Sheffield Tigers speedway side await 'wounded animal' rivals

When the sides met on Sunday Sheffield pulled off a stunning away win to keep their hopes of a play-off spot alive.

Bates reckons it was the best result of the season – but he’s telling the team they can’t afford to slip up tonight.

“We have to keep it going” said Bates. “We know Peterborough will be a wounded animal looking fight back at us. I reckon it could be a tremendous night of racing because when you look down the Peterborough line-up they are all riders who are comfortable around our track.

“They’ll feel they can come to us and do what we did to them at the weekend – if that happens then our win on Sunday counts for nothing in my eyes. There will be no consistency on our part, we’ll be going for it and I know Simon Stead will have the lads fired up for it.”

The meeting sees a rare Owlerton appearance for former Grand Prix racer Chris Harris almost a decade since his win at Cardiff which shocked the sport.

“Ulrich Ostergaard has a good record around our track and in Richard Hall at reserve they have a rider who has done a lot of laps around here, both in our colours and those of the visitors down the years. We’ll need the backing of our fans for what will be a tough night with three points very much the target.”

SHEFFIELD: Josh Grajczonek, Todd Kurtz, Lasse Bjerre, Josh Bates, Kyle Howarth, Rob Branford, Joe Lawlor.

PETERBOROUGH: Chris Harris, Bradley Wilson-Dean, Paul Starke, Ulrich Ostergaard, Jack Holder, Richard Hall, Tom Bacon.