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Kyle Howarth Testimonial - Thursday 14th March 2024


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Well deserved testimonial for Kyle, one of those riders who gives 100 % and always has time for a chat with the fans.  So we know the meeting will be one of the first ones of 2024 and will be Sheffield Tigers 2024 v World Select.  Great that Kyle has lined up the 2024 Sheffield team and good that they get some bike/track time ahead of the new season.  It’s a shame there’s two league meetings that’s clash with this and that obviously narrows down options for riders based with UK clubs,  hopefully we get to see some riders that know the fast way around Owlerton (and maybe some new or old riders to the UK) and make it a good meeting

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Confirmed line up for the meeting 

http://www.sheffield-speedway.com/news.php?extend.3440  
 

Got to feel for Kyle, when he was given this date by the BSPL there were no other meeting scheduled, now there’s 2 meetings and a meet the riders night at Ipswich taking out vast majority of Premiership riders, defo been screwed over by the speedway hierarchy, a lot of last minute changes for him and his testimonial team to sort out can’t imagine the stress that will have caused, hopefully enough punters turn up to make the night a success and doesn’t leave him with hole in his pocket having filled out money to get this meeting on 

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http://www.sheffield-speedway.com/news.php?extend.3514

SHEFFIELD skipper Kyle Howarth has confirmed the line-ups for his testimonial which takes place at Owlerton next Wednesday (June 12, 7.30pm).

A Tigers side will take on a Rest of the World Select over a traditional 15 heat format.

Regular Sheffield riders Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards and Dan Gilkes will line-up alongside Howarth.

Meanwhile, Chris Harris and Jye Etheridge, who both guested for the Tigers in their Grand Final triumph over Ipswich last October, will race for the hosts alongside Rory Schlein who appeared for the Prowlers earlier in his career.

The Rest of the World side features former German National Champion Norick Blodorn as well as Leicester’s Ryan Douglas and Sam Masters.

Gates open at 6pm with admission £23 adults, £21 concessions, £1 kids (up to and including age 17), whilst all under-5s go free.

SHEFFIELD: Chris Harris, Kyle Howarth, Rory Schlein, Jye Etheridge, Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes.
REST OF THE WORLD SELECT: Ryan Douglas, Norick Blodorn, Danny King, Charles Wright, Sam Masters, Jake Allen, Simon Lambert.

 

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You’d think that there will need to be a couple of changes to the announced line ups, two on the Sheffield side and one the Rest of the World select based on riders injuries at the moment, Schlein out for season, Etheridge missed Friday at Scunthorpe and King missed British Final and also Monday (10th) for  Ipswich.  Hopefully Kyle and the team behind the testimonial manage to source the riders needed to fill the gaps 

Sheffield : Chris Harris, Kyle Howarth, Rory Schlein, Jye Etheridge, Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes

Rest of the World Select: Ryan Douglas, Norick Blodorn, Danny King, Charles Wright, Sam Masters, Jake Allen, Simon Lambert

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6 hours ago, 4BM said:

You’d think that there will need to be a couple of changes to the announced line ups, two on the Sheffield side and one the Rest of the World select based on riders injuries at the moment, Schlein out for season, Etheridge missed Friday at Scunthorpe and King missed British Final and also Monday (10th) for  Ipswich.  Hopefully Kyle and the team behind the testimonial manage to source the riders needed to fill the gaps 

Sheffield : Chris Harris, Kyle Howarth, Rory Schlein, Jye Etheridge, Josh Pickering, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes

Rest of the World Select: Ryan Douglas, Norick Blodorn, Danny King, Charles Wright, Sam Masters, Jake Allen, Simon Lambert

Looks like Tom Brennan has agreed to do it. 

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4 hours ago, Moranboys said:

Does it really matter that much?????,the night was all about Kyle.

I think it does, or I might as well have just bank transferred £23 and saved myself the journey up from Leicester. It's still an event that should be trying to attract a crowd and be worth winning. It would have been nice to see the riders in the 2 "teams" also racing each other. Apart from a couple of incidents when Pickering and Allen nearly ended their seasons... it was a pretty dull affair. 

1 hour ago, The Third Man said:

Looked like some of the riders cared who won

looked like some of the riders cared a little too much, there were some real heart in the mouth moments

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4 hours ago, iainb said:

I think it does, or I might as well have just bank transferred £23 and saved myself the journey up from Leicester. It's still an event that should be trying to attract a crowd and be worth winning. It would have been nice to see the riders in the 2 "teams" also racing each other. Apart from a couple of incidents when Pickering and Allen nearly ended their seasons... it was a pretty dull affair. 

looked like some of the riders cared a little too much, there were some real heart in the mouth moments

Would of nice if Harris had donated his winnings to charity instead of sharing it with fellow riders who have plenty of money already. Boring meeting on the whole by all accounts anyway.

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4 hours ago, iainb said:

I think it does, or I might as well have just bank transferred £23 and saved myself the journey up from Leicester. It's still an event that should be trying to attract a crowd and be worth winning. It would have been nice to see the riders in the 2 "teams" also racing each other. Apart from a couple of incidents when Pickering and Allen nearly ended their seasons... it was a pretty dull affair. 

looked like some of the riders cared a little too much, there were some real heart in the mouth moments

Then why bother coming in the first place?

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1 hour ago, Moranboys said:

Then why bother coming in the first place?

To support an ex-Lion and good servant to British Speedway and for a night of entertaining Speedway... I don't think it's too controversial to say I would have "preferred" an individual meeting is it?

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