Figured out who this is nowQuote:
Originally Posted by sapdad
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Figured out who this is nowQuote:
Originally Posted by sapdad
What happened to the heritage cup this year ?
Belswans v Kahibah score ?
3-1 to Belswans. Far closer than the score suggests. Belswans took just about every chance they had while Kahibah were wasteful. Overall. pretty evenly matched sides. Refereeing was a little lax and a few dodgy tackles were happeningQuote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
CheersQuote:
Originally Posted by Hunter403
Westy 4 v NL 2?
guess that's the invincible season busted! :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by sapdad
Toronto Awaba 5 West Wallsend 2
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Originally Posted by fozphantom
Hows CHFC ,
fine start of the NPL season , 11 new players huge money spent , 1 point, and a thousand conceded.
wooden spoon ,is definitely a sure bet.
Blown the budget on has beens, 1 point and a 1000 conceded, excellent investment CHFC .
May e wooden spoon to add to the trophy cabinet
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Originally Posted by fozphantom
But a Wooden spoon for cooks hill is a certainty 😂
Errr...they're not in this league. :blush:
errr....they're not in this league any more. :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by W8 WATCHER
I’m just waiting for the, look at stags 18s result, instead of a 5-2 win over the team that just beat NL 4-2…. I’m sure daggers be out if it was westy 5-2….. go the stags
ErrrrrQuote:
Originally Posted by fozphantom
Could end up there again😉
Great result for the stags, team to watch
Great result for the stags, a team to watchQuote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
Having 8 players play isn’t going to end pretty for any team is it… The fact it was only 7-0 with 3 extra players for 65 minutes and 4 extra players for the last 15 is sad on Westy’s part. Stags didn’t stop until the end and did well considering the circumstances. Watch out this weekend for when they have a full team again. Will be interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by GO AWAY
its a great improvement for stags 18s - remembering their 18s lost 12 - 0 to New Lambton last year. Stags 16s last year were good and if 7 or 8 players can hold westy to only 7....might be another long year for the westy 18s. Well done to stags on starting to steady the ship in the younger ranks, obviously paying off in firsts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
Steady the ship? Right now it is two pieces of drift wood. They are missing three teams from the younger ranks.Quote:
Originally Posted by jessepinkman
thanks kitzQuote:
Originally Posted by KITZ
thanks kitz
thanks kitz
i have resolved the problem, no therapist required. lol
oh in junior football its atrocious. But last years 18s side couldn't string a pass together, coach spent all game berating the players and yelling some very elementary things that seemed straight outta the Scorps rather than the stags, outsiders could tell players hated it and nobody wanted to be there - it was cringe to watch from the sidelines. Clearly this years group is better, and whilst we can dump on clubs for getting things wrong (and we should re 13s-16s at stags) its also good to recognise clubs taking something in the right direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goatscheese
They need to address the massive issue in their junior ranks and need to do it fast - however, this is at least a step in the right direction, in an age group where many clubs end up going backward a little bit.
Where do all the best kids from that area go to play?Lakes/Edgeworth or is it just not a big football area?Quote:
Originally Posted by jessepinkman
Well they don’t go to lakesQuote:
Originally Posted by sapdad
Their Youth teams have been abysmal for a couple of years. They had a decent 16s from memory last year or before but missing teams and now a 1st grade propped up with a few mercenaries does not a Club make.Quote:
Originally Posted by sapdad
One of the “ mercenaries “ didn’t play in the 5-2 win, so it’s not them propping first grade up. Youth is not happening but it’s not through lack of trying
Their 16’s would have gone very close to winning the grand final last year. Look out for their 18’s this year who are the same side with a few upgradesQuote:
Originally Posted by BBscone
A good side yes but 10 points off an undefeated side (who had only played Stags once), is not very close to winning the grand finalQuote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
Toronto beat them 3-0 in pre season and had a slow start against them conceding 2 in 5 minutes and then dominated the rest of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goatscheese
Drew 1-1 with NL too? Finishing 3rd on the same points as second with the second best defence in the comp by not many either. Had Belswans and NL still to play. They still had every chance to make their case. I believe they went 7 games unbeaten and won 5 in a row?
Don’t know how that’s not putting their best foot forward to go close to winning it if the season carried on?
Amen, Toronto's youth has been a shambles last few years. Struggle to attract players, however, with increased fee's and requirements from Northern makes it hard to attract players with such high costs to play in the 2nd div.
Belswans 2 Toronto Awaba 0
Great game
My point exactly after losing to these two they would've been further away from the top of the ladderQuote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
New Lambton failed to beat them in the first round so to say they would have been beaten in both games is a silly claim to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goatscheese
Umm, New Lambton beat them 12-0, they also lost to BelSwans 7-0Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
I think you're mixing your grades up. New Lambton 18s beat Toronto 18s 12-0 in 2021 - their 16s were the side that did well after they picked up the Lakes NPL kids that got cut (not their own players).Quote:
Originally Posted by Goatscheese
However, I don't think 16s results really have any relevance. It's a 2 age group jump. Undertakers' claims make sense for 2023..but not for 2022. I know both Belswans and New Lambton 18s had a LOT of bottom age kids last year who would still be eligible for 18s this year...means Toronto's 18s are a year below them...obviously, a good club is promoting kids to Reserve grade even if they are still age-eligible for 18s (better for their development - that's a whole 'nother debate as some clubs don't do this, they stack 18s instead) so some might not be there, but you would assume both Belswans and NL would be very strong in 18s again considering their teams last year were mostly 16-year-olds turning 17 who would be returning.
The biggest problem with stags 18s last year was what could be heard from the stands as a spectator. No kid wants to be spoken to that way, especially when it's not making any sense from a football point of view either. I mean some kids respond well to coaching sprays... but usually only when they have some sort of football weight/knowledge behind them. Embarrassing. The new good players are mostly those that were cut from Lakes after that debacle, so it's not as if development has been fixed. Hopefully they're focusing on knowledgable coaches who foster player development for this crop they've been handed. If not, it'l just be the same problem again.
Any truth to the rumour Stafford and McGuire had a half time blow up and McGuire isnt returning
They lost 2-0 to Belswans and had a 1-1 draw with New Lambton but yeah sureQuote:
Originally Posted by Goatscheese
Don’t worry about Cheesy. He’s got halitosis of the fingers. Everything he types stinks of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
I've been talking about the 18sQuote:
Originally Posted by Undertaker
Very quiet so probablyQuote:
Originally Posted by The Hacker
Kahibah 4 def Southy 1