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Scot presents on Euro Sports. The meeting is not been covered by Euro Sports and the other meeting at Leicester is not been covered so Scot will be available.

As the home team you can set your track up to suit your own riders and unsettle the opposition. You totally entitled.

I think everybody acknowledges that prior to the injuries to Emil and Jason they were possible on course to make the final and quite probably win it. But as pointed out they lost not only the best rider in the league but the second best, its not fair but neither is life and at the end of the day you have to take knocks when they come around. Personally I would love to beat an Ipswich at full strength but it just not possible, but suggest that fans from Sheffield, Belle Vue and Leicester should not celebrate winning the Play offs is wrong and unfair.

Good meetings at Sheffield really. His last 4 visits to Sheffield with Belle Vue. 13 rides 8 points scored . Average for the 4 meetings 2:46.

A win at Kings Lynn would have given us the top spot in the league. But on present form its looking as though Leicester will now finish top., as you would think that they will win both meetings against Kings Lynn and achieve the bonus point. So it is looking as the Play Off Semi Finals will be. Leicester v Ipswich Sheffield v Belle Vue

But for injuries Ipswich I reckon would have finished top of the league and won the play offs. Losing Jason Doyle is a massive loss, for me in the UK irreplaceable, in the UK I think he the best rider. I don't think that any rider in the world could do what Jason does in the UK. Then losing Emil is a further hammer blow, to lose both Jason and Emil effectively turns their season upside down. Some say that they should have got replacements in but I don't think it is that easy, although we are slowly getting a better class of rider riding in the UK, but a large amount of decent riders still don't view the UK worth coming over to ride.

In answer to you quote about us predicting 10 point Witches win (I did). My reasons were (1) Sheffield away form has been poor. (2) Our form at Foxhall has been poor. (3) Holder brothers allegedly hate Foxhall. (4) Our reserves are far weaker than Ipswich. (5) Yes Ipswich were without Emil and Doyley, but they did bring in Dan Bewley fresh off a Grand Prix win. (6) Looking at the Ipswich team (Emil and Doyley been the exception), there is a big difference between the riders home and away average, which suggests that they have a team that is particularly good home form. Yes on paper we should have won, but speedway meetings are not won on paper, if they were we would have won at Oxford (1st meeting) and Kings Lynn. But I am more than happy that we won the meeting, but not daft enough to know that we would have lost if Emil and Doyley had been in the Ipswich team. Ipswich have been really unlucky this season, to lose 2 quality riders in Emil and Doyley has killed their season.

Would to love to see us win tomorrow. But our away form has been poor overall, and Foxhall has not been a happy hunting ground for us. Ipswich to win by 10 and get the bonus point and go back to the top of the league.

Fair play to you if you have posted best wishes to Emil on other forums. And Thank you finally for pointing out that some not all Sheffield fans can be unpleasant. I do feel sometimes that generalise to much. We have some fans I am not going to deny it, and never have done who cannot behave themselves , but generally most are fine, trouble is that people always remember the bad ones rather than the better ones. As for Emil once again lets hope the injuries have not finished his season, he has been and hopefully in the future an excellent addition to our league.

Absolutely agree it looked like he missed Bomber legs by millimetres. Like I said in previous posts not the way you want to win a meeting.

How about get well soon Emil.

Best Wishes to Emil hope the injury is not to serious. Not the way you want to win a meeting, and Ipswich were definitely the better team, we were and have been far to inconsistent all season. I don't see us getting any further than the Play Off Semi's this season, and if Emil is missing then I don't see Ipswich either with no Emil and Doyley.

I disagree works at home. Heat 1; Howarth Heat 2; Pickering Heat 8; Holder (Jack) Heat 9: Holder (Chris) Brought us 9 points last week, and you I think it should bring us the same again.

More than a possibility, but Tai is an adrenalin junkie, so I think he will carry on for another few seasons. I do that he is on a wind down in his career, and I think that he will maybe ride UK and Poland 2nd or 3rd tier, and of course I think we all know that his GP career is over.

My guess is season over.

Thanks everyone for the replies and fair enough, just thought I would ask the question.

Quick question. Do teams have to have a Rising Star in their line up? If the answer is yes then surely Ipswich should have a Rising Star Guest for Dan Thompson rather than Rider Replacement,

At the time of the Matousek incident I was not attending speedway, so I cannot comment on it, whether or not it was purposely set out to hurt Nagy. But Matousek did have a reputation and general consensus seems to be he meant it, maybe not as bad as what actually happened. There will always be the odd rider that will go over the top, but more often than not it is not intentional.

Not seen the accident and I don't have any desire to. But I find it hard to believe that any rider would go out of their way to deliberately injure another rider and serious one at that. It is said that Tate and Keynan are close friends, so it is even harder to believe it was deliberate. As I have already posted best wishes to Tate, lets hope he makes a full recovery from what appears to be a nasty crash. Also lets hope that this does not have an effect on Keynan mentally as I am sure he will be upset that a friend has suffered and injury.

Agree with many in that I thought we were going to hammered tonight. For us to lose only by 6 points and still be in with a chance of getting result in the final heat was even more pleasing.

Best Wishes to Tate and hope he is well soon.

When I look at a rider I like to look at the riders average. On the surface for a first season 6:96 is pretty impressive. But if you break his average down he is averaging 9:38 at home, and 4:71 away. That is big difference in those averages from home and away, and that would be my big concern if I was an Aces fan. But the Workington track appears to be very much like the National Stadium, so he should be okay at home, but away it might be a different matter. Will be interesting to see if he is the right man to replace Mountain.

Bad news for Ipswich with the injuries piling up. I suppose that they will try and keep it as tight as possible, with the view to winning the bonus point. But it looks like an uphill battle with only Birmingham riders available to be used as Guests.

Completely disagree. I would say and it is happening more often than not Sheffield are winning bonus point so far in the league, and I would back us to keep this up for the rest of the season. There is one club that I think we have and will struggle with beating over two legs and that is Ipswich, and that is even with or without Jason Doyle.

Leicester will smell blood and I expect their Management get them fired up. For Sheffield we need to keep it as tight as possible, Tai and Chris Holder will need to be at their very best, and if we are going to lose we need to keep it as tight and lose by the smallest margin and take it to a super heat so we get something out of the meeting. And we desperately need Kyle Howarth to put in a performance, and Jason Edwards needs a big performance. Rory Schlein as a guest has me worried, never been totally convinced in him around Sheffield. But Leicester will be thinking that they have a great chance to take the win and they will be up for it.