By Scott Dougal, PA International

Australian silver medallist Sean Eadie has thrown the gauntlet down to England's team sprinters, dismissing the home riders as soft.

Eadie came second in an Australian sweep of the medal places losing the gold/silver final to Ryan Bayley while Jobie Dajka won the bronze race against England's Jamie Staff.

The trio are likely to make up the Australian line-up for the team sprint with Staff working with Olympic gold medallist Jason Queally and Andy Slater.

Staff, in his first year as a track rider, did well to reach the last four but Eadie believes the Englishmen lack the aggression needed to win sprint events.

He said: "They couldn't race their way out of a one-door room. Jamie Staff, if he races a lot in the next 12 months, he will be awesome.

"But if they came down to Australia they wouldn't stand a chance. The racing you've seen here - that's just a standard Saturday night back home - not in terms of speed but in the intensity and ferocity."

Eadie, who listens to Metallica before races to psyche himself up, is a qualified primary school teacher.