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Lewis Rose guests in place of James Sarjeant 😁

😂😂😂😂 think Ward's not the only one who has been on the Vodka

Not until 1st August when new averages would come in

Already guesting for Leicester at Lakeside 😞

He's only back for this meeting

Listed as guesting for Leicester at Lakeside. Hoping Paul Starke is free 🙏

Swindon wouldn't have been given a facility otherwise and would have had to use a PL guest

How can you predict the bees reserves should out score belle Vue's when we don't know who one of them is. Last time he was out for a week we had to use Connor Mountain so let's wait and see who is is first 😁

Thursday June 25, 2015 ELITE League leaders Coventry are looking to continue an unbeaten sequence against play-off chasing Belle Vue when the sides meet at Brandon on Friday (7.30pm). The Buildbase Bees have six wins and a draw from their last seven encounters with the Aces, the shared result coming in Mondays 45-45 thriller in Manchester. And Bees will be on their guard for the return fixture as the Aces have produced some notable results on the road this season including a draw at Poole, a narrow win at Lakeside, and a thumping 53-39 triumph at Swindon last Thursday. Bees once again go into the meeting without James Sarjeant, who still has discomfort in his arm after his crash at Poole last week, and he is continuing physiotherapy and swimming with a view to returning in Mondays away match at Wolverhampton. Meanwhile skipper Chris Harris once again rides for the club 24 hours before a Grand Prix qualifier, as he heads out to Italian venue Terenzano after Fridays meeting. The Aces are led by former Bees skipper Scott Nicholls and Grand Prix star Matej Zagar, who can take an extra outing as the visitors operate the rider-replacement facility for the unavailable Craig Cook. And another ex-Coventry man Aaron Summers comes in to replace Max Fricke who is already on his way to Italy for the GP qualifier. Bees manager Gary Havelock said: Aaron certainly knows the fastest way around Brandon, and the Leicester match last week proved that you cant really take anybody for granted. It will be tough, but we just need to keep winning at home. We have to try and keep the pressure on Poole for finishing top, because if we start losing a couple of matches it will become much easier for them to pull away. If we keep winning at home and keep picking up points away, theyve got to do the same. BUILDBASE BEES (from): Hans Andersen, Jason Garrity, Chris Harris, Danny King, Joonas Kylmakorpi, Stuart Robson, Guest TBC. BELLE VUE (from): Craig Cook R/R, Josh Grajczonek, Scott Nicholls, Stefan Nielsen, Aaron Summers, Steve Worrall, Matej Zagar. It's great to see Harris riding for the bees and then travelling after the meeting. The result of this meeting could depend a lot on who the guest is for Sarjeant. There's not many options with Bates, Rose, Lambert already riding.

No not tongue in cheek at all. Lots of teams have to use RR for a heat leader esp if missing due to injury or PL commitments. Does that mean Coventry can say they are depleted everytime they have been missing Greenwood or Birmingham missed Ellis due to PL 😂😂😂 Birmingham are the strongest team in the league and I'm sure other teams will also lose to them. They are title favourites. There's no shame in losing to them

I'm confused, which team was depleted? Cradley only had 1 rider missing at the start of the meeting. Both teams lost their number 6 rider so that didn't disadvantage one side more than the other.

Both the speedway gold meetings that were shown were brilliant esp compared to a lot of the meetings on sky over the last couple of seasons.

Congratulations to Birmingham to beat Cradley and move top of the league again.

Surprised no Summers in heat 15.

Tracks often have this problem when sky are there

Dan Greenwood currently holds it for Coventry. He beat Zach in the recent meeting at Birmingham

This is his last meeting

As you said, Fricke had more rides. His last score at Brandon was 6 pts from 4 rides.

@BenFryer: Just spoke to @Lakesidehammers Neil Vatcher. No Kim Nilsson at Kings Lynn on Thursday, they'll use rider replacement @Lakesidelive #bbcessex

The rule is no official meeting can take place 7 days prior to the meeting. The Cardiff GP is not for over a week yet so he's fine. The same thing was suggested when Kelvin, Harris & Lambert tested engines before SWC but as it was a practice and not an official meeting it didn't count.

With the weather being bad and it looking like a sure rain off, the crowd could easily have been zero if sky hadn't been in town. IF the weather had been nice and the stadium had been packed as it usually is against Poole at £18 per person, then surely even you can work out that Horton would risk being at a loss if all those then only paid £5 each just to get a couple of hundred more through the gates (sigh)

Sweetie, I know friends who have season tickets that didn't go cos they weren't going to sit in that weather just to travel home when they thought it would be rained off. 😘😘

Coventry's low attendance had nothing to do with price as even when televised, Coventry get large crowds against Poole. It was due to the terrible weather and people knowing in advance that the meeting would not go past heat 10 or possibly be on at all.

Sarjeant will most likely be missing for Glasgow