InTheDeepStuff

Wonder if Doyle will carry on with Aces after his 28 day contract expires? Not much of an off last night, packed his bags and out of pits during meeting, not that he’s any loyalty to Lemon or the Aces but if wasn’t something requiring medical/hospital attention riders usually stay in pits with their team mates. Suppose we’ll see soon enough

Heard same Phil that he’s back for another few weeks at his majesty’s pleasure

Home win some margin, 54-36. I’m going for the Sheffield reserves to score a combined 1 point unless they both miraculously find some gating gloves from bottom of kit bag

As a Promoter Damian Bates needs to actually promote the sport and not be asking fans to do it for him. Friends of fans will know what they go support etc but having such a stop start season with repetitive opposition it’s a hard one to sell, but that again comes down to incompetence of BSPL

What’s up with Doyle, did he crash in SGP on Saturday (not watched it), or has he aggravated old injury?

Should just be the top 15 in UK averages (converted to Premiership) at end of April plus 1 wildcard (to allow for someone who hasn’t got official average yet), if you don’t actively ride in UK by choice or not you don’t get a space. No need then for a sparsely attended semi final with riders who possibly don’t have time or need for an extra meeting

Would imagine Sheffield on to Doyle to guest for Jack Holder next Thursday as he’ll be at Belle Vue as long as Bewley is out for

Watched rerun on BSN (a lot of fast forwarding through FTG races) well done King’s Lynn on a great comeback to grab all 3 points available on the night Know there’s not a lot of choice out there to replace Jack Holder (that will come at a cost that’s achievable to pay anyway) so unfortunately stuck with guests or R/R for the foreseeable, is there any chance Sheffield might look to strengthen the number 6 slot at reserve? Etheridge ok at Owlerton but usually unreliable away from there, wonder if any options of someone who maybe able to give them a bit more especially away from Owlerton, be interesting to see what’s out there on an average of just over 3 when converted from Championship (or historical Premiership) 🤷‍♂️

Woffinden is injured that’s why his Swedish team gave him the boot and replaced him. Heard from someone there tonight that Jack Holder was there and still had air boot on his foot alongside his arm injury. Also that Garrity has a post match spin watched by a lot of the Sheffield team and the Bates’, make of that what you want are they wanting to bring him in for Etheridge

Will Ryan Douglas be back for this one as that was a big off he had in Poland at the weekend? Can’t see Kyle Howarth being fit to ride either as still suffering with the re-occurrence of his ankle injury form his spill last week, Dickson will be hoping Douglas rides as if not it’ll be R/R for him and a non premiership contracted rider as guest for Howarth (not much depth left in Championship to choose from as per Ipswich having to use MPT) which will put Leicester in a weakened position than him being available or runnIng R/R.

Wasn’t Cook originally seeded to British Final?

Problem is Morris is ruthless as a ‘team rider’ in most meetings he’s carved his own team mate up, be that Thompson or Howarth, or Kemp. He’s possibly better off at 2 riding with Douglas and then have Thompson and Howarth at 3 and 4, that’s if Masters can regain some form and get points from riding at 5

Could Garrity fit as replacement for Gilkes? Ducks for cover 🫣

I would guess that Kyle Howarth will be missing Friday, looped it at the start, got signed out of the meeting and looked to be struggling to walk or put pressure on his left leg/hip

With Cook in UK you know what you’re getting 10 yards after the tapes have gone up. If it’s a flat slick surface he’s quick anything else bang average at best, thing is at King’s Lynn he’s seems to not be be big enough/strong enough to dominate the bike, whereas at likes of NSS he where it’s generally smooth and slick he’s fine. Can see him back there in 2027 on his lowered average instead of Blodorn to bulk up their Aussie connection

With Cook in UK you know what you’re getting 10 yards after the tapes have gone up. If it’s a flat slick surface he’s quick anything else bang average at best, thing is at King’s Lynn he’s seems to not be be big enough/strong enough to dominate the bike, whereas at likes of NSS he where it’s generally smooth and slick he’s fine. Can see him back there in 2027 on his lowered average instead of Blodorn to bulk up their Aussie connection

This is going to be a tough one for all the riders involved, will be in excess of 30° during the meeting, lord knows how much hotter in the pits and in their kevlars! Imagine Sheffield will go down the R/R route for Jack Holder as with only Northampton and King’s Lynn not riding only really Chris Harris as an option. You’d think Chris Holder, Pickering, Flint and Rowe could get maybe 7-10 from 4 rides not sure if Harris would get that from number 1. Did I hear right on BSN last night that Dan Thompson could miss this for Leicester of Lodz decide to use him for their Ekstraliga 2 meeting that clashes (practising today to decide squad)? If he ends up in Poland that would be a big loss for Leicester as looked on fire last night and had good meetings around Sheffield too, would they go guest or R/R? Can see Howarth again being a busy man down at number 6 maybe getting a ride or two extra from likes of Kemp, Morris or Joe Thompson Just due to Jack Holder being a consistent big scorer around Sheffield and R/R or guest not covering adequately I think Leicester will come away with the away win 41-49

Hearing that Jack Holder list of injuries bigger than told on Saturday by Polish press during the GP, I’ll let the official confirmation of these be released by Jack and his clubs, but these would be season ending for the lad, puts both Sheffield and Gorzow in a predicament, hopefully Jack back fully for for his Aussie season and then back in UK in 2027 with a GP wildcard as he was up there again pre these injuries

Can see Kyle Howarth being a busy man at reserve for Leicester, not a track that Kemp, Joe T or Morris have historically done well at

From a rider who has been speaking to him in the last week or so. Know his father passed recently (funeral was this week I believe) so will have been trying to deal with that ahead of any comeback to the sport also

Also about who actually honours those cheques, look at Rowe at same club as Pickering owed around £20k so far this season. Vast majority of riders who race over there get nowhere near what they’ve been promised in their contracts

Hearing Charles Wright is ready to make his comeback, can he jump straight back in for Klindt, not sure what rules are with these multi 28 day rules

Teams not officially announced for this meeting yet, however Ekstraliga 2 have announced teams for Rzeszow v Poznan for Thursday evening and it shows Pickering riding for Rzeszow. With 4 Premiership teams riding Thursday that means R/R or guest from either Leicester or Belle Vue. I’d say Sheffield will go down the R/R route as all riders available to cover. Can see a Foxes home win 49-41 with Sheffield’s lack of firepower in middle order and reserves coming to bite them again.

Think they need to look at the line up for this type of meeting going forward, you had too many young lads there who struggled to turn the bike in the dirt and control the bike to stay on for 4 laps, the gaps between 1st and 4th in some races was around half a lap which just isn’t competitive. Even it’s a case of dropping the u21 title and making it u24 where the more experienced u21 riders (those with Championship places maybe as a minimum) will mix it with those who recently moved on from that age group but are in a bit of no man’s land.

He’d need to bin off one of Sweden or Denmark first before he can race in UK. But if the money is right I’m sure he’d drop one, the Poles don’t call him ‘Dollar Doyle’ for nothing 💰