Arena stage double-header on Friday.

The Arena Hammers face Stoke in a Premier League match immediately followed by Elite League Peterborough in the British League Cup at Purfleet on Friday. Instead of the normal 15 heats of racing the Hammers supporters will be able to witness a total of 30 heats. In view of this the first race will start half an hour earlier at 7.30 p.m.

The Hammers are expecting to be at full strength for the visit of the Stoke. Dane Henning Bager has recovered from the hand injury sustained at Ipswich a couple of weeks ago and takes his place back at No. 2 in the line-up. Finn Joonas Kylmakorpi is expected to have got over the virus that affected him last week and Daniel King has recovered from the injury incurred when he took a nasty looking fall at Sheffield in the Hammers Cup match.

Given the two teams respective League positions, the match should provide the A F Stocktaking Hammers with a comfortable victory but it could turn out to be a closer contest than many might expect. The Hammers won up at Stoke earlier in the season by 48-44 and they will be looking to gain all three League points available.

In the second part of this double-header the Hammers take on Peterborough from the Elite League. The only change to the Hammers team for this match will be the inclusion of Matthew Wright at No. 7 in place of Daniel King, who is Cup-tied with Ipswich. At the present time Peterborough have still to announce their team for this match. However, it is likely that they will include Shane Parker and Paul Fry together with, possibly, Gary Havelock.