POOLE boss Danny Ford is looking for the “right result” to push on for the top of the Cab Direct Championship.
The Pirates take on Edinburgh at Wimborne Road tonight, live on BSN.
The Pirates are currently fourth but have matches in hand on the teams above them, and they are also 100 per cent at home this season.
However, the Monarchs performed well on their previous trip to Dorset in the Cab Direct KO Cup, going down by just nine points, and they are seeking a rapid improvement after Tuesday’s heavy defeat at Plymouth.
Poole welcome Tobias Thomsen back from injury but Vinnie Foord is out with a fractured wrist so Max Perry – the rider replaced by Foord recently – gets another chance to impress.
Pirates promoter Dan Ford said: “Just like any meeting in the Cab Direct Championship we really need to produce the right result, and that means giving ourselves a healthy lead to assist in the quest for the aggregate point.
“We know first-hand what Edinburgh are capable of, and ideally we would have had our full team together for this one, but that is not to be the case.
“We are calling on Max Perry for this meeting and I am sure that he will be relishing the opportunity to show us more of the stuff that we saw last Wednesday.”
Edinburgh boss John Campbell slammed his team as “embarrassing” after a heavy defeat at Plymouth.
The Stellar Monarchs crashed to a 54-34 Cab Direct Championship defeat on a difficult night in Devon.
In the early stages the track conditions were unpredictable and the starting tapes failed which clearly upset the away side.
Campbell said: “I came here believing we had a very good chance of the win and the bonus point and to be so heavily beaten simply isn't good enough.
“OK, the track at the start of the meeting is unsettling, the lack of starting gates is unsettling but we actually started OK then the way we were brushed aside was embarrassing.
“Without Josh Pickering and just behind him Lasse Fredriksen it would have been even more embarrassing.
“It is difficult and you don't want to criticise tracks as a bad night can happen to anyone and same with the starting gates that can happen anywhere.
“Although I'm led to believe it happens here more than most but we can't control any of that, what we can control is our own performance and that's what needs looked at.”
POOLE: Richard Lawson, Tobias Thomsen, Ben Cook, Zach Cook, Tom Brennan, Sam Hagon, Max Perry.
EDINBURGH: Josh Pickering, Kye Thomson, Lasse Fredriksen, Paco Castagna, Justin Sedgmen, Max James, Connor Coles.
Words by Holeshot Media.
Images by Taylor Lanning.