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There is someone that fits all of those criteria. World Champion, could be World Longtrack Champion Presenter, BT speedway presenter. Team Manager; Lakeside manager is a former World Longtrack champion and TV presenter on BT. Could it be the one and only Kelvin Tatum

Champions we are the champions. We top the league and we went onto comprehensively win the Play Offs. A great team effort from a team who have rode as a team all season, we deserved this victory. I am not prone to showing my emotions on here but tonight I will let rip. Ipswich supporter Gavan posted around June or July time how much he was looking forward to Final between Ipswich Witches and Glasgow Tigers the two best teams in the league. It stuck in my mind then and I have waited for this moment since. You got the wrong Tigers sunshine. And these Tigers stuffed you mate home and away.

Big night tonight. We should have enough in the tank to finish the job. But you never know with speedway and anything can happen. I think we need to go with the mindset that we go to Ipswich to win the meeting, and not try and defend the lead. I wonder how Leicester fans are feeling at the moment either way they will lose two of the riders for the promotion and relegation meetings. May the best team win. (As long as it is a Tigers team)

Happy with my teams performance to only lose by 3 points after losing two riders (one been our number 1 and a track specialist) and on a track that appeared to be tricky track conditions for me showed determination and character that the team has shown in the last couple of months. Hopefully we can now move on and finish the job off, Thursday and Saturday with a fully fit team, but Ipswich are no push overs and I fear after last night meeting that we could have a problem with the fitness of some of our riders.

Surely Glasgow are not going with the Rider Replacement at number 5 again.

Of course we have to come through the 2nd leg at Glasgow.

Fantastic all round performance from the South Yorkshire Tigers. Once again we shown how powerful we are at home although I think we took our foot of the gas towards the end of the meeting and we should have taken an even bigger lead up to Glasgow. Its the strength in depth at home that this team has. Heatleaders 14 rides 8 paid and full wins 2nd strings 7 rides 6 paid and full wins Reserves 9 rides 3 paid and full wins And only 2 last places.

The weather can be a leveler. Usually when the track is effect by the rain it can go against the home team. As for Team Managing to say he has not been in the job long, I have never seen anyone to be as tactically astute as Steady. Never mind not long now, and it will be time for talking to stop and the racing to winning. And one thing is certain Tigers will come out on top. But which one?

They will have to perform far far better than their last meeting. Last time they were at Sheffield none of the Glasgow heatleaders won a race The Sheffield heatleader trio are pretty formidable around Owlerton. This season they have raced in a combined 231 races. Of those 231 races they have scored either a paid win or win on 156 occasions The 2nd strings (Bates and Kurtz) provide some useful back up with 53 paid wins or wins from 123 races. We are very tough to get anything around Sheffield.

Josh G, Bomber and Barker. Add if he is fit Jason Garrity. Heat 13 could be something very very special.

Last report I saw was that Sheffield would be back to full strength.

Congratulation to the Bandits on their win tonight, on what has been a tough first season for the new promotion, hopefully next season proves to be more productive for them as they seem to be a hard working forward thinking promotion, and personally I wish them all the best for the future. As for Sheffield I think that our attention is slightly deflected with thoughts on the Play offs and the KOC, we still have a lots to race for. But it has been a massive season for us, with one more home fixture and one away, we are the only team in the league so far to carry a 100% home record, and of the 17 away meetings we have come away with a win in 8 of those meetings 5 of which we have gained maximum points, and of the 9 meetings we lost we managed to get point in 3 of those. It has been a cracking season so far, but the Play Offs are soon upon us and the slate will be wiped clean,and anything can happen and we have a big target on our backs, hopefully we can keep up the hrad work put in by the riders, Management and Promotion and go onto win some silverware.

Good win for the Witches and looks like it could get very interesting for tomorrow night when they come down to our place. Glasgow seem to having some real problems at the moment and they really need to re- group and sort themselves out because they appear to have capitulated and after a promising start to the season it could be that walk away from the season with nothing. They can point to the injuries to riders as a problem, but the other teams in the top of the league have all had the fair share. The heavy money invested in the club by the owners will have been down to wanting success, and it not rocket science that they would have wanted and it is looking as though it is not going to happen this season either. And my guess is that if they do walk away empty handed that the owners will look at all aspects of the team, riders and management alike may find that they could be replaced.

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Looking at the fixtures teams have the following meeting left Sheffield points so far 77 Home Edinburgh Home Ipswich Home Redcar (18th September) Away Berwick Away Newcastle (to Be confirmed) Maximum finishing points 94 Ipswich points so far 73 Away Glasgow Away Sheffield Maximum finishing points 81 Edinburgh points so far 64 Home Glasgow Away Sheffield Away Workington Maximum finishing points 75 Glasgow points so far 63 Home Ipswich Home Redcar Home Peterborough Away Edinburgh Away Workington ( 23rd September) Maximum finishing points 80 Redcar points so far 59 Away Glasgow Away Newcastle Away Sheffield ( 18th September) Maximum finishing points 71 There is a lot of meetings between the top 5, if the cut point is the 17th September it would be good idea to at least extend the date by one date to give all teams a chance to complete meetings.

Meetings off.

Cannot speak for who was there last night as I was not. But maybe another time next season if I get up to Redcar look you up and say hello?

Well all good things have to come to an end sometimes and run of 13 winning meetings is a good run. Congratulations to Redcar on what looks to have been a hard fought win. (take note Cobra). Had a feeling that this might be the one that would get away from us, but really thought that going into the final 3rd of the meeting that we could maybe just hang on to win, but we faded and Redcar were stronger fair play to them. Pity that Redcar look as though could well miss out on Play Off place, would be nice to see them in the mix (have to stop this been nice I am from Sheffield). And finally a message for that Cheeky Cobra, if you come to Sheffield on Sunday come up to the benches on the first bend and say hello to group that I stand with, we will show you same good old hospitality that we show our many friends from Redcar that always stand with us.

Sheffield have a double header on Sunday. £20 to buy on line. £20 on the day. £30 does seem a bit pricey, and I would imagine that any travel fans from Workington and Ipswich will have been put of by the price.

And that my friends is how you win a speedway meeting.

Did Workington really pay £10K for Mason. You were robbed, and the Glasgow owners and Promotion must have been laugh all the way to the bank. The owners at Glasgow might be rich and pumping loads of money into the club, but I doubt that they would be that stupid to pay back the £10k they took buying back Mason. Rich yes Stupid not

Good win for the Sheffield Tigers tonight. Glasgow Tigers badly let down by their heatleader trio with Summers been the pick of the the three. Usually when a big club of Glasgow's statue comes to Sheffield and keeps it tight for for the first 4 heats and then takes the lead I start to get nervous but tonight I was never concerned or worried and always felt that we could step it up a gear and get the win and sent Glasgow packing with nothing to show for their efforts. Always felt that Glasgow were hanging on and trying to get either a draw or a point out of the meeting. You can see that in the amount of race winners they had, two to be exact and both coming from the Guest for the night Mason Campton. Only Campton and young Jack Smith came out with any credit, and too a lesser extent Summers the rest were very poor especially Worrall who needs to find a new engine tuner if that the engine he was given especially for Sheffield. For Sheffield Josh G and Howarth lead by example. Lasse was fantastic in the latter parts of the meeting. Josh B showed that you can use the inside line to pass. Jan proving that he not only just a gater he can pass people as well. Georgie might have only score a point but that point was a very valuable point and he was never off the pace. The winning run continues and we now go onto a a very tough match at Glasgow on Saturday, could be that the run comes to an end, but this is a very good team that can dig when it needs to so maybe, just maybe we can keep that run going. Very proud of my team tonight.

Reading the Speedway Star today, and the article about the Poultec Training scheme. I was fascinated to read that one of the latest students to sign up to the course was Birmingham/ Berwick rider Jack Parkinson Blackburn. I was not aware that he had signed for Berwick.

Mixed scores this season at Sheffield from Mason. 4 rides 9 paid 11 in the first Workington meeting and in the most recent meeting 4 rides 2 paid 3.

http://www.somersetrebels.co/news.php?extend.2083 Taken from the Somerset website. Lasse was unable to ride, not refuse to ride.