BOSS Neil Middleditch has revealed Pirates chiefs are in talks with Adrian Miedzinski and he admits: I want him to stay at Wimborne Road.
The team manager is hopeful that Poole owner and promoter Matt Ford can strike a deal to secure Miedzinski’s services for the rest of the season.
Miedzinski initially joined the defending Elite League champions on a short-term loan contract until the end of May.
Despite not having featured on the British scene since 2007, the 26-year-old has impressed during his brief stint in Dorset.
Miedzinski, who has racked up 89 points in 11 meetings for Pirates, has proved key to the club’s record-breaking start to 2012.
Unavailable for last night’s league clash at Peterborough due to a Polish championship meeting, Miedzinski’s immediate future has yet to be confirmed.
But while Middleditch admitted he was unsure what Miedzinski was thinking and that Pirates had other options, he insisted he was keen to keep his current team together.
He told the Daily Echo: “Coming to Poole has been a good move for Adrian.
“He is friends with Chris Holder and Darcy Ward from racing together in Poland, so he feels right at home and I think that is very important.
“He has settled in really well and, hopefully, he will stay for the rest of the season, but we will just have to wait and see.
“It is still up in the air at the moment and I think we are talking with him.
“We have got plans in place if it doesn’t happen but I would like to think he would stay now. He seems very settled and happy here, but I just don’t know what is in his head at the moment.
“A lot of teams have had some injury problems and, touch wood, we haven’t. It is nice to work with the same seven throughout the season.
“We know things change with averages but it would be nice to see Adrian stay for the season.”
Middleditch has been particularly impressed by the way Miedzinski has demonstrated his technical skills to perform well on some of the smaller away tracks in England.
He added: “Adrian has really adapted well to the small tracks. All the tracks in Poland are massive race tracks and they are not really technical to ride.
“When a lot of the Polish riders, who are perhaps very good in Poland, come over here, they can’t adapt to the little tracks, but Adrian certainly has.”
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