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They did wonders for Josh Auty, and Joe Haines seems to be getting his career back on track albeit very gradually. The thing with the Sheffield Promotion is they will always give a rider plenty of time to settle. Take a look at the Sheffield teams over the last 10 years or so and they rarely make changes to their team unless they have injuries, there are some Promotions who have made more changes in one season than Sheffield have made in 10 seasons.

Berwick have stated that Edward Kennett is a temporary replacement for Ricky, and when Ricky is ready to return his place is open to him. Ricky is as far as I am aware is very happy happy at Berwick. I would be very surprised if he was fit and to be an option, but never say never. But I think if he was fit Berwick is where he would be riding.

I would say rumour.

Jake has not retired, he is taking time out.

I very much doubt that Sheffield have a replacement line up just yet. I think they will want to take their time over a replacement and as already stated they will have luxury of the pick of virtually any rider from the league. I think that you can rule out it been a Swedish rider as they ride in Sweden on Thursdays. But it is a hammer blow for the club as Steady is not only the number 1 but our captain and the heart beat of the team. Get Well Soon Skipper.

Start of the season most Sheffield fans would have told you that the team put out was a gamble. But that gamble at the start of the season appear to be paying off as we qualified for the League Cup Semi Final's, both reserves looked suspect but the top 5 were more or less holding the team together. The side seemed to go backwards when we had injuries to both Simon Stead and Richard Hall, and it was not just the two reserves that were having some poor meetings that was where we started to lose our way a bit and put more pressure on the two reserves. Both were still not scoring many points, but of the two Jake was outscoring Damien and it is fair to say that most probably thought that Damien could be the one for the chop if we were to make changes. But out of the blue Damien's form appeared to change over night two or three weeks ago. Both lads have put in a tremendous effort to get things right and for me are a credit to the club, hope this clears things up, I don't think for one second that Jake lacks the ambition. He has probably taken the right decision in taking a break, why take a position of another rider if you are a little uncertain of whether you really want to do it anymore. Hopefully Jake can come back next year fresh and ready for another crack at riding for the Tigers as he did on occasions show us what he can do.

Who knows why Jake has taken the decision, it could be finance problems. I doubt it is down to attitude problems, Jake quit his National League position at Kings Lynn to concentrate on his Sheffield commitments..

Who are about to announce a change to the team that could change the fortunes of the club.

Well if it is true lets hope that things can get sorted out and riders get back to riding for their club.

Someone has posted on Facebook, that whole Leicester team have quit the club, if its true what the hell is that all about.

I hope its Adam as well, I am a big fan of his. Sheffield and Adam are made for each other at the moment.

Well that saved me getting wet, I giving it 10 minutes and going to set off.

Its raining pretty steadily for around three quarters of hour, I am leaving it till the last minute before I set off.

Well I am still hankering on him lining up for Sheffield.

Seen him riding around Sheffield after the meeting for the last two weeks, and looked really good. Looks like he has got some of the old spark back, but the problem I always had with Andre, was that sometimes he looked totally disinterested and when he was like that he could be very poor, speedway been more of hobby so to speak. But if he is up for it he could well be a potentially cracking signing for Glasgow..

I would leave out Bomber.I would not beg Scott Nicholls back. Lets do what the Danes did last season and drop most of the old guard. For me has to be Tai Craig Cook Richie Worrall and ny one from these three King/ Barker/ Kennett. Certainly would not go with Auty, his inability to gate will find him wanting at that level.

Well been one the Team Managements biggest critics I suppose I will be in line for the Richard of the Week. I tell you what I will come onto the cetntre green and accept my reward providing they tell everyone what I have said. This is what I said on here after the Leicester match and have been saying for weeks before that. Had time to sleep on the result and feel I can put down my views. I said at the start of the season that the team was a gamble and that gamble has not paid off, we need to make changes to the team, but to make any decent changes we need to wait now till mid June when our riders on assessed riders gain proper averages. Okay but what do the Team Management done to change things or try and get the best of the team? Nothing.. At home we should be at least trying to win all meetings and cannot understand why they don't mix the riding orders up.. Anyone can see that Joe Haines is not suited riding at number 3 Joe is a rider who relies on his gating and is known to have a fragile confidence level, why stick him at 3 where his first race is either off gates 3 and 4 which at Sheffield is a bit of a graveyard gates. For me its killing his confidence. Stick Joe at number 2 where he will be off either gates 1 or 2, where he has consistently beat some very good riders already this season, and a winning start will give him more confidence as the meeting goes along. Richard Hall, is a match for Simon Stead around Sheffield, where have the Sheffield Management place him, at number 4 That means our 2nd best rider in the team has his last programme ride in heat 14, by which time its too late to make any difference to the scoreline in a team that is struggling, either stick him at 5. Ricky Wells is our top man away, but can be a bit indifferent at home, so why not for home matches give him the number 3 race jacket. The reserves are what they are and we have to live with that. If we replace anyone before mid June it would be basically cosmetic and I don't think that anything would change results wise, but come mid June we should have some serious amount of points to play with to make some drastic changes, where we will have a choice of with the possibility of either dropping one reserve and bringing in a rider of around 6.50 to 7.50, or dropping both reserves and bringing in a two riders with a combined average of around 11. By that time, the Play offs will be out of reach, but still have the League cup to go at so all is not lost. But the Team Management has to do something, for me a change in the riding order as a temporary fix, and then Mid June lets make some changes that could just turn the season around and have us making some serious challengers for some sliverware, even though at the moment it seems unlikely. If that makes me a turkey then what does that say about the Team Management. Over to you Dave.

But your original line up had only three.

To be fair to the Sheffield team started the season, with 4 Brits. If Adam Roynon was to replace Jake Knight they would still have 4 Brits in their team. Not many of teams in the top two leagues who can beat that.

If he is prepared to wait until this Saturday then Sheffield would then be able to fit him in. He did have after the meeting rides at Sheffield this Thursday, but I don't look too much into that as we have quite few riders who come for after meeting spins. But I would welcome Adam with open arms even with his injury history, quality rider who fit nicely into the Sheffield team. .

Massive difference in the Sheffield this time from recent weeks, and after about heat 4 you got the feeling that were not going to get beat. The big difference was that this time around we had a fully fit top 3 something we have not had for a while, and Sheffield without Simno Stead especially are not the same team, its not just the points he scores its the help and advice that brings to the team. Berwick were disappointing, I expected much more from them, and I think that Eddie (sorry Edward) Kennett is finding that the Premier League is not a walk in the park. Riders performance. Sheffield Simon Stead; Truly inspirational as a number 1 and captain. Well Done Skipper Joe Haines; Told people that you would see a different Joe Haines if they changed his riding position from 3 to 2, well a paid maximum showed that I could have been right. Well Done Little Fella Ricky Wells; Solid performance, from Ricky . Well Done Ricky. Richard Hall; Loses points on over riding and falling off. But shows true commitment, and that cannot be faulted. Well Done Richard. Facu Albin; Was put in what looked like an impossible task, but stood up well and did a job for us. Well Done Frank. Damien Koppe; Revelation, is the word to describe his performance last night. We saw occasionally last week what he can do, but this week he was exceptional. I am chuffed to bits for the lad as he has worked hard to get to that level. Well Done Damo. Jake Knight; Only one solitary point for Jake, but the lad battled hard all night and was not that far off the pace. Well Done Jake. Berwick Edward Kennett; I think that he is starting to realise that life can be pretty tough in the Premier League. He did okay, but must admit that I thought he could have better. But he did not do to bad. David Bellego; Very disappointing, saw a quite a few times around Sheffield last season and he was pretty good, but last night loked a shadow of that rider. Robin Aspregen; For me the pick of the Bandits, always in the tick of it rode well. Matt Wethers; Another one who was disappointing, I have seen him ride a lot better than that at Sheffield. Kozza Smith; For me the most disappointing of all of the Bandits, what happened to the all action Kozza that I love to watch. Paul Starke; Did a decent job for the team. Nicki Barrett; Did a decent job for the team. What is next for the Tigers, well we have to wait until after the away match at Rye House when Albin,, Koppe and Knight get their proper averages, and if the Promotion decide to make changes they can make something of a significant change. For instance for they were to take out Jake Knight they would be able to replace him with a rider of between 7 and 7.5. Interestingly both Adam Roynon and Andre Compton had skid after the meeting, and both would fit into that criteria. Finally nice to see my good friends Shadders and Bandits4eva.

Does that mean if things start to go wrong for Berwick the big sulk will be on?

Best Wishes to Tai, and a speedy recovery from his njury. I don't profess to know Tai, and have never met and spoken to the lad, but I have seen him on many occasions at Sheffield when he has been a spectator, and he always struck me as been, a quiet, polite unassuming kind of guy, nothing like the person he has been portrayed by some. I personally think the lost of his Dad Rob at such a big effect on Tai and at a such vital stage in his career, and I think that one of the big reasons why we are seeing such a big improvement is the influence of Peter Adams who has taken on that role of a father figure with Tai that Rob did so well. For me the loss of Rob, put Tai back two years, but I think now that he has discovered someone else who he can trust and respect to help him and guide him in the GP's we will have a rider in Tai, who will be not only in the GP's but one that can be up there challenging for the title.

And looked what happened.

Halifax Tiger turn up in his lucky shorts.I suppose depending on your age and gender that could be classed as pulsating.