Workington Bound

PREVIEW Saturday 23rd April 2016, 3:00pm

by Graham Muncie

  Edinburgh Monarchs

After our hard fought victory last night we travel to Workington tonight in our first away fixture of the Premier League season.

Our recent record at Derwent Park is nothing to write home about and we will have to go some to change that this evening. As we showed at Berwick last week though we are still a force to be reckoned with and if our top boys are firing then who knows what we are capable off.

Workington had the best home record in the Premier League last year and look to have built a team that is designed to carry that on into 2016. The top 3 of Ricky Wells, Kenneth Hansen and Claus Vissing are all masters of the wide open expanses of Derwent Park and our top men will have to go some to match up against them.

As always the key battles for the Monarchs will come at the bottom end as we look to Max, Jye and Dan to manufacture some points up against the Comets trio of Campton, Roynon and Williamson. The Comets trio have started the season off well particularly round their home confines and again there is the potential that this match is coming slightly too soon for our new guys.

Our title winning campaigns of 2003, 2008 and 2010 were built on targeting results at certain tracks and it may be that this tonight is a fixture that we do not have circled as a potential points gainer however there appears to be a steely belief in the camp and with 5 league winners in the Monarchs septet no one will be travelling there expecting any less than a win.

Individually Ryan, Sam and Kevin have all had strong performances round Derwent Park and we will need repeats of these if we are to gain anything this evening.

Full Result Details