Extraleague Play-offs Semi 2nd leg Sunday 7th September

[Shockster]

3 tractors on the track tonight during the intervals!  Are they polishing this track? 🤔

[ShanoXtra]

Anyone interested, Fajfer scored 7 points from his rides

[Shockster]

He won't be averaging 7 will he?  Away as well. 

[Shockster]

Stal not out of the woods just yet.  Bydgosz/Leszno will be a more difficult test, but I expect them to win.

[ShanoXtra]

5 minutes ago, Shockster said:

Stal not out of the woods just yet.  Bydgosz/Leszno will be a more difficult test, but I expect them to win.

Nah fajfer is good for about 5 points normally on a good day!

I don’t think even this match is done and dusted, Stal have really managed some strange results good and bad! I think it’s set to be Stal vs Bydgoszcz personally. 

Knowing my luck, Brennan to score 0 for Ipswich vs Belle Vue and knock us out, then max out against Stal and knock my Polish team out 😂

Edited 2 hours ago by ShanoXtra
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[Shockster]

Going to go to Belle Vue Monday.  Weather permitting, been last 2 weeks to Sheffield for 2 rain offs v Ipswich. Maybe jinxed. 🤣

[gjcone44]

ill be at Bellevue, Monday, but then off to Antalya, on Thursday, for 2 weeks so will miss 2nd leg, also last gp. probably end up watching on my phone, can get all polish meetings on my phone. 

[ShanoXtra]

Details from Stal if anyone wishes to read:

After losing two matches to Krono-Plast Wtokniarz, the shareholders of Gezet Stali Gorzów considered putting the club into bankruptcy. In the end, this did not happen, but other clubs have already become interested in the biggest stars of Steel. Jack Holder, Anders Thomsen, Oskar Paluch, and even Pawet Przedpetski, are fasty bites. Unofficially, we know that it will not be easy to them from Gorzów. The relevant provisions in the contracts strongly bind the hands of the players.

 

And here comes the problem.

Unofficially, we know that Holder, Przedpetski and Thomsen will not be easy to from Stal. And you certainly can't get it out for free. After the match with Wtokniarz, there was no feta and announcement of the extension of the contract with Thomsen, but we know that the Dane signed a pre-contract for 2026. And there is no possibility that he would break it on one side.

The situation of Holder and Przedpetski is identical. Holder has a lucrative contract (1.1 million zlotys for signature and 11 thousand zlotys per point plus sponsorship allowances) and a powerful commitment in case of desire to break this contract. If now Holder decided that he wanted to part with Stala, he would have to pay half a million zlotys to the club. Holder could only leave for free if Stal fell out of the Extraliga. Such a clause is also in his contract.

The same solution was used in the case of Przedpetski. He would also have to pay half a million to leave the extra-league Stal. For him, as for Holder, the only chance for a free-free termination of the contract would be an inheritance.

 

Someone will say that there is no drama, because if Stal falls in a month, all three will be able to leave for free. It's not that simple. Thomsen has no clause at all allowing him to leave. On the other hand, Holder and Przedpetski may not get the offers they can currently count on in a month. In a month, the number of volunteers will decrease. Both of them, signing papers with Stal, hoped that the season would end in the two-match match with Wtókniarz.

The worst for the players, however, is the prospect of riding in a club around which it is hot again. It seemed that Steel had the worst behind it. On the one hand, the reduction of debt from 13 (that was the autumn of 2024) to 4 million is a success, but on the other hand, this financial hump is still there. And it is not known if this will not affect the liquidity in 2026.