Plymouth Gladiators 2023

[Triple.H.]

21 minutes ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

Does anyone know if Plymouth will be streaming home meetings this season?

Ask Brook

[LisaColette]

34 minutes ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

Does anyone know if Plymouth will be streaming home meetings this season?

If you go on live streaming section on website it says 'no stream' for BSN series meetings against Poole and Oxford. But for KOC it says 'not on sale yet.' 

[Jonnybegood]

14 hours ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

Does anyone know if Plymouth will be streaming home meetings this season?

I don’t think so this year 

[SpeedwayPortal]

Just to confirm, Gladiators TV will be streaming all Plymouth home matches either side of the BSN streams, EXCEPT for this coming Tues and the following Tues meetings. so Plymouth vs Poole and Plymouth vs Oxford BSN Series are not being Live Streamed. All other home meetings in 2023 will be live streamed. 

[torpointfanatic22]

3 hours ago, SpeedwayPortal said:

Just to confirm, Gladiators TV will be streaming all Plymouth home matches either side of the BSN streams, EXCEPT for this coming Tues and the following Tues meetings. so Plymouth vs Poole and Plymouth vs Oxford BSN Series are not being Live Streamed. All other home meetings in 2023 will be live streamed. 

Cheers very much

[IainB]

For those of you that don't follow R/R on Twitter (and you're missing a treat if you don't) you may not have seen this... surely some kind of April Fool, isn't it? Surely?

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/other-sport/plymouth-gladiators-hope-finally-start-8360718

Edited April 18, 2023 by iainb

[Filth]

Disappointed by the team so far. Does anyone think Gary make changes soon? If so who 

[Mike0310]

I suppose it depends on the new averages when they come out,and who is out there I think we all no if you want to win something there will have to be a change but there’s no point if it’s just like for like who would want to be a team manager/promoter certainly not me.

[torpointfanatic22]

Have only managed to catch the one meeting so far this season which was Poole away and that combined with the results so far unsurprisingly show the reserves are the weak link. Problem is who else is there that could fit and by all accounts Turner gates really well and just needs to settle down on track. Think it's probably a bit early to look at changes but the way the team has been built to make any significant improvement I think you'd be looking at two or maybe three changes.

[LisaColette]

1 hour ago, torpointfanatic22 said:

Have only managed to catch the one meeting so far this season which was Poole away and that combined with the results so far unsurprisingly show the reserves are the weak link. Problem is who else is there that could fit and by all accounts Turner gates really well and just needs to settle down on track. Think it's probably a bit early to look at changes but the way the team has been built to make any significant improvement I think you'd be looking at two or maybe three changes.

Plus Turner is going to get better as the season goes on, they just need to get through the first six weeks of the season first. 

[4BenMoran]

Plymouth sort of riding with 5.5 riders, Turner will take a couple of rides at each track at best to be the .5, Trigger completely out of his depth and needs to be riding NDL to gain experience, with one of Howarth, Worrall or Barker taking a Tac Sub in the majority of away meetings it might help reduce their averages a bit to enable a team change, unless Plymouth go down the route of taking out one of Howarth or Worrall as well as Trigger and bring two riders with combined average of around 10 points,  that seems to be the best way forward to make them competitive away, or stick as they are and hope to keep home a fortress 

[NeilWatson]

23 minutes ago, 4BM said:

Plymouth sort of riding with 5.5 riders, Turner will take a couple of rides at each track at best to be the .5, Trigger completely out of his depth and needs to be riding NDL to gain experience, with one of Howarth, Worrall or Barker taking a Tac Sub in the majority of away meetings it might help reduce their averages a bit to enable a team change, unless Plymouth go down the route of taking out one of Howarth or Worrall as well as Trigger and bring two riders with combined average of around 10 points,  that seems to be the best way forward to make them competitive away, or stick as they are and hope to keep home a fortress 

Ben Trigger rides for Mildenhall in the NDL

[phillipsr]

39 minutes ago, NeilWatson said:

Ben Trigger rides for Mildenhall in the NDL

Should be riding exclusively in that league nowhere near ready 

[4BenMoran]

57 minutes ago, NeilWatson said:

Ben Trigger rides for Mildenhall in the NDL

Know it reads wrong  but as phillipsr has correctly said above NDL only for Ben Trigger he’s not ready and will just criple any ounce of confidence he has scoring Audi’s each week 

[Filth]

Just seen barker has signed for Ipswich and the article says he was banned last year because of a positive test for a banned substance. Does anyone know what he tested positive for or has it been kept quiet this whole time 

[arnieg]

21 minutes ago, Filth said:

Just seen barker has signed for Ipswich and the article says he was banned last year because of a positive test for a banned substance. Does anyone know what he tested positive for or has it been kept quiet this whole time 

His defence involved over the counter painkillers. Given the relative shortness of his ban I would infer that it was accepted at the SCB hearing.

 

(As reported here:  http://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.128 )

[Doners123]

Even though no meeting for the gladiators for two weeks could be interesting to see what hapens.

 

we could decide to leave the team as it is give a final warning to a few riders and say they have a few meetings to sort it out. 
 

we could make some changes, interestingly roynon is being talked about being dropped by poole 
 

could look at bringing batch and another 2 pointer ( hagon or Killeen) and run with 2 2 pointers instead of turned but have batch instead of starke. 
 

Other than that I’m not sure who is out there, rew ? Hans Anderson ? Any other riders about there potentially available 

[SteveLyric2]

9 minutes ago, Doners123 said:

Even though no meeting for the gladiators for two weeks could be interesting to see what hapens.

 

we could decide to leave the team as it is give a final warning to a few riders and say they have a few meetings to sort it out. 
 

we could make some changes, interestingly roynon is being talked about being dropped by poole 
 

could look at bringing batch and another 2 pointer ( hagon or Killeen) and run with 2 2 pointers instead of turned but have batch instead of starke. 
 

Other than that I’m not sure who is out there, rew ? Hans Anderson ? Any other riders about there potentially available 

The only person talking about Roynon being dropped is Lewy!!!  Surprise surprise.

[Christine Hawes]

6 hours ago, Doners123 said:

Even though no meeting for the gladiators for two weeks could be interesting to see what hapens.

 

we could decide to leave the team as it is give a final warning to a few riders and say they have a few meetings to sort it out. 
 

we could make some changes, interestingly roynon is being talked about being dropped by poole 
 

could look at bringing batch and another 2 pointer ( hagon or Killeen) and run with 2 2 pointers instead of turned but have batch instead of starke. 
 

Other than that I’m not sure who is out there, rew ? Hans Anderson ? Any other riders about there potentially available 

Hands off Luke - he's in the Oxford line up but out with a wrist injury at present.

[Filth]

On 5/19/2023 at 7:21 PM, arnieg said:

His defence involved over the counter painkillers. Given the relative shortness of his ban I would infer that it was accepted at the SCB hearing.

 

(As reported here:  http://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.128 )

I seem to remember Kyle howarth being banned for over the counter painkillers and the ban was overturned within a week or two once further tests confirmed his story.