Last updated 19:38, Thursday, 15 May 2008

WORKINGTON Comets expect to have number one rider Daniel Nermark in their line-up for tomorrow’s Derwent Park clash with Scunthorpe.

Nermark missed last Saturday’s meeting because he was injured but then rode in Poland just 24 hours later.

He has since ridden in Sweden on Tuesday night and was scheduled to race there last night.

Comets team boss Ian Thomas and owner Keith Denham plan to have words with Nermark tomorrow.

Comets will have to use rider replacement for 20-year-old Barry Burchatt, seriously injured in a grasstrack smash at Ashford when he was involved in a big pile up.

Scunthorpe will be without heat leader Richard Hall who is taking part in a qualifying heat for the World Longtrack Championship.

In his place Scunthorpe have booked Joel Parsons, a rider who has had his brushes with the Workington fans in recent years because of incidents on the track.

Parson comes in at No5 for Hall who scored nine points for the Scorpions in their home win last Friday.

Comet Carl Stonehewer top-scored as a guest for Glasgow Tigers when they lost 52-40 at Birmingham Brummies on Wednesday night.

Stonehewer, who had also guested for the Tigers on Sunday, was kept busy as he was given six races.

He only won one of them, but scored four points for earning a second going in as a tactical substitute off 15 metre handicap and was put into the nominated riders race at the end, earning the Tigers point in a 5-1 to the Brummies.

Stonehewer, who finished with 14 points, and Ross Brady (13) and Robert Ksiezak (9), carried the Glasgow effort.

After June 1, Workington will move Joe Haines up to number four, he will be included in the rider replacement facility along with Charles Wright and John Branney.