Sheffield speedway captain Josh Pickering reacts to Tigers 57-33 win over King's Lynn

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00:00Josh Pickering, how did that feel this evening? A little big win for the Tigers?

00:05Yeah, job done mate. We thought it was going to be a lot closer with Kingsling to be honest,

00:09but the boys all chipped in and we all put in a great result and come away with a great victory.

00:14Am I right in thinking you've not dropped a point to an opponent yet this season?

00:18I dropped one last week to Michael Jepsen Jensen, but I shouldn't have done.

00:22Things have been going okay. I've only dropped one point from two meetings, so keep that rolling I suppose.

00:29How do you feel that the bottom end of the side is doing this season?

00:34It's only a young team in that regard. They've just got to continue learning, not beat themselves up.

00:40I've been there myself. When things go wrong it feels like your world's crashing down,

00:43but you're never going to win anything with a negative head.

00:46They've just got to continue learning and focus on all the good bits.

00:50Leon, he was riding very well tonight I found and he made two mistakes that cost him two points.

00:56One of them is a paid win. It's a learning curve, but we're in the right direction and we've just got to continue to progress.

01:05That heat six, which was the 5-1 with Jack Holder and Anders Rowe with Yankovic right behind.

01:11How did that seem as a heat tonight?

01:14Jack, Anders is a great little gator, you know, and Jack is an awesome team rider.

01:19So they've shepherded the way around and done what had to be done.

01:24And your own 15-point maximum tonight, how do you feel about that?

01:27Yeah, good. It's what I've come here for. It's a weird one.

01:30If you leave here with 14 or 13 or if you have a very bad night and get half a dozen,

01:36it's hard to explain I suppose, but I feel like tonight I've just done my job.

01:41So I'm satisfied and I'll look back and I will get excited about things, but right now I'm just happy.

01:45Would you have fancied heat 15 tonight?

01:47Yeah, I would have done it, mate. It's just, look, we're doing 12, 14, 15.

01:52The bike's under a bit of stress, you know, so we didn't have a choice of gates.

01:56Didn't really know what it was going to do. Jack only had four rides.

01:59Already done an RR ride, so I felt like it was being fair to share it around.

02:03And, you know, all the boys put five or six rides on the board, so it was good.