oldace Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 I must have missed all those editorials calling for the abolition of the retain-and-transfer system... It doesn't need abolishing, it just needs someone with the balls to offer a job to a rider, any rider and just refuse to pay loan or transfer fees. For certain it will collapse like a house of cards because, stupid as some of them are, no promoter in their right mind would be willing to stake anything on such a system being enforced. Speedway riders are just self employed tradesmen, able to tender for any job they wish and when it is done tender for another Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 It doesn't need abolishing, it just needs someone with the balls to offer a job to a rider, any rider and just refuse to pay loan or transfer fees. It amounts to the same thing as abolition however it's actually done. Regardless though, I don't ever recall the Star leading any sort of crusade to free riders from what is little more than indentured servitude... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 BANGED the drum for many years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldace Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 BANGED the drum for many years... Just very quietly so as to not annoy the neighbours (promoters) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 APPARENTLY one reason why some think I am (or at least was) annoying ... they cling to the asset system like limpet mines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted October 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 A new speedway clubs have been started in Karlstad. It is called Karlstad-Hammarö Speedwayklubb. http://speedway054.se There already exist two clubs in Karlstad, Solkatterna and Svensk Folkspeedway Karlstad. The latter is a kind of a rogue* team and since several of its board members also are board members for Solkatterna they have made Solkatterna gone rogue as well which have resulted This have resulted in that several Solkatterna members left the club due to the way Solkatterna was run and due to the actions of some Solkatternas board members where they tried to prevent Svemo licensed riders from practising on the track by trying to prevent Svemo officials from doing a formal check up ("besiktning") of the track (which is required before it can be used by Svemo licensed riders/clubs). The thing is though that the track is owned by the City of Karlstad (Karlstad Municipality) and Solkatterna/Folkspeedway are just tenants and as such they have of course no right to do what they did. However Karlstad municipality officials have acknowledge this problem and will make sure that the track is checked and approved by Svemo so that riders and teams connected to Svemo can use the track as well. *a team that have decided to organize themselves with the newly form "rogue federation" Svenska motorsportalliansen instead of being organized under Svemo. They have a different idea about speedway. Their idea is that it should be easily accessible to all which according to them means: no airfences, all kinds of speedway bikes should be allowed to be uses regardless of their condition, no licenses and etc which means that anyone can show up with any kind of speedway bike and race. But there is no guarantees that the riders participating is actually capable of riding a speedway bike. ----- Smederna made an announcement today regarding Szymon Wozniak, that Smederna will lend him to an Allsvenskan clubs for 2014. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Strange situation at Karlstad. By the way, wasn't there talk a couple of years ago about Bysarna getting a new track on the island of Gotland. What is the situation with Bysarna? Any news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted October 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Strange situation at Karlstad. By the way, wasn't there talk a couple of years ago about Bysarna getting a new track on the island of Gotland. What is the situation with Bysarna? Any news? Bysarna started the construction of a new 80cc track in Hejdeby two years ago nut I don't know if the tracks is completely finished yet. I am also not sure if and when the 500cc track will be built. From what I've read, Bysarna could not afford to build the 500cc as well so they started with the 80cc track with the ambition of perhaps building the 500cc track later on. I don't know but perhaps in a couple of years they will manage to build the large track as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Cameron Woodward has signed for Indianerna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted October 24, 2013 Report Share Posted October 24, 2013 Chris Harris has signed for Rospiggarna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted October 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Zengota have signed with Smederna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Andzejs Lebedevs has signed for Rospiggarna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted November 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 (edited) A couple of more signings: Krzysztof Buczkowski, Jonas Engdahl and Rasmus Jensen have signed with Dackarna. Rasmus Jensen's contract is for two years and he will be sent on a loan to Griparna for 2014. Matej Zagar and Nicklas Porsing have signed with Piraterna. Edited November 5, 2013 by Ghostwalker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WembleyLion Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Allsvenskan fixtures for 2014 http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/ALLSVENSKANSPEEDWAY2014/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Allsvenskan fixtures for 2014 http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/ALLSVENSKANSPEEDWAY2014/ Good find, then I assume that Elitserien's fixtures aren't far away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Elitserien fixtures: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/ELITSERIENSPEEDWAY2014/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WembleyLion Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Good find, then I assume that Elitserien's fixtures aren't far away. Good call as per usual GW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted November 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2013 According to Speedwaynyheter, Vikingarna speedway from Örebro have decided that they intents to re-start their team and that they now are working hard to acquire the needed funds so that the team can afford to purchase an airfence which is required if the want to have any form of competitive racing. The full article can be found here: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/ovrigt/vikingarna-aterupptar-verksamheten/ (Swedish) In Google English; http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedwaynyheter.se%2Fovrigt%2Fvikingarna-aterupptar-verksamheten%2F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted November 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 Griparna have really been messing around the last couple of days, Lets's start from the beginning, Fredrik Edberg have been involved in both Hammarby's and Griparna's operations for some time. In the past week Edberg split with Hammarby in quite turbulent forms and he decided to fully focus on his role as deputy-chairmen of the board for Griparna. However since that moment he have sacked three riders that Griparna signed for next season. The riders in question are Joel Andersson, Szymon Wozniak and Rasmus Jensen. They were sacked since Edberg wanted to bring in three other riders; Kim Nilsson for everyone thought have signed for Hammarby, Ty Protctor and Kauko Nieminen. This means that with about 1 week reaming to the deadline for when the teams are to be registered, those three riders now are without a team place for next year since the other teams are already full (except maybe for Hammarby). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted December 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 No Zagar for Piraterna. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/piraterna/ingen-zagar-i-motala-2014/ Due to an undisclosed reason Matej Zagar will not ride for Piraterna in 2014. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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