Speedway: Ipswich Witches lose to Wolverhampton
They ride again on Monday - when they face Belle Vue
The Ipswich Witches drop to fifth in the premiership after losing to Wolverhampton last night 39 - 51.
The home team were without Keynan Rew who was having to ride for his Polish club in a re-arranged fixture.
Rider replacement was in operation in his absence.
Witches team manager Ritchie Hawkins reflected on the defeat:
“It was a very bad night; we were not good enough. We threw too many points away at the start of the meeting and made too many mistakes which we were punished for by the end of the meeting.
“We can’t rely on Doyley and Emil to pull us out of trouble every week, so we need some more points from other areas of the team. We were missing Keynan tonight and throw in Danny not being on it and having a bad night as well, we can’t rely on Danyon to score double figures every week. That left us too much to do but we threw too many points away at the start with silly mistakes that we should not be making so we certainly need to tidy ourselves up in that respect.
“R/R affects us when you have got riders who are not quite on it, you can’t have someone having an off-night and tonight they did.
“I’m sure we will get criticised and that is part of it, that’s fine, we were not good enough and maybe it is deserved tonight. It is early days but also, we have lost two at home already so we can’t be leaving ourselves too much to do in the second half of the season to try and chase the play-offs.
"We need to improve and pick up some away wins, it makes them more vital now because we have two home defeats. We have two away meetings next week and we need to come away from those two meetings with points.”
The Stars ride again next Thursday, when they host Belle Vue.