GLASGOW boss Stewart Dickson has urged his team to hold their nerve early doors against Sheffield – and help shred those of their rivals.
The two Tigers go head-to-head at Owlerton on Thursday in the Scottish side’s most important away match this season.
If Glasgow can pull off a shock win, they’ll put themselves back in contention for finishing top of the SGB Championship – where Sheffield currently sit.
Dickson’s team managed to score 44 points in a narrow defeat there earlier in the season – and he wants his riders to put the pressure on in the opening stages this time round to give the home team something to think about.
He said: “I know it sounds predictable but we need to make starts and gate with them.
“It’s a fast, fast track and if we’re not there at the first bend with them it will be hard to pass – whereas they might be able to pass us because they’re racing on the track every week.
“We need to give them something to think about. We have got riders who can ride that place – we scored 44 there in May.
“We weren’t riding above ourselves then, we were riding to our capabilities when we scored 44 then, and we need to do the same.
“We need to come out and be with them after five or six races and get them jittery, because they’ve had it too easy at home.
“The plan of attack is to take it to them and give them a match.”
Glasgow go into the match – and the rest of the season – as a six-man team after Nike Lunna’s crash in Sweden on Tuesday night left him with two broken bones in his back and a broken shoulder, ruling him out of the rest of the campaign.
The Tigers will now operate rider replacement for the remainder of their fixtures.
Dan Bewley will also miss the meeting after suffering a groin strain at the weekend – his place is taken by guest Mason Campton.
The Tigers face Sheffield again on Saturday at the Peugeot Ashfield Stadium in another vital encounter.