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Eagles V Brummies 05/08/2017

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Defending champions Birmingham come to Sussex on Saturday evening while the next day the IT First Eagles head through the Dartford Crossing to race Lakeside.

Action on Saturday begins at 7.30pm at Arlington Stadium where success and three league points would put Eastbourne back on top of the table.

They lost first spot during a spell of inaction to the Belle Vue Colts.

There has been another shuffle in the Eagles’ riding order as Jake Knight now is the top averaged rider and takes the number one position.

Eagles also give a debut to new signing Charlie Saunders at reserve and have named Stephen Whitehouse as No 8 for the match because Charley Powell is absent at an international grasstrack event on the continent.

Eastbourne, Belle Vue Colts, Birmingham, Lakeside, Cradley, Mildenhall and Kent are all involved in a struggle to make the top four of the league at the end of the regular season to make the Play Offs which will decide the champions.

IT First Eagles team manager Connor Dugard said: “Birmingham is a big match for us. They have a really strong 1 to 7 but then, so have we.

“This is set to be a great night of speedway and we all hope the fans turn out in force to cheer the team on to success as we strive for ultimate glory.”

Eastbourne: Jake Knight, R/R for Charley Powell, Mark Baseby, Tom Brennan, Georgie Wood, Charlie Saunders, Mattie Bates, Stephen Whitehouse (No 8)

Birmingham: Jack Parkinson-Blackburn, Layne Cupitt, David Mason, Tom Bacon, Liam Carr, Macauley Leek, Lewis Whitmore

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What's happened to Taylor Hampshire?

 

Easy home win as per our visit to Lakeside last week.

Not so sure about that, r/r means one extra for Brennan and three for Bates probably as Saunders has yet to make his debut. He will therefore have to take at least the full 4 scheduled rides.

 

If JPB can do as well as a heat leader as he did last year as a reserve (19pts) then I can see a much closer contest as Carr goes well and Bacon is reasonable. The question is Mason? very poor with Lakeside earlier here but used to get some points if he got out of the gate in front back in 2015.

 

I have a feeling the Brummies will get a point from this unless Saunders proves to be 'a find'

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Same Old Eastbourne

Easy Home WIn

 

You could almost fashion those words into a song couldn't you?

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Leek is back then! I think Saunders will be a relative 'find' but the Brummies should push them close here as R/R hurts Eastbourne and JPB was on fire at Arlington last year.

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team news on Bruumies site has Taylor Hampshire in the line up

 

EASTBOURNE: Jake Knight, Charley Powell R/R, Mark Baseby, Tom Brennan, Georgie Wood, Charlie Saunders, Matt Bates

BIRMINGHAM: Jack Parkinson-Blackburn, Layne Cupitt, David Mason, Tom Bacon, Liam Carr, Macauley Leek, Taylor Hampshire

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Just had a thunderstorm, only lasted 10 minutes or so but deposited quite a lot. 2 hours for the track to dry out?

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Yeah will be fine, they would have put water down anyway otherwise as been so sunny and warm today track was probably bone dry before the rain came down

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Sneaky 50% increase in the price of the programme, up from £2 to £3.....

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Sneaky 50% increase in the price of the programme, up from £2 to £3.....

scandalous if you ask me. £3 for a NL prog is well over the top.
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scandalous if you ask me. £3 for a NL prog is well over the top.

£3 for any league speedway programme is imo. All you really want is the score card.

 

Is this a mid season increase then?

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