InTheDeepStuff

Great comment, Kyle’s on a 5 point average (6 when BP’s included, 23 of the for the year) he rides at number 2 with Jack for 3 races each meeting, so Example Emil in front, Jack 2nd place and Kyle 3rd what’s he supposed to do race Jack for the extra point to increase his green sheet average or let Jack concentrate on possibly attacking Emil or sit behind partner pick up the bonus point for finishing behind him? If suddenly Kyle starts leading Jack each race and increases his average to say 6.50 and Jack’s average then goes down to 7.30 the fans (fickle ones anyway) would be on Jack’s case saying he ain’t good enough. Its a team sport in the league and sometimes riders sacrifice their scoring positions to the better rider in the team for the benefit of the team, bigger picture and all that

Get your brush out Lemon, this has May Spring Bank Holiday written all over it if it goes ahead. You’d think Belle Vue would want but off so that they can possibly have track prep’d as they want it rather than as weather makes it, plus gives advantage of second leg at home (unless Thursday is a washout also) The joys of play off speedway in late September (or October) !!

Know we got to the play offs but the top heavy and weak reserves definitely caught us out in the end, hopefully a little bit more solid from 1-6 in 2025. Chris H should be first name on the team sheet, was our rider of the year by a country mile. We all know what Jack’s capable of he’s been around the number 1 race jacket for 4 seasons now and no reason why that can’t continue. Pickering could be a steal at under 7 average if he starts to start seasons as he finishes the previous one, usually takes until mid July for him to get into top gear. Just hope the promotion don’t get hung up on the Woffinden ‘adds to the gate’ factor to include him in the 1-7 as think that’s run it’s cause. Howarth had a very inconsistent season but showed again in the KO cup final away at Ipswich and play off final at home that he’s capable of scoring well against tough opposition, so that 5.05 average could he easily add a point too Would love to see Harris there on that 6.06 average, he’d be good for double digits most weeks around Owlerton and scored well at all the other UK tracks, there’d be less pressure on him with Holder bros and Pickering ahead of him in the averages. Rowe is nailed on and should be comfortable at number 6 to start with, putting pressure on Howarth for the number 2 race jacket. Rising Star I’d like to see someone new, we’ve tried with Gilles and he’s not progressed at all this year, Edwards can be good if he gates but passing especially around Owlerton isn’t his strong point and I bet he’d admit that. Ablitt scored well for the Cubs team Owlerton so could be looked at and if Oxford didn’t want Kileen I’d snap him up in a heartbeat, Foord might be a raw novice but seen him on BSN for Poole beating the other Rising Stars home and away so worth a shot also

Belle Vue need to hope that NKI is on it straight away and no race rustiness as will be knocking on 3 weeks since his last meeting

Pickering and Chris Holder will be in Ekstraliga 2 (Lezsno and Ostrow) so could be impacted by this Thursday TV night for that league in Poland Think Dan Gilkes could do with some time at a different track as a Rising Star, fine when he gates but rarely do you do you see him gain points from the back, a stint at somewhere like Ipswich would be great for him to learn some more track craft

Charles Wright is a shoe in and you’d think Jason Edwards will continue also, would like to see Kyle Howarth at Redcar, he definitely knows his way around there and on a good average also for 2025.

Yes they have the 2.5% off for being British and the 25% off for exiting Rising Star

Meeting done and dusted in 65 minutes, that’s some going!! Pickering with another superb performance on what could be his last in Edinburgh colours

Good solid choice that

Lemon raising prices to reduce the debt from the SoN!! There was plenty Sheffield fans at NSS on Monday, plenty of pockets in S2 and S3 plus B2BA in S1 plus those in the posh seats 🤪, they don’t all congregate together though like the Belle Vue fans did on Thursday to create the atmosphere Imagine there’s a lot of thought now going into the guest(s) for Ben Cook as will be a tough one to run R/R

After another good season in 2024 the Tigers current 1-6 totalled 41.50 points so based on the start limit being 40 points in 2025 like it was this season they’ll need some changes in the line up to loose that 1.50 points, with surely one of the big three leaving Jack Holder - 8.85 Kyle Howarth - 5.05 Josh Pickering - 6.74 Chris Harris - 6.06 Chris Holder - 8.79 Anders Rowe - 3.91 Edwards/Ablitt/Foord - Rising Star Total - 39.40

Greyhound owners won’t let them move the kerb in, they have asked on numerous occasions, I idea they won’t as the centre green was last used in 80’s when either rugby league or American football used it, but it’s just for the greyhounds to have a dump on

Leicester have a much better chance v Sheffield than they have Belle Vue. Even with Fricke’s iffy form around Owlerton they can easily keep it close with Lawson, Masters, Becker and Douglas all capable of good scores around there, whereas at NSS Fricke can be very good as per last visit but fail to get the back up. Personally think if it’s a Leicester v Sheffield final with first leg at Leicester it’d be 52-38/49-41 so aggregate win of 93-87 to Leicester and versus Belle Vue with first leg at NSS 53-37/49-41 so aggregate win of 94-86 to Belle Vue

Now here’s Jack’s side of the accusations, the people concerned might have made a mountain out of a molehill but gone very low aiming comments at family who were nothing to do with the initial incident. @Sheffield Speedway Can’t believe I have to post this about the false allegations against me, Always 2 sides to every story, this have been made into a bigger issue then it has to be. So after heat 15 I had come into the pits, took my helmet off and there was a kid at the fence asking for the racecard which I gave to him through a chain wire fence, I turned back around to talk with my teammates, the kid then asked for me to sign the racecard which I did and then handed it back through the fence which had then ripped so I picked both pieces up and gave them back to the kid, who looked very happy! The dad then came to the fence and was abusing me. I asked him what the issue was and he stated that I threw the racecard at his son and his son was crying. I turned back around to my team to talk about the meeting but apparently tried to bring my team manager and my brother into the argument which is also false. How can I throw a program at a kid through a chain wire fence? This has to be very clear! There was no security called or anything like he claimed, Then after getting home from the meeting the father has even gone as far as repeatedly commenting on my partner and my son’s photos with disgusting comments. Since the meeting he has gone on a rampage trying to spread false information all over social media. The way they have interpreted the interaction is so far from the truth it’s actually a joke. Also threatening my team manager Simon stead and laughing about it as it’s all over social media. So I am unsure if this is supposed to be a funny thing or a now serious thing.

Minority give the majority a bad name, even as a Sheffield fan I cringe at the Bend2 clowns trying to be equivalent of football Stone Island brigade with their repetitive idiotic chanting when they’ve gone past the line on more than one occasion

Someone’s after a freebie

In their 12 home League fixtures Sheffield have scored 619 points so averaging 51.58 points per meeting. The 2 league meetings v Belle Vue scored 110 points averaging 55 points per meeting so it’s definitely an achievable target to get the 52 points needed to go through to the Grand Final

A lot of fast close races but very little passing, standard for NSS, people get excited about close finishes when riders in front rolling off

Impressed with Voulas last night rode inside and out, definitely a different level to the Sheffield reserves. Lidsey came to the party at the later end of the meeting which massively helped Belle Vue gain the 12 points. Going to be all on on Thursday for Sheffield to get the 12+ points back, this one should go down to the wire!

It might be courteous to raise a finger or whatever after a race but it isn’t mandated. Waiting for everyone to go to work and congratulate their colleagues or staff from other companies for doing their day job.

Retain - Holder bros, Pickering, Howarth & Edwards Replace - Woffinden & Gilkes

Chris Harris confirmed as guesting for Sheffield in both legs of the play off semi final

Cairns was asked last night at Owlerton about his 2025 plans and he said it wouldn’t include Rising Star as needs more experience, he’s concentrating on a team spot in Championship once 16 and see what opens up in Poland after that.

Assuming that Sheffield will run a guest rather than risk R/R? There’s not a lot of choice Harris good around Owlerton but NSS not his greatest, not a lot out there to choose from, unless Lublin loose in Polish play off’s and that free’s up Lindgren to ride both meetings

Imagine if they did Bewley would be in breach of his Wrocław contract and have to pay back signing on fee as a minimum, that would be the end of him riding in UK as that will be ridiculous money to pay back and more than likely end any sort of future agreements with PZM/Ekstraliga and that’ll damage UK more than Poland