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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.

True, but just not like Sheffield to go for weekend press coverage when they will be up against football

So.... end of the week and no announcement, do we presume that means Wells has not signed?

Badly. All thing being equal ie no cheating or purposefully dropping points, they would comfortably beat any PL team

Have we got names for the desparate duo? I suppose pepe could be an option.... a decent 2nd / 3rd heat leader.

Odsal boy, do you always have to spout such bobbins?

If you go by averages, surely Wells is the 3rd heat leader behind Hall?

The conversation on twitter between Wells and Haines suggests that the former is not going to be announced as our next signing anytime soon.

Happy New Year to all Sheffield supporters! Here's hoping that the optimists are right and the pessimists (or realists or whatever you would prefer to be called) are wrong

Fair enough, if you've heard that from the promotion then so be it. Isn't Koppe living and working in Leeds? And isn't North a Johnny foreigner as well? how can you say that North and Wilson are better prospect when you haven't seen either Koppe or Albin ride in a competitive meeting for us yet? You may be right, but would personally prefer to give it until April at least before making a decision on whether they are crap or ok or fantastic

It means what makes you say that Machin considered chucking away 20 years of business over 1 meeting? Fact or just guesswork