IPSWICH Witches star Chris Slabon is a major doubt ahead of Thursday night’s second leg relegation play-off with Newcastle on Thursday.

IPSWICH Witches star Chris Slabon is a major doubt ahead of Thursday night’s second leg relegation play-off with Newcastle on Thursday.

The Pole crashed at Brough Park and damaged his shoulder, while fellow Pole Robert Miskowiak hurt a rib.

Indeed came within one race of upsetting Elite League Ipswich as the Diamonds, who won the Premier League play-offs, led throughout the meeting and were eight points up after Heat 9 inspired by Danish duo Kenni Larsen - who broke the track record - and Rene Bach.

Ipswich rallied late-on and took the lead for the first time with a 5-1 in the last race from Scott Nicholls and Daniel King for a 46-44 victory.

Newcastle boss George English said: “We may not have won but we did ourselves and the Premier League proud by only going down by two points and all credit to the lads - we know that the return on Thursday is going to be very hard, but we’ll be going for it!”

A full report, including quotes from Chris Louis, Pete Simmons and Scott Nicholls is in tonight’s Evening Star