Cue Ball

Was a separate thread on Leicester fans moaning really necessary? Every match report thread says exactly the same things. "The track is crap, we've waited 28 years for speedway to return, we hate Helmsley, Helmsley doesn't listen, you're not a Leicester supporter so you can't comment etc etc etc". Simple answer, if you dislike it that much, don't go. As far as I know there is no law that says you have to. You could always do what myself and my family did 30 odd years ago and started going elsewhere for your weekly fix. I agree that it's a crying shame that the track isn't a Sheffield or Scunthorpe or Somerset or king's Lynn, but it isn't, I'm not saying you should put up with it, but crappy threads on here won't make a difference, voting with your feet probably will though.

When was the last time you heard a manager / promoter, when asked by a rival promotion, come out and say "we don't have a cat in hells chance when we come to your place next week"??? Of course Hoggy said that we would give you a run for your money!! What else would you expect him to have said in all seriousness?

Over after Heat 1 and the loss of Steady by the looks of it. Hope he's ok. 10 points from Stead would have made things a lot more respectable

Cursing and swearing for 13 heats, hoping for 1.5 heats and cheering for 0.5 heats! It was an emotional roller coaster!

Howarth was probably in heat 15 because he was the best rider on show for you tonight. A meeting of 2 halves, a gating master class by Workington for the first half on a wet track, and a master class in racing by Sheffield in the second half. The overtaking moves by Stead in heat 13 and Hall in 15 were 2 of the best I've seen in a long time. Knight is proving his worth, Haines seemed to turn things round after 2 poor rides, Wells got unlucky in heat 13, Facu was Facu, the boy is a joy to watch, Koppe needs to do something as he's just not at the races yet.

Think worky could make it tough if they have the desire to put up a fight. That said, if Stead and Hall ride like last week we'll be hard to beat, and if Joe can put his gremlins behind him it will make the job a lot easier.

I thought last week I had noticed it and after this week I'm sure... atmosphere has returned to the terraces! Great result for the mighty Tigers, we have a trio of heat leaders that can go out and do the business, a second string (Facu) who entertains, a second string (Haines) who we know can get better and Jake is starting to look like a decent reserve and will only get better, we just need to get Koppe firing (talking of which I noticed after the meeting that Stead was working with him and giving him some pointers) and we'll be a team to be reckoned with.

Not just Tigers fans, he had a lot of Scunny fans talking about him too. Fair to say that the boy is exciting to watch!

Not what I said at all. I actually said honours even if you read my post. I was merely responding to the post saying scunny had bragging rights and trying to point out that in reality they were no better than us.

We won by 10, you won by 12. Take away the additional 3 points you got from tactical rides (something we didn't need to resort to) and we would have won by 13. I would probably say honours even on this occasion. Could somebody please tell scunny riders that if they fall off they dont have to wait for the red light to come on before attempting to clear the track.

I have cause to re-consider my prediction... think Scunny will pull a win out of the bag, but think that Sheffield's top 5 will be good enough to bring at least a point home

Think the scoreline flatters Scunny on this occasion, would have been more had Hall not broken down in the lead and had Birks not turned in on/shut off in front of Stead in the final heat. Walloped by the wooden spoon contenders! Facu looked good, Haines appears to have got over his gating gremlins, Hall looked fast, Wells looked good when in front, Stead looked like a class above anybody else there. The jury is still out on Knight and Koppe, but they both showed some glimpses of potential and so happy to give them a few more weeks to get themselves sorted. On a different note, it was nice to see Joel Parsons on a back after the meeting having a spin.

When you look at it like that, Steady hasn't had a bad career! Think Scunny by 10 in this leg

Personally I wouldn't want to go back to a programme that I have to pay for, I want something to record the score on during the meeting and that I can bin at the end of it. Probably different if you collect them or have some sort of fetish for knowing which local businesses in your area can afford to advertise etc, but for everybody else it's just another expense on top of getting in, car parking etc

Do Leicester supporters ever discuss / argue about anything other than the track shape?

Moore was bloody quick

You know as well as everybody else on here that a 9 point + average is not easy to achieve, few riders achieve over 10 and I think Loram is the only rider i can think of to achieve over 11 (no doubt somebody will tell me that I'm wrong). For some reason you just choose to be negative about sheffield for the sheer hell of it - if its not because Santa didn't visit, what is your problem? Just because somebody is being positive and looking forward to the season, why do you have to piss on their parade?

Did Santa not visit you as a child? Is that why you're so pessimistic and mardy?

Sellafield? This is the Sheffield thread, not Workington.

I can see a fair few points lost by team mates racing each other and inadvertently screwing each others race up and letting opponents through. The successful partnerships will be those that agree to take it in turns to come second I imagine

Ricky Wells completes the Sheffield team

I can only presume that you've never met a Sheffield supporter, of course not everybody is happy

Is he a young brit?

According to the Star further discussions took place over the weekend with Wells

I think part of the problem with the track is that it got ruined during the floods in 2007(?) and has never been the same since.