MattB

Positive news. Still a lot of work to do of course, but getting speedway back into Oxford would be a major coup.

Totally agree. The shoestring speedway runs on makes it impossible to run with no income coming through the turnstiles. The social distancing aspect is tricky as well. It can probably be implemented at some tracks, but not others. Wolves can only accommodate supporters in a relatively small section of Monmore as it is.

Think there's a real element of truth about this. I went to Rye House's first top flight match, and lots of fans I spoke to said it was the best crowd they'd seen down there. Once the initial buzz wore off, it was always likely that crowds would level out (by all accounts they were dropping in the latter years of Len Silver's time). Once they lost Saturday nights, I think the writing was on the wall. Hopefully it can be salvaged. We've lost far too many tracks in recent years.