Marked for Adrian Rowicki
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 May 2027
Position 16 and 30 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market17 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad17 May 2027
Piotr Wlazło and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout17 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout17 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout17 May 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Uneasy
Market26 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Artur Pląskowski: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Rowicki, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match6 Feb 2027
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Gornik Leczna had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Oliwier Olewiński is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The team sheet said everything about Artur Pląskowski
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Artur Pląskowski.
Match6 Feb 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Gornik Leczna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Rowicki, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
16 days out for Adrian Rowicki after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market18 Jan 2027
Matheus Dias hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
Match16 Jan 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match16 Jan 2027
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Kacper Łoś falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Damian Guzik
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match11 Jan 2027
20 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki have done the hard part with Lech, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mateusz Głowiński is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match9 Jan 2027
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Stal Rzeszów, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Hubert Adamczyk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Time is catching up with Damian Jaroń
Everybody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kamil Kargulewicz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Korczakowski, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Adrian Rowicki out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Puszcza Niepołomice, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.39, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Szymon Szymanski to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
45 days out for Adrian Rowicki after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Stanisław Gieroba at 19 — 7.78
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stanisław Gieroba did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Kacper Łoś falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Szymon Szymanski, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Igor Korczakowski has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Stanisław Gieroba is the weekend's best young player
At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
52 days out for Adrian Rowicki after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Stanisław Gieroba takes the afternoon — 8.92
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stanisław Gieroba provided it, and the 8.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win, and then this, against Ruch. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stanisław Gieroba. 2‑0 against Ruch, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kamil Kargulewicz is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match14 Dec 2026
Half the programme played, position 14, 15 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Stanisław Gieroba, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Damian Jaroń
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Dec 2026
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kacper Łoś is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Arkadiusz Woźniak and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Oliwier Olewiński
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Oliwier Olewiński has come out of that comparison in the side, and Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Dec 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Szymon Szymanski chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Adrian Rowicki out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Nov 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Kacper Łoś falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match28 Nov 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match28 Nov 2026
Stal Rzeszów left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Oliwier Skoczeń
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.