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| |  | BIRMINGHAM CEO Nigel Tolley admits he couldn’t fathom how they let their home lead slip against Oxford on Monday night as they were eventually beaten 47-43.
The Curtis Sport Brummies were four points in front from Heat One through to Heat Eight at Perry Barr before the visitors pulled level and then had the contest wrapped up with a race to spare.
It meant a double May Day defeat for Birmingham as they also went down 49-41 at Cowley earlier the same afternoon.
The Brummies are now the only team without a win in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership as they sit four points adrift at the foot of the table.
Reflecting on their two meetings against the Spires, Tolley said: “The track was so slick down at Oxford it was unbelievable and our riders couldn’t get on with that.
“But up here with the depth greater, I was expecting us to win and get the aggregate point.
“We’ve had temperatures of 24/25 degrees, baking the track with no rain and we just still can’t get the water into the track and we still haven’t got the depth we’d like.
“Our guys like riding the outside of the track; the first half they could successfully do it, but the second half they couldn’t do that because they just hadn’t got the depth of shale on the track.
“But we can blame it on the track as much as we like - I’m very disappointed.
“I think the exclusion in Heat Two with Danyon (Hume) was wrong - we’ve had a look at our video and that doesn’t show any contact and then I don’t know what happened half way through.
“I thought we were on target but things went from bad to worse.
“Craig Cook made that meeting for them tonight - and I’ve got to be quite honest, had things been a little bit different, Craig would’ve been in our team tonight but that’s not the way things worked out on that.”
Brummies now have two weeks out of action in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership before their campaign resumes on May 19 with the second visit of the season of leaders Ipswich.
BIRMINGHAM 43: Tobiasz Musielak 11+1, Michael Jepsen Jensen 10+2, Paco Castagna 7+1, Jason Edwards 7+1, Keynan Rew 6, Jonas Jeppesen 2, Danyon Hume 0.
OXFORD 47: Craig Cook 15, Erik Riss 8+1, Maciej Janowski 7, Peter Kildemand 7, Charles Wright 4+3, Rohan Tungate 3+1, Luke Killeen 3+1.
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