Zach Cook signed his Polish contract before Poole's as he wasn't intending to do Championship in 2026, as he announced at the end of 2025 season. It was only the uncertainty of the Premiership's future with decisions delayed to Jan '26 that made him change his mind (helped no doubt by Middlo offering encouraging words). Cook made it perfectly clear that he would not be available for certain Pirates fixtures if his Polish club Lodz required him.

Wow, that's very strong from you Wayne!! The Plymouth stalker strikes again. Sunday lunchtime in the pub again? Enjoy your nap.zzzzz

British Speedway is just a circus, I look at the GB speedway site every day to check out results and almost every day its the same, oh where is so and so, why wasnt so and so riding, they were fit and riding the previous day etc etc  

That attitude is exactly why UK speedway gets shoved to the bottom of everyone's priorities. Cook has signed a contract with your club, he should honour it. Why are you not p1ssed off that he's decided he couldn't be bothered to make it work, so has just dumped your club? Instead it's just "oh well, Plymouth is rubbish anyway lol 🤷🏻‍♂️" and no blame apportioned to the rider who didn't turn up. He's happy to take the money when it suits him, but not when another club comes along offering more money. I'd almost guarantee that if it was an important individual meeting (that benefitted Cook himself) at Plymouth, and he had to make it to Poland this afternoon, the travel options would miraculously appear.  

Promoters attitude towards fans who stop attending seems to "Well they're no great loss".   When the sport is hemorrhaging clubs and fans at an ever increasing rate of knots, the last they should be is half-soaked about lapsed fans.  Instead of having slopy-shoulders or even worse, criticising fans for not coming, FIND OUT why they don't come anymore