I thought Simba were still in with a chance?? They do need mussy to lose against Uni admittedly and they knock over Wallsend on the weekend. If any team could pull that off it would be Simba.
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I thought Simba were still in with a chance?? They do need mussy to lose against Uni admittedly and they knock over Wallsend on the weekend. If any team could pull that off it would be Simba.
Any scores from last nights catchups?
Uni won reggies can't remember what the score was. And plattsy won 1st grade 5.1
1sts Medowie 2 - 4 Simba
Res Medowie 2 - 1 Simba
From SP.
Merewether vs Westlakes
Ressies 1 - 3
Firsts 1- 2
Top of the table finish for the Cats!!!
Thanks to Merewether for two hard fought games.
Simba v Wallsend
Ressies: 2-2
1st Grade: 4-3
Congrats to Westlakes on the minor prem and promotion.
Thanks to all the teams for a good comp this year. Good luck to all the teams in the finals.
Uni vs Muswellbrook
Ressies 5-1
Firsts 1-11
Looks like Simba did their thing v Wallsend. Everyone should be stoked Simba didn't make it into the finals.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Good luck to all teams in the finals. May we all appreciate what is IMO the best finals format in 1v4, 2v3 home&away and may it live forever.
Any results from the Hamilton v maryland game fellas?? And new Lambton v Medowie?
2nill to hammo in reggies. 3 all in 1st
Good note for Maryland to finish their season on, Simba with a nice result too.
Thanks for a good season everyone, I think its been a pretty strong and even comp overall - indicated by the fact that 3 teams in a tight race for first, a few more teams in a race for the fourth finals spot and two pretty handy teams in Merewether and Simba don't get a look in to the finals. And even lower down the table, we've found most teams to be pretty competitive and even Medowie have had some closer games in the last month.
I think its a good sign for the Zone leagues in general and hopefully all the clubs from this year can continue strengthening and move forwards.
Are you able to confirm this Suarez, Sporting Pulse has the scores the other way round.Quote:
Originally Posted by Suarez
4-0 NL in res (their striker finally switched on)
4-2 NL in 1sts
The boys had a good finish to the season
Well done to all teams and best of luck in the semis, it has been a good year to watch.
Would this happen to be dobbo from west lakes. And yes I am able to confirm it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dobbo
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Suarez
I'm assuming Dobbo is involved with Wallsend perhaps judging by past posts??
Nah, I am from Wallsend, was needing confirmation so we can try to organise the gardens for our home semi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Suarez
With a bit of rain threatening to play havoc with the first leg of the semis this weekend, this email eventually came round from the ZFL committee today.
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With some ordinary weather surrounding the area some questions arise regards what happens if…….?
· With all respect to safety play your matches.
· Preference, if not obviously under water, would be to leave it up to the Referee call which may give your pitch some more drainage/drying time.
If there is no alternative and your ground is closed;
· Make arrangements to re-locate the matches on that day. Leg 1.
· Remember to contact – ZFL (either Gail or me) of the move, your opposition. ZFL contact will inform State League Referees.
· If no alternative is available – reset the matches for mid-week; usually Wednesday.
· If the weather dictates that no reset match of Leg 1 is possible during the week then Leg 2 becomes a ONE off match – Winner through to the Grand Final.
· If the ONE off Leg 2 match is washed out plus any resets – the highest ranking teams go through to the Grand Final.
How is the weather out Muswellbrook way??Quote:
Originally Posted by MonkeyKplunk
Ressies
Uni 2 Hamo 2 (i think)
Firsts
Westlakes 1 mussy 0
Not the best match by either side was a bit of a slog mussy very un lucky with a few chances pushed the cats right to the death. Next week will be interesting
Westlakes v Wallsend reggies was 1all. Hammo v Wallsend 4.3 to hammo
Doea anyone know if Westlakes have a current liquor licence at Fishburn?
We sure do.Quote:
Originally Posted by MonkeyKplunk
Has anyone from Wallsend found another venue if your ground is washed at
Hammo v Wallsend 4.1 hammo. Let's go ****ing mental
Result from the ressies game??Quote:
Originally Posted by Suarez
3-2 Wallsend
Congratulations Hamilton firsts and Wallsend ressies on your results top efforts.
Good battle game to watch yesterday between Wallsend and Hamilton the game was kinda in the balance in the first half but Hamilton proven again to be the much better team. Watching only the second half last week seemed to be another bore-send effort I guess they choked in the end. Best of luck to all the teams in the final I'm sure there both gonna be crackers.
Lakes to win first
Olympic to get through and win reserves
What was the score in 1st grade
1-1
Bit harsh on Wallsend - "Hamilton proven again to be the much better team.", didn't manage to beat them in the regular season though. Personally I thought Hamilton were the better side this season but anyway.
Reserves today I think ended up being 3-0 to Uni. I thought Uni were the better side but their keeper did get through a bit of work too, had a good game.
Firsts ended 1-1 after Muswellbrook took the lead midway through the second half from a set piece. Westlakes equalised with 10 or 15 to go. Left another nervous end to the game, but Westlakes go through 2-1 on aggregate.
Good luck to all teams in the finals, reserve grade especially GF turned out different than what most would have expected I think but that's finals football.
So who are in the GF"S at Lisle Carr on Saturday, I need to advise the powers, how much beer to buy for the ground, if Westlakes are in, we will be getting a heap haha
We are in the first grade grand final and plan to bring a substantial crowd 😊 Good idea planning ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
Shame to see so many "reserve grade players" not available for selection yesterday in UNI's team.
Must be very disheartening to play all season then get shafted and not even get a spot on the bench for finals football.
Best of luck with Wallsend in the GF, you deserve to be there. UNI, not so much...
There was a lot of thoughts about that thrown around from our reserve graders too. I couldn't remember many of the uni first graders to tell if they were playing yesterday, except for the maestro in the middle (who wasn't) and a big strong forward (who wasn't). There probably were some first graders playing, but there are eligibility rules. I know our reserve grade was struggling for numbers big time the last few weeks and we found there were only a very small number of first graders we had that were eligible to drop down and play for them. As it turned out they were able to scrape together 11 for the first leg and 10 for the second from "reserve graders" and our preference was that reserve graders play.
Maybe uni had a less consistent lineup in firsts allowing more eligible players for reserves in finals - or maybe just a bit of foresight a couple of months ago.
Having a talk to one of the Merewether guys during the last season game, who needed Uni first grade to beat Mussy that day for Wethers to have any chance of finals, the word then seemed to be Uni "stacking" their reserves because firsts couldn't make finals. I think this kinda came to light when Mussy beat Uni from memory by double digits that day. I'm sure Mussy played great and all, but putting 2 and 2 together you can't help but assume that grades were almost swapped, to an extent.
But, eligibility rules exist (that I have extreme confidence Uni are abiding to) and if it truly is that much of an issue then maybe the rules should be changed for future. Bring it up with the Federations/NNSW via email and see if you get an interested response.
I remember playing a few years ago for a team and we had a guy play every single season game in reserve grade, but then played first grade for the final 5 games of the season due to a regular first grader being injured. Said player was then ruled out of reserve grade semi finals due to being ineligible. Surely NNSW/Federations could tweak the rules to base it on say percentage of games played or something, rather than just the last 5 games like was the case in that example.
But yeah, bring it up with your club and the Federations and see if you can make positive change happen in future.
It's a joke.
Olympic destroyed UNI reserve grade both games scoring 14 goals past them in 2 games yet all of a sudden UNI pop up with a shiny new finals team.
bunch of cheats
The Rules are percentage based, the whole last 5 or 6 rounds is old.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
You are eligible if you have not started 66% of season games in a higher grade.
With respect . id like to address this completely wrong accusation . I am the uni ZL 2 coach and what im reading is totally wrong .Quote:
Originally Posted by silenceofthelahm
Firstly iv have never over my 12 years with unifc ever "stacked a side" you will never get a more honest person than myself. Or in that fact the club. I for one would never , and never have excluded res players who have played a lot of games in that grade .I feel this is insulting to myself and the club. The side that took the field against olympic on sunday was a complete res grade side.. And yes we still had a few missing . The full squad has never been able to get on the park , often having between 7 -15 players out constantly out all season. The starting 11 between them may have had 2 players filling in first grade for about 3 games all season , and can be backed up on our clubs game documents. During the season We were never able to get a full complete first grade side as well.
Yesterdays semi , is a product of finally having our side together , if we could have obtained this all year you would be addressing the premiers . We also are now playing the way we should with our strongest res players available . Olympic are a good side and deserve to get the premiership on this years results , i congratulate them . I will praise any deserving winners , but i will also defend something that is totally false and wrong and slander to the club. This can be backed with records . those players totally deserve their win and place in the final. Olympic had their chances , missing 2 pens over 2 games as well . We wanted it more than them on the day.
So before misleading statements are made without facts and back up I ask you to think twice about posting false statements or just opinions .
Interesting, cheers for clearing that up.Quote:
Originally Posted by leftrightout