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Clean cut sports are covering Sheffield meetings this season.

The rumour was going round Owlerton tonight that this meeting had been called off, I thought it was a p!sstake but obviously its not, The weather looks ok in Manchester tomorrow and the track is supposed to have the best drainage in speedway so what is going on???

Very good meeting and some cracking racing in front of a decent crowd for this time of year, shame about Steady and Dimitri's EFs when they were leading costing us the win, but the Panthers look a good outfit this year. Was great to see Steady back looking like he'd never been away.

I've seen Garrity 3 times this year for Sheffield, looks the same rider as last year for me, aggressive as ever.

Kev Doolan and Jack Parkinson Blackburn

Agree with the fact that the speakers were pretty useless most of the meeting on the first bend and was hard to make out what was being said. Thanks for the correct racetimes.

Seems my source wasn't the only one who was wrong: http://www.sheffield-tigers.co.uk/sculc27032016.htmlWas Auty really 1.7 seconds slower than Lasse Bjerre in the next heat

I'm not sure it was announced, but the speakers on the first bend were pretty useless for a lot of the meeting. Edit: I've been reliably informed it was 62.93

He walked back to the pits and was on the parade truck after the meeting, nothing else has been said so assume there are no problems, even though he didn't take his ride in Heat 14.

Good meeting, Kyle and Dimitri looked good on debut and good workout for the rest of the team. Bizarre incident in Ht3 when the tapes didn't go up on the inside for a good 2 seconds after the outside and the ref let the race go, see the standard of refereeing hasn't improved over the winter.

Don't think the PL sees much of that money

This is sad news for the sport. Feel sorry for the riders and supporters.

The racing was pretty much the same as I remembered it 3 years ago when I last visited Leicester in the Premier League with gating and the first corner of utmost importance. Only a couple of passes without rider error with Howarth rounding Ulamek on bend 3 and 4 in heat 3 and Klindt rounding Bates on the backstraight in heat 9.Apart from Garrity and a couple of exceptions with Hally, we were completely outgated, I'm sure if we'd had Steady we'd have got more than 40. Crowd was very low, and there were a good few from Sheffield there. I guess £18 for a practice match on a Saturday lunchtime isn't the way to go. Anyway good workout for the Tigers before the important business starts at Scunny next weekend.

I'm intending to go but like you, I'm not happy about having to pay £18 for what is a practice match, i'm sure plenty will be put off by that. Not really bothered about the result, the guys need some proper racing and come out injury free.

For what its worth, I think Garrity was on the must sign riders list for most Sheffield fans this season. He was absolutely brilliant for us last season and helped save our season after Steady got hurt. As regards the Elite League, I guess Jason could have done the easy thing and stayed in the comfort zone as a fast track rider but the kid wants to move on in the sport and you cannot fault him for that.

I see Paco continuing where he left off at Sheffield last season.

Josh Grajczonek

We are using Josh Grajczonek for Steady on Saturday. Can't say I'm amused about having to pay £18 for a challenge meeting, I'm sure that will put plenty off going.

Rule 8.1.2 of the 2016 SCB regs says 9 days for anyone over 20, so we need a guest for next Saturday at Leicester. Not the start we needed, Get Well Soon Steady !!!

I saw Kyle Howarth guest for Somerset against us at the OTA earlier last season and he was awesome that night, very happy to have him in our team especially as 3rd heat leader.

Agree they could really do with testing the track before any proper racing commences. I attended Redcar's first meeting vs Sheffield and the track was a nightmare and it was a miracle no one was seriously hurt and a terrible advert for speedway in front of a huge crowd.

Confirmed on Tigers Twitter that Eric Boocock and Marc Bates will be joint team managers this season. Big thanks to Jack Lee, who I thought did a great job last season with an injury ravaged team.

STAARS - Thursday 11th February 2016 All Tigers Fans, The next of the monthly STAARS gatherings this closed season will be on Thursday 11th February 2016 at the New Barrack Tavern Pub on Penistone Road, Sheffield (0.5 mile south of Owlerton Stadium) from 7:30pm. As always it's a chance for Tigers fans, riders and management to catch up, have a chat and a few drinks from the NBT's excellent selection and hear any news/updates from the club during the silly season. All are welcome !!!

STAARS - Thursday 14th January 2016 All Tigers Fans, The next of the monthly STAARS gatherings this closed season will be nexr Thursday 14th January 2016 at the New Barrack Tavern Pub on Penistone Road, Sheffield (0.5 mile south of Owlerton Stadium) from 7:30pm. As always it's a chance for Tigers fans, riders and management to catch up, have a chat and a few drinks from the NBT's excellent selection and hear any news/updates from the club during the silly season. All are welcome !!!

He'll be fine at Owlerton, watched a DVD from Sheffield v Workington 2013 recently and he wasn't afraid to ride up to the fence. Also saw him ride a brilliant meeting and passing riders for fun at Somerset last season which is a small version of Sheffield so he should be entertaining at Owlerton. As for other away tracks we'll wait and see.