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| Thursday 17th May 2012 |
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| Thursday 17th May 2012 |
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| Thursday 17th May 2012 |
Harris back to help out AcesCHRIS Harris, Belle Vue’s captain last season, has jumped into the void caused by the injury to current skipper and No 1, Rory Schlein. Harris, who returned to Coventry during the winter, offered to help the Autogate Aces out of a hole after the news came out that Schlein had broken a bone in his left foot during last Monday’s home match against Birmingham. He will guest in the rearranged home fixture against Eastbourne at Kirkmanshulme Lane next Monday (7-30pm) and has made himself available for any other matches if his diary is clear. Schlein is expected to be out for up to a month, although he won't need an operation to plate the fracture, and team manager Jim Lynch is hoping to arrange a series of guest replacements before they get booked elsewhere. Lynch said: “I am so grateful to Chris, as well as his club Coventry and boss Colin Pratt, for being so willing to help us out. “Not only have they agreed to allow Chris to guest for us but they have said we can ask any of their other riders if we want.” Lynch also had a vote of thanks for another former Aces skipper, Denmark’s Hans Andersen, who also offered to help out when he heard of Schlein’s injury. He added: “Hans sent a message via his manager, Mick Bratley, saying he’d help whenever he could. I am very grateful because that kind of cooperation I’ve had from Chris and Hans makes a difficult job so much easier. We owe both of them our thanks.” Schlein has been told by his specialist that he won't need an operation to plate the broken bone in his foot but he will be having another X-ray. Lynch makes two other changes for next Monday’s match when the Aces seek their first win of the season after six defeats. Charlie Gjedde comes back after rushing home to Denmark because of a family illness and Aussie Josh Grajczonek returns at No 7 in place of Denmark’s Claus Vissing. The Aces’ boss explained: “I am rotating them as far as possible in an effort to be fair to both of them. “Both of them have been doing a good job for us as Grajczonek scored 10 in his last match against King’s Lynn while Vissing got nine in his first appearance of the season last Monday.” The match will also see the second outing of Polish new boy, Artur Mroczka, who made an impressive eight-point debut in the Birmingham match, including a heat win. Lynch added: "In our situation of being without Gjedde and then Schlein, we needed Artur to get stuck in from the word go, instead of having a meeting or two to get going, and that's what he did." Recent signing Ales Dryml will face his brother and fellow Czech international Lukas. Eastbourne look likely to be without star man, Joonas Kylmakorpi, who remains on the sidelines having suffered a setback in his recovery from a shoulder injury when he went for practice. He said: “I had been feeling pretty good before the practice started. It’s always different when you get on the bike, though, with all the vibration.” BELLE VUE: C Harris, A Dryml, A Mroczka, P Hougaard, C Gjedde, L Eklof, J Grajczonek. |