Steve55 Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Sheffield website and seen the notification of the teams for this meeting, from that it looks like Sheffield have changed their riding order with Bates at number 4 and Kurtz at number 2. Why? The only thing I can see is to give us a stronger pairing in heat 8, but weaker in heat 14. Are they hoping we will have won the meeting by heat 14! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yearbyred Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 (edited) No Andersen for Redcar - R/R, which definitely weakens the Bears. Edited May 10, 2017 by Yearbyred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cue Ball Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Will hopefully be a good meeting - Redcar have picked up points in 2 out of 4 of their away meetings to date, so they could potentially push us right to the end, expect to win but also expect it to be a more difficult meeting than Redcar fixtures of the past few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin king Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Probably the toughest test for the Tigers with this one, and the team that could well cause us the most problems. Made a little bit easier with the Bears missing Andersen (is he injured?), but still will be difficult. Would imagine that the crowd will be swelled a bit with a few coming down from the Land of Parmo. Should be a good match up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenR195 Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 JBA has to ride in a Danish Championship Qualifier meeting at 10am Friday morning and there were no flights back to Denmark for him in time to be ready for the Danish qualifier which he had to ride in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foamfence Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 JBA has to ride in a Danish Championship Qualifier meeting at 10am Friday morning and there were no flights back to Denmark for him in time to be ready for the Danish qualifier which he had to ride in Perks might be a doubt also, had a prang at Poole and withdrawn from meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boz Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 No Perks tonight after his fall last night, Tom Bacon will guest. Does obviously weaken us further, puts the pressure on Richard Hall to have a good night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 No Perks tonight after his fall last night, Tom Bacon will guest. Does obviously weaken us further, puts the pressure on Richard Hall to have a good night! Sadly a bit of a ramshackle side to face a powerful Sheffield line up. For me Tigers by at least 20 points. With Anderson, Busch and Perks, it might have been a much closer match. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norfolk Bear Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 It will be a top performance to keep them below 60 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graz gp Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 But for a bit of bad luck it would have been 60. No danger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted May 11, 2017 Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 JPB took a Medical Certificate for a shoulder injury following his fall. Hope it's not too bad an injury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebaker Posted May 12, 2017 Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Luck leveled out imo. Had Charles Wright been fit, score would of been a lot closer. Why no Grajczonek in heat 15. Protecting his maximum, as he knew Garitty had the beating of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cue Ball Posted May 12, 2017 Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Sheffield seemed to throw a lot of points away during the first half of the meeting with breakdowns and Todd being taken by surprise and falling off (no contact from what I could see), but to an extent was equalled out by Garrity having a couple of duff rides to start and then his and Barkers double breakdown. A fair meeting with some decent racing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northyorksbear Posted May 12, 2017 Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 A fair result on the night, Sheffield are a good team, especially at home. If Bears had a full team and all fully fit, it could have been closer, but doubt overall result would have been different. Still disappointed with the actual racing at Sheffield, to be fair it was better than my last visit, but as the updates often said XXX all over YYY but didn't pass! Barker and Garrity usually involved in the main action, and have to give praise and credit to Howarth, who always gave room to Garrity to race, I know of a number of others who would happily have "drifted" nearer the fence to block off. Other closed races were hall & Wright who had some excellent tussles ( but for third!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlieboy Posted May 12, 2017 Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Good performance from the tigers,Heard Jack had dislocated his shoulder so hopefully he wont be out too long.Racing wasn't too bad last night on a very dry track that in my opinion should have been watered a lot earlier.Kyle could have beaten garritty if he had not left him loads of racing room on the pit corner.Todd made a mess of bend 3 when Barker came under him.No contact from what I saw.Bates pass on Barker was good.We need to get some momentum away now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve55 Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Barker took Kurtzs' front wheel as he came inside him and took the bike from under him, should have been excluded, but in the overall way things went it didn't make much difference. Sheffield had all the bad luck early on whilst Redcar were riding poorly and then Sheffield had better luck later when the Bears seemed to improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted May 13, 2017 Report Share Posted May 13, 2017 It was a hard manoeuvre by Ben,but he didn't make contact with Todd or his bike (it happened right in front of me) so the ref called it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cue Ball Posted May 13, 2017 Report Share Posted May 13, 2017 Agree with Andrew, didn't see any contact - looked more like Barker took him by surprise causing him to lose balance and slide off. Barkers move was a common one by the likes of Compton in the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshiretyke Posted May 13, 2017 Report Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) I don't think Barker touched Kurtz either. I am suprised nobody has mentioned the last race when Barker apparently deliberately kept straight on to block Bjerre from the gate (I didn't see that bit was told) Bjerre somehow managed to switch quickly and was inside Barker before bend 2. At the end of the race Howarth and Bjerre rode either side of Barker and clearly let him know what they thought of him which spilled over into the pits. Edited May 13, 2017 by yorkshiretyke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB252 Posted May 13, 2017 Report Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) I don't think Barker touched Kurtz either. I am suprised nobody has mentioned the last race when Barker apparently deliberately kept straight on to block Bjerre from the gate (I didn't see that bit was told)Whoever told you that is talking utter rubbish, and Heat 15 is up on the BSPA you tube channel to prove it. Barker guilty of nothing more than trying to entertain, which should earn him some sort of award given the quality of the racing at Owlerton the last couple of years. Speedway riders are such a collective bunch of whiners these days it's little surprise that Barker keeps upsetting them with a bit of hard riding. Edited May 13, 2017 by CB252 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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