A couple of loan spells as a teenager apart, Hobart Buus has spent his entire career with Brighton. The 29 year old is now in his 14th season on the books of the Sharks, but he expects to be racing with them for another decade, and that’s a minimum: “Why not? I feel fitter than ever, and as long as they want me, I’ll be here.” Nick Ward will certainly want him given his continued consistent high scoring, he has averaged over nine in each of the past seven seasons, leading the club to five trophies in that period. There’s no doubting the high point for Buus and the Sharks, they landing the league, European Cup and Division One Cup treble in SL33, the sort of success the Dane is keen to bring back to the club two years on. If consistency in team selection is a factor, than Brighton are in for another good season, Buus part of an unchanged top three to take to the track in SL35, one which is completed by Klement Kobza and Ruda Pala. All have been in excellent form in pre-season, with Kobza and Buus averaging well over ten in the warm-up fixtures to date, meetings that Brighton have been victorious in all of. Vaclav Kasper is the only major addition made by Ward to the squad, the 22 year old making the switch from second division Dover to Brighton for £100,000. So far so good for the newly arrived second string, who has more than played his part in the winning run. Pressure has been relieved somewhat on Kasper by the strong scoring at reserve from English youngsters Luke Butcher and Alex Shelton, having come through the junior ranks the two are making the sort of impact that make Brighton serious challenger’s for silverware.