I don't recall hearing it ! That was a novelty - we don't have that kind of thing at Peterborough....!! ;D |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 10:36:10 GMT
Well, I was there, Badge. And glad I went in the end too. Still can't believe we were winning all the way, and by 12 points at one stage too ! And to blow it in heat 15 was gutting. I must be missing something here zonkers, how was that enjoyable  I wasn't there and glad I think that we look at things differently y'know ;D |
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Post by zonkers on May 5, 2009 11:23:10 GMT
Well, I was there, Badge. And glad I went in the end too. Still can't believe we were winning all the way, and by 12 points at one stage too ! And to blow it in heat 15 was gutting. I must be missing something here zonkers, how was that enjoyable I wasn't there and glad I think that we look at things differently y'know ;D Yes - I look at the positive side - and you look at the negative !! ;D I wasn't sure about going as it was a long journey - and I didn't want to see us get thrashed. We didn't. I wasn't sure about going as someone (you, I think ! ) had mentioned it was all about gating at Ipswich and that the track is too narrow for much passing. It wasn't.And I enjoyed the meeting - there was lots of passing, a great crowd, great atmosphere, lots of banter with all us Panthers gathered on the back straight........and most importantly - I enjoyed seeing our team leading for the first 14 heats. That do......? ;D |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 12:45:06 GMT
I must be missing something here zonkers, how was that enjoyable I wasn't there and glad I think that we look at things differently y'know ;D Yes - I look at the positive side - and you look at the negative !! ;D I wasn't sure about going as it was a long journey - and I didn't want to see us get thrashed. We didn't. I wasn't sure about going as someone (you, I think ! ) had mentioned it was all about gating at Ipswich and that the track is too narrow for much passing. It wasn't.And I enjoyed the meeting - there was lots of passing, a great crowd, great atmosphere, lots of banter with all us Panthers gathered on the back straight........and most importantly - I enjoyed seeing our team leading for the first 14 heats. That do......? ;D It confirms what I thought yes, my objective is Panthers win, not to fussed about the rest. If I wanted social I'd go to a local tea dance and reduce my carbon footprint. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 13:10:13 GMT
I must be missing something here zonkers, how was that enjoyable I wasn't there and glad I think that we look at things differently y'know ;D Yes - I look at the positive side - and you look at the negative !! ;D I wasn't sure about going as it was a long journey - and I didn't want to see us get thrashed. We didn't. I wasn't sure about going as someone (you, I think ! ) had mentioned it was all about gating at Ipswich and that the track is too narrow for much passing. It wasn't.And I enjoyed the meeting - there was lots of passing, a great crowd, great atmosphere, lots of banter with all us Panthers gathered on the back straight........and most importantly - I enjoyed seeing our team leading for the first 14 heats. That do......? ;D I agree with you Zonkers - I had a great time and a win would have been "the icing on the cake"  |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 17:50:46 GMT
Glad you enjoyed the meeting girls. It was reassuring to see that good racing can be produced in a daytime meeting, rather than the crap we saw against the pesky 'Ammers on Good Friday.
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Post by zonkers on May 5, 2009 21:04:58 GMT
Yes - I look at the positive side - and you look at the negative !! ;D I wasn't sure about going as it was a long journey - and I didn't want to see us get thrashed. We didn't. I wasn't sure about going as someone (you, I think ! ) had mentioned it was all about gating at Ipswich and that the track is too narrow for much passing. It wasn't.And I enjoyed the meeting - there was lots of passing, a great crowd, great atmosphere, lots of banter with all us Panthers gathered on the back straight........and most importantly - I enjoyed seeing our team leading for the first 14 heats. That do......? ;D It confirms what I thought yes, my objective is Panthers win, not to fussed about the rest. If I wanted social I'd go to a local tea dance and reduce my carbon footprint.Riggers....you really are miserable at times, aren't you....?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 21:20:09 GMT
Must admit it was great seeing all the red on the back straight, but must admit to being somewhat surprised at how many "management" were in attendance in the pits, last count was 22.
Apparently there were 3000 fans there yesterday, so well done to all who attended.
And this from our EADT,Lovespeedway24 website:
Stunning fightback by Witches
MIKE BACON
Last updated: 05/05/2009 09:00:00
YOU know what it's like?
Sometimes there is just no substitute for actually being there.
And at Foxhall Stadium yesterday afternoon, Ipswich Witches staged the most dramatic comeback, one is ever likely to see in the sport.
And for those Ipswich fans lucky enough to be there, it was simply magical.
Trailing by 21 points to nine after just five races, the Witches - Jarek Hampel apart - resembled a team that looked like it would struggle in the third tier of the sport, the National League, rather than compete with the best in the Elite League.
Falls, engine failures, tape touching, the Witches were a laughing stock, although laughing was the last thing going on among the majority of their fans in the large Bank Holiday Monday crowd, indeed the mood among many of them was ugly.
At the half-way stage the Witches were nine points behind, but then came a comeback to rival that of The Great Escape.
Having berated his riders at the interval out on the stock car track in front of the crowd, rather than in the pits, Witches team boss Peter Simmons then sat back to see if he would get a reaction.
Boy, even he couldn't have been more delighted.
Daniel King, who had failed to score in his opening two rides, mainly because of bike problems, sped to victory in heat nine, the first race after the interval.
And with Tobi Kroner, another who had so far pulled up no trees, battling past Niels-Kristian Iversen for a 5-1 maximum, the Witches reduced the arrears to five.
Dawid Stachyra, almost taken into the fence by partner Piotr Swiderski, claimed victory in heat 11, before Kroner and Stachyra brought the crowd to their feet and the Witches to within three points at 36-39 with just three heats to go, with another maximum victory.
The crowd's mood had turned full circle in what had become a pulsating climax to an extraordinary meeting.
Hampel won heat 13 and King heat 14, with Claus Vissing falling while in third place to gift the Witches a point and set up a last-heat decider with the scores 43 to Ipswich, 44 to Peterborough.
You could sense the confidence had completely drained away from a Peterborough side that had been destroying the Witches just an hour previous.
So when Hampel and King lined up at the tapes for the deciding heat 15, few were surprised to see Hampel clamp Peterborough's No.1 Kenneth Bjerre on the white line, while King roared round the outside for match-winning 5-1 maximum and a 48-45 Witches victory.
The hugs and dances of delight back in the pits among the riders, with King getting the bumps and Hampel celebrating with wheelies, was in complete contrast to the first half of the meeting.
Indeed Ipswich had begun so sloppily, it was embarrassing. Stachyra hardly got off the start in heat two, while Carl Wilkinson didn't, as he seized an engine.
King hit the tapes and started 15 metres back in heat three, from whence he never moved because he had a lose rear sprocket, with Kroner wheeling all the way to the first turn like some sort of acrobatic trick rider.
Peterborough were six ahead, and they made it 10 when Swiderski fell off on his own in heat four to get himself excluded.
In the re-run it was even more comical, as Wilkinson made a decent gate then fell off in the middle of the bend.
King's footrest broke in heat five, by which time some Ipswich fans no doubt wanted to break a few Witches necks, such was the incompetence of the display and the Suffolk side were 21-9 down.
Thankfully while all around were doing their best to gift Peterborough the points, Hampel showed his class with a tactical ride win in heat six and when Swiderski showed real guts in heat seven, Ipswich had reduced the deficit to nine.
Even then only the very real Witches optimist would have given them a prayer of winning the meeting.
But who needs optimism when you can have a Pete Simmons team talk?
That talk came one heat later, the rest as they say . . . is history.
Cracking stuff, cracking meeting, roll on Thursday week.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 21:35:23 GMT
It was reassuring to see that good racing can be produced in a daytime meeting, rather than the crap we saw against the pesky 'Ammers on Good Friday. |
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Still can't believe we were winning all the way, and by 12 points at one stage too ! And to blow it in heat 15 was gutting. 
