Teams announced for Friday's Platinum Jubilee

NEWS Monday 18th June 2018, 7:00pm

by Toby Lerone

  Edinburgh Monarchs

We are just four days away from the celebration of our seventy years when sixteen present day riders will be joined by dozens of Monarchs stars from the past to celebrate a major occasion in the Club's history.

The Platinum Jubilee Fours will feature the Staggs Bar Monarchs, supported by Douglas Griffin, and starring Ricky Wells, Glasgow's Paul Starke, a member of our original league winning team of 2003, not to forget 2008 and 2010, Matthew Wethers and ever improving Swede Joel Andersson.

They will be up against the John Sommerville Collection Monarchs featuring Same Masters, regular Armadale visitor, Mason Campton, super exciting Josh Pickering and an as yet unnamed replacement for injured Erik Riss.

The Ewen Family Monarchs will be the third team with another of the original league winners of 2003, Rory Schlein, impressive Armadale visitor Richie Worrall, fast rising Norwegian Lasse Fredriksen and our American Max Ruml.

Finally Cat's Monarchs, sponsored by Catrina and Jeff Warren, will feature Mark Riss as a stand in captain for his injured brother, the best Armadale visitor of this season and, probably, many seasons before, Scott Nicholls, a league winner in 2008 and 2010 and on the comeback trail, William Lawson and our most recent signing Coty Garcia.

The top scorer from each team will progress to the Platinum Jubilee Champions Final being the seventeenth race on the programme.

Both heat and rider sponsorships can be purchase by following the link to Tickets on the website with rider sponsors getting to take home the specially prepared, for the night, race jackets.

Throughout the night we will be interviewing many of the celebrities present.

Normal admission prices will apply but the meeting is not part of the Gold Members package and they will be asked to pay the reduced price of Adults £14, Seniors and Students £11, Children 12 to 16 £4 and under 12s free.