Cellar dwelling Wolves building up

Cellar dwellers Wolves will try to build for the future rather than implement a quick fix for the current speedway season.

Monday's home defeat by Lakeside left the club cemented in the Elite League's bottom spot and prompted team manager Peter Adams to admit

publicly that the relegation play-offs are looming.

Club owner Chris Van Straaten, having drafted in Jesper B Monberg for the injured Christian Hefenbrock, is ruling out further changes – for now.

He said: "Our hands are really tied. There are a number of riders now hawking themselves around who don't see any long-term future in Britain.

"They want to come and do a few matches in Britain now because it suits their diary. But they won't be available next year.

"If we were chasing the top four it's probably something that, with a degree of cynicism, you would look at – because other clubs would.

"I don't think that's the route we should go down. But my position might change in a couple of weeks."

At the other end of the scale, Van Straaten is reluctant to blood young, developing riders who might be out of their depth.

He said: "I've got one or two four-point riders in the pipeline who aren't ready for Elite League right now.

"I don't know whether it's right to throw them into a losing team. You need to put that kind of rider into a team that's winning, where everybody is rushing around helping each other."

Van Straaten, with 20 years plus at the promotional helm at Wolves, is nonplussed by the team's inconsistent form.

He said: "We rode the week before and it was one of the best speedway meetings I'd ever seen. We beat Swindon and they went to Lakeside and won. Then we lost to Lakeside."