If the pitch is relayed to make it suitable for Rugby it would need a great deal of protection during stock car meetings ,due to the pitch area being used by cars and tractors.

Looking on the Brisca (UK Stockcars) website Sheffield only had 2 fixtures this year I have never been seen a stockcar event but i presume they race on the speedway track but i guess that if they breakdown on the track they would need rescuing by tractors which would be on our pitch !!! We might be able to put some sort of hard matting or surface down to prevent damage do we employ groundsmen and staff at dvs ? If not that is going to be another expense.

I flicked on sky sports 2 tonight and funny enough greyhound racing from owlerton was on after watching it one concern i have is the floodlights the race track was well lit but the pitch looked a little dark at times but only at times some camera angles made the pitch look well lit.
Are the lights positioned so they illuminate the track more than anything else? if so can they be moved to illuminate the pitch better or are they just not strong enough, if they are we're good to go on that front if not that maybe very costly just ask barrow they need around 100k to sort there floodlights out

Could move a couple of bulbs over from Don Valley, I suppose.

Have to admit, I'd discounted Owlerton myself as I expected the safety certificate would be too costly.

Any road - we'll see.

May have to do without floodlights and play 2pm on sunday like Batley

Batley's reason for kicking off at 2 pm is nothing to do with the light. In the days when a lot of clubs didn't have lights, you only had to kick off at 2.30 between early November and mid January. Wouldn't affect our season at all.

What did they do with the nice lights we had put up in the mid eighties ?

Owlerton such happy memories .

I know Batley have got good lights what I meant was Batley kickoff early so we could too save buying new lights!

And remember we play in the summer and the only avaliable dates to play at Owlerton would be sat or sun afternoon so we would only need floodlights in Jan and Feb and we could kick off at 2pm in those months

Would it be possible to ground share with Sheffield FC? You could even take some Don Valley stuff with you... seats, floodlights, etc.

No the ground is very compact and the pitch is not big enough

The lights at Owlerton are fine. They are the same lights that we played under in the late 80's. Don't forget the pitch hasn't needed to be lit for some time. A few adjustments and I'm sure it'll be fine. I just hope that the council will fund the mods to the pitch & fund another dressing room. The dressing room that the away teams used in the 80's is now a games room.

any news of todays meeting?

What meeting is this ? I would presume a feasibility study would take a few weeks

First meeting with Owlerton management yesterday - not much reported on it in the star this morning