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It is a grey area. The point about the HMRC tests are that no one factor determines the outcome. Speedway riders would be one of those examples where there are half a dozen factors on each side of the argument and only a foolhardy idiot would predict with any certainty the outcome should it go to litigation. (I used to be self employed, despite 90% of my income coming from my previous employer for doing much the same things as I had previously. I remember that when the Revenue questioned my status one of the arguments I put forward in favour of self-employment was that I did NOT get an invite to the office Xmas party. And what was this job? I was training tax consultants!)

I think I can lay my hands on one of those!

You could always write a book

Many riders reach their peak after passing 30 nowadays. So Robert Lambert has plenty of time

But who would they be watching? Let's assume that Poland will be staging speedway every weekend in an effort to squeeze in as many meetings as possible. So Kurtz, Lidsey and possibly Kildemand and Bewley will want to be in Poland

I can't see what this link is supposed to show, can you explain?

In addition: 1 Poland, Sweden, Denmark etc will also be trying to squeeze in a few fixtures 2 Some Australians won't bother returning for a short season 3 Airline schedules will probably still be in a state of disarray

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Becker should be a great signing, but is there a potential issue of clashes with Czestochowa fixtures?

I suspect you are thinking of this one I mentioned on page 2 of the thread

No but Gem is nearly correct. 1986 Long Eaton won 65-0 in the circumstances she describes, against Mi........... . . . . . .....ldenhall

Just come across one in Poland. Junior Team Championship, Leszno, 23 July 2019 Ht 7 Szczotka fell and the other three riders returned to the pits thinking the race had been stopped. It hadn't so the other three were excluded for leaving the track.

When does he turn 16?. I was very impressed when I saw him last year.

Worth checking out - but not sure about that speedway historian guy

I think that following today's announcement we can expect some revisions, at some point, to the criteria for speedway riders. But I would think it will be a long way down the to do list so I suspect there will still be considerable uncertainty next winter.

Of course the list could be improved:

And it is not unique to Poland. In the USA (home of unbridled capitalism) municipal funding of baseball and NFL stadiums has long been the norm (although there has been some recent pushback)

The DDA requires businesses to make 'reasonable adjustments'. So the question is does preventing blue badge holders from parking near to the track represent a failure to make 'reasonable adjustments' Given that the facility was previously available and has been withdrawn by elective decision rather than 'force majure' I am inclined to think that the answer is yes.

Steve Johnston is riding at Perth next weekend. Maybe this means he'll be the next Panthers target?

As far as I can see Crump has done nothing to indicate he has any interest in returning to Britain. Every Summer he rides a couple of meetings in Australia and this seems no different from previous years. In previous years there was no speculation about Crump returning - the talk of his 'comeback' seems to be more of an indication of Peterborough's desperation than any real possibility of him coming out of retirement and riding full time.

What terrible news. A true entertainer who will be greatly missed.

Info is on the BSPA website: http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/Final Speedway Governing Body Endorsement Criteria 2019-20.pdf

As a 21 year old Charles Wright was averaging less than 4 for Redcar in the second tier. So to suggest that Nathan Greaves can be so casually discarded seems very harsh. (And after 6 years of Conference league experience Paul Starke averaged below 2.5 for Newcastle in the PL). We need the likes of Greaves, Hume and Bowtell to have decent opportunities to continue their careers as we continue to find it more and more difficult to attract riders from abroad.

Maybe they should have cut the crap and seed Poole straight to the final .. ...or why not just give them the trophy.

I missed it too. It was a month before my finals; I was busy brushing up my Galois theory and Shannon's theorem.