sussex bulldog Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Bradley Wilson-Dean has been declared fit to lead the Eastbourne IT First Eagles into two crucial league matches this weekend.The club’s New Zealander will take his place at No 1 for the National League match at King’s Lynn Young Stars on Friday and at home on Sunday against Buxton.Wilson-Dean injured his left hand in a crash last week in the KO Cup semi-final against Kent.Initially it was feared there was a break but a trip to hospital diagnosed bad bruising.Team manager Glenn Martin said: “Brad showed how tough he is after racing to a 12-point maximum after his heat one crash against Kent.“The big open spaces at King’s Lynn will be reminiscent of the tracks in New Zealand so I am sure he will relish the trip to Norfolk.”Martin is targeting maximum points from the weekend to keep up the Eagles’ challenge at the top of the table.“We’re in the finals of both the KO Cup and the National Trophy, so now is the time to press on in the league. We’re third at the moment and need to start putting pressure on both Cradley and Birmingham.”Sunday’s home match at Arlington against Buxton begins at 3.30pm with Martin confident of victory.“Even with our injury worries, we should have far too much firepower for Buxton but we cannot afford for any of our top boys to misfire,” he said.“Ben Hopwood will obviously relish riding against the team he started the season with and Mattie Bates at reserve could be a trump card for us.“Kelsey Dugard had the crowd cheering last week with his round the boards racing so we should be in for an exciting afternoon.”With Richie Andrews and Georgie Wood both out, the IT First Eagles will use the rider replacement rule to cover one spot and have Mildenhall’s Connor Coles as a guest at King’s Lynn.On Sunday, No 8 Niall Strudwick makes his full debut for the Eagles at No 2.A plan to use Gary Cottham was ruled out by the BSPA as he is no longer in the Eagles declared 1 to 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaptooth Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Putting Strudwick at 2 is sheer lunacy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex2000 Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Putting Strudwick at 2 is sheer lunacy . Shat we lose with him at 2 Bates makes up for at 6 and I think Kelsey will get 1 of Strudwicks 4 rides as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven101 Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Lets be honest he will only have 3 rides unless were winning really easily they will let him have his 4th, i predict a easy win for the eagles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex2000 Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 I think we will make it hard for ourselves really. I see Georgie is at work today wonder when he will be able to come back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee jay Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Putting Strudwick at 2 is sheer lunacy . as we all know the dugards are not lunatics, well as long as you keep them away from a tractor . my guess is it's either a baldrick type cunning plan or it's putting strudwick up for some retribution after his interview in the star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurnTwo Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Connor put on Facebook: Can't use Gary because he's an unmatched rider higher than 3 points stupid eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhidassa Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Sadly going to miss this one, so going to have to catch the updates. Will be watching with interest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWDFAN Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Brad should relish the Lynn track as he does love to wind it on some. However it is a myth that NZ riders race on big tracks. That may have rung true some 20 years or so ago but with the laying of more and more Clay based surfaces for the big horsepower cars Kiwi riders now only have about 4 tracks operating of which Rosebank in Auckland, Hawkes Bay and Moore Park in Christchurch are smaller UK style tracks. It is this reason in my opinion why Brad has taken to Eastbourne and UK racing so quickly combined with the re emergence of the NZ league competition where these tracks are used regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieg Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Agree with both your points. Rosebank is 294 metres. Plus: He's a talented rider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellioth4 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Is there anyone going to this meeting who would be able to text updates to the Updates site? If so, could you please send me a private message including your mobile number. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosTheory22 Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Good luck to Nial or Neil however he spells it. Enjoy your time to shine. Hope Mark is feeling well enough to take part. Best of luck to all Eastie Eagles today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex2000 Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) Good luck to Nial or Neil however he spells it. Enjoy your time to shine. Hope Mark is feeling well enough to take part. Best of luck to all Eastie Eagles today. And from my working which isn't very good Ellis perks is the closet average to Marc who isn't riding today. Edited August 9, 2015 by Alex2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysue Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Desperately seeking a texter for this meeting, if anyone is able to help, could you please send me a private message including your mobile number. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunters Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 The injury and illness syndrome never seems to end. Have a feeling the unbeaten home record will go today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunters Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 My feeling was based on the information that Marc Owen was missing, Thank goodness that was duff information or we would have been in trouble. It still looked very uncertain after 5 heats, how can Bates, Dugard (twice), and even Ben Hopwood come off when comfortably in front. They will have to get their act together before the cup finals and no more appeasing Strudwick there must be a 6+ guest from herein as it sounded like Georgie is out for the season and a while yet before Richard Andrews can return. Martin Dugard has done a great job this season but what he does now will be the difference between some success and the season falling apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruckerroo Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 I agree 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex2000 Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Apparently Marc was throwing up between races. So great job by him ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevec Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Well hats off to Mark then, without his performance we would have lost! Falls cost us dearly yesterday and I guess most of that was down to the track. I hope they bring back Saturday night racing next year. It seemed like they could do nothing about the dust yesterday. I worried at one time if we were going to have the embarrassment of the meeting being cancelled due to the dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex2000 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Well hats off to Mark then, without his performance we would have lost! Falls cost us dearly yesterday and I guess most of that was down to the track. I hope they bring back Saturday night racing next year. It seemed like they could do nothing about the dust yesterday. I worried at one time if we were going to have the embarrassment of the meeting being cancelled due to the dust. Yes it was dusty but I didn't think it was as bad as it has been... I could see the whole track all the time. Strudwick produced 1 point but he did earn that it wasn't a gift! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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