stewmac

You nailed it. Our mentality here that everything we do is best, and that no other country could possibly be better than us is so sadly out of date these days it's embarrassing. If I had the time and the money to be able to head over to Poland every weekend, I would go in a heartbeat. If you compare it to UK speedway, it's light years ahead in every single department.

And if that happened, to enable them to keep Chugunov at no.8, he'd end up with very few rides too. He's much better, at this stage with him returning from that serious an injury, to stay with Rybnik. Let's also not forget that their help got him back on track much earlier than anticipated. A bit of a kick in the teeth to abandon them now.

He'd be daft to go there at the moment. He needs all the time he can get on the bike and would likely end up as the no.8 which would not be to his advantage.

Yes, I will be watching with interest... A bittersweet experience it will be for me, for sure!

Opole v Polonia Piła, Sunday 14th April, Polish division 2, round 3.

First round of Italian championship, Saturday 13th April. Scary crash near the end!

Just like last week in Leszno, where I thought he was head and shoulders above everyone in terms of skill, Woffy showed again tonight why he's the world's best rider. Absolutely sublime.

Nonsense. Can you imagine that in football? Polish fans would riot at the suggestion.

Sportowefackty says around 11,000

I was at Rybnik past Saturday for the abandoned after 1 heat match. Woryna rode in the track testing session before the start of the match and looked very very quick.

Laguta won't be fit to race this weekend. He's hoping to return for next weekend.

Enjoyable meeting and good to see the underdog win. Well done Lublin. Finished off a great day after being among a wonderful atmosphere at Leszno.

Well, it wasn't to be. After Bachelor broke the track record in heat 1 I couldn't have imagined they'd then be forced to abandon the meeting. Unfortunately I have almost come to expect these situations, having seen it all too often in the UK. Łódź riders simply didn't want to race. Tungate and Andersen, as well as the young reserve who did the track test were adamant it wasn't safe. Today I'm off to Leszno. With great weather forecast, I'm confident we will see great action there ...

I have my decoder set to record all matches this weekend, as I am heading off on Friday to Rybnik for their match on saturday, then on to Lesno v Wroclaw on Sunday. Bring it on!

Take that back. He appears to have decided to race on regardless of what I read a couple of weeks back.

He's not expected to be fit before July at the earliest.

Maybe think again after their pummeling at home from Leszno yesterday...

His ban was until March. That's now over. But because of the transfer window in Poland, he can't compete for a team until after the next transfer window, which is in May. He's free to race in individual meetings etc.

Think I'll put my name forward as a reserve ref. God, I could make it every weekend and make a decent wee living!

I can see this selling out very fast, just like Wroclaw.

Is there a reason why Dan Bewley isn't listed for Rybnik?

Don't know what's happening with my phone. Anyway, just wanted to say: always loved Marcelina - it'll be a pleasure to watch her this year on Eleven !

Sportowefackty are this morning reporting that Tomasz Gollob has urged the chairman of Bydgoszcz to consider taking up the vacant slot in Nice 1 league.

Yes, the issue remains the problem of what to do since Rzeszów were expelled from Nice 1 league. That cut the number of teams from 8 to 7, and although the fixtures were already planned and known, they have not released them, as you say R&R. Attempts to coax one of the other 2nd division teams to step up to Nice 1 league to replace Rzeszów have so far failed, with all citing the increased financial implications as too great to be worth the risk.

Yes, the Extraliga fixtures are here: https://m.sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/pge-ekstraliga/kalendarz Im awaiting the Nice 1 league and 2nd division fixtures to help me choose where to add additional meetings to a couple of weekend trips I have organised for next season.