Speedway: Simon Stead speaks after Sheffield's KO Cup defeat against Leicester

Speedway: Sheffield team manager Simon Stead speaks after Sheffield's KO Cup defeat against Leicester

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00:00Simon, can I just have your reaction to Sheffield's defeat tonight?

00:06We're obviously very disappointed as a team. Ultimately we've not been good enough over the

00:12two legs and that's been our downfall. Probably not so much tonight really. A lot of Leicester's

00:20hard work was done at Leicester. So it's been a tough one for us, this knockout cup, which is

00:27disappointing. It's a competition we've always done really well in and I'm disappointed that

00:34our knockout cup journey has come to an end but over the two meetings we've been certainly beaten

00:39by the better team so that gives us a good gauge of where we need to be because Leicester are

00:45one of the informed teams at the moment so we've got some improvement to do. What was the difference

00:50between the two teams early on because Leicester seemed to get to grips with the track very quickly

00:55this evening? I think it was just the gate positions. Gates one and three were so good

01:02early on and we lost a toss and Leicester picked gates one and three so that certainly didn't help

01:10our cause. I don't think it would have been enough to rescue the fixture for us and progress through

01:16but I think had we got gates one and three then the end result might have been slightly different in

01:22terms of turning it into at least a home win. So we're disappointed but it's fine margins.

01:32You can always try and find an excuse but we were beaten by the better team. We've got some improvement

01:37to be found and you know the only saving grace is at the moment is that our 100% home league record

01:46is still intact and that's something that we need to try and keep hold of for the rest of the season.