The Third Man

Positive night at Starrs, hoogy couldnt turn up, sorry Dave, nice to see damien and jake there along with Jordon Tyrer, and Richard Knight and Paul Tyrer, what ave would they come on. We will now have to wait and see i suppose, just like we did last season at this stage, still worried but the two new lads there were positive, wanted to ride for Sheffield so heres hoping lastly on Starrs thanks Des for the cheapish beer and on to the Barrack for the next meeting

bev???????

the change was proposed when stead said he still wanted to ride for swindon, was that was sorted there was no reason to move i am very sorry elephant man but i work hard for my money and if i dont want to sponser sheffield speedway with it i wont, if we lose speedway in sheffield it will be because the product was not worth supporting, if it was people will come,so dont blame supporters, i will pick and choose meetings next year, even more than i did last season, and i know two supporters who didnt attend last season and who wont be coming back this season, they were tempted with stead, but the latest signings have left him saving £30 plus drinks and petrol each week again how often do sheffield drop riders?

what about the future? if this gamble fails and we lose even more supporters then there may well not be a future. i can appreciate building a new asset base, but we are under the points limit, with only wells and the the new guy, and thats a big maybe, capable of increasing their average i am very sorry but i too think it will be another long hard summer for us, lets hope we were down to the hardcore fans last year because i would hate to be stood there with even fewer people around me than there was last season

can you just remind me of Pauls average in the PL last season?

from what i remember tai came on a 3 and ended up on an 8 and won rye the league, ashley birks did really well at the end of his time at sheffield and scunthorpe were really grateful for that last year, cant remember autys first season average but he had averaged around 9 in the nl with scunthorpe. what was jakes average in the nl last year? around 5? sorry but those three examples do not make me more confident about knight in fact it convinces me even more that this team is looking like last years but with a good number 1

yes we have one good rider who hopefully will maintain his average, i cant see joe haines improving when he is not at reserve all season, i cant see jake knight averaging 3 points a match unless he is much improved from last year, i cant see damien koppe getting 5 and richard hall hasnt increased his average for years. a title winning team needs the majority of riders to improve their averages, i think we will lose 3 points off the above riders averages. that means the next two riders will have to put a combined total of about 9 points on their averages to get us into a challenging position like i said in an ealier post they will have to be the most inspired signings in the history of speedway, so i am sorry if i am not shouting from the rooftops about how good this team is, its because once again it isnt, its make up is the same as last years with a good number 1

well thats it for this season as well, 5 riders signed who will all have lower averages at the end of the season than the begining. the last two need to be the most inspired signings in the history of speedway to get any of last years missing supporters back, so no doubt the next two will be sanchez and then his argentinian mate so they can keep each other company, that should be the final nail.

Four riders signed, four riders who wont increase their averages, i can see the last three being hall sanchez and skiddy,

The supporters wont come flocking back if we get cheap riders, eg hall and sanchez, because we have signed stead, we need the right seven riders and the next three need to be riders who can improve, wells would do for one of them for me

My only worry for now is that i cant see the three riders we have signed increasing their averages, not that i am saying they are bad signings, but if we are to challenge at least three of the last four we sign must be capable of increasing their averages

Ricky wont ride for Sheffield again, or at least not in the near future, apart from Stead who is the last good rider to leave Sheffield and come back? Andre is the only one i can think of, it seems to be that when you are good and leave Sheffield the grass really is greener

if hall or sanchez signs again it will be a waste of time signing stead, would love wells but lets keep away from the ones that cant improve

neil never releases all the names at once, cant you remember when the full team was announced in Australia a few years ago despite us all being told it had not been finalised yet

How would any other time but friday or sunday be helpful with getting more kids through the doors?

Thinking about it if we switched to Friday they would have to run the dogs thursday afternoon and night, cant see that happening. so it must be Sunday or just another load of waffle

To get more kids in it would have to be Friday night, which has happened in the past, or sunday afternoon / tea time, if not stick to thursday

could be fum with the dogs on the same night

Wel done Rye, especially Lambo, just what we have been missing all season, never stopped trying and derseved his points

no Ashworth no complin, who was the last good rider to leave and come back to us?

No chance that Ashworth is coming back, if Berwick run next year he is there how is Skiddy becoming stale when he puts his average up every season?

He got the two extra rides at Somerset because he obviously deserved them, i dont know if he did or not on Thursday as i couldnt attend, if he deserved an extra ride he shouls have got one, if he didnt deserve one he shouldnt have got one. he shouldnt have been punished like a school boy

do you know why "the miscreant of last thursdays heat 15" didnt want to take the ride? if you do then why do you expect a rider to go out in a meaningless ride when he expected his engine to blow if he did. as it was he was faced with a bill to get the engine serviced before sundays meeting at glasgow did you go to edinburgh and see the same rider doing his best for the team when he was no where near fit? rather than getting full marks for what they did it seems a very childish act to me, no wonder riders dont ever return to sheffield when they leave, except the ones who wont improve and we keep welcoming them back with open arms,because they want to ride for sheffield, wonder if thats because when they are not at sheffield they end up with two or three teams a season? he must have spent the money judging by thursday and friday night as well, nice to see the sheffield promotion rewarding him for keeping his equipment up to scratch, he must wonder why he does it

Heard a rumour last Thursday that Schramm had retired

Have to go for Hyde Road, Halifax and Sheffield