Posts by Ttom

    thats really weird for me. When I saw Rzeszów team, how their work with coach, it looks like they have good connection. BTW he won PolishCup, so I dont see reason why they will change him...

    its weird but it will not be the first time when something weird will happen:lol: but probably it´s just a rumour

    Well, when you see these €€€, decision is simple 😅

    Gałkowska was also rumoured to be retired after the season.

    but yeah she said it 2 years ago, that she will play 2 seasons in Chemik as libero to avoid shoulder surgery and retire..but I have nothing against, she is really playing good now

    In 2003 I thought that the gold for Poland was a bit of a coincidence. It was only in 2005 that I appreciated the strength of the Polish team, which later played much worse. Even under Niemczyk, Poland had strange mishaps, e.g. with the Dominican Republic, Thailand, South Korea, etc. Now Poland isn`t the European champion, but it is much more competitive in the world.


    South Korea was the lost match 2:3 in the WGP 2006, in that WGP Poland was completely horrible, most of the girls were without form and Niemczyk was again improvising with Bamber and Podolec playing as OH and so on...Poland played first time with Thailand in the WGP 2008 I think and lost 2:3 in Wroclaw, there was a big conflict on time-out between Skorupa and Bonitta and in tiebreak he put Godos as setter and they lost it very badly

    They seemed to lack consistency.


    In the 2003 World Cup, they beat the USA but lost to the Dominican Republic and Japan.


    But as a bonus, they were without Świeniewicz and Mirek. Was it due to injuries?

    Mirek tore her ACL on the last spike in the warm-up of the first match on ECH 2003..Swieniewicz I dont remember exactly - but she had a foot injury, but probably some time later

    I still have nightmares about the 2005 European Championship final. I was so sure of victory that I couldn't accept Italy's defeat for a long time. In retrospect, I think it was better to play in the final with Russia than with Poland. Back then, Russia had match points in the semi-final with Poland. Do you remember that match?

    remember, probably when was the hawk-eye system at that time, Russia had win that match :whistle:

    that´s true that many players played in Italy but I think lack of experience as a whole team together..Glinka was fired by Niemczyk in the third week of WGP after a very nasty incident in the practise, Niemczyk had at that time big problems with drinking and resigned after WGP but Glinka didn´t return at the WCH 2006..still, bigger problems in the team were probably by Bonitta

    I sometimes also wondering why we didnt had better results with this roster. In my opinion we didnt have stable first 6 players. Too many rotations between OHs, even sometimes we played with 3 Opps on court (Skowrońska, Podolec, Glinka). We had good OHs like Świeniewicz, Jagiełło, Rosner, Mirek and later Barańska, but Marco Bonita wanted play with Glinka and Skowrońska and the third player was as mentioned. Because of that we didnt have reception and needed most of time playing on high balls.

    As this situation show that roster full of stars not always working, comparing to current team, which girls arent such a big stars like Skowrońska, Glinka, Świeniewicz ect, but can build a good machine, ofcourse also Lavarini help them a lot.

    but Bonitta started to play with 3 OPP´s only in Halle 2008 (Olympic qualification) and then in the OG in Beijing when he realized that he doesn´t have scoring OH , Baranska was not a top player at that time and he was in conflict with her

    you have to divide that time into Niemczyk´s era 2003-2006 and then Bonitta 2007-2008..it was a different team in many ways by Bonitta and it´s not a surprise he can´t bring the best of them..and before also lack of experience and playing with the top teams in the world was probably also playing the role?

    The speaker of the final between Imoco and Milano said something really interesting... If I remember right he told the Wolosz signature in Imoco is not sure for the next season and that if she will not leave, then the season 2026 2027 will probably return to play in Poland.

    I think Wolosz will not return to Poland to play, she has nothing to achieve in Polish league anymore, after the OG in Paris it looked like she is going to retire soon

    I liked her a lot since she came to Poland even though she got almost 0 chances to play there. She is very good and stable. And in Azerbaijan NT she was often a bench player because they used Mammadova and Rahimova + some other OH like Samadova/ Aliyeva. But now she is doing fine as OH too, definitely a good move for Nilufer.

    she doesn´t have a zero chance to play, she was fired beacuse she didn´t/couldn´t receive like a normal OH what Micelli wanted :lol: