ALUN Rossiter is hopeful that he’ll soon be able to lift the lid on the latest recruit to join Swindon Robins battalion for next season.

On Tuesday, the Robins announced their first winter signing ahead of the 2016 campaign, with reserve Charles Wright returning for a second successive season.

Boss Rossiter is delighted to have once again secured 27-year-old Wright’s services and has his fingers crossed that his club will be able to announce the second rider to join their line-up for next year in the very near future.

“I’ve got one rider buttoned down and now I’m trying to get another one. Hopefully we can announce something in the next week or so,” said the Robins team manager.

“I need to try to get my heat leaders sorted so then I know what I have to work with in the rest of the middle order.

“(A second reserve) is still something I am working on. When I know what way I am going at the top, then it’ll give me a better idea of what I can do at the bottom. “ “Charles did fantastically for us, certainly towards the end of the season.

“It was a bit difficult at the start as we didn’t have a lot of communication with Somerset (Wright’s Premier League club), so there were times where we weren’t sure what was happening with him.

“But we are working on that for next season and we are doing that as a league in general, just to try and make everything smother for everyone.

“He didn’t look out of place and he was leading Andreas Jonsson in heat 15 of the semi-final (against Belle Vue Aces) as I sent him out ahead of Troy (Batchelor).

“He was good for us and we’re pleased to have him back.”

Australian Aaron Summers, who joined the Robins mid-season in August, has rubber-stamped his Premier League future by re-signing for Glasgow Tigers.

Meanwhile, Rossiter has backed Keith Chapman’s appointment as the British Speedway Promoters’ Association’s new chairman in the wake of the latest section of the national authority’s AGM, which took place on Tuesday.

King’s Lynn Stars promoter Chapman replaces Alex Harkness, who has been made the BPSA’s president.

The Swindon chief said: “I know Keith well, he is a good guy and I am sure he will do a good job.

“Alex did a fantastic job but was having to put out fires all the time. It wasn’t always a bed of roses for him but he did really well.

“Alex had been doing it for six years and maybe now was the right time for a change.

“A fresh face and a fresh look at things might do us the world of good. I’m looking forward to what can happen in the future.”