King calls for 10-point advantage

IPSWICH Witches skipper Danny King has called for ‘at least a 10-point lead’ from tonight’s Elite League KO Cup clash with Wolverhampton at Foxhall Stadium.

King is confident the Witches can see off Wolves and is demanding the utmost effort from his team-mates to build up a healthy advantage to take to Monmore Green on Monday night.

“We want at least a 10-point lead,” King said.

“And I think we are more than capable of doing that. In fact, if we get our act together, I think we can hammer them.

“They are reasonably strong, but nothing we should be afraid of.”

King and his Witches colleagues go into tonight’s clash against a Wolverhampton team who are proving a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde outfit.

After crushing Lakeside home and away to win the Elite Shield, they then suffered a heavy loss away to Poole Pirates, 57-35, before getting back to winning ways on Tuesday night at home to Belle Vue.

Much may depend on the Ipswich reserves, Dawid Stachyra who was flying in the abandoned Good Friday match against Swindon, and Linus Sundstrom who has been returning double figure scores for parent club Rye House in the Premier League.

Freddie Lindgren, one of the stars of 2009 leads the Wolves, who include GP star Tai Woffinden, who was given a place in this season’s GP series, at the expense of Ipswich’s Scott Nicholls.

Tonight’s teams

Ipswich: 1 S Nicholls, 2 C Vissing, 3 D King, 4 O Allen, 5 R Miskowiak, 6 D Stachyra, 7 L Sundstrom

Wolves: 1 F Lindgren, 2 T Proctor, 3 N Klindt, 4 J Screen, 5 T Woffinden, 6 L Lindgren, 7 J Haines

MEANWHILE Ipswich Speedway have announced the line-up for the Billy Sanders Memorial Trophy, on April 29.g.

To honour Billy’s memory, the meeting will take the form of a Best Pairs event with three pairs of Australian riders and three British pairs competing for the title.

There will be a special ‘Tribute to Billy Sanders’ programme for the event and a host of Billy’s contemporaries – Tony ‘Shrimp’ Davey, Colin Cooke, Mick Lanham, Preben Eriksen and Kevin Jolly to name a few – will be invited to the meeting and will be available to chat to fans during the course of the evening.

1 Scott Nicholls & Olly Allen (GB), 2 AN Other & Ty Proctor (Australia), 3 Eddie Kennett & Ben Barker (GB), 4 Rory Schlein & Davey Watt (Australia), 5 Tai Woffinden & Danny King (GB), 6 Troy Batchelor & Darcy Ward (Australia)