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any predictions going around? early season surprises? big signings?
stags are going with a local coach and players, 3 year plan in place
Care to share?Originally Posted by BigSam
Predictions wise:
Kahibah and Belswans then daylight.
Heard that former Mariner Patrick Zwaanswijk will be doing his mate Gumps a favour and playing for Kahibah this year.
Cooks Hill and Thornton will be very competitive. The competition is improving and there are some very handy coaches spread across the teams with some good young players coming through at most clubs. There will be a few surprises I believe Kahibah and Belswans will get some very tough competition probably top 4 for both but no 'daylight'. Belswans with Cook and Gazzard and Rufo as coach should see them end up on top.
I predict
Belswans
Cooks Hill
Kahibah
Thornton
West Wallsend
Toronto
Singleton
New Lambton
South Cardiff
Wallsend
Cessnock
Obviously a lot of very unknown quantities there bottom 7 could be in any order.
Thornton Redbacks looking for trial next Sunday the 5th February able to host or willing to travel. If your available feel free to contact Darrel McAllister on 0426 254 300
Cooks Hill NL1 are looking for replacement trials on March 4/5th in 1st, U23s and U19 grades.
Originally we were scheduled to play Edgeworth who are now playing in the Heritage Cup.
We need to play this as an away game with upgrades to the Athletics track
'scheduled to be completed' by March 17th.
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Trial Game - Belswans Vs Southy @ Blacksmiths
1st 2-4
23's 0-1
19's 2-1 (i think)
17's 2-0 (i think)
15's 8-2
Difficult conditions to play quick footy, being super hot and the grass being relatively long (although it was in pretty good nick). Overall though a good day out for both clubs with positive signs all round. Belswans may be a bit disappointed with the result in 1sts, but still early days.
Southy won 17's 3-2 is what I heard. Didn't even know 15's got played. Big win for Belswans there. On 1st, been told Belswans had a few out and still early days. Good sign for Southy though.
Scores from Westy v Singleton were:
15's: Draw 2-2
17's: Westy 5-1
19's: Westy 7-1
23's: Westy 2-0
1st: Singo 2-1
Very hot day and 1st Grade was shortened to 45 min as a result. More of a training run but Singo had a few out and still won so good signs. Their first goal was a cracker.
Three New-FM sides playing tomorrow. Toronto v Morisset, Dudley v New Lambton and Thornton v Valo. Hopefully cooler conditions but doubt it.
Anyone provide results?
Or cancelled due to extreme weather?
Toronto and Thornton both cancelled. New Lambton lost 5-0 to Dudley-Redhead and also Wallsend played yesterday, losing 3-2 to Cardiff City.
Only first grade was cancelled for Morisset vs Toronto.. By Toronto... The night before the match...
It had been organised for weeks as a massive day in remembrance for Macca (an absolute legend of a bloke who I was lucky enough to call a mate AND play alongside, before his passing..)
Yeah it was hot. Everyone knew a week in advance that it would be. An unfortunate way for it to pan out when a lot of people had come a long way for it..
Anyway, results were:
19s/3rds 1-3 Tronno
Ressies 4-1 Mo-town
Fair enough. Significantly hotter out there I suppose.
ZPL teams are hungry
Interesting result Dudley 5 blot v New Lambton, was it the 2hd or there lower team.
Cardiff score was 3-3 maybe in the end???
I've never understood why anyone in Newy organises trial games in Feb/March during the day. Move the games to evening/night ffs - it's ALWAYS too hot to play this early in the year.
From the sounds of the brief report I read on the game, Mory played some of their (me assuming) first graders in the Reserves game anyway - so at the very least some of them got game time.
OK
Are we going to play the competition games that start in early March at night too?
m8 if it were up to me, every single football game ever would be on a Friday night.
OK
Whispers of unrest at West Wallsend... Not sure how true as its second hand info.
WE DON'T DO WALKING AWAY !
What dramas are going on out there ? I thought only drama in the newfm comp was Cessnock and getting them enough players ? What have you herd ?
I can guarantee the shortage of players has been misquoted.
I turned up just before the end of 23s. Belswans had a full team and I think one on the bench for 23s. There was also what looked like a full squad (st least 12 players) warming up for firsts. So whilst I didn't do a precise count, there was at least 24 players there and may have been up to 26.
I left before full time, but I heard the final score in firsts was 12-1. So not sure where this info has come from, but it's not right.
Due to movements within our squads Thornton Redbacks NL1 are looking for 2-3 players in both the 15's and 17's squad as well as 2 players and a keeper for the under 19's. For more information or to organise a trial please PM me.
