IainB

Right! There's quite a bit to unpack here... God Robfrey: "I can only apologise to the fans again, but I hope they realise that it was an event beyond our control". What exactly was out of the control of the promotion? Joe Alcock crashing that's all, absolutely everything else was in control of the promotion, they took the decision to run a meeting with inadequate medical cover knowing full well that if the ambulance was required to travel to hospital that would be the meeting called. And if they didn't know that, they should, there have been quite a few meetings in recent years where there has been inadequate medical cover, especially post pandemic/Brexit, now the NHS is under such strain and yet these chancers still don't have the insurance of a 2nd medical crew. They nearly got lucky with the fact that the air ambulance was in the air already and was able to attend but for whatever reason they didn't want to take Joe to the hospital. And look at the full statement and last night when he addressed the crowd over the PA system... except for the apology and wishing Joe well, he made it all about himself and how he wished he hadn't got up and what a disaster of a day it had been... and then in the statement on the website sought to absolve himself of all responsibility by using the old circumstances beyond our control line! Even Boris Johnson would be proud with his lack of responsibility. Where I will give him credit is the gesture of goodwill in "allowing" full re-admission to another match... even though he didn't have to, he felt the need to add on to the end of the sentence. This might lead some Birmingham fans to question their promotion's statement "Whilst it is not appropriate to deviate from the official re-admission policy agreed between all clubs and the BSPL, they have decided to offer a free programme to supporters who come along with their Berwick re-admission ticket." after one of their fiasco's earlier in the season. So let's look at a night out at the leader of British Speedway's track... You turn up after a 2 hour drive from Leicester at quite an expense on a nice(ish) summer evening, the crowd is pretty meagre, there's no atmosphere, there's a low key rider parade, Tero Aarnio is announced as not riding... no explanation R/R, heat 1, big crash, re-run Palin & Douglas nearly crash into each other again, heat 2 Joe Alcock crashes and I think we all knew the writing was on the wall when he was loaded into the ambulance... the only thing we didn't know was whether there was backup medical cover, listen to God Robfrey tell us all how bad it has been for him and then a 1 and a half drive home. To finish on a positive... Simon Lambert! What a ride in heat 2 to sweep by both Lions in one move on turns 3 and 4! Not quite worth the journey up from Leicester on its own but exactly what Speedway racing is all about! The sport is in dire need of riders of his calibre, never going to be a top star but a solid middle order/reserve that knows how to ride a Speedway bike, interacts with his fans and sponsors and is the life blood of our sport. Cue the Godfrey apologists... bring it on!

Doesn't seem like it was a great night for Speedway last night... Unfortunately I was at Scunthorpe for 2 heats of Speedway, decided Live Speedway was better than streamed Speedway... No Win! There were a few teething problems in the early days that led me to think that something like last night happening was only going to be a matter of time, especially after some of the technical difficulties at Peterborough. I've read their statements on Twitter and they seem very fair, compare that with the twaddle on the Scunny website! One question though... With EMTV having been in operation for some time and being quite good from reports that I've heard, why were there problems last night I wonder?

Match abandoned, Joe taken to hospital in track ambulance, on morphine with leg injury Speedy recovery Joe

Being taken to hospital by track ambulance, copter must have been for paramedic. I think this will be called for tonight. Copter leaving now, without patient

Air ambulance now arrived. Leg injury we're told

Bloody hell... air ambulance called! For Joe Alcock

Another 1 ambulance track, from the guy that runs the sport! County ambulance called for... could be here by tomorrow! Tbh we would be waiting for the sun to set at the moment

Top secret... apparently

Including Aarnio

There ain't many here

Edinburgh, Newcastle and Birmingham

Too busy fighting!

Is SGP2 being shown anywhere do you know?

Perhaps the Friday result has already been decided

Will Anders Rowe be fit? What actually has happened to Jordan Palin? All this and more to be revealed soon (ish)

Just goes to show what a lottery calling meetings off based on a weather is. 90 minutes before start time it was forecast 80% chance of heavy rain from 8pm, its now 9pm and still dry... thank goodness! Meeting came alive in the end, it's a shame that many of the riders opted not to come round and wave at those of us that are here

Brilliant move by Holder!

Just as the racing comes alive you lose the stream lol

Apart from that race of course

It's a travesty that a track that can and has produced some fantastic speedway racing down the years, more often than not doesn't these days

Flint

Oh stop moaning!

I've put my money where my mouth is Lisa... I'm sat in the stand among the meagre crowd

Weather forecast is deteriorating

Parking is probably £1.50 then