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Last Updated: Nov 28th, 2010 - 10:22:29 |
The Lakeside Hammers, in proud association with The Royal Navy, will go into tonight’s important League match against the reigning Sky Sports Elite League champions, Wolverhampton, without their new signing Peter Ljung.
Ljung was expected to make his home debut for the Club this evening but the wrist injury he sustained in a crash at Ipswich two weeks ago is proving to be more serious than at first suspected.
He did return to the track on Tuesday this week in his native Sweden and scored six points from his four rides but was unable to take his place in a nominated fifth ride due to the wrist giving him further problems. It now transpires that he has cracked a bone in the wrist and, therefore, needs to rest it a little longer. It is hoped, however, that he will be able to return to the Hammers side in time for their away match at Swindon next Thursday, 26th August and the home match against Ipswich the following evening.
In the absence of Ljung the Hammers will have to utilise the ’Rider Replacement’ facility to cover his rides in this evening’s match. That will mean that Kauko Nieminen will be able to take an additional ride with the remaining three rides covered by the reserves Stuart Robson and Chris Neath although Jon Cook, the Hammers Team Manager, has also booked in Czech Republic rider Lubos Tomicek as their No.8 for the evening. The Czech rider could take any of Ljung’s rides if required to do so and, therefore, gives Cook further options available to him.
The Essex based Club were initially looking to put on some additional racing this evening prior to the main League match involving the Junior Hammers riders but due to some of these being sidelined through injury that will have to be delayed until later in the season. This will, however, give some of the senior riders the opportunity to get in some practice earlier in the day although it is anticipated that at least one youngster will be putting in some demonstration laps prior to the start of the tonight’s meeting.
This evening’s vital match against Wolverhampton will start at the usual time of 8pm. The ‘Kids for a Quid’ scheme will be in operation whereby children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive will pay just £1 to watch top quality Speedway .
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