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But 19.3.3 refers to home team number one, and James Shanes appears to be guesting for the AWAY team for the second time in 8 days.

But as I understand it, to be classified as self-employed, you must be able to offer your services to whoever you like, whenever you like. Not necessarily true. Tests of employment vs self-employment are numerous and no one test over-rides others . For example a self-employed consultant could easily have a clause in the contract for services that prevents him/her offering services to a client/customer's direct competitor. And then of course, there is the matter of riders being "assets" and how that reconciles with the notion of free self-employment. Complete red herring as the asset system is nothing to do with employment, it is specific to sport. And technically riders are not assets, it is the contract that is the asset.

I'm pretty sure that speedway riders are still self-employed. Looking at all the leading cases (e.g. Lorimer) I think that it is still quite clear that speedway riders are self-employed. (For example whose responsibility is it to find a substitute if the rider can't perform services because they are working elsewhere?) And this is an employment tribunal so does not set a precedent that displaces existing tax case law. [Note I used to earn my living explaining tax law to accountants]

agree with all your points http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80540&p=2741362

AGM Agenda 1. Apologies 2. Minutes of last meeting 3. Assessed averages for foreign deckchairs 4. Relocating of deckchairs 5. Allocation of lifeboats 6. Abandon ship

Yes there is an agenda that is currently circulating. By an large agenda's aren't particularly revealing so even if we could see it I doubt we'd feel much better informed.

'Beg, Steal or Borrow' rather apt anthem for speedway promoters. PS Lynn Paul's sister was in my class at school!

2002 - Pat Bliss was Reading's away team manager (Nick Dyer did the home matches)

Last night's Glasgow v Sheffield match was one of the most gripping matches of the season - and I was 'only' experiencing it via the updates. That should remind us all how great the service is.

Possibly the week's least unexpected news.

Agreed, but I think the other key principle is to maximise the average of your nos. 1,2 & 6 as they are the riders who get extra rides. So with a 42.50 limit the optimum lineup is something like: 9.00, 8.50, 6.00, 5.50, 5.50, 5.00, 3.00. Then just find the riders on bargain averages (oh and the money to pay for them!)

Would the answer to miadfa8's question be BSI? Would be interesting to know figures for Go speed too.

Monetary policy is not the responsibility of the Chancellor, it rests with the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/qe/qe_faqs.aspx

Can't see anything in the regulations to that effect

Not always. Kenny Bjerre being the most obvious recent example

Fairly sure Ben Shields rode on Swedish licence, not sure about Adam.

A 1984 Reading programme has a Rivets fixtures list which gives 3 July for Weymouth v Reading. If so then it would have been the second half of the Weymouth v Stoke meeting. I'm now looking out for the programme for that meeting to see if that hypothesis is correct.

Somebody did: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80529 oh! It was me!

According to the highly unreliable metric of facebook followers: https://www.facebook.com/481042952054722/photos/a.481042995388051.1073741826.481042952054722/672086182950397/?type=3&theater Hardly surprising the top 12 are all Polish, although how the no 13 team gets a polish flag beside it's name I don't know. Top 7 1 Zielona Gora 2 Stal Gorzow 3 Unia Leszno 4 Torun 5 Czestochowa (top team not in Polish Extraliga) 6 Unia Tarnow 7 Sparta Wroclaw Top GB Teams 13 Poole 15 Glasgow 16 Belle Vue 17 Wolves 23 Leicester 26 Hull (!!) 27 Newcastle 29 Lakeside 31 King's Lynn 34 Peterborough (Lowest EL track Swindon @ 61; Top NL track Cradley @ no 70) Top 5 Other Nations 20 Lonigo 24 Ventura (looks suspicious as this track only stages a handful of meetings) 25 Vetlanda 28 Dackarna 30 Fast Fridays (Auburn) Top 5 Southern Hemisphere 57 Canterbury (NZ|) 58 Pinjar Park (Aus) 74 Oreti Park (NZ) 83 Bellocq (Arg) 85 Mildura (Aus)

Yes - because it has happened before. Bernt Persson and Bengt Jansson both abandoned their teams mid season when the pound collapsed in 1976.

Champion still going https://www.speedwaybikes.com/res2016_e/Champion-160904.htm But no sign of Tuff since 2014

Presumably because he is in King's Lynn's named seven.

Happy to oblige: Memorial Rinat Mardanshin Oktyabrsky, September 24, 2016 1. Ilya Chalov (Balakovo) (3 3 3 2 3) 14 2. Renat Gafurov (Togliatti) (3 3 2 3 2) 13 3. Kirill Tsukanov (Balakovo) 3 1 3 0 3) 10 4. Mikhail Litvinov (Togliatti) (2 2 2 1 3) 10 5. Oleg Beschastnov (Balakovo) (2 2 1 2 3) 10 6. Alexei Guzaev (Oktyabrsky) (1 3 2 3 0) 9 7. Marat Gatiyatov (Oktyabrsky) (1 3 1 1 2) 8 8. Ivan Bolshakov (Togliatti) (0 2 3 0 2) 7 9. Arslan Fayzulin (Oktyabrsky) (r 2 1 3 1) 7 10. Vladimir Morozov (Balakovo) (1 1 1 3 1) 7 11. Sergey Darkin (Togliatti) (fx 1 2 2 2) 7 12. Vyacheslav Monakhov (Togliatti) (2 0 3 1 fx) 6 13. Semen Zuev (Togliatti) (3 0 0 2 0) 5 14. Maksim Sosnov (Balakovo) (1 2 0 0 0) 3 15. Alexander Khasanov (Oktyabrsky) (0 1 1 1 fx) 3 16. Nikita Zubarev (Oktyabrsky) (fx 0 0 1 0) 1

Wuffy started his career at Pinjar Park so Rye House and Wolverhampton were big tracks to him!

Dates back to the introduction of speedway in the UK. The sport arrived from Australia in 1928, the same time as greyhound racing from the USA. As a result 80-90% of speedway tracks were shared use with greyhounds and they often took the Saturday slot (Sunday's were not available due to religious based restrictions on commercial activity).