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Sheffield Tigers Vs Ipswich Witches - Thursday 28th August


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Anyone saying Ipswich hate Sheffield need to pay close attention to this meeting! Ipswich being poor so you have a solid night and finish top of the league thus making Sheffield a very viable business to buy 😁

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Can't  blame the Ipswich riders for not giving it everything tonight, especially given they have much more important meetings ahead......

I am sure the Ipswich fans on here will 100% agree and support their riders...

And I whole heartedly endorse none of them saying  that any riders on show tonight are a disgrace to the sport for not giving their all...

Well. The ones who actually turned up and were not "poorly"  obviously..

:D

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3 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

It’s not fair to be put in the position of having to ride a pointless meeting after the play off cut off. 
 

That’s the shambles that is uk speedway.

Agree. Cut off finished too early which led to this farce

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1 minute ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

It’s not fair to be put in the position of having to ride a pointless meeting after the play off cut off. 
 

That’s the shambles that is uk speedway.

But to be fair....

They do it so well....:D

Mickey Mouse has nothing on them...

The League Winners are already out of the competition that they just won!!:D

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49 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

I’ll wait to hear how Sheffield should have finished top so this play off is a farce.

In my opinion which ever team finishes top of the league should be league champions.They ve proved to be the best over the season.

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4 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

The play offs are wide open 

Semi final 1 Sheffield v Belle Vue

Semi final 2 Ipswich v Leicester 

 

Bumper Crowds for the "War of the Roses"...

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1 hour ago, ShanoXtra said:

I’ll wait to hear how Sheffield should have finished top so this play off is a farce.

Nobody is going to suggest that. The cut off was stated, the matches weren't completed in time, and we have to accept that. But let's not pretend that we only finished top because your riders weren't trying tonight. We finished top because of the result at your place at the start of the month. We were unfortunate that the way the playoffs fell pitted us against the only team to beat us over 30 heats this season (super heats not included). Had the playoffs fallen any other way we would probably have made the final, but to win them you have to beat everybody and we didn't do that. Hopefully the final will be as exciting and close as our semi final was - you seem to be quite evenly matched so it should be a good spectacle for TV and whoever takes the trophy will be worthy winners.

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9 minutes ago, DaveWayne said:

Nobody is going to suggest that. The cut off was stated, the matches weren't completed in time, and we have to accept that. But let's not pretend that we only finished top because your riders weren't trying tonight. We finished top because of the result at your place at the start of the month. We were unfortunate that the way the playoffs fell pitted us against the only team to beat us over 30 heats this season (super heats not included). Had the playoffs fallen any other way we would probably have made the final, but to win them you have to beat everybody and we didn't do that. Hopefully the final will be as exciting and close as our semi final was - you seem to be quite evenly matched so it should be a good spectacle for TV and whoever takes the trophy will be worthy winners.

I actually said as soon as Sheffield beat us at Foxhall they will finish top and that the play offs have been picked wrongly once again.

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1 hour ago, r8gdp said:

In my opinion which ever team finishes top of the league should be league champions.They ve proved to be the best over the season.

 

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Congratulations to Sheffield but the point being made about them winning the league is a misleading one.

The play off fixtures were confirmed prior to the meeting at Foxhall. Because of that, it was clear that the Witches were not that bothered in the home meeting and they certainly were not tonight.

If both meetings had been run ahead of the play off fixture announcement, it is highly likely that at least one of the results would have been different.

Anyway, it’s all academic.

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