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Players are not performing up to expectation and changes are on the cards

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"Players are not performing up to expectation and changes are on the cards." Leopards won their opening fixture at Newcastle Eagles, but last weekend's defeat at Sheffield Sharks was followed by the dismal showing against Derby. "I've got to find another 20 points from somewhere and we have to consider whether we have the right mix of players," Mims said. The champion's dismal start reached crisis level with the midweek 90- 84 home defeat against the unbeaten leaders, Derby Storm. JUST THREE games into the new Budweiser League season and the Greater London Leopards coach, Billy Mims, is threatening to make changes to his team even before tomorrow's meeting with last season's runners- up, Birmingham Bullets. Anyone with a blood concentration, known as the haematocrit level, which exceeds 50 per cent is considered unfit to race.A high haematocrit level could be caused by a variety of reasons, one of which is doping with erythropoietin, EPO, which enhances the oxygen- carrying capacity of the blood. EPO use was at the root of the drugs purge on the Tour de FranceThe decision means neither rider can be selected for the world road championships at Valkenburg, the Netherlands, from October 6.. Spain's Daniel Clavero, who was lying seventh, was thrown out of the race before yesterday's 20th stage in Segovia.

TWO RIDERS were expelled from the Tour of Spain yesterday after failing blood tests. The club's chairman, Nick Irvine, said yesterday: "We are looking to the man who has coached the USA and South Africa to the Olympics to get us back into the National League." Featherstone, who has initially given himself two years to obtain success with the club, will be at the helm tomorrow when they play Chesterfield in the first round of the EH Cup.Old Georgians is another club with National League ambitions and they entertain Horley in the Cup tomorrow having won their Preliminary round game away to Oxshott 4-0.Paul Way, who last season featured in Teddington's European Cup campaign, has joined the Surrey side as their player-coach and will line up alongside another notable signing, Mahmood Bhatti, the former England and East Grinstead striker. With an array of former National League players in the squad Old Georgians could pose a difficult challenge.Their neighbours, Old Cranleighans, who reached the quarter-finals of the Cup last season before going down to eventual winners and National League champions Cannock, start their Cup campaign this afternoon away at Hendon.Eastcote play Premier League Guildford in the team's last warm-up game before their National League season.. The 59-year-old opener scored 36,049 runs in first-class cricket, a record for a non-Test player.

He was appointed county coach in 1984.TOUR MATCH (Karachi; first day of four): Australia 438 for 5 (M J Slater 221, S R Waugh 92, M E Waugh 66) v Karachi.. GAVIN FEATHERSTONE, the coach who took Olton's women into the Premier League and Oxford University's men into the National League, is back in business. He has been engaged by former National League club Coventry and North Warwick, who finished in the lower reaches of the DTZ Midland Premier League last season. However, certain individuals will need to be spoken to privately and confidentially before any announcements are made."It now seems that the way is clear for Mike Gatting, who retired at the end of this season, to take over.Alan Jones has retired as Glamorgan's director of coaching after 42 years with the county.

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