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6 minutes ago, Fozzie4388 said:

Scunthorpe can't change their team now as they've Rode 75% of their meetings now.

So afraid you're stuck with Palm Toft now. Only 3 more home meetings this season though to put up with him for. (2 league and a playoff Semi-Final)

They couldn't fit vuolas in anyways unless they made 2 changes.

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1 hour ago, Dickie Head said:

More bad luck for Dan Gilkes following the training crash with Ace Pijper at Glasgow over the weekend. Shoulder damage might rule him out for the rest of the season.

If thats the case Godfrey should move quick before new averages, 5.82 for a new rider, on the 1st of August its 4.76. Francis Gusts?

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2 hours ago, Dickie Head said:

More bad luck for Dan Gilkes following the training crash with Ace Pijper at Glasgow over the weekend. Shoulder damage might rule him out for the rest of the season.

Seems to be becoming the new Adam Roynon, shame as there’s a lot of talent there 

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1 hour ago, AndiCapp said:

Jacob Hook to Scunny 5.57 in place of Dan Gilkes

Has he even come over to Europe this summer? Is he racing in Poland? 
 

Edit - looking at his Facebook page for his racing he rode in a meeting in Aus in June. Can’t imagine he would come all the way from Aus for a handful of meetings.

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9 hours ago, Ryan555 said:

If a rider is injured (which Gilkes is) I believe you can make changes after the deadline

Not unless they've changed the rules you can't.

Only change allowed would be to bring back an injured rider after a temporary change ie Erik Riss / Charles Wright scenarios.

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4 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

Not unless they've changed the rules you can't.

Only change allowed would be to bring back an injured rider after a temporary change ie Erik Riss / Charles Wright scenarios.

Yes but we are talking about the Chairman of BSPL who will have the 'best interests of speedway' in mind!

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3 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Yes but we are talking about the Chairman of BSPL who will have the 'best interests of speedway' in mind!

If there was ever a time to use that ruling, it would've been for Edinburgh maybe 5 years ago (if my memory is correct it goes something like this).

Nathan Greaves retired just before the end of August (transfer cut-off date), William Lawson who had been dropped earlier could only be reintroduced using the September averages, couldn't replace Greaves in August.

So Edinburgh had to use guests for the rest of the season, same thing happened to Redcar when Connor Bailey retired.

I understand they don't want teams to sign riders just for the play-offs, but an rule that facilitates more guests being used needs looking at.

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12 hours ago, AndiCapp said:

Jacob Hook to Scunny 5.57 in place of Dan Gilkes

Doesn't the lad want relatively big bags now for racing though, have a feeling that was part of the issue with Worky he had a season of improvement but then wanted pretty big money for 2026.

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2 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Doesn't the lad want relatively big bags now for racing though, have a feeling that was part of the issue with Worky he had a season of improvement but then wanted pretty big money for 2026.

 

2 minutes ago, YeOldPitGate said:

Doesn't the lad want relatively big bags now for racing though, have a feeling that was part of the issue with Worky he had a season of improvement but then wanted pretty big money for 2026.

Wherever you’re getting that info from is way wide of the mark. Nothing to do with anything on Jacob’s side of things.

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1 hour ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Yes but we are talking about the Chairman of BSPL who will have the 'best interests of speedway' in mind!

Hows your teams efforts to find a replacement going? no doubt playing catch up on the fixtures you will keep using Kennett then get a ringer in for the playoffs? Best interests of Poole speedway..

Gilkes was injured in the crash with Ace Pjiper not retired,,Gilkes was a replacement for Lambert so we cant bring him back.

Well done on getting a new rider,ive no doubt if he is over her or coming over he will get loads of track time as we dont race there until the 21st

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