Point Required At Ashfield

PREVIEW Sunday 31st July 2022, 1:52pm

by Graham Muncie

  Edinburgh Monarchs

The task is known as the What the Fork Monarchs head to Ashfield on Sunday looking to progress to the final of the Jubilee League.

Glasgow's victory at Berwick on Saturday night means that the Monarchs require a minimum of 1 point if they are to pip their biggest rivals to the showpiece one day event final at Sheffield later in the season.

The home men know there job is simply to stop the Monarchs getting to 42 points on the day and it will be them that will be final bound.

Both teams go into the match missing their number 1's Sam Masters and Craig Cook after that horrible first bend crash at Armadale on Friday night. Poole's Richard Lawson steps in for Cook while Scunthorpe man Ryan Douglas comes in for Masters.

Elsewhere the line-ups are as expected with Lasse Fredriksen riding through the hand injury he sustained on Friday in the same incident while for Glasgow Danyon Hume and Ulrich Ostergaard ride through the pain barrier also after spills over the weekend.

This is of course the Monarchs 3rd visit to Ashfield this year with 46-44 and 52-38 defeats so far, a repeat of the former would do the job for the Monarchs, but the Tigers tails are up so the task ahead is a big one.

Tapes up at 3pm with live updates available on the Monarchs website

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