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Speedway: Swales: Roynon 'will come back a better rider'
Peterborough Panthers team manager Trevor Swales insists Adam Roynon will be placed under no pressure as he rebuilds his career at the highest level.
Peterborough Panthers team manager Trevor Swales insists Adam Roynon will be placed under no pressure as he rebuilds his career at the highest level.Roynon is widely regarded as one of the best up and coming riders in the country and now has the chance to prove it in his doubling-up role which will guarantee plenty of top-flight outings combined with his full-time Premier League employment at Workington.
Swales said: "All we will ask of Adam is that he gives 100 per cent - no more and no less.
"You can only expect the effort and the rest will come. Maybe he will be tentative to begin with because he has been out for a long time but he's shown in the past that he can come back successfully from a bad injury.
"He's improved every season he's been racing and there will be no pressure on him. We won't be insisting on him scoring big points, if he scores to his average everyone will be happy.
"He's one of Britain's brightest up and coming riders and that's not just a view shared at our club – the last two GB managers have rated him as highly as we do.
"Jim Lynch had called him up to the 2008 World Cup squad when he broke his arm and last year he was injured at the GB training camp in a freak accident when the front wheel came loose and threw him off his bike."
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'Miracle Man' Roynon back on right track, 7 January 2010.
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Swales acknowledges the club have taken a risk by snapping up Roynon, but is adamant he'll come back a better rider.
Swales added: "Every signing has an element of risk about it but we know Adam and we know how he has reacted to previous injuries.
"The good thing is that he doesn't remember anything about the crash at King's Lynn, he can't even remember being in Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
"It's not as if he hasn't been on a bike since being given the all-clear to ride again. We saw him ride again and we know he will come back even better than ever, even though it might take him a little bit of time."
This is not the first time Roynon has signed on the dotted line for Peterborough. He briefly joined the old Pumas junior team back in 2003 but only managed one four-team tournament appearance before the side's demise for financial reasons.
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