This Weekend's Teams
(Posted 03/10/07)

With meetings home and away against both Redcar and Edinburgh this weekend, there are a few team changes for all three sides from the norm.

At Redcar on Thursday night, Jason Lyons of Birmingham guests for the Tigers whilst Redcar will operate rider replacement for Matt Tresarrieu. the Bears did have injury concerns over Gary Havelock and James Grieves but both have been declared fit to ride.

One of those injury worries, James Grieves, will swap race jackets on Friday night as he takes the guest booking for Glasgow in the Scottish Cup at Armadale. Edinburgh meantime are expected to use rider replacement for the injured Andrew Tully and have called on the services of Paul Clews of Newcastle and Redcar's Dan Giffard to ride in the reserve slots.

Moving on to Sunday, and Jason Lyons returns again to guest in place of Shane for both meetings. Redcar are expected to be without Josh Auty again as his Conference League team Scunthorpe require him to ride in their meeting against Scunthorpe. If they are unsuccessful in persuading Scunthorpe to change their mind, the only option open to them is to use a Conference League guest. Nothing has been announced on this front which makes it seem likely Redcar are still trying to persuade Scunthorpe to allow him to ride at Ashfield. Rider replacement will once again be used for Tresarrieu.

For Edinburgh, Dan Giffard will again be riding at reserve meaning he will also be doing two meetings on the day. They cannot call on Paul Clews again however as he is in action with Newcastle at Brough Park and they are understood to have instead enlisted the services of Arlo Bugeja.