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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Daniel Szczepan 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Igor Nolewajka is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andrej Lukić gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dominik Preisler 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Szczepan
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Gornik Leczna made Ruch work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Patryk Szwedzik was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.49. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
111% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Daniel Szczepan. Ruch will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
13 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ruch, another week without a signature from Szymon Bębenek.
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Crisis
Match28 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Ruch
Position 15 and 5 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Cracovia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marko Kolar
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Piotr Ceglarz 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Ruch
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
5.40. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Piotr Ceglarz 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tim Stegerer gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Kennedy Rocha
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Ruch?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Podbeskidzie? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dominik Preisler 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Patryk Szwedzik at his very best
Marked 8.37. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ruch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andrej Lukić gets it from the manager
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ruch share the spoils with Lechia
A 1‑1 draw with Lechia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 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 Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Ruch
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 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Max Watson 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Watson, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Slask take the points off Ruch
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
A hiding for Ruch
Beaten 0‑3 by Lech, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market31 Aug 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 Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Max Watson 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Ruch
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Inquest at Ruch
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Ruch
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Ruch
0‑2 against Cracovia, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ruch say no — this time
The offer from Lechia for Szymon Szymański was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 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 Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Mateusz Szwoch, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dominik Preisler 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marko Kolar, and the manager let it.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Ruch against Pogon
0‑1 to Pogon, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ruch bring in an old head
Carlos Gallego is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Zaglebie as Ruch pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Ruch scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Szymon Szymański takes the afternoon — 9.05
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Szymon Szymański provided it, and the 9.05 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Szymon Szymański’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ruch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Szczepan, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.48 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jakub Domagała 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
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Experience through the door at Ruch
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Kennedy Rocha
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ruch come up short against Korona
Korona left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ruch has been clear about where Przemysław Szymiński stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ruch, another week without a signature from Bartłomiej Gradecki.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Daniel Szczepan’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 4.56, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 31 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Szymon Szymański and Ruch agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dominik Preisler 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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Andrej Lukić is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ruch has been clear about where Andrej Lukić stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Szymon Szymański’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.