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Kelvin can't see Poole defeating the Eagles on Monday night

Posted: 09th May 2008 15:18

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Scott Nicholls is back now and riding well, but the problem is that the Eagles as a whole are not riding well.

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Poole Pirates are building momentum; they did remarkably well against Swindon beating the Elite League leaders convincingly, and all this with some serious injuries to their original squad.

Bjarne Pedersen, their number one man, got hurt last week at Coventry and Krzysztof Kasprzak has come in to replace him and did a good job.

I think they'll be okay despite the loss of Pedersen.

On the evidence of their win over the Robins on Monday night I see no reason to suggest that they can't win meetings home and away without Bjarne as I can see Kasprzak covering for him ably.

The Pirates are an ambitious team and I think that they have put together a team that they fully expect to be winning things this year, so they'll be looking to go to Eastbourne and pick up points for sure.

Crunch

This is a crunch meeting in many respects as certainly Eastbourne will expect to beat Poole, a team that have ambitions to finish in the top four at the very least, that's the sort of venue they'll be looking to go to and try and win at.

With no bonus point up for grabs now you can't go into meetings with two opportunities to pick up points, it's all about winning and losing this year.

And for that reason alone, Poole have got to be going to Eastbourne thinking about turning them over.

Bright start

The Eagles started the season very brightly, we saw them in the opening match of the season at Coventry live on Sky Sports and they won there.

Subsequently that night Scott Nicholls got hurt so they missed him for a few weeks.

But Nicholls is back now and riding well, but the problem is that the team as a whole is not riding well.

They've lost a bit of confidence in the middle order and if Poole turn up and go as well as they did last Monday night it could be very, very close.

The Eagles only managed to beat the Robins by two points at home last week, so at the moment they are a little bit vulnerable.

Kelvin's Call

HOME WIN: A big meeting for both teams this one, I expect it to be a great evening - I'm going for the Eagles by about four to six points.

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Clint Ellis says...

Hope Kelvin Tatum is eating is words. Even without Davey Watt the Pirates were outstanding. All credit to the management team to capture Zorro and Krystoff to replace the injured Bjarne and Zabik What would the result have been if Davey a Eastbourne track specialist had been racing ? Bring on Belle Vue on Wednesday, another home win !!!!!!!!!

Posted 21:06 13th May 2008