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Speedway: Poole Pirates Opener Moved To Sunday

Swindon can confirm their opening home fixture of the season, against reigning Elite League champions Poole, has been set for Easter Sunday at 5pm.

The Robins will visit Wimborne Road on Good Friday with a midday start, with the return at Blunsdon taking place two days later on March 27.

Swindon boss Alun Rossiter explained: “We’ve done the home and away double-header on the same day with Poole in the past, but there were several reasons why we felt moving the home match to the Sunday was best.

“One big factor was that Swindon Town have a televised home game against Wigan at 5.30 on the Friday, so we really didn’t want to clash with that.

“Running our home meeting on Easter Sunday means all the riders will be available, and we actually did something similar last year when we were rained-off on the Friday evening.

“We moved to Easter Monday and had a good crowd for it, although obviously this year we’ll be hoping not to have the sort of bad luck we had in that meeting!”