Supporters Club News

EAGLES HIT THE AIR WAVES WITH SPECIAL FANS FORUM

Representatives of the Eastbourne Lifestyle Eagles Speedway team will potentially be pitching to a global audience this coming Wednesday as they endeavour to get their message across that Arlington Stadium really is the place to be as the tapes rise and the race for the campaign’s first bend ensues against the Peterborough Panthers in their Grand Opening Challenge match at the Sussex venue on Saturday March 20^th (7.30p.m. start time).

Club co-promoters Mike Bellerby and Trevor Geer together with newly appointed Eagles Captain Cameron Woodward are set to feature on a special fans forum radio phone in programme hosted by Sports Editor Tim Durrans on BBC Sussex on Wednesday evening, March 17^th from 19.05 – 20.00.

The format for the programme will initially take the form of a general discussion with the Eagles contingent outlining their hopes and aspirations for the season ahead but will quickly be handed over to the supporters to have their views and enquiries broadcast over the air waves.

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RISING POLISH STAR COMPLETES EAGLES LINE UP

With their opening Grand Challenge fixture against the Peterborough Panthers now a mere three weeks away, the management of the Eastbourne ‘Lifestyle’ Eagles are pleased, not to mention a little relieved to put to an end the speculation surrounding the identity of their new number seven ahead of the 2010 Elite League campaign.

Poland’s Dawid Lampart, a commonly occurring name on the European and World Under-21 scene can now be revealed as the young man to put pen to paper, and the Sussex club’s promotion are delighted to welcome him to the side, completing what they believe to be a wholly attractive, youthful and cosmopolitan line up and one highly capable of challenging for silverware in the season ahead.

Despite his 19-years, Lampart has packed a great deal into his short career and already he is no stranger to picking up top honours. In the latter part of 2009, he was a member of the Polish side that captured both the Under-19 European Championship and the Under-21 World Cup within the space of three weeks, the latter being won in front of an avid 9500 strong Gorzow crowd, a meeting in which Lampart’s heat 19 victory over Denmark’s (and Wolves) Nicolai Klindt and Eagles own Simon Gustafsson proved crucial.

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ANNOUNCEMENT ON EASTBOURNE’S NEW NUMBER SEVEN IS IMMINENT

Bearing in mind that the clock is ticking towards the Eagles coming to tapes for their opening Challenge match against the Peterborough Panthers, the time for the clubs management to put an end to the conjecture surrounding the identity of their number seven draws ever closer, an announcement to the effect being expected imminently.

It has remained the sports worst kept secret that Eastbourne fully intended to engage the services of Russian World Cup star Denis Gizatullin as the final piece of the jigsaw, subject to the arrival of the required language test certificate. However, with time in short supply and given the continued absence of the required documentation, the clubs bosses have been forced to go with Plan B as they endeavour to put an end to all such speculation and declare their completed line up.

Although Gizatullin’s name is sure to remain etched on the Eastbourne wish list, suggestion from within the club is that the new Eagles recruit is more likely to be of Polish descent rather than Russian. An announcement is finally expected within the next few days.

PROMOTIONAL EVENTS PLANNED FOR THIS COMING WEEKEND

Indeed the club will not be wasting any time in ‘getting the word out there’ with promotional road shows planned on both Saturday and Sunday (27^{th and} 28^th February) this coming weekend. The location for each event will be ASDA on Brighton marina, commencing at 11.00 a.m. and continuing until 3.00 p.m. On each occasion, an Eagles assembly, that will include skipper Cameron Woodward, complete with bike for the ideal photo opportunity, the Eastbourne management team and a group of die hard supporters will be endeavouring to spread the word to fans old and new, past and present – together with those as yet uninitiated in the sport of speedway - that big things are expected down Arlington way and that the Sussex venue is really the place to be throughout 2010.

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