tommy

Finally got my self together after celebrating yesterday's victory over Leszno . No major crowd riots at this one Rico Police made a buffer zone from the sector that seperates ZG and Leszno fans, so apart from belching out slogans at each other the crowd behaved. Wish all meetings would run like this one ...now i'm off to get some sleep.

Today @ 4 & 5pm (local time) Polish Individual championship 1/4 finals take place in Rawicz, Krosno, Lodz and Pila. For live updates click HERE ps. the links to each meeting are in the top right corner. tom

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It's going to be interesting to see how the Swedish league measures up to Poland and GB. The broadcasts will start in July with the first few matches being reruns, then halfway through the month live broadcast should begin. Question for our Swedish friends, is there already a TV station showing Eliteserien? I will post more details as they come in. tom

I read up on the memorial and the prizes were as follows, 1st 2000EUR, 2nd 1500EUR, 3rd 1000 and 4th 500EUR...sorry for the inaccurate post above. So I assume around the same as in GB, although I remember last years Piast Tournament in Wroclaw, Poland offered much bigger prizes than in Gorzow.

Jancarz Memorial: 1st place 3000 EUR, 2nd 2000EUR.......4th 500EUR can't remember in between

Nice ride by Zagar, congrats to him! That's 2 out 3 boring SGP's...keep it up Olsen, wonder if he can keep going and make the cardiff track even worst

Will there be a report from today's practice???? Someone plz?! tom

whats the crowd capacity at Eskilstuna??

This sunday Polsat will broadcast Czestochowa vs. Tarnow

After 5 rounds: 1. Apator Toruń 5 8 23 2. Unia Tarnów 5 6 43 3. Unia Leszno 5 6 36 4. Włókniarz Częstochowa 5 6 16 5. BTŻ Polonia Bydgoszcz 5 4 7 6. Gwardia/Wybrzeże Gdańsk 5 4 0 7. Atlas Wrocław 5 4 -45 8. ZKŻ Kronopol Zielona Góra 5 2 -80

Officialy, winning this elimination doesn't make him Polish U21 champ. Polish U21 finals take place on Oct,2nd in Torun. yesterday's results: 1. Krzysztof Kasprzak – 14 (3,3,3,2,3) 2. Krystian Klecha – 11 (3,3,wy,3,2) 3. Marcin Rempała – 11 (2,3,3,3,wy) 4. Mateusz Szczepaniak – 10 (3,2,2,2,1) 5. Karol Ząbik – 9 (2,def.,2,2,3) 6. Adrian Miedziński – 9 (0,wy,3,3,3) 7. Paweł Hlib – 7+3 (1,2,2,1,1) --------------------------------------------------------- 8. Janusz Kołodziej – 7+2 (2,wy,def.,3,2) 9. Michał Rajkowski – 7+1 (3,taś,1,1,2) 10. Norbert Kościuch – 7+0 (1,1,3,1,1) 11. Patryk Pawlaszczyk – 6 (1,2,0,0,3) 12. Mirosław Jabłoński – 6 (2,3,1,0,0) 13. Krzysztof Buczkowski – 5 (1,1,1,0,2) 14. Zbigniew Suchecki – 4 (0,2,1,1,0) 15. Marcin Jaguś – 3 (0,1,2,0,0) 16. Paweł Miesiąc – 3 (0,0,0,2,1) cheers

I got home safe and sound. When the riots started I was ready to leave the cage but security wouldn't let us out. This was the craziest sh*t I ever experienced, riot Police were pointing their rifles at us (with rubber bullets)! Normal fans were forced to bounce back between the right and left side of the cage to avoid getting hit by a flying 2x4,bottle or a cops knight stick. The whole mess escolated around heat 10 when hooligans from Leszno and ZG tried to clash at the barier dividing the visitors sector and the rest of the stadium, one of the riot cops fired a few warning shots in the air which had an short lasting effect as hooligans went back to throwing whatever objects they could get their hands on. To be honest Rico I didn't expect this kind of chaos that is why I invited you to the visitiors cage, if I knew this would happed I would opt out myslef and sit with the regular folks, last year was a picnic at leszno comparing to what we saw on Sunday.A big mistake by the organizers was not enough cops to secure the visitors sector and no "buffer zone" on the right side of the cage. Next time I'm in Leszno I'll defenitely sit in a neutral sector, i've had enough of this bullrubbish. I just hope that people who read this don't get an idea that Poland and/or Zielona Gora is some kind of a bastion for hooligans. This happens to be an isolated incident and happens very rarely. tom

correction, when Nicki was trying to overtake Balinski on the inside of the 2nd bend his throttle got stuck and his bike darted out from underneath him, fortunately just barely missing Balinski. pics from the meeting: sport.zgora.pl now u know cheers

Returned from the SGP last night and I gotta tell ya, who ever stayed home saved a few quid and didn't miss much, the 20 euros wans't worth the crappy racing. The outside wasn't going at all untill the last 3 or 4 heats, which made it harder for guys like gollob and nicki to pass.Trick is in his own league, Lindback is also looking very promising, this is the second time I saw him in person and have to say this guy has predisposition to race speedway. ps. the track was total rubbish, I hate concrete-hard tracks, they take away from what speedway is all about. Now I'm to LEszno..cya!

Isn't there a subscription fee u have to pay to watch sgp's on their website????

You won't ahve to be frogmarch back to the station , juust drop by....I'm pissed right now, just git back from a pub (champions league), I'm defenitely not involved with the hoolingans movement and you shouldn;t have a problem with visiting the "away team" sector which will also be filled with the "average folk" zielona gora fans, there's about 6 to 8 bus' coming down to Leszno from zielona gora.it'll be helluva of time!!!

Well, than we can hook up for a pint or two (or three ) if we're in near proximity. If that doesn't work out I invite you to the visitors "cage" in Leszno! My mobile # is +48602316181 tom

What section r ur seats in?? I'm in 2-9 (across from start)!! cheers

Not yet, should be announced by Thurs. I'll post it, once its official. cheers

Leszno has a population of about 70-80 thou (no one really knows exactly ) so the walk from the PKP station is about 15min. C ya there!!!

I think tomasz g. just had a bad day considering his points at Leszno, Jacek on the other hand is useless without his brother by his side especially in away meetings. yesterday I witnessed my team, ZKZ, get their ass whipped by a young and ambitious Torun side... still can't belive it, thats speedway though , but they needed a cold shower to wake them up for an important meeting in Leszno...it's gonna be hard to pick up the two points (day after wroclaw gp ).......'till next time!!!

III round - Polish Ekstraliga: Unia Tarnów - 61 9. Tony Rickardsson - ( 3, 3, 3, 3 ) 12 10. Robert Wardzała - ( D/2, 0, 0 ) 0 11. Jacek Gollob - ( 2, 1, 3, 3, 3 ) 12 12. Stanisław Burza - ( 1*, 0, 2*, 2* ) 5 + 3 13. Tomasz Gollob - ( 3, 3, 3, 3 ) 12 14. Marcin Rempała - ( 2*, 2*, 2*, 0, 1 ) 7 + 3 15. Janusz Kołodziej - ( 3, 3, 2*, 2*, 3 ) 13 + 2 ZKŻ Kronopol Zielona Góra - 29 1. Krzysztof Stojanowski - ( 2, 0, 2, 1, 1 ) 6 2. Andrzej Huszcza - ( 1*, 1*, 1*, 0 ) 3 + 3 3. Piotr Świst - ( 0, 0, 1*, 0 ) 1 + 1 4. Lee Richardson - ( 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2 ) 11 5. Mariusz Staszewski - ( 1, 1, 2, 2, 0 ) 6 6. Marcin Nowaczyk - ( 1, 0, 1*, 0 ) 2 + 1 7. Zbigniew Suchecki - ( 0, 0 ) 0 Polonia Budlex Bydgoszcz - 53 1. Andreas Jonsson (2, 1, 0, 2, 3, 3) 11 2. Jacek Krzyżaniak (0, - , -, -) 0 3. Robert Sawina (2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 0) 11 4. Michał Robacki (0, -, 0, -) 0 5. Piotr Protasiewicz (3, 3, 1*, 2, 1, 1) 11+1 6. Krzysztof Buczkowski (0, w, -, 0, -, 0) 0 7. Krystian Klecha (1, d, 2*, u, w) 3+1 Apator Adriana Toruń -36 9. Wiesław Jaguś (3, 1, 1, 1, 3) 9 10. Marcin Jaguś (1, 0, -, -,) 1 11. Jason Crump (3, 3, 3, 2, 2*) 13+1 12. Andy Smith (1, 2*, 1, 1*, 1*) 6+3 13. Mariusz Puszakowski (w, -, 0, d) 0 14. Karol Ząbik (2*, 2, 3, 3, 3) 13+1 15. Adrian Miedziński (3, 1, 3, 2, 2) 11 Wybrzeże Gdańsk - 44 1.Robert Kościecha 14pkt (3,3,2,2,1,3) 2.Krzysztof Jabłoński 2pkt (1,0,1,0) 3.Greg Hancock 13pkt (3,3,0,3,2,2) 4.Tomasz Bajerski 2pkt (0,1,1) 5.Tomasz Chrzanowski 8pkt ( 1,2,1,1,3) 6.Sławomir Dąbrowski 2pkt (2,0,0) 7.Mirosław Jabłoński 3pkt (3,0,0) Atlas Wrocław - 46 9.Robert Miśkowiak 5pkt (0,1,3,1) 10.Piotr Świderski 8pkt (2,3,2,d,1) 11.Tomasz Gapiński 10pkt (1,1,3,3,2) 12.Krzysztof Słaboń 9pkt (2,2,2,2,1) 13.Hans Andersen 11pkt (3,2,3,3,0) 14.Ronnie Jamrozy 2pkt (0,2,0,0,0) 15.Mariusz Pacholak 1pkt (1) Złomrex Włókniarz Częstochowa - 52 9. Ryan Sullivan - ( 3 2 1* 3 3 ) 12+1 10. Sławomir Drabik - ( 1 1* 2 0 2* ) 6+2 11. Grzegorz Walasek - ( 3 3 3 3 3 ) 15 12. Rafał Osumek - ( 2* 1 1 0 ) 4+1 13. Rune Holta - ( 2 3 3 2 2* ) 12+1 14. Mateusz Szczepaniak - ( 1 1+ 0 1 0 ) 3+1 15. Michał Ciura - ( 0 ) 0 Unia Leszno - 38 1. Leigh Adams - ( 2 2 2 1* 2 0 ) 9+1 2. Adam Skórnicki - ( 0 0 d ) 0 3. Damian Baliński - ( 1 2 0 d ) 3 4. Jacek Rempała - ( 0 1* 2 1 1 ) 5+1 5. Krzysztof Kasprzak - ( 3 3 3 2 3 1 ) 15 6. Robert Kasprzak - ( 3 0 ) 3 7. Norbert Kościuch - ( 2* 0 0 1* ) 3+2 www.espeedway.pl

April 17th- Apator Torun v. BTZ Bydgoszcz (E-liga -derby!!) 3.15pm local time LIVE (Polsat Sport)-(reboradcast following Thur.@ 1pm local t. on Polsat2) April 18th- Mars Gorzow v. RKM Rybnik (1st div.) 6.20pm local time (TV Puls) April 19th- Kolejarz Rawicz v. Polonia Pils (2nd div.) 11.25pm local time (tele5) source: magazine Tygodnik Zuzlowy cheers

According to Polsat website,rebroadcast of Bydgoszcz vs. Czestochowa will be on Polsat2 this Thursday at 1pm local time. cheers