Don't think your missing any connection as there isn't any,  most of the team were still in primary school when coventry closed.  At least the team manager is someone people will of heard of unlike the latest name that managed the couple of challenge matches the bees had. Hope lots of bees fans show up at Oxford and keep the dream alive. 

Maybe by the 25th April the daylight could be enough to have a 6 o clock start time, to avoid a clash, I'm sure the reds will have a bumper crowd for a possible last match at the original borough park.

Kinda missing the Coventry connections apart from Dan and Chris. Unless I am missing something?

I've mentioned about my local football team Stockport County.   They went into non league and even dropped a league in that .. They were in the cart, non league, and two of the biggest football teams in the  country on their doorstep, meaning local young fans would be more inclined to follow either of those teams.. So, they put together a Community Team..  And have said since that this team was the most important one put together.. School visits to the ground were organised and structured, both during match day and not.. And free tickets for kids and for their parents and  guardians were distributed... However, they followed this up by more free tickets for the kids,  and with heavily reduced admission for parents and guardians, plus discounted vouchers for merchandise.. Many kids therefore became regulars and, as they got used to going, wore the team colours, and mithered their parents and guardians to keep returning... Every club should have a "Community Team" whose role it is to get the brand out into the local area, be a force for good, and attract people to the club (especially U11 kids)... Hardly one player was known at County in their non league days, but the Community Team were known by a great many...

Cheers Tom, replied...  

100%... And the vast majority of 80 million people have never heard of the sport, never mind any rider... What an opportunity for a reset... 5 rider teams, and play with the heat system so the disparate levels of ability, from one to five, race more against each other of the sane level.. Or six rider teams with both reserves very much "junior level"... Drop the level, drop the price... If a track does a "special" the crowds rise significantly, with those extra people being fans who no longer rgularly attend, but come back for one night only, thus suggesting twenty five quid per visit isn't seen as worth paying... But (insert price here), is....... Reduce costs, and invest the money in price reduction.. And start UK Speedway again, from scratch... But don't do the same thing you do now because it clearly isn't fit for purpose....