Eastbourne discard Joe Screen today told the Eagles: "You should sell me while the going is good."

Screen has recovered from a shoulder injury to line up for table-topping Belle Vue Aces as they host Eastbourne in tonight's skybet Elite League play-off semi-final.

His tussle with out-of-sorts Davey Watt is being described a key to the contest by Jon Cook.

The Eagles promoter rates Screen, 32, so highly he is asking for "a low five-figure fee" if Aces want to turn his loan into a permanent move.

But the former Eastbourne rider insisted: "It makes no difference to a rider who owns them. The way speedway is, you can be dumped tomorrow.

"I learned that when I was sacked by Eastbourne. I don't think I'll be riding for Eastbourne again.

"We've spoken about a transfer and I know what the asking price is.

"If Jon Cook wants decent money for me while I'm still young and doing okay, he's best off selling me quick."

Eagles are being given no chance of going through by anyone other than their most ardent fans tonight.

They crashed 59-35 on their last visit to Belle Vue just three weeks ago and Screen reckons that defeat will be playing on Eastbourne minds.

He said: "It will have a bearing. We will have more confidence than the Eastbourne riders.

"Eastbourne haven't won at Belle Vue for a long time and we are strong at home.

"It's a totally different track here to Arlington, from the start to the straights.

"I'm not saying Eastbourne can't raise their game but they will be thinking about the last time they came to us.

"Jon Cook and (co-promoter) Trevor Geer are decent people and shrewd characters, though.

"They will kick their riders' backsides and get them pumped up. It's going to be hard."

Eagles will not have the injured Nicki Pedersen after he struggled in the Italian GP over the weekend.

Mark Loram replaces the Dane with Eagles operating rider-replacement for David Norris.

Aces are without injured Kenneth Bjerre and Screen has set them a target of ten points from their four replacement rides.

The line all summer from the Eagles camp has been that, if they travel in the play-offs, Belle Vue is the place they fancy going to.

That theory seemed to have been blown out of the water when they were embarrassed live on Sky last month.

But Cook reckons the return of Adam Shields, who, like Screen, missed that thrashing, could be key.

Shields is riding with a plate and ten screws holding his right shoulder together but has been in great form since returning to action just three weeks after breaking his collarbone.

He took a paid 41 points from 17 rides last week as Eagles got through three matches in four nights.

Then, on what should have been his night off, Shields helped his Swedish club Vargarna get the home win they desperately needed over Loram's Piraterna to avoid relegation from the top flight.

Shields spent much of his three week lay-off with his feet up playing computer games as he let his injury heal.

But he insisted: "I don't feel like I lost anything when I was away.

"I felt like I was coming back into form before I had the crash and, apart from being a bit rusty on my comeback at Peterborough. I've slotted straight back in.

"I watched the last last meeting we had at Belle Vue on TV.

"The track didn't look to be in good condition and it caught a few of the guys out.

"With no Nicki, we'll be looking to Mark Loram. We've all got to do our bits as well but you need a strong No. 1 rider and Nicki has been that for us this year."