It will be tough sell, just as the rest of the teams find... Particularly in areas with plenty of other established sports... The days of attending several professional sports in the local town are long gone for many given modern livings stretch on disposable income... In the mid 90's I could go to Old Trafford, Kirky Lane, and watch Wigan Warriors, several times a month out of my salary, and still pay a mortgage and "live".... Not a chance of visiting United, The Aces and The Warriors nowadays, several times a month, and that is without a mortgage to pay...  One promoter once told me that you lose half of an opening night crowd the next meeting, (novelty factor brings in plenty of other fans), and then half that again over the season... Let's hope, if still true, they get five or six thousand to that first meeting... The standard of racing will be a key factor I would think, and, I presume, they will be racing on a Thursday due to the Stox meetings at weekends will require plenty of track maintenance? Will that mean only the Aces run on a Monday? Best of Luck to whoever takes over... 

I’ve been watching the replays that have been on YouTube and they are very welcome in the off season. I do however wonder what management have seen in Smith that has resulted in him being back in the team. He had a decent meeting against the comets but a fair amount of that was because of bad luck for the away side. I also wonder what Max Perry was asking for that he didn’t end up as a Bandit. He was brilliant on both visits so it can’t have been a performance issue.

Maybe so, good luck to all involved BUT the season officially starts in less than 4 weeks, Easter is 7 weeks away, prime attendance time if the weather is good, no track built, no fixtures out for away fans to plan journeys, no team announced, no local promotion can be done as no one knows what is happening. This is not just Northampton it the whole of premiership speedway, it's a fookin joke 😗

I think it's going to be a disaster. The football club only gets around 6000 for home games, whilst the rugby club regularly pulls in well over double that crowd. Rugby fans are rarely interested in speedway, in my experience. 

Northampton will get decent crowds in season one. Season two the crowds will drop slightly, third season they'll be lucky to get 700 fans turning up every home meeting.. fourth season will be  survival.  Lets hope I'm wrong .

6 teams is less than ideal, BUT, with what it looked like in December its not to shabby and is a perfect number to get through this season before hopefully a complete reset in 2027 which i imagine