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Glasgow Tigers v Sheffield Tigers
Premier League, 11 September 2005
Ashfield Stadium, Glasgow
| 1 | George Stancl | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Trent Leverington | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Claus Kristensen | 1* | 0 | 1* | 3 | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | Stefan Ekberg | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | 9 | 0 |
| 5 | Shane Parker | 3 | 2* | 3 | 1* | 1* | . | . | 10 | 3 |
| 6 | Adam Roynon | Fn | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | James Cockle | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1* | 1 | 2* | 2* | 13 | 3 |
| 1 | Sean Wilson | 1* | 3 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | Ben Wilson | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | Richard Hall | 0 | 1 | 1* | 1 | 1 | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | Andre Compton | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6^ | 3 | . | 20 | 0 |
| 6 | Paul Cooper | Fx | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Kyle Legault | 2 | 0 | 1 | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Glasgow were at full strength again but Sheffield were without Ricky Ashworth and had to use R/R at number 3. Sheffield brought a seven point advantage with them in the race for the bonus point. This match was marred by a terrible accident in heat 2 when Paul Cooper ran into the side of Adam Roynon on the second bend sending both of them crashing into the fence at high speed. The outcome appears to be that Roynon has a broken wrist and Cooper a broken thigh. This left Sheffield, already using R/R, with only five riders and it was clear that there would have to be at least one heat with only three riders. For Glasgow it allowed James Cockle to take the remaining three rides scheduled for Roynon. George Stancl won the opening heat for a share of the points then, when heat 2 was eventually run, James Cockle beat Kyle Legault for a 3-2. Andre Compton won heat 3 for another shared heat then Glasgow added two points to their lead with a 4-2 as Shane Parker inflicted the only defeat of the match on Andre Compton with Cockle third. This took the score to 13-10 and reduced the aggregate difference to four points. Sheffield won heats 5 and 6 both by 2-4. The two Wilsons were split by Ekberg in heat 5 then Stancl finished second to Compton as Legault beat Leverington in heat 6 to put Sheffield into a 17-18 lead. It didn’t last long as Sheffield fielded only one rider in heat 7 and James Cockle and Shane Parker scored a 5-1. Ben Wilson won heat 8 for a share of the points so the score moved on to 25-22 with Sheffield still four points ahead on aggregate. The next two heats won by Compton and Stancl were shared but Glasgow took another 4-2 from Parker and Cockle in heat 11 to move five points ahead. They followed that with an important 5-1 in heat 12 as Claus Kristensen and James Cockle beat the weak Sheffield pairing of Richard Hall and Kyle Legault. This took the score to 40-31 with Glasgow now two points ahead on aggregate. In heat 13 Andre Compton took a TR and beat the Stancl/Parker pairing for a 3-6 but heat 14 always looked a poor prospect for Sheffield with Hall and Legault out again. Stefan Ekberg and James Cockle extracted the full 5-1 from it and Glasgow were ten points ahead with one heat to go. Sheffield needed a 1-5 from the last heat to take the bonus point but, although Andre Compton won the race to complete a 20 point haul, George Stancl and Shane Parker filled the minor places ahead of Ben Wilson to ensure that Glasgow took all three points. Match Report by Merlin |