Comeback king Todd Wiltshire may have made a stunning home return for Oxford Cheetahs but he says there is better still to come.

The Australian ace racked up a paid 12-points, which included victory over British champion Scott Nicholls, to inspire Cheetahs to a 47-43 win over reigning Skybet Elite League champions Coventry last Wednesday.

But afterwards the 37-year-old admitted: "I'm not yet at 100 per cent fitness.

"There is no substitute for being out there racing, and after a couple of years out of the sport, I'm rediscovering muscles I'd forgotten had existed.

"I think it will be another three or four weeks, before I can get through a whole meeting without feeling tired."

Cheetahs' victory was the highlight of a week which had started badly with a 63-31 drubbing in front of the Sky TV cameras at Peterborough, before ending with plenty of encouraging signs in 50-42 defeat at Coventry on Friday.

It was a battling perform- ance, and a massive improvement on Oxford's previous three away matches, which had seen the team concede 60 or more points on each occa- sion.

Happy Oxford promoter Aaron Lanney said: "I think we're starting to really pull together as a team now and the new guys, Todd and Freddie Eriksson, are starting to ride themselves into form.

"I don't think anyone thought Todd would get going quite so quickly.

"His performance at Oxford last week was that of a genuine No 1 which is outstanding for a rider who's been out of the sport for two years.

"Todd and Freddie have now brought a balance to the side, which we didn't have before.

"I'm looking for Todd to score somewhere around ten or 11 points a meeting and Freddie six or seven.

"If you take out Tony Rickardsson's 12 or 13 and Adam Pietraszko's odd point here and there, it gives you a swing of four to five points, and that's the difference between winning and losing matches.

"I don't really expect us to end up in the play-offs, but I do expect us to move two or three places up the table before the end of the season."

An important factor in the improved showings against Coventry was the form of captain David Howe.

Howe endured a nightmare meeting at Peterborough, but bounced back against the Bees.

Lanney explained: "We made an effort to help David lift himself and it worked."