Sandra Bullock and Charlie Chaplin.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hacker
Hope you took them to Autumn Rooms. They do a lovely coffee.
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Sandra Bullock and Charlie Chaplin.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hacker
Hope you took them to Autumn Rooms. They do a lovely coffee.
Azzurri vs. Mayfield
1sts 2-2
Res 3-1
3rds 4-3
I would hazard a guess at Stephen Bramley and Cody Carroll.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hacker
Westlakes vs Cardiff
Thirds 2-1
Ressies 1-2
Firsts 0-2
Good competitive games across all 3 grades.
Great result FORZA AUZZRRI best team in the compQuote:
Originally Posted by HAFC_ZL
Warners Bay vs Swansea
Firsts 2-0
Reserves 3-2
Thirds 3-0
No write up on the ZPL Bad Boy, he was well behaved this weekend
Is that still defamation when the Bad Boy being good is out of character?
Warners bay seem to be going about their business well. Top 2 in firsts and ressies after 8 rounds is a very solid effort!
Depends how Woke it gets and which group it offends. If your white male you can cop abuse from everyone and be laughed atQuote:
Originally Posted by The Debt Collector
With half the season played let’s turn to the finals. What ground would you like to host the Grand Final?
For me any ground as long as it’s a ZPL club keeping the money in ZPL and that hasn’t happened for a long time..
What ZPL ground is capable of hosting a Grand Final.Quote:
Originally Posted by Two tone
Yes
Cooks Hill - Athletics Track
Dudley - Lydon
Maybe
Mayfield - Mayfield Park
Westlakes - Rathmines
No
Suns - Myer Park
Azzurri - Hexham/Tarro
Cardiff - Evans Park
Warners Bay - John St
Swansea - Chapman Oval
Kotara - Nesbitt
There's zero chance that ZPL grand final will be played at a ZPL club ground. Player's want to play at the best venues possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Two tone
Zero ZPL grounds are suitable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swanky
The Athletics track is exactly that.
Dudley would have to bring some toilets that are actually accessible and bring in additional catering facilities.
Mayfield sadly is concrete in the middle. Nobody wants to play on that.
Westlakes too far.
Myer Park too open.
It's not worth continueing with the rest.
Needs to be hosted as it has been in previous years at likely an NPL facility or I guess a left field option would be a joint venture ZPL thing at No. Sportsground in town.
Any more catch up game results?
Suns have one more catch up fixture which is next week at home to Warners Bay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kicktheball
Tuesday: Thirds and ressies
Wednesday: Firsts
Wed night
1st: Cooks Hill 5 - Dudley 2 (2-1)
Tue
Res: Cooks Hill 1 v Dudley 1
3rd: Cooks Hill 3 v Dudley 3
Westlakes too far 🤔Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
It’s 25 minutes from Newcastle! I don’t get why people act like we are all the way down in Sydney 😂
We will have a proper electronic scoreboard on the hill come finals if that sways anyone 😇
I’d prefer to see it at a ZPL ground and they get the money but agree it’ll be at one of the NPL grounds like always.
And I dont get why people think its ok to need a weekend to get to a game. Almost at the coast. Stick that. Scoreboards dont excite me as much as a wet bar.Quote:
Originally Posted by WWFC25
Keep it local on a decent track.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kicktheball
catch up from Wednesday and Thursday
Swansea vs Cardiff
Thirds 0-5
Ressies 1-5
Firsts 3-3
Cardiff still have one more catch up v Azzurri to go
Good results for Cookers hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Retro Jet
New NPL players having an impact?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
What's wrong with the Athtrack? Got a fresh surface and all necessary facilities for NPL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
Rugby finals aren't until 17/9 so zero chance of getting on no.2Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
Certainly not having a dig at Westlakes, because I think the facility and club is great. But you are absolutely having a laugh. 25 minutes from where exactly? It's 45 minutes from Wickham which is the centre of town. People are not going to make the treck out there on a Sunday to watch the grand final there. If they drive, they can't drink (bad for Westlakes). Getting taxis and ubers from all around Newy is just nonsense. So yeah, like I said, it's too far.Quote:
Originally Posted by WWFC25
[QUOTE=2ndclasscitizen;259421]What's wrong with the Athtrack? Got a fresh surface and all necessary facilities for NPL.
I just can't stand the idea of everyone being at the game all on one side of the pitch with a running track, long jump pits all between the supporters and the players. The positives for Ath Field is the surface and location. That's about it.
A fenced off rectangluar ground that you can sit around on all sides is needed. The ZPL grand final day is a stand alone event, always pulls a great crowd. I strongly stand by that fact that ZERO ZPL grounds is up to the requirements to host such a day.
The previous days at Magic Park and Adamstown is what you need. There's no two ways about it. Great facilities, central location.
[QUOTE=Lofty;259424]Have you seen Magic Park recently? If you are in to abandoned portable buildings it ticks the boxes but I'd be a bit wary standing in front of those rust buckets. Take it to Rosebuds again. Great day there last time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen
[QUOTE=Spell Check;259426]No issues with Adamstown. Go for it mate, I look forward to your hospitality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
[QUOTE=Lofty;259427]Adamstown is perfectQuote:
Originally Posted by Spell Check
[QUOTE=The Hacker;259428]Catering last time wasn't up to scratch. Ran out of food and a lot of drinks. Suitable facility for it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
[QUOTE=Lofty;259429]Easily fixed if theyve learnt to countQuote:
Originally Posted by The Hacker
Yeah nah. Needs 4 sides of viewing.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen
It's all well and good to start the discussion in here. I guess we will just see who is actually prepared to do the work and put in an application. Running grand final day is bigger than what a lot imagine, which is probably why the last 3 grand finals have been hosted at Magic Park. I don't know if there have been more than one application any of those years?
I'm sure if there's a decision to be made between a ZPL ground or an NPL ground, there will only be one winner. As mentioned, I strongly do not feel any of our grounds in the comp are suited.
Why are Newcastle football so slow to enter wash out games? 2x games played on Wednesday and still not entered..
clubs enter the results online, not Newcastle Football
Cookers v Cardiff has been called off at the athletics track to much rain.
Refs called NPL off today, so the committee called tomorrow off also.
Won’t be the only one by the looks of this rain. Hexham was lucky to get on last week.
Be lucky if any games onQuote:
Originally Posted by mge61
I called it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jardelsimage
Walked it around 11 after work this morning. Puddles all over it.
Talking to Cam Burns after the Lake Macquarie saga a few weeks ago, the issue is with surface water and whether the ball will stop.
Seems to be what a ref call is based on and going on the condition of the ground this morning, the refs called it. Not the club.
However, if it happens in an A-League game and jnr Griff scores from the assist from Puddle, then it's all good. :thumbsup:
Since our friends at BOM last night predicted 3-8mm for today, we've had 5.5mm to 24h rain fall (Fri up to 9am Sat).
9am onwards stat is at the time of writing for N'cle is 18mm...and rising. 25mm @ Merewether.
I must say I was surprised when the message came through from our canteen person that refs had called it, hence my immediate need to inspect.
I sent a photo to Boz. It's worse since then. I was at the ground Friday too for the record. All good.
I'm wondering if people still have this illusion that the ground is what it was when Smithy used to train there 3 x a week with Magic: rain, hail or shine.
We've had 3 large topsoil events since those days on the pitch. The first was when I acquired the overburden from the stadium when 'the hump' was removed for Asian Cup game preps.
The 2nd was when NCC needed to offload a few hundred cubes about a year later in an emergency.
We've had the ground resurfaced and profiled with Santa Ana that was planted. That's probably another 150mm in places all over the field.
I can tell you, after 13 years of consistently working on that field, it doesn't drain like it used to.
Who knows? Maybe the ref looked up BOM or some app and looked at the field and also considered what was coming.
I just had a photo sent from our founding President of Adamstown Oval - screenshot from BarTV? Looks trashed....
What games KTB?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kicktheball
I put the Cookers Tue scores in that night. Same for Wed 1st grade - on the night.
Like Boz said, it's the home club's responsibility to enter scores on Gameday
Sorry, I'm not up to speed with posting full size images.
Click to get a bigger version.
Athfield at 11am. Not the best shot. More water in the middle.
I reckon we got more that what was recorded.
Would be worse by now. Dodged a bullet!
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The Adamstown photo I was talking about. Note: 35th minute.
Not even 1/2 time.
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Westlakes vs Kotara South
3rds 1-2
Res 1-6
1sts 1-2
Definitely dodged a bullet Retro. Played with a handful of Ace's.