Monarchs Ready To Charge

PREVIEW Friday 27th July 2018, 3:05pm

by Graham Muncie

  Edinburgh Monarchs

It's back to action for the Staggs Bar Monarchs this week as we welcome the Redcar Bears to Armadale in the hunt for Championship points.

Last weekend saw the annual mid season break for the team with the Pairs/Cardiff GP weekend being enjoyed by many of the Blue and Gold faithful now it's time to refocus and get the points on the board required to propel us back towards the playoff positions.

It is starting to look like 3 of the 4 spots are all but taken with Lakeside, Peterborough and Workington having secured a good chunk of away points so far. The Monarchs currently sit in 9th but with the joint least amount of matches raced so far so it is very much still in our hands but there is still work to do.

That work starts tonight as the Bears head north looking to kick start their own season in a different way. The Teesiders currently sit rock bottom of the league and are on the back of another home defeat on Thursday night this time at the hands of the Ipswich Witches. It is hard to tell why this is the case as on paper the Bears are a solid looking outfit this being witnessed by picking up a point at Ipswich last week.

While the Monarchs should be favourites to claim all the points it will not be an easy task with a host of entertainers in the visitor's line-up. A heat leader trio of Ben Barker, Thomas Jorgensen and Jonas B Andersen all being combative Armadale performers. With back up from impressive newcomer Jordan Stewart and former Monarch Tobias Busch alongside young and improving Dmitri Berge and Jonas's brother Mikkel and an easy night is not in prospect.

Of course for the Monarchs this meeting also sees the home debuts (or latest debut as the case may be) of Richie Worrall and Max Clegg. The hope from these changes being that Richie will bring the heat leader back up that has been missing at times to Erik and Ricky while Clegg looks to get his year on track after a difficult time at Lakeside and Rye House. We will also look to our Swedish duo of Victor and Joel to keep up their recent good form and with Josh continuing to excel in the main body of the team and off the back of a strong guest performance at Scunthorpe last week the team now looks set for a charge up the table.

To do that 3 points will be required this week, can the boys do it. There is only one place to be to find out and that's trackside.

See you there!

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