Until NNSWF get it ideology into thinking about the benefits of football to the Newcastle and hunter region and have relegation and promotion into and out of not only the NPL but also the NL 1 as there are plenty of teams that would like to promote themselves and spend big money on players and facilities for improvement. The longer NNSWF keep the same old format and remove the incentive for clubs in the northern league one to better themselves and move into the top tier and the incentive to improve their facilities the game will suffer. As we see today the same old teams in NPL come in the top 4 and the same old teams come in the bottom 4. We see NL1 with same teams finishing in the top 3 or 4 and they have absolutely no incentive to spend money on players or their facilities to gain entry and make the teams in the NPL fight for a position. Similarly in the Zone Premier / league their is no incentive to strive to improve and gain promotion as they will face the same dilemma. Having been around football for some 50 years I seen the benefits of promotion and relegation and the want of clubs to improve. The current executive of NNSWF need to look back in history to see how teams fought for the place in the top tier and they had a good foundation of junior players striving to break into senior football. One of the biggest challenges facing clubs is payment to players and with the incredibly over payments the clubs do not have any money left to assist and / or contribute to improving their facilities.
Any results from last night?
Cooks Hill won 4-3 in firsts and are through to the Grand Final
Cooks Hill announced that Doug West is taking over Law at Cooks Hill. Be interesting to see how well they go especially since Law has taken a few of the stronger 1st grade players to Charlestown with him
Was there a grand final?
Who won?
Darrel McAllister to Southy
"It is not that I am afraid to die; its just that I don't want to be there when it happens" - Woody Allen
Interesting!
Brendan Slade to Singleton
Steve piggott to Toronto Awaba
Piggott, wheelhouse and bowling the brains trust at Toronto Awaba ... not a bad trio to get the club back up where it belongs. May have got the spoon last year, but was a stepping stone with two wins over Belswans and some better results then 2018
Only hope it works out better than his time with Maryland lol