SWINDON Robins have swooped to sign title-winning rider Jason Doyle on a full transfer from Poole, but the Australian will not be part of the club’s Elite League title defence in 2013.

The signing of Pole Kacper Gomolski on a 3.90 average means the Elite League champions can no longer fit the trio of Hans Andersen, Troy Batchelor and Doyle into their 2013 side, with the latter the man to make way due to issues over his availability.

With Doyle and his fellow new Excalibur Robins asset Nick Morris for Somerset in the Premier League next year, having two riders absent on the same evening would see a patched-up Swindon side taking to the track on several occasions throughout the campaign.

The Blunsdon side are still keen to bring back Andersen and Batchelor for next season, and while team manager Alun Rossiter is disappointed not to have been able to use Doyle, he insisted the Australian still has a big role to play in the club’s future.

“In an ideal world I would have liked to have been able to bring all three of them back into the side, but for various reasons that can’t really happen,” he said.

“Jason was great for us last season and played a key role in us winning the league, and it is a real shame that we won’t be able to come back for next year, and if it was possible I would have had him in the team all day long.

“But with Nick and Jason likely to be doubling up with the same club it makes things tricky because missing both of them for the same meeting will be hard to fill.

“When you win the league like we did it just makes you hungrier for more success, and there were times last season when Jason was missing where we would have been a lot stronger if we had him in our side.

“I will try my best to make sure he can get fixed up somewhere else in the Elite League, and I am sure there will be teams interested in him.

“But he certainly has a future with Swindon in the long-term, and he is the type of rider you want to have.”

Meanwhile, the Advertiser understands Poole have offered a contract to Robins asset Maciej Janowski for 2013, which could see the Pole make the move to Wimborne Road either on loan or as a permanent asset of the Pirates.