Cue Ball

So Artem and Emil are banned from the GPs due to being Russian, which means Jack steps up I presume as first reserve. Which is great for him, just hope it doesn’t cock up Sheffield’s season too much with missed meetings

Shame not to see Pickering, but happy with the team

If it’s against the rules, do you not think that Belle Vue, Peterborough or Wolves would perhaps have taken issue with it? Maybe?

Was it my imagination or did Riss look over his shoulder in heat 10, pull off the racing line, let Wright go through and then carry on as if nothing had happened? Didn’t appear to have a problem and Wright wasn’t exactly putting him under pressure. If I was a KL supporter there I would have been fuming Obviously nice to see Sheffield win (can’t remember the last time we hit 60), but King’s Lynn really were woeful.

On the changed track prep - Scotty Nichols commented that the riders had asked for it to be prepared differently, but it hadn’t turned out how they expected. Much is being made of the track surface etc, but it seems the simple fact is that Sheffield rocked up in a fighting mood, with their gating gloves on, and won the meeting.

Feel like the Jack Holder being missing joke is getting a bit old now - save for when he had a pretty horrific looking crash and was injured, how many meetings has he actually missed? One? Think people need to move on with their lives

See Batch topped scored for Kent with 12 again

Maybe he doesn’t want to ride for us again? Did it end on amicable terms?

He appealed, so the sentence was suspended until it had been heard I believe. In true speedway fashion, I imagine that the appeal will be heard in October, the 6 month ban will be upheld which should just about take him up until the new season starts…

Why is Harris at reserve wrong? They built their team to the same points limit as everybody else, but they went for strength in depth rather than a big hitter like Batchelor. The advantage of the Peterborough approach is that you will always have at least one strong reserve. The only reason people are complaining is that it is Chris Harris, former GP rider who is currently occupying that birth - don’t think anything was said about Ulrich being at reserve at the beginning of the season, as it was generally accepted that his average was such that he fitted there

I was saying that he is a regular, or used to be, at Owlerton, so did they employ him or just make use of a famous, popular, former world champion who happened to be there

Is this a memory test? Just the one. Maybe legend was the wrong word - am I allowed to substitute it for popular?

What do you think it means? Or is this a dig at the first word typo?

Yep

Not sure if they employed Sam or if he happened to be there - he used to be at Owlerton most weeks. He’s also a legend at Owlerton.

Only surprise was that it took until heat 14 to confirm the win. Don’t want to sound like sour grapes, but I don’t think it’s fair that Peterborough were allowed a better team than us

2006 is a long time ago!

Stock cars were there last weekend - in contrast to how they normally leave it, it looks positively smooth. As has been said - racing at Owlerton used to be superb, but bikes these days can’t handle the dirt that you need to make the lines around the outside work unfortunately. Surely this is the last time we endure Batchelor. Please

Not the person I was expecting to see released - didn’t think he’d been riding that badly tbh

I see Josh has been released by Leicester so that they can fit Hans Anderson into the team, citing concerns over his fitness. Wonder if those concerns will be held by Sheffield as well

It’s sad that a topic about a meeting which was entertaining and seemingly accepted to be a “good” meeting, has to descend into the usual our sport is crap debate… maybe that’s why it’s on its arse

Difficult to tell of crowds are bigger than pre-covid or not as we’ve lost viewing on the first bend and the bar is closed, so all those people have had to go somewhere else.

You can book a table in the track restaurant, food is normally decent in there

Cook, King and Allen all know their way around Owlerton, so could be a close one, but Batch, Holder and Ellis have already shown that they aren’t any slouches and will probably be more dialled in this time round so think it should be a relatively comfortable win

Solid returns from the Tiger top 3, good back up from Howarth and Wright. Sedgmen tailed off after his first couple of rides, but should come good based on his other meetings. Josh is hopefully ok after his off and will get back to how he can ride Owlerton