Mateusz

Any news on Gniezno v Bydgoszcz, Mama?

Pleased to pass some good news for those of you who wanted to attend a league match on Sunday after the Leszno GP: Ekstraliga matches on May 1st WILL NOT be cancelled, after all! Therefore, you can choose between these matches: Zielona Góra - Częstochowa Wrocław - Rzeszów Tarnów - Gorzów Toruń - Leszno Source: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/02/28/speedway-ekstraliga-nie-przelozy-meczow-iv-kolejki/ PS. Now makes the decision of postponing Division 1 & 2 even more pointless. If Ekstraliga covered by TVP can run, why Division 1 & cannot?

Looks like Polish speedway promoters are doing their best to follow their British counterparts in poor ruling and promoting this sport. That's just sad... and so annoying! I honestly can't understand this either.

That's such a crap. Had a perfect weekend with the GP in Leszno on Saturday and Gniezno v Bydgoszcz on Sunday planned (both events round Poznań)

Couldn't agree more. Got a funny feeling the ticket prices won't go down. Same as in economics - any restriction introduced to restrain some process (increase of riders' pays in this case) always cause next problems. I can foresee that good non-GP riders will be wanting more money in 2012 as they simply will be more demanded... and all in all clubs will be spending similar amounts for their contracts. This is just stupid, same as CMA's.

It's more or less the same in the whole country. But, as Mama says, if it's just up to TVP (Polish public tv) and all their stuff being sent to Vatican, there's a hope matches of Division 1 & 2 will go - TVP don't cover them.

A GP rider limit totally sucks :|

As a Polish Catholic, I would like to say that... I will be equally p!ssed off as you guys if I don't have my league match on Sunday, May 1st! I really hope this is just rumours and they won't postpone anything. I bet most Polish Catholic speedway fans would pick a speedway match over watching on telly some stuff from Vatican, after all If they set all start times at 5 pm there should be no problem at all.

Pawlicki brothers' dad must be an idiot if he cannot find a team for such talented riders. If none wants to sign a contract with them it means he asks for too much - simple as.

The roof construction pictures - http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/01/14/ruszyla-budowa-dachu-na-motoarenie-zdjecia/

No need to cover the grass ground, is there? The roof will cover the track so it's going to be the first speedway dedicated stadium where meetings are never rained off.

Mroczka signed for 2 years with Gorzow. Gniezno signed Nicholls, Bridger and S.Gustafsson.

Looks like Gapiński for Bydgoszcz, after all.

True, but I'd love to watch Pawlicki racing for Bydgoszcz, even if this would be just for one season - way more exciting than riders like Gapinski 1. Sayfutdinov 2. Gizatullin 3. Kosciecha 4. Pawlicki 5. Walasek 6. Wozniak 7. Pawlicki's little bro ...it does look good for Division 1 standards

League matches after the Leszno GP - on Sunday, May 1st: Ekstraliga - 4th round Zielona Góra - Częstochowa Wrocław - Rzeszów Tarnów - Gorzów Toruń - Leszno Division 1 - 4th round Łódź - Poznań Gniezno - Bydgoszcz Grudziądz - Daugavpils Rybnik - Gdańsk Since it's certain Bydgoszcz will be racing in Division 1 next year, I'm going to do Gniezno v Bydgoszcz which is just one hour by train from Poznan. If anyone else would like to watch this match as well, I'll be happy to join you on this little trip

Yeah, he's one of the candidates. But I'd rather sign Przemek Pawlicki - a much more exciting rider

...and all I can say is that my informer and his informers were terribly wrong (for the first time ever), unfortunately for the Bydgoszcz speedway. Gotta deal with another dull season in Division 1.

The league will already be at the play-off stage then so I guess it may be used as a back-up date but only for the matches of round 17 (Aug 21st).

Tomorrow morning I'm going to France to have some fun on my snowboard This means I'll be offline until Dec 19th so if anyone has any questions on Polish speedway (in this threat or PM), please ask Mama or any other Pole here as I won't able to reply soon.

Unfortunately there's no league round in Poland on Sunday after the Torun GP

August in Poland usually means a nice or a very nice weather It's a really good date to make a GP here, looking forward to this one the most

Guess who's just won the FIM Personality of the Year Award!? Speedway may be a minor sport globally but speedway fans rule!

Still - wait till Dec 15th. The fact they've paid their current debts doesn't mean they'll have enough money to build a team for 2011.

10 teams in Ekstraliga from 2012, AFTER ALL! Other changes be introduced in 2012: - at least 4 Polish riders in a team line-up (including 2 Polish u-21 riders) - only 1 GP rider per team

I mentioned Dec 15th as the final deadline later on.