What about Northampton?

[Hawk127]

14 hours ago, bellevueace said:

Yes there was great rivalry down there at that time, the sport was well supported at every level characters like Jack Milne were box office in themselves, its a pity the Bombers didnt have a longer existence, used to love going down to Hackney, Crayford, Eastbourne etc. 

Although supporting Rayleigh, once I had learned to drive a few of us use to do Crayford on Tuesday, Wimbledon on Thursday, Hackney on Friday and Saturday night at eight at the Weir. When it came to other away matches, Canterbury, Eastbourne, Ipswich and Peterborough. I never went to Rye House until the season that the rockets de-camped to Rye. Jack Millen was one of those up at the top with the likes of Brian Foote and the Kennet clan. Use to relish Dave Lanning turning up at the Weir and the accusations over methanol were legendary. Those were the days.

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[Chadster]

I can't remember 1937 world champion Jack Milne ever riding in Division 2. Jack Millen did (aka Millen the Villain).😃

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[YeOldPitGate]

1 hour ago, Ray Stadia said:

But for some, £250K is peanuts! In fact, a possible tax offset! 

The only way I could see it working is if they talked Harry into fronting it a bit like Clarkson's farm and then got a tv deal with Amazon or Netflix off the back of it with £200-£500k of backing from the tv company so they could get a really good side together and also give the marketing a really big push.

[TB1]

Well the only thing I can say about this Northampton thing is cobblers!

[Preston Comet]

A lot of big stock car meetings at Northampton in September, so they must not think they'll make the play offs

[Preston Comet]

A lot of big stock car meetings at Northampton in September, so they must not think they'll make the play offs

[Technik]

15 hours ago, Ray Stadia said:

In terms of catchment for Northampton, here are some possibles:

Coventry 49 mins

Birmingham 1 hr 7 mins

Wembley 1 hr 15 mins (a friend of mine lives there and said he would travel to the stadium)

Milton Keynes 28 mins (almost a revival of Milton Keynes speedway)

Peterborough 59 mins

Leicester 54 mins

Based on the above and bearing in mind it is a nice stadium, which could mean it could be used for some Blue Ribbon events, sounds a good possible to me! 

 

 

Whilst I can't argue over time & distance you have provided. I will say that getting the fans of those clubs to travel is another task entirely. I have attended Oxford since their comeback & With Coventry, Swindon Lakeside, Rye House, Reading, Bristol, Newport & Somerset all within a sensible travel time few fans from these clubs are seen at Oxford.

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[mikebv]

10 minutes ago, Technik said:

Whilst I can't argue over time & distance you have provided. I will say that getting the fans of those clubs to travel is another task entirely. I have attended Oxford since their comeback & With Coventry, Swindon Lakeside, Rye House, Reading, Bristol, Newport & Somerset all within a sensible travel time few fans from these clubs are seen at Oxford.

A great number of fans who closely follow the sport, and live just a few miles from their local track, don't bother attending regularly...

There will be for sure, the "novelty value" initially, but, ultimately, when that wears off after a couple of meetings, it still will be UK Speedway you will be watching...

And we all know how successfully delivered that is...