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Great Performance and one that I did not see coming. The started to come together when JPB held of Schlein to give us a 5-1 to take the lead and we never looked back after that. All round team performance and vry special mention for Guest rider Mark Riss who was superb. Upwards and Onwards for Tigers.

Cannot be far off the new set of green sheets come out and I would wait for that as quite few of the Bandits averages will drop. I would replace Blacklock with either James Sarjeant (Kyle Newman due back soon, so James time would be up at Ipswich) or Stefan Nielsen. Move Carr down to reserve Move Berge to number 2 in the riding order (where he is most effective) Doolan to either 3 or 4 to partner the new rider. Vissing to 5. Do that and you at least stop the rot at home.

I would not disagree with the comments bout the track, marginally better than last season, but far from perfect.

Right my take on last night. Decent crowd not quite the same amount that attends PLRC, but not far off. Racing was not great, not good,but then again it was not that bad,it was okayish. Meeting presentation was a let down, dragged on far too long and distinct lackof information coming from the centre green presenter. On the 100's drifting way after heat 12, not sure where the person who made the comment was stood but I was on the first bend and its was still packed out on there after hear 15. Was it a good marketing ploy or was it a flop. Who knows the proof in the pudding will be after the next couple of meetings then we will all know. Onto the meeting itself. With Somerset replacing Josh G with Nathan Greaves, balanced the two teams For Sheffield I was really impressed with Rob Branford and Todd Kurtz, Branford rode very intelligently and Kurtz did far better than I expected. Kyle Howarth play a true captain role and he battled well to win heat 15. Josh Bates looked more than capable, and JPB made a steady start. And Josh G and Lasse Bjerre will sure have better nights. For Somerset was impressed with Hougaard and Wright, the rest were a bit of a disappointed. So with the with the first look at the team, they can do better but was enough to feel confident for the rest of the season.

Not really, so would you like to explain to me please.

Sheffield need to back the British riders. Last season team started with 6 Brits in the starting team line up. This season 4 Brits and the last 4 Under 21 Champions are riding for the team as well. Maybe you might want to explain how much more you think that they could help the back British riders, I for one would be interested to find out please.

Well Done the Witches, think we were beaten by the better side on the night. Looking at the updates our inability to get our of the gate let us down, and on some of the few occasions we did manage it the race was stopped. Not overly concerned about the result as Ipswich way would have been one of the toughest meetings for us, and we will get better and stronger as the season progresses. We should put a line under this result and move on to the next fixture.

Big early test for both teams. Ipswich to see how well they can cover for a missing rider. Sheffield to see how much they can take advantage of a weakened Ipswich team. I think we have let Ipswich off the hook by allowing them to change their rider positions. I would have put a stop to that, and I would have also question the use of Rider Replacement for Kyle Newman, if the rule states that only a National League Guest rider should be used then so be it.

8.22, that Holder and who else your gonna drop?

I think that we all cast an eye over at Glasgow with some form of envy, I think that we would all be lying if we did not admit to that. To be honest £5 does appear to be a bit steep, but if generally most fans who have Owners investing so heavily in their club generally don't object to paying a bit extra, and it is the Glasgow fans that are been asked to put their hands in their pocket and as long as they don't mind its okay. Bit compared toa lot of other clubs it is a tad bit over priced.

I think a lot will depend on how much money the meeting makes, if they find that they have a bigger crowd and make more money at Glasgow then they will more than likely keep it there.

Have to agree after lsitening to him talk at the recent forum, very articulate and spoke well as well as talking a lot of common sense.

There will be vouchers in the programme for money off the next meeting.

Q and A session tonight, main information to come out from the session. Kyle Howarth to be the captain of the team for 2017. On the rider doubling up situation it would appear that Sheffield have the priority over all the riders doubling up with the exception of Josh Grajczonek, and it would appear that the only fixtures he will miss will be meetings at Edinburgh. Sheffield to follow the blueprint that Glasgow run meetings not entirely sure what that means maybe some from Glasgow can maybe elaborate. Riding orders not yet decided. And the big one is that for the first match of the season the challenge match against Somerset, entry will be free to everyone.

Would have though so, makes sense.

Looks like the new averages have gone against Belle Vue. I was looking at a possible Aces team and when topped up the combined averages for Cook, Fricke and the Worrall brothers it was difficult trying to fit in 3 decent riders on the points left over. Looks like Richie has been the unfortunate one and been left out in the cold.

I think that the Leicester promotion have done well in the team building to say that they have started building a team so late on.

I reckon Justin Sedgmen Stefan Nielsen Kenneth Hansen Todd Kurtz

Quite few names mentioned that would be doubling up riders. With Leicester running on a Saturday night, you can rule out any rider who is riding for Glasgow, Berwick or Workington. JPB has stated that he does not want to ride in the Premier League full time, although happy to do some Guest booking. I still think that Todd Kurtz will be given a ride and would not be surprised to Rory Schlein given a ride. Justin Sedgmen is another who has to be in with a shout, and maybe even Simon Lambert.

Strange signing for me, a Pole riding for track that runs its home meetings on a Saturday spells disaster waiting to happen to me.

I reckon Todd Kurtz may feature.

I will go with the following; Ipswich Glasgow Sheffield Workington Edinburgh Newcastle Peterborough Redcar Berwick Scunthorpe

No it was definitely Damien been interview. To be fair he does not come across to well in interviews and tends to stay in background more allowing others to do the interviews. He does build very good teams when starts on a level playing field. The promotion comment I would not pay much attention to the club has built three very good teams in the last three years.

Young and very ambitious. I don't think that you will see the best of what he can do this season as the team building has been left too late, judge him next season when he will start on a level playing field. He is very good at knowing which riders fit into the team and is very good at team building.

Steady is managing Sheffield. Could well be Marc Bates, completing his training with Boocock alongside guiding him through.