Mateusz

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http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=32183

With some of my connections renting a bus for a really reasonable price (around the train ticket price per capita) shouldn't be a problem. U-21 Final is one of those safe speedway meetings so no company should refuse. It is about 3 hours to Ostrow indeed but with proper amount of % and a good company time doesn't matter really

Me, maybe with Wroclaw veterans - Lawrence and Mama Should come over already around noon on Friday and staying till Sunday (2 drunken nights )

From Bydgoszcz to Ostrow Wlkp (where U21 Final is held) it is about 5 hours by train (about 250 km). I've never stayed in the City Hotel as I'm from Bydgoszcz but I've had a pleasure to visit City Club (formerly Chesterfield) located below the hotel (last year too)

Poznan Glowny and Torun Glowny. "Glowny" means "central (station)".

Sometimes using "search" option might be useful too 2007 Ekstraliga 2007 Division 1

They said on telly they guy gets ~1300 PLN per hour. For doing nothing! Polish average wage is 2500. Per month 1 PLN = ~0,16 GBP

Student ticket for the backstraight 75 zl... Hope the guys will work out the gate again

According to the new scoring system last year would have looked like: Crump: 1 - 188 pts; 1 - 164 pts Hancock: 2 - 144; 2 - 141 Nicki P.: 3 - 134; 3 - 126 Jonsson: 4 - 119; 4 - 105 Adams: 5 - 106; 5 - 103 Andersen: 6 - 101; 7 - 91 Zagar: 7 - 97; 6 - 91 Gollob: 8 - 94; 8 - 86 Hampel: 9 - 91; 12 - 75 Lindback: 10 - 89; 10 - 80 Nicholls: 11 - 83; 9 - 81 Bjarne P.: 12 - 82; 11 - 79 Wasn't me who counted this, just found it on another forum.

Wouldn't be original saying the new system is just idiotic.

From Bydgoszcz to Wroclaw it feels like 4 - 5 beers.. ye, must be something about it Twice of this, Poznan's exactly in the middle between both cities.

Exactly. Bydgoszcz is the best as for speedway but Wroclaw leads in all other aspects of a drunken GP weekend I'd say that Bydgoszcz is a bit more hardcore and if I were a foreigner I'd try Wroclaw first. Never been in Prague at the GP tho'.

The new season begins on 1st April with a friendly tournament "Aces Criterion" at Bydgoszcz. The league starts on Easter Monday - 9th April. Ekstraliga fixtures for 2007

Yeah, that's what I just wanted to add to my previous post - despite all much more Poles know something about Gollob than Englishmen about your best riders. But this just shows the general difference in popularity of speedway in both countries. Hard to answer but when Gollob won the silver medal of SGP in 1999 (and frankly it was only an injury that took him the gold that time) he also won a very prestigious contest of Polish best (most popular) sportsman of the year. So I'd say that yes, but it must be quite a spectacular success. Individual Championships (SGP) are more important than the team ones (SWC) in speedway so for example when Poland became World Champs in 2005 it didn't echo in Polish media much.. PS. Another example, not from speedway - until September'06 almost no one knew anything about F1 here. I guess it was only a group of F1 fanatics watching the races on tv. But since Robert Kubica finished 3rd in the Italian GP it's been very loudly about him and F1 generally. The viewing ratings have grown rapidly as well.

It's definitely not like with Becks in England. People who are not into speedway at all mostly know who Gollob is. But usually that's all. The guy was very famous especially at the end of 90s when he was on the top. There used to be more about him in media so all people who at least watch sport news on telly automatically connect his name with speedway now.. But you'd never find a 'sensational' article/pics in a tabloid about his wife getting suntanned somewhere like it is with Posh and other wags

Haven't seen 2 Liga fixtures anywhere so far.

Indeed, they are only 2 pages away in this thread

Polish Ekstraliga fixtures for 2007 have been released. Now we can start planning 1. round 2007-04-09 (Monday) Częstochowa - Rzeszow Torun - Leszno Zielona Gora - Bydgoszcz Tarnow - Wroclaw 2. round 2007-04-15 (Sunday) Leszno - Tarnow Bydgoszcz - Częstochowa Wroclaw - Torun Rzeszow - Zielona Gora 3. round 2007-04-22 (Sunday) Leszno - Częstochowa Torun - Zielona Gora Wroclaw - Rzeszow Tarnow - Bydgoszcz 4. round 2007-04-29 (Sunday) Częstochowa - Torun Bydgoszcz - Leszno Zielona Gora - Wroclaw Rzeszow - Tarnow 5. round 2007-05-03 (Thursday) Leszno - Zielona Gora Torun - Rzeszow Wroclaw - Bydgoszcz Tarnow - Częstochowa 6. round 2007-05-06 (Sunday) Częstochowa - Wroclaw Torun - Bydgoszcz Zielona Gora - Tarnow Rzeszow - Leszno 7. round 2007-05-20 (Sunday) Leszno - Wroclaw Bydgoszcz - Rzeszow Zielona Gora - Częstochowa Tarnow - Torun 8. round 2007-05-27 (Sunday) Częstochowa - Zielona Gora Torun - Tarnow Wroclaw - Leszno Rzeszow - Bydgoszcz 9. round 2007-06-10 (Sunday) Leszno - Rzeszow Bydgoszcz - Torun Wroclaw - Częstochowa Tarnow - Zielona Gora 10. round 2007-06-22 (Friday) Częstochowa - Tarnow Bydgoszcz - Wroclaw Zielona Gora - Leszno Rzeszow - Torun 11. round 2007-07-06 (Friday) Leszno - Bydgoszcz Torun - Częstochowa Wroclaw - Zielona Gora Tarnow - Rzeszow 12. round 2007-07-22 (Sunday) Częstochowa - Leszno Bydgoszcz - Tarnow Zielona Gora - Torun Rzeszow - Wroclaw 13. round 2007-07-29 (Sunday) Częstochowa - Bydgoszcz Torun - Wroclaw Zielona Gora - Rzeszow Tarnow - Leszno 14. round 2007-08-05 (Sunday) Leszno - Torun Bydgoszcz - Zielona Gora Wroclaw - Tarnow Rzeszow - Częstochowa 2007-08-12 (Sunday) play-off round 1 - first leg 2007-08-26 (Sunday) play-off round 1 - second leg 2007-09-02 (Sunday) play-off round 2 - first leg 2007-09-16 (Sunday) play-off round 2 - second leg 2007-09-30 (Sunday) play-off round 3 - first leg 2007-10-07 (Sunday) play-off round 3 - second leg race-off - first leg 2007-10-14 (Sunday) race-off - second leg

Yes, Klecha will stay for sure. And if he works properly throughout the winter he might be better than some our new 'aces' ...

Simple. It's much easier for them to score lots of points and wages for point are only a bit lower. So for example guys like B.Pedersen will make more money scoring about 15 pts in every match of Division 1 than doing average about 8 in Ekstraliga.

Another link to take a small break from transfers

Sounds like our Polish mess a bit. Fortunately arguable things are not so import to close the league (yet..?).

We've signed J.Davidsson for at least 12 matches.

You should update your list... Division 1 Division 2