Invicta Sport - Monday 30th October 2024
Join Abby Hook with a look back at the weekend's football highlights, plus: we welcome Chatham racer Dom Shore to the studio after his first season racing with the world's first all-distabled racing outfit, Team BRIT.
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00:00Hello and welcome along to Invictus Sport, the only show on your TV dedicated to wrapping
00:16up all of Kent's sporting action. I'm Abbey Hook, here's what to expect on this Monday
00:21the 30th of September.
00:24Skimming stones, made stone brush past, cupset searching Herne Bay.
00:29Grounded, kite surfers devastated as they're banned from Kent's best spot for the sport.
00:37Flying high, Chatham's Dom Shaw finds success with world's first all-disabled racing team.
00:43But first, of course, a round-up of the headlines in Kent's stay in Division 1 of the County
00:48Championship has come to an end after a rain-soaked draw where Durham drew the curtain on this
00:53season's cricket.
00:55Finishing the season bottom of the board, the match also signified the end of head coach
00:59Matt Walker's tenure at the club. Kent Cricket will now host their end-of-season dinner this
01:04Wednesday. It comes as the county club have announced today the signing of right-handed
01:09batsman Chris Benjamin from Warwickshire. He's set to play for Kent until the end of
01:13the 2027 season.
01:17There are calls for more player protection in the EFL after Notts County's Jodie Jones
01:21picked up a serious injury whilst playing against Gillingham. The Notts County forward
01:25visited Priestfield just over a week ago when his campaign for the promotion-chasing side
01:30was stalled after sustaining a small fracture to his tibia after a challenge from Gilles
01:35player Jacob Wakeling, who didn't receive a card from the referee at the time. Jones
01:39has since gone on to social media to suggest so-called free hits from opposition players
01:44shouldn't be brushed aside.
01:47One of Kent's Olympic gold medalists, Emily Craig, has been awarded with a special plaque
01:51at Bulewater to recognise where the world champion first began learning to row. Posting
01:57on her Instagram, Craig revealed that not only had the plaque been written to commemorate
02:01her Paris 2024 success, but she had also been gifted a lifetime membership and had Olympic
02:07rings added to a boat previously named after her.
02:14Let's take a look back at this weekend's football results, where it was a huge top-of-the-table
02:18clash in League 2 as Gillingham welcomed Barrow to Priestfield, marking the return of the
02:22former Gilles manager Stephen Clements to the midway ground. Meanwhile, Maidstone travelled
02:26to Herne Bay in the FA Cup, vying for a spot in the fourth round qualifying. Here's Bartholomew.
02:34We start today on the North Kent coast for a county derby in the FA Cup third round qualifying.
02:40It was a match that could be the difference between Herne Bay matching their best run
02:44in 38 years and Maidstone taking the worst year-on-year drop ever in the competition.
02:50It's the first time these two sides have met in the FA Cup since Maidstone's reform in
02:541992, and despite the two-league difference between these sides, both were keen to stay
02:59in the competition at this stage.
03:02Giorgio Lacobi's Maidstone started brightly and nearly broke through early on when Shaq
03:06Colthurst headed wide from a cross by Charlie Seaman in the opening minutes. With the Stones
03:11dominated possession throughout the first half, the Steve Lovell's Herne Bay defended
03:15resolutely, with Liam Friend making a crucial block to deny Colthurst.
03:20Just before the interval, a long ball forward by John Benton led to confusion in the Herne
03:24Bay defence, and Seaman's misdirected header looped over Brooks and into the net. The Stones
03:30had found their lead at 1-0 going into the break.
03:37Time talks over, and as the second half got underway, Herne Bay fought back, making tactical
03:41changes and piling on the pressure. Midway through the second half, Maidstone's Temi
03:46Aweka had a header saved by Brooks from close range, shortly before Sam Corn's penalty appeal
03:51was waved away by the referee.
03:59As the game approached the final whistle, Herne Bay had some of their best chances of
04:03the 90 minutes. Substitute Josh Reid forced a brilliant save from Alex Andre Jr, and there
04:08were nervous moments for the Stones as Brooks even came forward for two late corners, but
04:13the Maidstone defence held firm.
04:17In the end, Georgia Lakoby's men did enough to hold on, and move one step closer to the
04:21FA Cup proper.
04:23Elsewhere there wasn't much success for Kent's sides, with Ramsgate, Chatham, Ashford United,
04:28Sittingbourne and Dartford all bowing out of the competition, whilst Margator drew a
04:33replay with Horsham, and Tunbridge skirted past Waltham and Hersham at 2-1.
04:41Across to League Two now, where a highly anticipated top-two clash between Gillingham and Barrow
04:45meant the return of Steven Clements to Priestfield. The former Gilles boss was forced to leave
04:50empty-handed however, as Mark Bonner's high-flying side claimed a confident win, with goals in
04:55either half from Jadon Clarke and Robbie McKenzie. However, the current Gillingham boss admitted
05:00his side could have done even more.
05:02I'm really happy that we've got a result and kept a clean sheet, but the good thing is
05:07that you can do that on days where you're maybe not at your best. I think the game was
05:11quite an uncomfortable game and it didn't need to be. It was an opportunity for us to
05:15be much more dominant with the ball. The changing room is really pleased that we've gone another
05:20clean sheet, another three points, another home win, but actually there's a bit of frustration
05:25thinking, crikey lads, come on, we're a better team than that, let's show a better level,
05:29which is not a bad situation to be in going into the game so quickly Tuesday.
05:34With Walsall just a point behind, Gillingham are now leading the way in League Two. They
05:37take on Grimsby Town next time out.
05:40In the National League, Ebbs Fleet suffered a third successive defeat at the hands of
05:44play-off-chasing Uldum. The Fleet looked to have snatched a late point, but the Kuflink
05:48visitors scored the winner with five minutes left. It means Harry Watling's side remain
05:52bottom of the table for now.
05:56And it was a similar story for Folkestone and Victor in the Izmian Premier. After leading
06:00in the first half, Chichester levelled with 17 minutes left through Jimmy Wilde, before
06:05Isaac Bello netted in stoppage time.
06:08Elsewhere, George Nakarji's first goal in four games was not enough for Dover, who were
06:12beaten 2-1 by Wingate and Finchley at Crabble. They sit 11th and 4th respectively after eight
06:18games played.
06:19And that's it for this week's Football Roundup.
06:22And as expected, the draw for the FA Cup's fourth round qualifying has been released.
06:31And we're in for a cracker, because Maidstone are set to play Ebbs Fleet United in a great
06:37Kent derby, whilst Tunbridge Angels will travel to Izmian Premier side Cray Wanderers. And
06:43the winners of the replay between Margate and Horsham will host Gorlston. I can't say
06:49that, I play in Izmian North.
06:52Now a circus performer set to bring her show to Medway says becoming paralysed from the
06:57waist down is never going to stop her from performing. Silke Pan suffered a spinal injury
07:02back in 2007 and has since gone on to becoming a hand bike champion, motivational speaker,
07:08as well as returning to circus touring. And I spoke to her earlier ahead of the Gravity
07:13Circus Company arriving to Rochester.
07:19So I began my career as a contortionist and trapeze artist. I suffered a severe accident
07:31that left me paraplegic. I reinvented myself, continuing to pursue my passion for performance
07:39and sports. After that, I became involved in hand bike racing. And at the end of 2021,
07:51I came back to circus, creating a new technique to fix my paralysed legs and hips with a bar
08:03that is on my neck and on which I attach my ankles.
08:09It's incredibly impressive. It looks amazing what you do as well. So elegant and beautiful.
08:14What's the preparation and the training like for you? How does it differ?
08:22When I train, like every athlete, I have to train my force, my flexibility, because I
08:31cannot feel my lower body. I cannot feel my hips, my legs, my feet.
08:40And what's the response been like from the circus community? I imagine you've inspired
08:44a lot of people who would have thought they wouldn't be able to take part in sports in
08:49general.
08:50Yeah, the response was really positive. I didn't think, I didn't believe it at the beginning.
09:02When I did my first circus act as a paraplegic artist, I was afraid of the reaction, but
09:12I didn't expect it. But many people come to me and they tell me that I show the ability
09:22to rise above our challenges. Now I'm only, I'm just an artist. I can give a message of
09:30hope and inspire others to pursue their dreams, no matter the obstacles.
09:37Silke, it's been amazing to talk to you. Best of luck for next week as well. Thank you for
09:41bringing your message and your beautiful show to us here in Kent. We're really excited for it.
09:46Oh, you're welcome.
09:49Now it's time to remind you, you can keep up to date with all the latest sports news,
09:54interviews and features from here on Invicta Sport by heading to our website, kmtv.co.uk
09:59and click over on the sports app. There you'll see videos like this one.
10:29As a gym, we are a very different concept to David Lloyd's, so I'm not overly worried.
10:36I think we're more of a community gym. We know all of our members by name, and I think
10:42you can't really replace that. But it's a completely different concept. We're sort of
10:47a 24-hour local community gym and sort of the least intimidating space around to go
10:52into.
10:53The cost of memberships in a new David Lloyd gym is unknown, but at a similar site in Dartford,
10:58the pricing starts at £140 a month. Muscle Hunts is one of the other gyms in Herne Bay.
11:04They cost some £100 less a month.
11:08You put your David Lloyds, which is like your upper class luxury, you pay the premium. Whether
11:15people in this day and age have got the money to afford that, I don't know. But everyone's
11:22watching the pounds at the minute, so I'll be very wary with that one.
11:27The good thing with David Lloyds now is they've got the financial backing of all the other
11:30gyms within the UK, so if one does fall short for a year or two, they've got the money there
11:35to bounce it back up.
11:37If David Lloyd gets the go-ahead, they say the new centre could create up to 100 jobs.
11:43Gavin Morris in Herne Bay.
11:46We've reached half-time, which means it's time for a break. I'll see you in a few minutes.
15:10Hello, and welcome back to Invictor Sport live on KMTV.
15:14Ramsgate kite surfing school has been left devastated after losing 70% of its revenue.
15:19They say it's because of a council ban. According to experts, Pegwell Bay is the best and safest
15:25location to master the sport in the whole of the UK. Kite surfers have had little bother
15:30for the past 30 years they've been enjoying the waters, but conservationists say the ban
15:34now is crucial to protect local wildlife. Local Democracy reporter Gabriel Morris has
15:39more.
15:42Thrilling, adrenaline pumped and sometimes a dangerous sport, Peguia Bay is said to be
15:51the perfect location for it.
15:54Kite surfing is a relatively new sport, they've been out here for the best part of the last
15:5930 years, but suddenly this year the council told them you can't do it anymore.
16:04If they're caught kite surfing now they could be fined under a council PSPO. A voluntary
16:10agreement was previously in place between Natural England and Kent Wildlife Trust allowing
16:14kite surfing at Peguia Bay and in this bay teaching took place, but a council hasn't
16:19renewed this kite surfing school's licence.
16:23The decision slashing their revenue by 70%, but the authority said the decision was to
16:29protect wildlife.
16:30Leaving at least 98% of the mud flats to the local wildlife. It's devastating me personally,
16:39the students and the kite surfing community. I don't think there would be a better place
16:44to teach kite surfing if you scoured the entire UK. You've got this beautiful shallow shelving
16:50beach that runs off for about half a mile, which just makes it ideal for teaching. It's
16:55the safest environment that anybody could hope for. So for Thanet and for East Kent
17:00it's a massive blow.
17:03The schools don't operate in winter due to the number of migrating birds. Peguia Bay
17:08is a nature reserve and a site of special scientific interest. And the Kent Wildlife
17:13Trust say it is home to rare and endangered coastal and wetland birds, which are in decline.
17:19These species are impacted by disturbances from recreational activities like jet skiing,
17:25paddle boarding and kite surfing. But a community says due to the prominent wind direction,
17:31this bay is one of the best places to go in the south east.
17:34We realise that of course birds do need protection, but the disturbance of just moving out of
17:41the way as we walk towards the water causes no detrimental effect. And this is something
17:47therefore if they had some legal consent that they required from us, they could have
17:52worked with us for that to be put in place without going through a draconian exercise
17:56of withdrawing it behind our back and banning us.
18:00Thanet District Council told us they have the duty to enforce the SSSI rules and does
18:04so through the Beach and Coast Public Spaces Protection Order. The PSBO covers the entire
18:10Thanet coastline and prohibits any activity that disturbs wildlife.
18:17Surfers, animal conservationists and the council are set to meet in a couple of weeks time
18:22to talk the issue out. But for the surfing community, they say this year has been a wipeout.
18:28Gabriel Morris in Cliffsend.
18:31Well, time now to meet our next guest. A returnee to the Invictus Sports sofa after finishing
18:38his first season of racing, Chatham driver Dom Shaw has found himself podium success
18:42and a class championship win. The 32-year-old told us last time joining the Brit Car Trophy
18:47with Team Brit allowed him to finally follow his dream of becoming a racing driver as it
18:52meant being a part of the world's only competitive team of all disabled racing drivers. I'm pleased
18:56to say Dom joins me in the studio now. Dom, it's great to see you. Last time we were chatting,
19:01you just finished testing. Tell me about the season. It's gone in the blink of an eye.
19:06Thank you very much for having me back. It's been an amazing season. My first ever season
19:10with Team Brit. We've had wins from Donington and then we got another double win right at
19:18the end at Snetterton which helped us clinch the championship. And tell me about all the
19:25different circuits you've raced at. Some of the big ones, of course, we think Brown's
19:29Hatch here in Kent, but Donington, Silverstone, Snetterton, all of the exciting racetracks.
19:34What's been a highlight?
19:36The highlight for me has been just learning the circuits and feeling the G-force in the
19:44car. It's something I've never experienced before. Racing in a competitive manner on
19:52the track.
19:53And a huge part of that is that community at Team Brit, having everybody there going
19:59through similar challenges, overcoming boundaries and stereotypes and following your dream of
20:05becoming a racing driver. It's not only impressive but really inspiring as well. What's that
20:10community aspect like? Does that keep you going and spur you on when you do face losses
20:16and injuries?
20:17Absolutely. I mean, Team Brit have been very supportive throughout. They give you some
20:23driver training and you can look through data to see where you can improve along with your
20:29team-mate. They've been extremely supportive and I can't thank them enough.
20:37In this season as well, you did face some injury as well. Take me through what happened
20:41and what that process was like, rehabilitating.
20:45I did. Unfortunately, in the first round I sustained an injury after qualifying, but
20:52I didn't realise the extent until after the meeting. I had a shoulder injury, so I had
21:00to sit out for a few rounds to rehabilitate and then to get myself back up to speed. I
21:08did a couple of track days just to get my confidence back after that. And then I competed
21:15in the last two rounds at Donington and Snetterton as well. We got a win at Donington, which
21:21was a nice way to end that day, and then we got two wins at Snetterton.
21:25What an incredible circuit Donington is as well. When you go through something like injury
21:29and you're sitting on the sidelines watching everybody do it, do you get more nervous to
21:34get back out there and put yourself at that risk again, or are you just hungry to get
21:38back out on the circuit?
21:39Hungry to get back out. Hungry to get back out there. Sitting on the sidelines, you're
21:45there to support your team-mates, but there's nothing more than wanting to be able to do
21:50it yourself.
21:51Tell us about the inspiration behind it all. It's something we've discussed with you before,
21:55but to remind our viewers, what got you to where you are now and kept you pushing and
22:00striving to become the dream, to do the dream?
22:03My dad raced when I was a kid. He'd have his car in the garage and I'd help him work on
22:09it and he'd let me pick the number for it and all that sort of thing. It was something
22:15I never thought was possible until I heard about Team Brit. We're a team of all disabled
22:19racing drivers and we're competitive as well. We want to show anyone that just because you're
22:28disabled doesn't mean that you can't compete in motorsport.
22:31I think that's a really key thing you just said there. We can see it's in pit lane there.
22:36Some of the key words you just said then is that you're competitive as well. You're not
22:41there to fulfil a requirement, you're there to be competitive, to be up there and to be
22:46in it and dispel some of those myths and some of those misconceptions as well. Has that
22:50been sort of a barrier as well, changing people's perceptions and ideas of what racing looks like?
22:55That's it. We're not there just to make up the numbers. We are there to show you that
23:00just because we're disabled doesn't mean that we can't win. It doesn't mean that we can't
23:05do it. So that's something that we're about, to show other disabled people and able-bodied
23:13people that it can be done.
23:14You can exactly follow the dreams. Tell me about some of the highlights. If you can pick
23:21up on some of the particular races where you thought this was a cracking race, really close
23:26tight racing, or perhaps a highlight that you take away from the season.
23:32The highlight for me is the very last race. I get to start the second race, so we're all
23:39tightly bunched together. So there were overtakes, close racing, and then to hand over to my
23:47team mate to then watch him keep hold of first place so that we can take the second win.
23:54To get that head start, I bet that's so rewarding as well. Fingers crossed that your team mate
23:58can follow through as well. Dom, it's been amazing to talk to you. Congratulations on
24:02an incredible season. Thank you so much for coming back in.
24:04Thank you very much.
24:06Now, sadly, we've reached full time on today's episode, but there's just a few minutes of
24:10extra time to take a look at this week's Action Replay. It's the segment where we take a look
24:14at the clips and pictures that you, the KMTV audience, have sent in of you taking part
24:18in sport. Let's see what we've got in store on this week's Action Replay.
24:26Celebrating with these Ashford United fans as Gary Lockyer extends his lead at the top
24:31of the FA Cup Golden Ball standings to a solid 10 goals scored. The veteran striker
24:37told us last week he was keen to give the competition his best shot and, well, has now
24:42equalised the total of last year's winner JJ Lacey from Biggleswade Town. And even though
24:48Ashford United are out of the Cup for this year, we're pretty sure there'll be plenty
24:53of Nuts and Bolts fans with their fingers crossed that his tally is enough to reward
24:57him with some silverware at next year's final.
25:01This next one's for Kent's video game lovers, more specifically players of the EA FC series.
25:07With the launch of FC 25 this weekend, it meant saying goodbye to many Ultimate teams
25:12worked on in the previous game. So we decided to shout out this one from BK Gillesfan on
25:18X. And as his name suggests, it's definitely got a Gillingham feel, with every player having
25:23either previously or currently played for the Medway side. Now those familiar with the
25:27game will know just how impressive these cards are, with an average rating of 94, it's
25:33clear a lot of hours have been put in to graft such a team.
25:37And finally, we head over to join Abby with a slightly unconventional sport now, remote
25:42control banger racing. Jumping in with her family's favourite pastime, the world final
25:47of hooked racing saw competitors bringing their bangers from as far as the Netherlands
25:52to crash and race all afternoon. The miniature version of the violent clashing metallic of
25:57motors is no easy feat however, as racers stop at nothing to get their cars past the
26:02finish line first.
26:05That's it for this week's Action Replay, don't forget it could be you here next week, just
26:09send in clips and pics of you taking part in your sport to sport at kmtv.co.uk
26:27or head over to our website kmtv.co.uk. But that's all from me and the Invicta Sport team
26:33this evening, I'll see you again next week, bye bye.
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