Sheffield Tigers 2026

[Whitelinehugger]

2 hours ago, Andrew said:

 I've never seen them win here and I go back to the 80's!

They did get a draw in 2006 in the Prem League and 2007 in the Prem Trophy.

They are useless, that’s why

[RS50]

Do we have any idea how long Jack will be out for?

[YeOldPitGate]

6 hours ago, RS50 said:

Do we have any idea how long Jack will be out for?

Got impression its for the season maybe try and get Tai over for back end of the season.

[RS50]

1 hour ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Got impression its for the season maybe try and get Tai over for back end of the season.

Thought Woffy was out injured. Have I got this wrong?

[Dornier]

1 hour ago, RS50 said:

Thought Woffy was out injured. Have I got this wrong?

Nearly sure he's back riding in Poland

[Youhave2minutes]

2 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Got impression its for the season maybe try and get Tai over for back end of the season.

He’s even more injury prone.

[InTheDeepStuff]

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 

[Andrew]

If Steady wants to try something different with RR at home, then move Chris to 2.

1 Jack RR

2 Chris

3 Leon

4 Anders

5 Josh

It frees Chris up to do heat 13 and also means he can ride with Josh three times.

For Example,

Ht 1 Chris-Leon

Ht 6 Chris-Anders

Ht 10 Chris-Josh

Ht 13 Chris-Josh

Ht 15 Chris-Josh

It would mean pairing Leon and Anders but they score enough at home to cope reasonably well.

[Youhave2minutes]

You can’t get better than a WHITELINEHUGGER he’s my mate

Edited 18 hours ago by Youhave2minutes

[Whitelinehugger]

1 minute ago, Youhave2minutes said:

You can’t get better than a WHITELINEHUGGER he’s my mate

You sure can’t 

[ShanoXtra]

On 7/9/2026 at 11:09 AM, RS50 said:

Do we have any idea how long Jack will be out for?

Put it this way, Stal are hopeful for Jack to be back in the starting line up vs Falubaz. Whether he comes straight back to the UK riding or maybe he will give it a week or two we don’t know.

[Teromaafan]

On 7/9/2026 at 11:25 PM, InTheDeepStuff said:

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 

Such is the state of British speedway, few people are likely to question the morality of Garrity returning to the sport. If he can convince a promotion to give him a team place, a lot of pensioners will be grateful for the distraction.

[bigcatdiary]

On 7/8/2026 at 6:19 PM, Whitelinehugger said:

They are useless, that’s why

The main problem is the owner, he has his own ideas on what he wants to pay riders and he doesn’t compromise, that coupled with the fact he regularly falls out with riders, staff and supporters, makes it difficult and not just in putting teams together.

It makes it very hard to achieve anything and frustrates his staff and fans, I never really understood why he ever went into the Premier League, he had a lot of success at Championship level but trying to run Premier League on a Championship budget is always going to be difficult with any success strictly limited.

 

 

[RS50]

On 7/9/2026 at 5:22 PM, YeOldPitGate said:

Got impression its for the season maybe try and get Tai over for back end of the season.

Just read that Woffy will be out for 4 to 6 months.

[Fromafar]

5 minutes ago, RS50 said:

Just read that Woffy will be out for 4 to 6 months.

Woffy needs to pack it in, for his own health reasons IMO.

[mikebv]

1 hour ago, bigcatdiary said:

The main problem is the owner, he has his own ideas on what he wants to pay riders and he doesn’t compromise, that coupled with the fact he regularly falls out with riders, staff and supporters, makes it difficult and not just in putting teams together.

It makes it very hard to achieve anything and frustrates his staff and fans, I never really understood why he ever went into the Premier League, he had a lot of success at Championship level but trying to run Premier League on a Championship budget is always going to be difficult with any success strictly limited.

 

 

Richard Coleman seems to have pretty much the same thoughts on the sport as many of us on here...

However, the challenge I would suggest will be that the clear and obvious issues facing the sport are, in the main, all self inflicted, and delivered by their own design and often done to "fix" the problems that previous decisions have created, (and this ironically then often compounds the initial problem!)....

The challenge he faces is that the promoters must all know what is needed for the sport to move forwards, (as it is all pretty clear and obvious), however, the very fact they know this, yet have never shown one iota of enthusiasm in changing anything, shows that "moving the sport forwards" is simply not on the agenda for many...

In short..

Many are quite happy with their lot, with few actually running their tracks to make profits, but, instead, it gives them an affordable hobby to enjoy..

"Moving the sport forwards" will mean unpicking so much of what has been done, and also bring greater scrutiny and accountability, neither of which too many promoters will be pushing for I would think, hence "moving it forwards" hasn't been focused on for, at least, a couple of decades..  

There are many promoters like Buster who, year in, year out, put their hands into deep pockets and shell out several hundred thousands to their riders, to keep the sport running in the UK...

That is the sum of their ambitions...

[YeOldPitGate]

11 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Richard Coleman seems to have pretty much the same thoughts on the sport as many of us on here...

However, the challenge I would suggest will be that the clear and obvious issues facing the sport are, in the main, all self inflicted, and delivered by their own design and often done to "fix" the problems that previous decisions have created, (and this ironically then often compounds the initial problem!)....

The challenge he faces is that the promoters must all know what is needed for the sport to move forwards, (as it is all pretty clear and obvious), however, the very fact they know this, yet have never shown one iota of enthusiasm in changing anything, shows that "moving the sport forwards" is simply not on the agenda for many...

In short..

Many are quite happy with their lot, with few actually running their tracks to make profits, but, instead, it gives them an affordable hobby to enjoy..

"Moving the sport forwards" will mean unpicking so much of what has been done, and also bring greater scrutiny and accountability, neither of which too many promoters will be pushing for I would think, hence "moving it forwards" hasn't been focused on for, at least, a couple of decades..  

There are many promoters like Buster who, year in, year out, put their hands into deep pockets and shell out several hundred thousands to their riders, to keep the sport running in the UK...

That is the sum of their ambitions...

Agreed Mike although the number of semi wealthy businessmen willing to step in and underwrite a speedway track for 50k-100k losses every year is getting very much smaller.

I do think the sport is sadly beyond saving in the UK in its current form. That's not to say it doesn't have a future but I'm more and more beginning to think its going to take the current model finally dying before something new (and hopefully better) rises from the ashes.

The last live meeting I went to was a world team cup round at Lynn years ago I only went as Billy Hamill had come back to help the USA out and the place was packed to the rafters so support for meetings that generate interest was there.

I will say whatever comes next I don't think it will be a team sport maybe 5-8 well promoted individual meetings across the UK might be the future with getting some legends back for demonstration races.

That said I think the sport will limp on for another 5-10 years in its current form but sadly the product/presentation will just get worse year on year. Pray god I'm wrong and somehow Mayfield or someone else turns it all around.

[ouch]

I can only think of one promoter in the Premiership whose sole job/income is from the speedway club they are running. Could be wrong though. 

[Whitelinehugger]

As us all pensioners kick the bucket the fan base will be virtually non existent. 

[mikebv]

51 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Agreed Mike although the number of semi wealthy businessmen willing to step in and underwrite a speedway track for 50k-100k losses every year is getting very much smaller.

I do think the sport is sadly beyond saving in the UK in its current form. That's not to say it doesn't have a future but I'm more and more beginning to think its going to take the current model finally dying before something new (and hopefully better) rises from the ashes.

The last live meeting I went to was a world team cup round at Lynn years ago I only went as Billy Hamill had come back to help the USA out and the place was packed to the rafters so support for meetings that generate interest was there.

I will say whatever comes next I don't think it will be a team sport maybe 5-8 well promoted individual meetings across the UK might be the future with getting some legends back for demonstration races.

That said I think the sport will limp on for another 5-10 years in its current form but sadly the product/presentation will just get worse year on year. Pray god I'm wrong and somehow Mayfield or someone else turns it all around.

The GP's in Manchester must have had circa 3,000 Aces followers there on both nights...

They get less than half that for a UK domestic play off qualifier, simply down to a lack of interest in the league competition..

This shows that there is still a decent demand for the sport out there if done properly, and the events have actually something tangible worth winning, which brings interest...

As a "team sport", as you say, it does appear to have a restricted shefl life in its current guise (in the UK)...

You can't see too many of the current 30 and 40 something's holding down two HL positions in both leagues in five years, or so....

And that truly will leave a huge hole to fill and a huge problem for "team Speedway" (in the UK)..