The Ipswich Witches and the Sheffield Tigers meet in a big clash of the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership\u2019s top two at Foxhall tonight (Monday).<\/p>\n
The Witches and the Tigers contested last season\u2019s Grand Final, and whilst the South Yorkshire side were crowned champions, the Suffolk outfit gained an away win when they raced at Owlerton last month.<\/p>\n
With Jason Doyle and Danny King on the sidelines, GB stalwarts Chris Harris and Scott Nicholls come in to guest for the Witches, with Dan Thompson back from illness.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the Tigers are at full strength and have lost only one of their four away league matches, although they were beaten in the KO Cup at King\u2019s Lynn last week.<\/p>\n
Ipswich boss Ritchie Hawkins said: \u201cWe are slowly getting there and when Scotty comes in, he doesn\u2019t feel like a guest. We know what we are going to get with Chris, and they have both been brilliant on their recent visits to Foxhall so we will hope for the same again.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe are putting out a good one to seven, and one that is capable of winning the meeting, so we have got to come out again and keep fighting.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure everyone will be looking forward to Emil (Sayfutdinov) going to battle with the big stars from Sheffield. They are bringing a lot of big names and I think it is going to be one hell of a meeting for everyone at Foxhall, it should be a classic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Sheffield manager Simon Stead said: \u201cThey got a win over us at home and we can sort of make ourselves feel a little bit better by going there and returning the favour.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIpswich is never an easy place to go to but it\u2019s somewhere we\u2019re looking to go to and get a result.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNo doubt that will be a tough test for us though and we\u2019re going to need everybody firing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n IPSWICH:<\/strong> Chris Harris, Dan Thompson, Scott Nicholls, Adam Ellis, Emil Sayfutdinov, Keynan Rew, Jordan Jenkins.<\/p>\n SHEFFIELD:<\/strong> Jack Holder, Kyle Howarth, Chris Holder, Josh Pickering, Tai Woffinden, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes.<\/p>\n SCB Referee: Chris Gay<\/p>\n Words and Images by British Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ipswich Witches and the Sheffield Tigers meet in a big clash of the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership\u2019s top two at Foxhall tonight (Monday). The Witches and the Tigers contested last season\u2019s Grand Final, and whilst the South Yorkshire side were crowned champions, the Suffolk outfit gained an away win when they raced at Owlerton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,52],"tags":[8,9,90],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-speedway","category-speedway","category-the-premiership","tag-british-speedway","tag-speedway","tag-the-premiership"],"yoast_head":"\n