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Agreed, the Plymouth riders attacked the track a lot more, none more so than Dan Gilkes who had a tremendous meeting up until the unfortunate accident, we were having good banter with a Plymouth supporter in front of us who turned out to be Dan Gilkes grandad who was with 2 lasses, obviously they were visibly upset rushing to the pits so not only best wishes to Dan Gilkes for a speedy recovery but to his family as well.

Well It’s hard and I am proud of Kelvin for stepping up to the plate. The show must go on and all that. It’s going to take a bit of time to get going. Well done to Chris Louis stepping into Kelvins shoes and Kelvin for stepping into Scoops. Not easy and I commend their efforts. I hope there’s no moaning about commentary. If there is they deserve any crap aimed at them.

Russian nor Belarus tennis players will not be at Wimbledon tennis this year. I have said it on here before, there is a strong link between Polish and Ukraine citizens, a lot stronger then you may think. And the hatred for Russia now is quite strong. Likely to continue until the population in Russia open their eyes and realise they have a one man government.

As proved in other sports Russians are still competing, its virtue signalling and history will not be kind to speedway, whoever the decision is is irrelevant, it’s wrong and quite frankly I’m disgusted in the other riders to not speaking out about it

Maybe it's been erased

You just stick to looking at the updates and don’t bother giving an opinion on a meeting you didn’t attend, was plenty of passing, but it rained for 5 hours straight, so of course it’s not going to be normal track conditions, but that doesn’t suit your agenda does it

Yes, all very enjoyable. Zmarzlik will take some beating though, to state the obvious. Can’t wait to go to one live again but meanwhile the tv coverage was indeed excellent. Kelvin and Chris are a good team, especially tonight under the circumstances, hope Chris continues in the role as he provides some interesting insights. And a big thank you to everyone whose first language isn’t English. We take it for granted but I wish I could be so fluent in a foreign tongue.

Kelvin I feel for you. Very hard night. Thoughts are with you. Very brave to do this.

Broken arm, 5 busted ribs and a collapsed lung for young Gilkes!! Get well soon young man.

That's not how two ambulances work. If the paramedic is busy/has to go with the rider racing can't continue. The only solution is an extra paramedic but you're talking a lot of money

I think we should have more than enough to cover for him at home whilst he gets to grips with it but he is more important away as that is where the twin’s generally struggle at the moment.

"Regulation is the controlling of an activity or process, usually by means of rules."

You really are some kind of special stupid, your hatred of Godfrey won't cloud an inaccurate statement eh. There is medical cover at Scunthorpe but like all tracks they have to wait for a county ambulance, stabilise the patient etc... So Gilkes was put in the Scunthorpe ambulance with medical cover until he could be transferred, whilst waiting for the transfer there is no other medical cover and the racing has to wait.

As I said listen to both sides and make your own judgment, when your informed from one side and the other is banned, that should raise your curiosity at least, I’m not defending Russia or Putin or Ukraine but I will say all is not what we are being told to think (again)

Yes he was mentioned and spoken about by Kelvin during the buildup, and also a period of Silence and applause after the national anthem.

Well that was impressive all round…Discovery certainly took the sport forward with that production..and Kelvin Tatum and Chris Louis were excellent Everything looked very professional and a great advert for speedway its up to the other riders to compete with Zmarzlik and I for one never tire of watching him ride and he is probably the most exciting rider I have watched since my time of starting watching in the mid 70s

Our friends in the East appear to have got a march on us in at least a couple of areas recently: streaming and investment in local youth.

Zmarzlik will win every round of the GP series this season imo. I thought the new presentation of the series was top notch.

I personally think both Tatum and Louis are excellent, but as sidekick summarisers. Neither is right for the lead commentary role and they’re gonna have to find someone to fill that particular role I think. Tatum is trying, but struggling to generate his usual enthusiasm and that’s totally understandable. Seems a bit flat today bless him.

It’s is disgusting that laguta and sayfutinov are not on the series, history will not be kind to speedway over this

Welcome back Matej, no doubt the lower deck lawyers will soon find another cause.

Practice pics: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/2215/fotoreportage-kwalificatie-training-speedway-gp-in-gorican

See the racecard thread

Draw after qualification: 1. Jason Doyle 2. Robert Lambert 3. Jack Holder 4. Patryk Dudek 5. Bartosz Zmarzlik 6. Paweł Przedpelski 7. Matej Zagar 8. Martin Vaculik 9. Mikkel Michelsen 10. Fredrik Lindgren 11. Anders Thomsen 12. Leon Madsen 13. Dan Bewley 14. Max Fricke 15. Tai Woffinden 16. Maciej Janowski

Perhaps Roger has not been following the thread? Otherwise, I'm sure he'll have noted the irony of Mike's entire post.

Anyway back to last night's slaughter in the sunshine . It was as impressive performance as I've seen from the Tigers at Armadale , solid from 1 to 7 . The highlight being Danyon's win over Masters . Praise to the track too , it was as good and fair as I've seen it there 51-39 is normally quite a comprehensive away win , and it was , though it does actually flatter the Monarchs as they got the majority of their race wins once the meeting was over as a contest . None more so than Kye Thomsen's heat 14 win . He was well off the pace all night before popping out to win that race easily . Edinburgh's choice of waiting till heat 11 before putting a t/s in against Cook was quite baffling . But all in all it was a brilliant night for us on the third bend

Firstly, its not nice to see a mate get hurt like that, speedy recovery Dan mate - that was an awful crash. Fair play to the Gladiators, better team on the night won.. Great choice of guests by Plymouth management. Also, a quick thankyou to Ben Barker who came into Scorpions TV Media Center and had our first ever live on the spot interview

Our commentators do a brilliant job considering the budget we work to. They don't have abundance of data or someone keeping them informed. Just the track in front of them and a TV with the stream before it's transmitted.

Edinburgh if you’re wanting to be factually correct!

Rotten luck Plymouth losing Gilkes with a suspected broken arm. He has been excellent this season and I for one wish him a speedy recovery. Plymouth will certainly miss him on Tuesday and he will be irreplaceable. Get well soon.

He's well beyond stupid.... Every post he makes is designed to damage the credability of Scunthorpe Speedway.

Do you mean “if so and so does this, and thingymajig does that” one nullifies the other, so it doesn’t matter. Thing is today, there are so many bad things happening in the world, and it gets publicised so much, people tend to “put it to one side” it’s “become normal”. “It doesn’t matter”. All lives matter. There are 10’s of thousands killed in Ukraine, young men, older men, women, children…. nothing to do with Putins “special operation”. There are mothers in Russia, their young sons will probably never be returned even in a body bag because bodies of soldiers are just buried…..consumables to satisfy the desire of a nutter…….. it’s like Hitler all over again. And just like the 2nd world war…… the “world” knows atrocities are happening and doing nothing…until it’s all over then court cases will be held, maybe in 10 or 20 years perpetrator’s that are still alive will face a trial. It’s all too late

We are aware of the issue, it was a problem with our streaming provider.. We have a copy of the recording on our laptop which will be sent to them in the next couple of days to be uploaded onto Scorpions TV to replace what we had.. We’ll announce when it’s on there.. On behalf of us all at ScorpionsTV, we sincerely apologise to anyone that had this issue

Any reason? Not doing it strikes me as one of the few things Glasgow get wrong.

I think he thought Cook was a little hard and caused him to go down. Nothing in it though and I think Josh was just frustrated at how the evening had gone tbh.

Important to have someone Kelvin has worked alongside before I guess given how difficult this commentary will be for him to get through. Louis has filled in a couple of times in the past. Impressed with the build up and the way they've explained the sport.

Agree with all of that except the monotone Chris Louis. I’m actually enjoying his comments made with practical knowledge of what it takes to ride a bike without any over the top shouting at mediocre moves. I find Scott far more monotone but each to their own.

History will not be kind to speedway for excluding Russian riders ? Doubt it’ll take up many inches in newspapers or historical books mate.

Phil!! lol (on Leicester 2022 thread)

See my post on the Gorican thread- explaining qualification.

Is there a delay with putting the stream on catch up? Trying to relive it this morning

JK`s blank racecard for tonight. Draw around 1.30pm UK time https://www.speedwayservice.at/images/racecards/2022/SGP2022-01.pdf

Good win for Plymouth against a team that carried 3 riders last night . Didnt think the racing was up to much last night as scunny Dan said in his preview it was super slick which never leads to a great spectacle. Hope Dan gets well soon as he was very good as expected last . Anyway never mind the result it's only speedway.

U can't plz everyone hey, didn't have an issue with it myself, haps the person moaning should have a go at it and see how easy it is when your doing a live feed and your Johnny on the spot.

I believe it may be Dave Rowe, who posted on twitter earlier that he was in Croatia.

Get well soon Dan Good showings from Pirates duo Lawson & Ablitt Be great to see them both riding against Plymouth rather than for them next Tuesday at the Coliseum

Oh ye of little faith!!

As I understand it a 2-year deal was agreed for 2022 and 23. Further on the Council and Stadia UK need to decide/announce what the long term plans are for the whole stadium site as well as for the whole of Poole town centre area.

Looks fantastic here in Gorican. Some pics from the stadium today: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/2214/fotoreportage-voorbereidingen-speedway-gp-in-gorican

Show me where I've said anything about wanting Birmingham to close. It's the absolute opposite and you're purely burying your head in the sand if you can't see the problems this could cause- not just for Birmingham, but the sport as a whole. My sticking point is that for all the goodwill and money the promotion put into Birmingham how on earth will it survive if its ripping off fans like this? No new fan will put up with it and the die hards will dwindle. We all need to be realistic and understand the average fan cannot be affording to lose money for nothing. With how often rain offs and crashes do occur in speedway, can we seriously not expect this to happen again? Bluntly, what has happened at Birmingham is a shambles and they need to do better. If Birmingham need a blue print of how to run a speedway team they need look no further than their opponents for this meeting. Berwick like Birmingham was once a club in trouble but their new promotion have worked theirs socks off on and off the track and not done it by cutting corners. And whilst they might not be the most cash rich side or field the best 1-7 in the league you can say with their involvement with the fans with the 5-1 draw, the dirt xtra and genuine effort to bring value to money to their fans in the double headers that they've thought outside the box and been rewarded with an incredibly loyal fan base.