The Birmingham Brummies have signed former Premiership winner Michael Palm Toft as a temporary replacement for Steve Worrall.<\/p>\n
With the skipper sidelined for up to a month with an ongoing illness, the Curtis Sport Brummies have moved to bring in the experienced Dane who has himself recently returned from injury.<\/p>\n
Club CEO Nigel Tolley said: \u201cFirstly, we wish Stevie a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis case of Labyrinthitis certainly sounds a nasty one and having listened to doctors, he needs to take a month or so off.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe know we struggle running rider replacement as a team and there are a lot of busy Premiership racenights on the horizon.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo rather than stressing about guest bookings, as a management team our preference was to sign a temporary replacement for Stevie.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMichael was someone who I spoke to in general conversation when he visited Perry Barr a few weeks ago and his general approach to his racing is something I like.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe made a successful return from injury for Scunthorpe the other week and he was really keen to get back into the top league.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s got that opportunity now so hopefully he can bring a bit of consistency to that second string position and I think he\u2019ll gel into the team quite well.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYes he comes in on a 4.65 average but as Ipswich, King\u2019s Lynn and Sheffield will tell you, riders on heat-leader averages just aren\u2019t out there at the minute and that\u2019s why we\u2019re currently way under the limit.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to welcoming Michael into the Brummies team though and we\u2019ll look at where the team are at when Stevie has recovered from his illness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Palm Toft will make his debut when the Brummies host champions Sheffield on Monday (July 22, 7.30pm) where Tom Brennan, who bagged himself a gold medal last weekend as part of Great Britain\u2019s Speedway of Nations winning squad, will take up the captaincy in the meantime.<\/p>\n Words and Images by Birmingham Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Birmingham Brummies have signed former Premiership winner Michael Palm Toft as a temporary replacement for Steve Worrall. With the skipper sidelined for up to a month with an ongoing illness, the Curtis Sport Brummies have moved to bring in the experienced Dane who has himself recently returned from injury. Club CEO Nigel Tolley said: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2625,"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-2624","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