TEAM Manager Sam Ermolenko has called for a bigger all-round effort in the pits as Birmingham\u2019s wait for a win goes on.<\/p>\n
After some early encouraging signs against reigning champions Sheffield and last year\u2019s runners-up Ipswich, many had high hopes heading into Monday night\u2019s home contest with Oxford.<\/p>\n
But the Curtis Sport Brummies carried too many passengers with Tom Brennan and outgoing team member Scott Nicholls scoring more than half of their points as they were beaten 48-42.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m disappointed but my seven riders are equally disappointed, it got away from us,\u201d Ermolenko said.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen you rely on a team to come together on a night, when they\u2019re relying on their own team mechanically wise to do their jobs, some things kind of get overlooked a little bit.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen your guys are losing big points at the beginning, you have to ask \u2018what\u2019s different to last week?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLast week we were making starts, this week we weren\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWith Oxford, the size of the tracks we\u2019ve got are similar and Oxford probably had a little bit of a closer set-up than Sheffield.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSome of my riders don\u2019t need me to tell them that we need more from them so I explained to the guys, keep your heads up, think about it and we\u2019ll see what we can do next.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Brummies are back in action this Thursday (April 4, 7.30) when they travel to King\u2019s Lynn in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership.<\/p>\n ROWE MOTOR OIL PREMIERSHIP R1<\/strong><\/p>\n BIRMINGHAM 42: Scott Nicholls 15+1, Tom Brennan 13+1, Vaclav Milik 4, Leon Flint 3+2, Zach Cook 3+1, Steve Worrall 2, Wiktor Lampart 2.<\/p>\n OXFORD 48: Rohan Tungate 14+1, Charles Wright 11+2, Chris Harris 10+1, Lewis Kerr 6+3, Nicolai Klindt 6+1, Ashton Boughen 1+1, Maciej Janowski R\/R.<\/p>\n Oxford win the aggregate point 95-85.<\/p>\n Words and Image by Birmingham Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TEAM Manager Sam Ermolenko has called for a bigger all-round effort in the pits as Birmingham\u2019s wait for a win goes on. After some early encouraging signs against reigning champions Sheffield and last year\u2019s runners-up Ipswich, many had high hopes heading into Monday night\u2019s home contest with Oxford. But the Curtis Sport Brummies carried too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,52],"tags":[22,8,9,90],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-speedway","category-speedway","category-the-premiership","tag-birmingham-brummies","tag-british-speedway","tag-speedway","tag-the-premiership"],"yoast_head":"\n