Maitland beat Cooks Hill 8-0 and from all reports looked pretty impressive.
Gunners up 3 nil over kahibah
There's some big scores atm.
Plattsy are down 6 nil to ccb, and new Lambton are 6+ down to edgy.
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out
Shouldn't be much of surprise to see the NPL sides dominating the Zone clubs. Even some of the lower NewFM sides struggle to match it with the top NPL sides. Great effort by Uni though.
FT: Charlestown 15-0 Plattsburg-Maryland
FT: Edgeworth 11-0 New Lambton
Really shows the gap in class.
Adamstown 4 -1 Kotara
Me thinks people are a bit hypocritical.
Whinge and moan that kids football results matter and winning is highly important
When seniors are held to the same standard that results matter all the excuses come out for not winning games but trying hard counts and superior opponent etc
Back up your comments, MFKS?
considering alot of zone teams pre seasons are very minimal the fitness would be terrible.
Swansea who lost 6-0 to magic beat belswans a decent newfm side last round.
Uni beat wallsend a now newfm side then took weston to a draw.
The quality gap is huge from nbn to newfm everybody knows that. But still a few zone league sides i.e uni that would clearly do well in newfm but dont match the criteria to get in. If one day they actually put the 2nd best 10 sides in newfm that would be great for newcastle footballs 2nd tier comp.
As for zl2, zl3 sides etc. They are blokes with some football skills dong more training at the pub then at the field Not getting payed to play and some teams once a week training has only just started so huge scores are to be expected as people run out of legs.
Completely agree that fitness levels of NPL would be a much higher standard. The best part of the FFA Cup is the smaller Zone League teams getting a chance against the bigger clubs. Hopefully over time the results will get a bit more respectable. And yes it'd be great to see teams like Uni allowed into NewFM. Improving the 2nd tier will only help improve the whole of Newcastle/Hunter football.
What was the final score of Jesmond and Trono?