Dudley and Westy. I'd imagine two of the three ZL teams will draw each other.
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Least we know magic wont get a bye, round of 16 getting interesting now.
We all know the draw is done in full vision and transparently. No offence to Dudley, but Azzuri v Dudley would be a nice little derby as would, Bero v Thornton , Magic v Jaffas , Maitland v Weston , Olymic v Buds , Valo v Belswans, Westy v Edgy. NNSW make this happen in your transparency and rename it derby day .
Sorry singo , I cant find you a derby
2 games away from the round of 8 :lulzturtle:
looking forward to the possibility of coming down to Lake Macquarie Football Centre to get another touch up
Anyone know who maitlands keeper was for their game against simba in FFA cup?
They can't, the draw can only have one NPL team against either newfm or zone.
Last year, they played this round and then two more games were played in Round 4, with four other teams getting the bye. I got this screenshot of Pursuit of the Cup website to explain it...
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What you're showing from last year Tye is when there were 23 teams left. Aren't there only 16 teams left now? So why would there be a need for a bye? Also what is this rubbish of " ensuring " a zone league team entry into the final 8. If NPL clubs are having to pay $2,500 each to enter the cup , shouldn't they be given every chance of making the last 2 spots and go on fox. How embarrassing was it last year when they ensured some lower division sides made the final 8 and Magic beat Westy 13-0.
15 teams and a bye by my count. Round 3 is on the left and Round 4 is on the right. I'm not sure if it'll be the same this year but that's what I thought their rules were. I think the draw should just be a straight knockout competition with no byes and no added loopholes. Maybe then we'd see Magic v Olympic in the Final Four instead of Westy. But at the end of the day, if the NPL sides are serious about making it to Fox Sports then they should be able to dispatch any team on their day.
Definitely 16 teams left. There were 15 winners from the weekend plus Belswans who had the bye so we should have a round of 16 next.It Will be interesting to see the " live Draw " when it is done. I agree with you Tye,the whole 16 teams should just be all put in the same draw. Clubs are playing for a massive prize at the end of the day. It is no longer a mickey mouse knock out run by NNSW like the old ARCTIC CUP OR SOLO CUP
Magic will still draw Beresfield, no disrespect Bero
Been told that for rnd 3 there will be 2 pots. 8 NPL will be drawn against each other and the 1 remaining will go into the other pot with NEWFM/ZL teams.
Meaning that after round 4 there should be 3 NPL and 3 NEWFM/ZL teams left to make up the Southern part of the long weekend playoffs????
Is this right??? Does this sound right???
This is a section from the English FA Cup draw.
"The first six rounds are the Qualifying Competition, from which 32 teams progress to the first round of the Competition Proper, meeting the first of the 92 professional teams"
I thought we did this a couple of years ago so to speak and it went fine.
Cmon Nnsw do something right for once!!!
Weren't people complaining when they did a "rigged" draw that Guarantees a groups (zone leagues) progress?
Can somebody disclose the prize money for various rounds?
$0.00, if you happen to make it to the final 32, re, where magic and edgeworth did last year and happen to win its worth $1600 and accumulated from there
Only about $30 big ones
That doesn't sound right. If there are 16 teams left then by the way you have described it then after this round there would be 8 winners. How do they eliminate 2 to get to the 6 spots. The only way I can see them doing it is NPL there are 4 games and a bye and in Lower League there are 3 games and a bye which if they continue as two separate pots they get the 3 NPL sides and 3 Lower league sides for the final 6.
It seems stupid but with Northern anything is possible.
For the NPL side of the draw there are 9 teams left, so 1 side will get the bye and the other 8 will play cutting it down to 5 NPL sides. Then they will have 4 teams play off for 2 spots and the other team will get the bye into the quarter final weekend. Whichever way you look at it Magic will receive a bye in one of the next 2 rounds. Not sure how they will work the other side of the draw
I can't keep up with this circus.
This is correct. So at the quarter final stage at the HOME OF FOOTBALL at speers point , the final qualifying stage to go into the main draw on foxtel we will be represented by
3 NPL CLUBS
3 NEWFM / ZONE LEAGUE CLUBS
2 NORTH COAST TEAMS
So the list could end up
WESTON
JAFFAS
ADAMSTOWN
WEST WALLSEND
BELSWANS
THORNTON
TAM WORTH UNITED
COFFS FC
No disrespect to some of the above clubs,but surely the best teams in our region should be representing NNSW on a national stage. Not some contrived draw to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy. Imagine if the above list was to take place and everyone's beloved clubs like MAGIC,EDGEWORTH and OLYMPIC didn't make it ti the last 8 because NNSW wanted to keep their publicity machine rolling. Learn to conduct a proper draw NNSW and stop the rot. Has anyone else read the 442 review of our second round. The author seems in complete shock at scores of 20-0 and 17-0. We are again a laughing stock. Hats off to northern again.
Seriously how complicated is it to throw 16 teams all in one pot and randomly draw 8 games?
So what , just put your named 3 teams in the final series now ?
A draw should be a draw . In the hat you go and you get who you get .
If the aforementioned 3 get drawn together then that's the draw .
We are not NPL Victoria or Sydney or NPL QLD and thus we are going to get scorelines that presented themselves this weekend .
I do think though that as a region and with the population that is the size of a suburb in some of these states that we do not so bad .
Some people may need to take a step back and realise what we are and what we are not and numbers of people that play our sport in our area will always dictate the depth of quality teams we will have and thus 20-0 and 17-0 is always going to happen in these early rounds of our FFA cup qualifying rounds .