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Originally Posted by Local Rules
Terrible ?.. interesting what coach does considering they are on Friday night as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zone Insider
Anyone notice with squadi you can no longer see teamlists and match details. Any reason why this feature is no longer?
Watched Thornton v Southey on Sunday entertaining game for 70 minutes both teams attacking and looked like scoring regularly but the last 20 minutes SC leading 4-3 was ATROCIOUS- Southey 10 players behind ball kick it long & hard tactic and Thornton plonk it long into box EVERY TIME was absolute rubbish - clearly no good tactics from the Thornton coach ( who has no idea ) to try something like playing football with the space - both teams will stay bottom of table
Thornton need a big shift with some players who played every game for 4 points!!
Toronto Awaba 6 South Cardiff 0
Wonder is Perry will give Body another call seeing if he will take on the shipwreck?.Quote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
Can?t see him hanging around if they lose to Kahibah Singo and Lakes in the next 3.
Toronto signing another npl local, another strong performance from them this week. Southy were ugly at best
Southy's committee did great by giving their coach enough time to implement his vision and get them competitive. However; I reckon the committee gambled on a dead horse by the looks of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
It would be tough for many defences to handle that front 5 of the Stags, but that Southy defence last night from what I saw were completely not up to it - and their midfield were not helping the cause at all. Any team given that much space and freedom in the front third are going to punish Southy. I've rated Southys high pressing game the last few years but it looks like their back 6 needs some serious work.
No McPherson, Maxwell, Winslade either. With one or maybe two NPL locals putting feelers out to come back. Massive depth. One game at a time. Lakes Friday night at home.
He has to go, they will be a relegation favourite shortlyQuote:
Originally Posted by MCG_1997
They have to thank Thornton for being one level worse than them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alton
5 teams equal last, some with games in hand. 99% it wont happen but I would really hate to see westy in 3rd division. My guess is Thornton or Wallsend.
I have got good word that there iss a bit of coach movement, This weekend is Perrys last game in charge and south cardiff are getting rid of him.
Thornton are also getting rid of their coach as they have come to mutual termination of his contract with Gary Wand stepping in as interim, im hearing they are in for Mellon and negotiations are ongoing. And last but not least the new southy coach will be Paul Gomez announcement coming Monday. Stay Tuned.
So it's safe to go back to Jaffas. Put a lock on the cupboards up there. Lightfingers is in town.Quote:
Originally Posted by THE NNSW MOLE
Gary Wand stepped away half way through the 2023 season after terrible results. He then returned last year as reserve grade coach until now. It is very hard to understand club decisions' on giving the gig to same people, and not trying new coaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by THE NNSW MOLE
Yeah mate some of these clubs have no clue. You can see why thornton are favourite to be in zone league next year and I?m not sure at this rate they could even win that, Unless Perry can turn it around he lost the dressing room at southy so maybe a blank page at thornton will be good for him.
First I've heard of this. It's not wise to read into anonymous rumours too heavily.Quote:
Originally Posted by THE NNSW MOLE
Maybe when people said they shouldn?t read into pre season fixtures when they lost 5-0 to Croatia maybe they should have.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Toronto Awaba 3 Dudley 0
Not a good reflection but another clean sheet 6/9. Another NPL local coming home as well.
I think that?s fair wasn?t a 3-0 game. Pretty tight game where the Stags took their chances and Dudley hit the post twice and that was the difference. Stags more clinical. That could be tough to catch from hereQuote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
There's a number of ZL1 clubs that need to be in this league and a number of clubs in this league that need to come down.
Think that?s called promotion and relegationQuote:
Originally Posted by MoSalahh
If NNSW had got their wish from several years ago there would already be 16 NPL teams - and at that point, 2nd division would look very different!Quote:
Originally Posted by MoSalahh
My thoughts would be to get NPL to 14, NewFm to 12 with 4 ZL1 teams promoted. You push the current Top 4 (Suns, Croatia, Uni, Kotara) up from ZL1 and get the Stags and Kahibah/Lakes back into NPL. Suddenly the NewFM comp becomes much more interesting, and Zone League 1 is now wide open as well!
Would be a far better structure!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Postman
Is this mid-season signing number 1 or 2? Seems like they don't want a repeat of last year's attempt at Promotion!Quote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
Be good to see the Stag back up there and competitive.
2, Tyrell Paulson from Maitland first and now Jacob Dundas returns from Weston according to SquadiQuote:
Originally Posted by The Postman
Sorry but this is a ridiculous idea, let's dilute the talent even further and make NPL and NL1 weaker overall? This will also make ZL1 weaker, It's been so strong for years. When they made ZL1 a 12 team competition it just made the bottom half weaker. Adding teams won't make the competitions stronger, it's that simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Postman
Is there enough good juniors to make up another 4 teams in all grades in the Premier Youth Competitions? I would highly doubt that.
For years I have seen the same teams finish towards the top of the NPL, Broadmeadow, Lambton and Edgeworth to name 3. I have also seen the same teams finish towards the bottom, Adamstown, Lake Macquarie (now relegated ), New Lambton ( recently). Will new teams fix this, No. You could easily argue the NPL should be a 10 team competition.
Look at strong NPL Competitions like Victoria. 14 teams in that competition, Powerhouses South Melbourne and Melbourne knights are coming 11th and 14th. That sort of competition brings interest, it's something that the NNSW competition desperately needs. It's needs more competition to challenge the teams like Broadmeadow and Edgeworth. That's by building the leagues depth not adding teams.
Dilute the talent even further?
Make ZL1 weaker? Crabs and Bolwarra would hold their own for sure in ZL1? Croatia and Stockton have handled promotion well, Stockton struggling a little but will come good and likely avoid relegation. 2 deepest cup runs from outside NPL in last 2 seasons have come out of ZL2 (Croatia and Crabs).
If you had it your way the premier league would just be Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Liverpool and United. I?m sure that would be thrilling playing the same 5 clubs on repeat. You wouldn?t have had the 2015-2016 season where Leicester won.
If adding teams into ZL1 made the bottom half of the competition weaker? go down? Let the strong clubs below come up?
Your comment doesn't make any sense in the promotion/ relegation system. Clubs can't simply go down and come up on request, it needs to be earned. Your comment on Crabs and Bolwarra is valid. Bolwarra has been a solid zl2 club for some time, this is the first year they have looked to push on towards the top tier of Zone Football.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoSalahh
Not sure on your assumption on my ideal EPL and what relevance it has? I think the ideal number is 20 teams. A little history lesson for you, in 1995-96 the EPL reduced the numbers in the league from 22 to the current number of 20. Why to make the league stronger. If NNSW increased the NPL numbers then many including myself would question the logic.
For the record if you had an EPL of just 5 teams then United would not make it, they finished 15th this year.
A number of people from some of these ZL1 clubs spent all of last year saying they don't want to be in this leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by MoSalahh
Thats how it should be as Newcastle is a small city where there should be 1 or maybe 2 semi professional leagues and the rest are for people to have a kick with mates. If a person wants play higher they may need to join another club. Im sorry to say that I believe Toronto will be the perfect example if they do get promoted next season as many of their players are past NPL1 and if they do try to stay on will struggle to meet the pace of NPL1 again and then the young ones they do bring in which have never played NPL1 wont reach the pace consistently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
Will have a fair few more juniors from Magic , Olympic join Toronto if they get promotedQuote:
Originally Posted by Retired01
For now 12 teams max, although 10 is better with yearly promotion/relegation. Everyone will still get a chance. I can see some players who struggle at this level most weeks with 12 teams. I do wonder if in future as we get more depth through the JDL path we could have 12 teams with quality all over.
Just goes to show what a joke Northern are by allowing this sort of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
Go away has deleted his postQuote:
Originally Posted by Zone Insider
Basically gardens washed out and Wallsend refused to play at stags groundQuote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
Awaba 4 lakes 0
Singo 5-0 Southy
Perry?s lost the dressing sheds and the plot he simply can?t handle men?s football and should go back to youth.
That?s 15 goals conceded in the last 3 games simply unacceptable and southy are at high risk of going down.