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Eagles v Brummies 30th JUNE NL


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Easy home win with our trick track and smooth surface which the Brummies won't be able to cope with, Bacon, Shanes and Hume have never riden well here and probably the only track the wonder kid won't get to grips with. That's what the Brummie fans will tell you as usual :). Seriously though should be a pretty close meeting, but think the deciding factor will probably be Dugard at reserve, with a home win,  but Birmingham could quite easily grab a point. 

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Not sure, Georgie's been on fire recently and so has Tom and will be hard too beat around Arlington even with their riders. Flint will add an interesting factor too it but being in the main team of course cant score as much as he usual would do and having to go up against big riders and with Jason having far more main team experience will be ahead of Flint on that side. Otherwise the rest of their team wont do that good at all, I would predict 5 points maybe between their 3 lower order riders which wont be enough with other 4 to win against us.

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16 hours ago, Moleman27 said:

Not sure, Georgie's been on fire recently and so has Tom and will be hard too beat around Arlington even with their riders. Flint will add an interesting factor too it but being in the main team of course cant score as much as he usual would do and having to go up against big riders and with Jason having far more main team experience will be ahead of Flint on that side. Otherwise the rest of their team wont do that good at all, I would predict 5 points maybe between their 3 lower order riders which wont be enough with other 4 to win against us.

5 points from lower 3 riders??? that's 5 more than they usually score away from home : )

Eastbourne to win by 14 points imo! Hope I'm wrong!

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BIRMINGHAM will be without Layne Cupitt for their National League trip to Eastbourne tonight (Saturday, 7.30).

The 20-year-old aggravated a hip problem during Thursday’s meeting at the Isle of the Wight and will miss the clash at Arlington.

Edwards Plumbing Brummies boss Laurence Rogers has booked Jamie Bursill as a guest who scored 3+1 against Birmingham on Thursday and who also has experience of the Arlington circuit racing in the Southern Development League.

EASTBOURNE: Georgie Wood, Jason Edwards, Mark Baseby, Charley Powell, Tom Brennan, Nick Laurence, Kelsey Dugard.

BIRMINGHAM: Tom Bacon, Callum Walker, James Shanes, Leon Flint, Danyon Hume, Arran Butcher, Jamie Bursill.

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with lots of one sided meetings in this league this meeting looks a cracker tbh, 3 good heat leaders on either side all good round the track, 2 young up n comers now in the top 5, and some reserves that tbh fall as often as they finish, a good meeting to go and watch ..

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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 which includes your mobile phone number.

Thanks

Update: Meeting is now covered by Tracey.

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1 minute ago, Richard Weston said:

It is not a trick track. If you ever wanted to see a trick track - try Mildenhall for starters.

Mildenhall is or was a fast full throttle track and has produced terrific racing don’t recall it being tricky.

Eastbourne is difficult for inexperienced riders as they have to turn sharply and keep the gas on otherwise they wobble or fall.

The grippy conditions also have an effect and you tend to get strung out races unfortunately.

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6 hours ago, Richard Weston said:

It is not a trick track. If you ever wanted to see a trick track - try Mildenhall for starters.

having watched eagles for nearly twenty years and now fen tigers for over ten I can honestly say there are plenty of passing lines at mildy whereas eastbourne is a gate and go with not so many opportunities and very tricky to ride being so tight...so I don't think you'll win that argument rich !   very tricky to beat Eastbourne on an aggregate basis, as the record shows

 

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Hard to get condition right, hot but windy evening. Brum gated v well but eastbourne made hardly any errors. The best race was ht15 when wood screamed past bacon,brennan then steamed up the inner going into lap4, bacon predictably binned it and the ref made the wrong decision.

both sides have good and bad points in each side, eastie cant cover for powell away if hes out for long. Brum are just stuffed in the bottom end

 

 

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3 hours ago, Richard Weston said:

Mildenhall being a full throttle track is the problem with West Row. Flat out speed doesn't;t lead to amazing racing

People who go to Belle Vue or Peterborough would probably disagree with that.

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