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Cooks Hill won two catch up games last night, so officially promoted back to Div 1 for 2025.

this u18s realignment to seniors is interesting.

There are a few interesting outcomes:

U18s now...

Anyone have an opinion of including u18s in Club Championship table?

Funny that a team might cost a club promotion for the following year, that they won't be a part of.

Looking at this years...

Adamstown have played 4 rounds of games.

Cooks Hill have only played 2 rounds
South Cardiff have played 3 rounds
New Lambton 3 rounds

considering each round is worth max 15 points and the gap...

I can only comment on the CH vs Azzuri stats but they are way off

2024
u13s 0-0
u14s CH won 1-0
u15s CH won 4-0
u16s CH won 4-1
u18s Azzuri won 4-1

CH 10 points azzuri 4 points

They threw the kitchen sink at Cooks Hills Coach this week. He turned them down.

Only way bolchy goes to CH is if their current coach quits. He's doing great things for them. No way they replace him.

CH got a new coach?

The problem with saying "The football is poor, and the refereeing is poor" is that clubs aren?t the ones driving all these initiatives and criteria in professionalism.

If NNSW want to continue to...

The BarTV footage of NL first goal is unbelievable. Keeper caught it clean about half a meter in front of the line, and the assistant award a goal....how does that even happen.

Zero tolerance...

What's the mail on their youth? Why Div3?

After today's results it sounds like the teams playing in div 1 next year will be the div A teams plus

Lake Mac
Mid Coast
New Lambton
Cooks Hill

Can anyone confirm?

The reality is the leap between the current divisions in massive. Not just in ability but approach.

Cooks Hill have A League Coach Craig Deans and NL have Ex Socceroo Clayon Zane, both running...

The reality is NNSW are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't. There is no clear answer.

They have placed Cooks Hill and New Lambton in the 2nd tier of the pre-season cup, they have won by...

Very interesting.

Cooks Hill at least seem to be learning fast...appointing an A League Coach as TD and a Head Coach with runs on the board from coaching youth teams at the Olympics and Youth...

The link you shared doesn't paint a good picture of NNSW....

Using Newcastle Community Football as an example:

Total Average Rego Cost:


Entry level (u5-u7): $164.75

Junior (u8-u11): ...

I think you're heavily underestimating costs for clubs here.

Average grounds rental for year including lighting etc $30,000
Maintenance on ground $10,000
Clothing - $200 per player: 200 * 100...

Club Fees to NNSW for NPL are as follows:

Per Youth player: $124.88
Per Snr Player: $209.69
Competition fee: $10,243.75
Match Official Appointments officer: $770
FFA Cup: $907.50
Discipline...

Cooks Hill has a fund set aside for exactly this purpose. To support local kids who otherwise would not be able to participate not just in NPL but football at all levels. There are ~10 kids this year...

Cooks Hill improving in the last 2 weeks and doing it the right way too.

In the starting 11 vs Charlestown there was:
2 x 17yr olds
a boy that playe u16s for Australia a couple of years ago...

After the spray he gave the referee on his red card last week in his last game then he won't be featuring for The Sun's for a while.

I think we need to stop blaming the individual clubs for this and start considering that there may be greater issues at play here that need addressing such as the competitiveness of the competitions....

This simply isn’t true, the majority of 2021 youth players who were keen to progress to the NPL were retained.

The club had a very decent team in the age group that would have player u16s in 2022...

From what I heard they had decent amount of players chose not to trial and requested to play in Community Teams instead of NPL or went to other NL1 teams. Most of the 2021 players that were keen,...

I think this years KO times have solved that problem. A gap of 30mins between ressies and 1st grade means that teams can start their warm-up in the area east of the pitch, and move onto the field...

2 years to wait for an upgrade at Valo, mean while Cooks Hill have won a grant to revamp their playing surface to the tune of $150k.

Other than the playing surface, The Athletics track facility is...