2021 Zone Premier League thread

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Originally Posted by Buddha

Suns Azzurri game sensational to watch.

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Will 2nd that was an excellent game to watch as a neutral Azzurri new goalkeeper signing looked solid as and made an unbelievable late fingertip save with the ball well past him onto the post to keep it at 1 all late in the game and at the other end Suns keeper also made a stunning save off a volley to keep them in it.

I caught a bit of nonsense from both sqauds at end of reggies but the 1st grade mate was highly entertaining with everyone shaking hands exhausted at the end of the match with nothing but high quality on the pitch and none of the stupid stuff. Well done to both teams was great to watch

Swansea 5 cooks hill 1
Good game to watch score line doesn’t reflect the game, could’ve gone either way with Swansea’s keeper making some crucial saves then in the last 10 Swansea scored 3

Swansea vs Cooked Hill
1sts. 5-1
2nds 2-3
3rds 1-1

Swansea score goals for fun despite the suspension of Will ‘ZPL bad boy’ McMaster. 2-1 at half time. Swansea in the second half dismantled Cooks hill and touched them up worse than newysports did to those underage victims

Although the bad boy was out of action he still managed to get the win for Swansea with his sideline antics getting into the heads of cooks hills goalkeeper and defenders with his relentless shit talk.

Honourable mention to Josh ‘Laviesta’ Laverty for his effort with passing. 2 passes completed from 18 attempts and got skinned multiple times. Thankfully cooks hills ability to finish is as good as Laviestas ability at Finnegans to pull a bird.

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Originally Posted by Sideline

Azzurri new goalkeeper signing looked solid as

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He's not the new signing, he's been there a while. The new signing played reserves and was sent off.

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Originally Posted by Sideline

I caught a bit of nonsense from both sqauds at end of reggies but the 1st grade mate was highly entertaining with everyone shaking hands exhausted at the end of the match with nothing but high quality on the pitch and none of the stupid stuff. Well done to both teams was great to watch

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Seconded.

It was good that both 1st Grade squads were in their sheds when the carry on was happening, kept us well clear of it and we both just wanted to play.

1st Grade was a super enjoyable game to play in and both teams carried themselves superbly considering the previous game.

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Originally Posted by TXK

Seconded.

It was good that both 1st Grade squads were in their sheds when the carry on was happening, kept us well clear of it and we both just wanted to play.

1st Grade was a super enjoyable game to play in and both teams carried themselves superbly considering the previous game.

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Previous game was fun to play in. Just a lot of chat from some boys that probably struggle to count to 7.

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Originally Posted by Lofty

Previous game was fun to play in. Just a lot of chat from some boys that probably struggle to count to 7.

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A few lads on both teams in Ressies who should be chatting less because their footballing ability clearly doesn’t match the talk.

Number 9 for Suns was clearly rattled by little guy in the midfield for Azzurri. Flattened the Azzurri Bloke with an extremely late tackle just before half time, clearly wasn’t happy with the banter being thrown his way. But then got poleaxed by Azzurri back up keeper when trying to follow through on a shot 🤷🏽*♂️

Suns ressies seemed to take the foot off the gas at HT. They were actually down 1-0 after about 15-20 but put 5 goals in the space of 20 minutes. Seemed like they were just trying to knock the ball around as much as they could second half, not too many shots/clear cut chances that I could recall.

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Originally Posted by Buddha

A few lads on both teams in Ressies who should be chatting less because their footballing ability clearly doesn’t match the talk.

Number 9 for Suns was clearly rattled by little guy in the midfield for Azzurri. Flattened the Azzurri Bloke with an extremely late tackle just before half time, clearly wasn’t happy with the banter being thrown his way. But then got poleaxed by Azzurri back up keeper when trying to follow through on a shot 🤷🏽*♂️

Suns ressies seemed to take the foot off the gas at HT. They were actually down 1-0 after about 15-20 but put 5 goals in the space of 20 minutes. Seemed like they were just trying to knock the ball around as much as they could second half, not too many shots/clear cut chances that I could recall.

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They lead 5-1 finished 7-1. I’d say they had the game plan about right

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Originally Posted by The Hacker

They lead 5-1 finished 7-1. I’d say they had the game plan about right

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I would be pretty disappointed to only score 2 goals in the second half against 10 men though

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Originally Posted by Buddha

I would be pretty disappointed to only score 2 goals in the second half against 10 men though

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Coming off the pitch winning 7-1 is never disappointing. Controlled the game in the second half, got a couple of goals and should have had more. It’s easy to lose a bit of killer instinct when you’re that far ahead.
It’s all done now. Onto the next.

Heard that Suns ressies player (or players) stormed into Azzurri change room after the game to provoke the nonsense that followed. Any truth to this? Wtf

Surely suns are due some form of sanction from our nnswf overlords, two weeks in a row these flogs resort to physical violence.

One particular suns player and azzuri player were having verbals most of the game (that’s fine it happens a lot of games) after the game suns player was on the boundary fence with his wife and kid and the azzurri player just kept talking the worst sh1t to him in front of his family
So he marched in the shed alone to confront him and escalated from there

In no way am I condoning violence and a punishment may be deserved but if you’re going to continue verbals like after a game (first of all you just lost 7-1 you shouldn’t be saying anything really) then don’t have a whinge to the cops when you get confronted in your shed especially after one of your players got sent off and jumped a fence to attack a spectator

Most people understand that you can control the behaviour of every single individual. The events last week has been dealt with internally. We take it very seriously and the sanction from the club was greater than that from the federation.

Whilst I don’t condone violence, I also don’t condone racist behaviour. Everyone has a limit and old mate from Azzurri didn’t shut his mouth from the first minute of the game until the last minute and beyond. Then he went too far. Absolutely no need for that rubbish to be said in 2021. Absolutely pathetic. Some of those players need to be more concentrated on their football rather than talking shit all game. That was very much reflected in the way the match went and the end result.
Again, we will deal with it on our end and that’s nobody else’s business.

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Originally Posted by Cabaye#4

He's not the new signing, he's been there a while. The new signing played reserves and was sent off.

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Oh really thanks for clarifying was only going from what i read on here they had a new keeper signed during the week. I must of missed the sendoff as i only got there just near fulltime of reserve grade so assumed he was the new guy in 1st grade.

well back to the games today

Warners Bay v Cardiff

1-2
0-3
1-2
all to Cardiff.

Anyone got Dudley v Mayfield results?

Dudley v Mayfield
3rds 1-1
Res 2-2
1st 2-4

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Originally Posted by The Hacker

Dudley v Mayfield
3rds 1-1
Res 2-2
1st 2-4

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Massive Results there. An extremely open comp. FoxSports have lost the rights to the A-League maybe they can start showing ZPL games instead!

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Originally Posted by Buddha

Massive Results there. An extremely open comp. FoxSports have lost the rights to the A-League maybe they can start showing ZPL games instead!

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It's been the best season for a long time. Quality across all grades as good as it's been. Long live ZPL.

Any results for Bero v Kotara?

Firsts 2-2 I heard.

Going to summarise my thoughts and reply to some great posts all in one.

Firstly, disappointing results for us yesterday against Mayfield. To keep us at zero wins in a day, especially a Sunday is a rare occasion and one I would rather not experience again. I don't like to dive too deep into our games as I'll leave that to others on here who do a good job of summarising the matches (most of the time). What I will say is that Mayfield flew under nearly everyone's radar this season and they're showing that they can be title contenders. They are probably the hardest team I have personally played even though they don't have the super stars that certain other clubs have signed. The quick bloke out wide/up top was dangerous and their defenders are some of the best in the league. As for us, we look forward to playing them in the next round.

A few mates and I went down to Carrington on Saturday and boy that was a wild day of football. The Suns wasted no time getting into their weekly fight after a dominant display in ressies. As this guy said:

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Originally Posted by MisplacedPasses

Surely suns are due some form of sanction from our nnswf overlords, two weeks in a row these flogs resort to physical violence.

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I think the federation will get involved because of incidents such as:

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Originally Posted by salmon

Heard that Suns ressies player (or players) stormed into Azzurri change room after the game to provoke the nonsense that followed. Any truth to this? Wtf

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Presumably a bit of a culture problem at the Suns. In saying that, I see in this post:

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Originally Posted by Lofty

Whilst I don’t condone violence, I also don’t condone racist behaviour.

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One of the Azzurri guys said some bad shit to the fella who went in the change rooms? Whether that justifies it or not, not for me to decide but that's not on. Just cop the 7-1 loss gracefully because that's embarrassing enough. As for the first grade match, I was impressed at the standard of football on display there, especially from the Hexham boys who were the better team overall. Azzurri's wide men were having a field day and their midfielders controlled the pace of the game. As for the Suns, the tall fella who plays deep centre midfielder had a good game (barring one incident) and distributed the ball well but their forwards spent much of the game arguing with each other after struggling to get the best of their defenders.

Overall this just shows you the nature of ZPL. Over the course of a full season, the teams with the most quality should be in the top four but more often than not it will be whoever turns up that will take the points.

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Originally Posted by The Debt Collector

Swansea score goals for fun despite the suspension of Will ‘ZPL bad boy’ McMaster. 2-1 at half time. Swansea in the second half dismantled Cooks hill and touched them up worse than newysports did to those underage victims

Although the bad boy was out of action he still managed to get the win for Swansea with his sideline antics getting into the heads of cooks hills goalkeeper and defenders with his relentless shit talk.

Honourable mention to Josh ‘Laviesta’ Laverty for his effort with passing. 2 passes completed from 18 attempts and got skinned multiple times. Thankfully cooks hills ability to finish is as good as Laviestas ability at Finnegans to pull a bird.

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This is sensational. I always look forward to your write-ups. The bad boy is making headlines even when he's not on the park. Will there be McMaster jerseys on sale at any point?

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Originally Posted by gtg

A few mates and I went down to Carrington on Saturday and boy that was a wild day of football. The Suns wasted no time getting into their weekly fight after a dominant display in ressies. As this guy said:

I think the federation will get involved because of incidents such as:

Presumably a bit of a culture problem at the Suns. In saying that, I see in this post:

One of the Azzurri guys said some bad shit to the fella who went in the change rooms? Whether that justifies it or not, not for me to decide but that's not on. Just cop the 7-1 loss gracefully because that's embarrassing enough. As for the first grade match, I was impressed at the standard of football on display there, especially from the Hexham boys who were the better team overall. Azzurri's wide men were having a field day and their midfielders controlled the pace of the game. As for the Suns, the tall fella who plays deep centre midfielder had a good game (barring one incident) and distributed the ball well but their forwards spent much of the game arguing with each other after struggling to get the best of their defenders.

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Always look forward to your posts, equally entertaining as the debt collector.

Love the oversight to mention the Azzurri player who was red carded and then jumped the fence and assaulted a Suns committee member.

As previously mentioned, our player should not have entered the Azzurri shed. This will be dealt with by our club. There's certainly no culture problem at our club. We are taking these two isolated incidents from two individuals very seriously! We have for a long time copped racist remarks over the years. It's great to see that 99% of people have changed their behaviour, but some people have a line that can be crossed.

Maybe you should worry about your own club and keeping your players on the field. Lost count of the amount of times your boys have been down to 10-men this year. Speaking to one of your boys on Saturday and he's more than frustrated with the player availability from the injuries and that being doubled down with the lack of discipline and all the red cards.

I realise this is a forum and everyone is entitled to their opinion, but to hide behind a username then pick and choose where you want to throw your mud gets a bit boring. For everyone's sake, it would be nice to just get back to the football chat because I'm sure most people are over reading everyone's different versions of shit that's not worth talking about.

Looking forward to the visit to Mayfield Park this weekend. I'm sure it's going to be three very tough games; 2nd v 3rd, 3rd v 5th and 3rd v 4th!

Any news on when Hexham Hellas Brawlers v Cardiff Covid Cup Winners washout games are on?

Should be a fairly spicy match given the barbs the Cardiff fellas have throwing at Hexham Hellas on the socials ever since the game was questionably/fairly washed out

Personally hope their footballing ability is much much better than their banter, although that itself is an extremely low bar

Curious, did the change room warplane get a red? could you even get a red for that?

If not and he plays this week vs Mayfield I'd be seriously questioning if there is a culture problem over there

As we are nearing the half way point of this competition the boys from Cardiff are just finally starting to find their feet and I think will be a threat in the second half of the season. As for bero, kotara, cooks hill and the bay I dare say it could be a long second half fighting out for the spoon, my money’s on kotara. What’s going on with Dudley but ? Is this just another choke of a year for the boys from Dudley ? Haven’t had a win in 3 games now and will be looking to improve on that this weekend against a poor cooks hill outfit.
Mayfield are up to there usual tricks pretty consistent all year but we all know those boys don’t like playing in the grand final, best we just let them do there thing and bottle it. Swansea have flew under everyone’s radar, no Maguire no problems?
Suns have started the season strong for the first time in many years, on their day will be hard to beat.
Azzuri need I say more then the fact there playing out of Hexham? That ground makes Pasadena look like old Trafford

Round 8 Conclusions -

Connolly Park was the place to be on Saturday. 15 goals, Red card, Police, fighting and arguing, great first grade game played in good spirits the locals got the moneys worth.

Is anyone from Swansea safe from the wrath of the debt collector? First the bad boy McMaster and now Laverty who passes a ball like Stevie Wonder passes the sauce.

Dudley title hopes are threatening to be over quicker than my last one night stand after a good spanking (like my last one night stand) from Mayfield.

Kotara and Beresfield are that bad they cant beat each other and Cardiff continue their march up the ladder.

Remember this is the original and best conclusions, all others conclusions are just infringing on my copyrights. :grin::grin::grin:

Plenty of banter, few beers and I hope everyone enjoyed. God bless the ZPL.

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Originally Posted by Buddha

Any news on when Hexham Hellas Brawlers v Cardiff Covid Cup Winners washout games are on?

Should be a fairly spicy match given the barbs the Cardiff fellas have throwing at Hexham Hellas on the socials ever since the game was questionably/fairly washed out

Personally hope their footballing ability is much much better than their banter, although that itself is an extremely low bar

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shit, you are so funny....

Game info, cant wait to see you there.

3rds and reggies Tuesday 15th June
1st Wednesday 16th June, all at Tarro oval.

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

shit, you are so funny....

Game info, cant wait to see you there.

3rds and reggies Tuesday 15th June
1st Wednesday 16th June, all at Tarro oval.

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I might go down the night before and turn the sprinklers on just for you

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Originally Posted by Buddha

I might go down the night before and turn the sprinklers on just for you

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That would be expected from the convict OZurri. Do something didfferent

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Originally Posted by Lofty

He won't be playing. You can sit down now.

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red card ? genuine question :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by samcan

That would be expected from the convict OZurri. Do something didfferent

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that's the problem, they called a dry game off, maybe should have left a sprinkler on or at least pissed on the ground beforehand.

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Originally Posted by MisplacedPasses

red card ? genuine question :thumbsup:

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There wasn't a red card. It happened maybe closer to 10 minutes after the game finished. Referee's didn't witness it. There were a few different versions on events that came from the blue shed, but I am mates with a few boys and got a consistent version from them. Old mate made a big deal to call the police yet he didn't have a single mark on him...
We will be dealing it internally as this goes completely against our player code of conduct and what we expect from our players.

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

that's the problem, they called a dry game off, maybe should have left a sprinkler on or at least pissed on the ground beforehand.

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You have no clue mate, the ground was still soft many days after and we couldn’t train on it the following week. Stop being a cry baby.

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

shit, you are so funny....

Game info, cant wait to see you there.

3rds and reggies Tuesday 15th June
1st Wednesday 16th June, all at Tarro oval.

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Who's the 'home' team?

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Originally Posted by TXK

You have no clue mate, the ground was still soft many days after and we couldn’t train on it the following week. Stop being a cry baby.

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sorry buddy, but i walked the ground on the Saturday, as i have said previously, oval was dryer than the simpson desert.
You are so full of shit, caught up in your lies, you dont know when to stop.
No-one was being cry baby except you, i was responding to old mates comments, as a bit of a laugh or dont you get real banter?

PS: Do you know that it was walked upon by referees and opposition teams on the sunday also, after they turned up for the scheduled games.
No-one bothered to check if the ground was out as it hadn't rained, the refs i believe have asked several questions about why the games were called off when the ground was dry as a bone.
would you like me to continue.....

Bugger all rain.
Was the water table of the Hunter River so high that it washed it out?
Played at Jaffa’s with water in corners.
Played at Azzurri smith park in a bog.
Played at Cardiff No2 greasey as ****.

Anyway.

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

sorry buddy, but i walked the ground on the Saturday, as i have said previously, oval was dryer than the simpson desert.
You are so full of shit, caught up in your lies, you dont know when to stop.
No-one was being cry baby except you, i was responding to old mates comments, as a bit of a laugh or dont you get real banter?

PS: Do you know that it was walked upon by referees and opposition teams on the sunday also, after they turned up for the scheduled games.
No-one bothered to check if the ground was out as it hadn't rained, the refs i believe have asked several questions about why the games were called off when the ground was dry as a bone.
would you like me to continue.....

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Sorry buddy but you have no idea about the field. If the games went ahead I guarantee by 3.30pm, half an hour into first grade, you would have been complaining about the state of the field and the risk it posed to players. You have no idea how Hexham Park played after rain a couple of weeks earlier against Mayfield, so your opinion is irrelevant.

I know everything about that weekend and I also know it was NF’s mistake that teams and referees turned up there on the Sunday.

You are the cry baby because weeks later you continue to sook about a game that was rightfully rescheduled, and is going to be replayed on a better surface. You should be happy for that and that you didn’t get injuries on a rubbish pitch.

The way members of your club carried themselves on socials was embarrassing. Cry babies.

Not many people make the trip to Hexham park and don’t complain about the field