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ROWE Motor Oil Premiership

PREVIEW: SHEFFIELD v LEICESTER (ROWE MOTOR OIL PREM)

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SHEFFIELD will race at home for the first time in exactly a month when they welcome Leicester to S6 tonight (Thursday).

The Tigers produced a couple of strong late finishes to earn wins against Belle Vue and Ipswich in their previous two Owlerton outings and also completed a terrific last gasp turnaround at Northampton last week to pick up their first away win of the year in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership.

But they now go into life without No.1 Jack Holder for the immediate future as the Australian is ruled out with a broken arm sustained at the Wroclaw GP last weekend.

Tigers will operate rider replacement, as will the Lions who are without Dan Thompson who is required in Poland tonight.

The visitors have a good recent record against their opponents and they also enjoyed their first league away win when they were successful at King’s Lynn on Monday.

Sheffield boss Simon Stead said: “The home defeat we had in the Knockout Cup against Leicester earlier in the season is the biggest down point in an otherwise reasonable start. We’ve got an opportunity to put that right on Thursday though.

“It will be tough, but I think, the team we are now, full of confidence is probably a little bit different to the one they encountered earlier in the year so I’m expecting a great meeting.

“One thing is for certain, if we want to pick up another win then we’ll need to cover for Jack well.”
Leicester manager Stewart Dickson said: “It’s a blow to be without Dan, because he’s riding really well at the moment and he put in a great performance at King’s Lynn.

“We need to focus on our own job, and if we perform as a team as we have done there before, we can make it work with rider replacement.

“We’re eight points up so in the worst case scenario we need to look to get the aggregate point – that would make it a good week, but if we could get the win it would be an excellent week!”

SHEFFIELD: Jack Holder R/R, Anders Rowe, Chris Holder, Leon Flint, Josh Pickering, Jye Etheridge, Luke Killeen.
LEICESTER: Ryan Douglas, Drew Kemp, Nick Morris, Dan Thompson R/R, Sam Masters, Kyle Howarth, Joe Thompson.

SCB Referee: Willie Dishington

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