They still wouldn’t be as bad as the first group. In fact, before he started playing for the NT, Poland was 22nd in 2007, 24th in 2006, 22nd in 2005, and so on… The hovered around 20-30 the decade before him. Their average ranking since 1992 is 35.
So not really. They would be a bit worse on average, and likely wouldn’t have reached their best rankings which were with him. But their “typical team” historically has been significantly better than the most of the teams I mentioned above.
They still wouldn’t be as bad as the first group. In fact, before he started playing for the NT, Poland was 22nd in 2007, 24th in 2006, 22nd in 2005, and so on… The hovered around 20-30 the decade before him. Their average ranking since 1992 is 35.
So not really. They would be a bit worse on average, and likely wouldn’t have reached their best rankings which were with him. But their “typical team” historically has been significantly better than the most of the teams I mentioned above.