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You’d think that there will need to be a couple of changes to the announced line ups, two on the Sheffield side and one the Rest of the World select based on riders injuries at the moment, Schlein out for season, Etheridge missed Friday at Scunthorpe and King missed British Final and also Monday (10th) for Ipswich. Hopefully Kyle and the team behind the testimonial manage to source the riders needed to fill the gaps Sheffield : Chris Harris, Kyle Howarth, Rory Schlein, Jye Etheridge, Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes Rest of the World Select: Ryan Douglas, Norick Blodorn, Danny King, Charles Wright, Sam Masters, Jake Allen, Simon Lambert

A few of them seem to be Bradford lads so might have just started coming once Sheffield came back into the top league as can’t remember them pre 2019 when last in Championship, hopefully at some point the stupid chanting dies down as eventually it will give the club a bad name, whereas the Tigers on Tour guys are really sound and knowledgeable fans, I’ve stood with the likes of Chris and Dave on away trips previously who just support the team

I go to Sheffield regular and to be honest the ‘Bend 2 Barmy Army’ do go too far on many occasion with their football style chanting (which no sense a lot of the time) and that can upset some people especially if the language is a bit ‘industrial’, a bit of light hearted banter between fans is fine, hopefully the few bad eggs and any track don’t put fans travelling to these tracks

The lack of team spirit between Wright and Brennan was a massive factor in them Both not being given a team spot in 2024, on more than one occasion they had to be separated in the pits and also on track antics after races didn’t please Lemon.

Lawson rode in 4 races last night, didn’t have any sort of crash/off, looked like he managed to create a ‘limp’ at end of meeting and got note from track doctor, all very dubious and stinks of cantbearseditus.

Flint stagnating at best (similar to Gilkes), if he wasn’t a Rising Star he wouldn’t be near a Premiership team, whereas the likes of Hagon, Boughen, D Thompson look like they are moving forward

Woffinden looked to be going through the motions again on another away track tonight, he’s definitely getting a ‘gating tart’ name for himself. Wonder if he’ll call himself out for under performing?

http://www.sheffield-speedway.com/news.php?extend.3514 SHEFFIELD skipper Kyle Howarth has confirmed the line-ups for his testimonial which takes place at Owlerton next Wednesday (June 12, 7.30pm).A Tigers side will take on a Rest of the World Select over a traditional 15 heat format.Regular Sheffield riders Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards and Dan Gilkes will line-up alongside Howarth.Meanwhile, Chris Harris and Jye Etheridge, who both guested for the Tigers in their Grand Final triumph over Ipswich last October, will race for the hosts alongside Rory Schlein who appeared for the Prowlers earlier in his career.The Rest of the World side features former German National Champion Norick Blodorn as well as Leicester’s Ryan Douglas and Sam Masters.Gates open at 6pm with admission £23 adults, £21 concessions, £1 kids (up to and including age 17), whilst all under-5s go free.SHEFFIELD: Chris Harris, Kyle Howarth, Rory Schlein, Jye Etheridge, Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes.REST OF THE WORLD SELECT: Ryan Douglas, Norick Blodorn, Danny King, Charles Wright, Sam Masters, Jake Allen, Simon Lambert.

That’s why I think he should be at number 2 for this one. Can see him pulling out after a couple especially if track is grippy

Zach Cook could end up at a few clubs, Leicester for Becker or Cook as neither pulling up any trees, Oxford for Kerr whose clearly nowhere near fit, Ipswich for Ellis where no timeline on his comeback. End of day speedway in last 20 years has been a ‘numbers game’ and he’s fallen foul of it, he won’t be the last this year either

Sheffield need to put Pickering at number 2 for this one can’t see how he’s fit it only out for 2 weeks yet missed 9 weeks with similar injury last season. Howarth more than capable at number 4

Any news on how long MPT will be out for and if Scunthorpe will need to be on the look out for a (temporary) replacement or if they’ll run the R/R route with Kyle Howarth, Jake Allen, Simon Lambert and Connor Mountain the riders who you’d expect to cover that?

Freddy Hodder now for Dan Thompson, looks like the cloudy Rising Star rules bite again

Yes but he’s out so who is the Rising Star replacing him or one in main body does that go out if the window? If so massive loophole to be able to ride without a Rising Star

Who is the Ipswich Rising Star? Edwards isn’t classed as one this year is he with being at number 6 for Sheffield?

Did Danny King have a post meeting spin?

Was told yesterday that Bewley has a broken bone in his foot from his crash in the last SGP, he’s been riding through it which is good for Belle Vue especially with Brady Kurtz injury. Have a feeling we won’t see Kurtz again in Belle Vue kevlars until after the SGP Challenge unless he has an op at that point and it’s another riders season over early

The announcer said was recorded from the transponder as time given was to three decimal places

Good win for Sheffield tonight, wonder how long they’ll continue with Gilkes though, looks to be going backwards week on week now? When Mulford replaced him last week looked better out of the starts and rode differing line when trying from behind, whereas Gilkes seems to ride same line each lap no matter what position he is in track. Can’t afford to be carrying in the Rising Star especially with Jason Edwards also on the learning curve

Birmingham will have agreed this date at start of season when the Polish fixtures also available on international calendar, Sheffield ran last week without their number 1 (Jack Holder), middle order rider (Josh Pickering) and reserve Rising Star (Dan Gilkes) but paid for two guests and ran R/R for Jack Holder as gave them better option than the guests available, so no excuse blaming having two riders out when there’s three teams not riding and plenty of Championship unattached riders to choose from

With both Pawlicki and Lampart riding in the IMP in Poland on Thursday neither have a chance to put a stake in the sand to cement their team spot at Sheffield, so if it’s one of those going why not just announce it now and take the uncertainty away from the remaining riders letting them get on with their jobs. OK they might want them to raise their game to show what they can do but the added pressure can also make them in effect try too hard and under perform. This is of course if the rider(s) impacted don’t already know what the crack is

Looking at guests Pawlicki on 7.50 so choices limited and no out and out number ones on or around such an average, possibly Harris, Tungate, Basso or Iversen, as for Lampart there’s not a lot of scope either in the Premiership so expect they’ll get someone who currently rides in Championship best option Etheridge, with others like Thomson, Castagna, Lambert available

Wouldn’t you just take out the rider with the lowest average allowed to bring in Lindgren and make the team as strong as possible?

He’s not allowed to ride for 15 days from the date Grudziadz used ZZ or R/R in UK terms, so that rules him out riding anywhere until after 8th June be that Poland, UK, Denmark or World Championship events

So I’m assuming guest choices from Belle Vue, Oxford and King’s Lynn for those two if it’s an official PZM meeting