On sky text the RFL don't know anything about this

Do we all expect the RFL drag their feet giving their permission

SKY TV return this season showing Elite and Premier league Speedway on Sky Sports

FIM Sppedway GP at Odsal would be something!

Where have you been? Thatcher shut them all down.

This bit sounds a little like the "exchange of licence agreements" was with the 'old' management?

Wasn't Jezza on Radio Leeds about this this morning?

I didn't hear it.

Yes, someone was interviewed. They also spoke to Gary Havelock (sp) but that might have been last night.

At last somebody fast on the wing!!!

As a Speedway fan, i'd love to see it back at Odsal. Still watch it now on TV and think that we (the Dukes) were probably to worst done to in the whole Super Dome episode.

Imagine what would have happened if the Super League champs were just wound up as the council "thought" building work "might" commence imminently. Well this happened to the Dukes and we have a long history with Odsal so I'm hopeful it will come off.

If it does, I can see them being parachuted straight in at Elite level tbh so crowds might not be an issue.

The issue with bolts/damage to the pitch was nothing to do with the bikes... that was the stockcars (bikes actually tended to stay on the track or just to the edge if it broke down) which I really wouldnt like to see back.

With regards to the corners, I used to go down on a sunday morning with my dad and lay the corners. It was essentially turf laid on large wooden boards so it was quite easy to lay, if not hard work and i'm sure that if the banking gradient did not change then it wouldnt be too big a difference as it is now.

To be honest, there is no actual 'need' for banked corners in speedway anyway and many tracks are flat.

Considering the pitch at Widnes, it might be possible to make the corners out of that coloured, rubberised tarmac they use on playgrounds. Sorted!

I don't know if you were at the forum last week, but Gerry Sutcliffe did mention speedway and the material they use for tracks these days [which doesn't sound dissimilar to the surface you mention at Widnes], and he said that the surface erodes due to the racing and was likely to block the drains. That was apparently the biggest of the cons in the, 'is speedway feasible' argument.

Well if the speedway guru wants to bring it back he should pay for the improvements to the drainage, why don't we get a heated pitch whilst we are at it also, makes sense.

Why would spending a fortune on a heated pitch make sense?