2015 Zone League 3 thread

[WFC_ZL]

Wallsend will need a point against Mayfield last Round or it will come down to Goal difference if New Lambton win there last 2. But yes there 2nds will finish Minor Prem's. Congratulations Wallsend it will be a big achievement.

Yep, Reserve grade have wrapped up the minor prem with a round to go. We need 1 point in 1st grade from the last round unless Kahibah can take some points from NL next weekend in there catch up game.

Looks like the 4 in 1st grade is settled. Comes down now to the final order.

Ressies is looking interesting in the battle for 4th. Kahibah 3 points behind Dudley with a game in hand and a superior goal difference. Dudley to play Edgeworth in the final round. Could be a very interesting final round to settle the 4.

If anyone is interested, here's the club championship points after round 17

Abermain 46
Dudley 130
Edgeworth 78
Jesmond 18
Kahibah 90
Mayfield 54
New Lambton 126
RAAF 110
Wallsend 152

[anfield]

Yep, Reserve grade have wrapped up the minor prem with a round to go. We need 1 point in 1st grade from the last round unless Kahibah can take some points from NL next weekend in there catch up game.

Looks like the 4 in 1st grade is settled. Comes down now to the final order.

Ressies is looking interesting in the battle for 4th. Kahibah 3 points behind Dudley with a game in hand and a superior goal difference. Dudley to play Edgeworth in the final round. Could be a very interesting final round to settle the 4.

If anyone is interested, here's the club championship points after round 17

Abermain 46
Dudley 130
Edgeworth 78
Jesmond 18
Kahibah 90
Mayfield 54
New Lambton 126
RAAF 110
Wallsend 152

Wallsend deserve to be favourites in both grades. Their attack at the moment is the best in the league. New lambton have a strong defence, so to score 3 is a decent effort. I can see plenty of goals come finals in first grade. Is the four settled? Was suprised kahibah lost to abermain. Have they dropped players to stack ressies or given up?

Wallsend have been solid in ressies and deserve minors. Edgeworth have done well to make finals. New lambton have fallen away a little and still need a result to make finals. Could be a good final day.

[Albert]

Wallsend deserve to be favourites in both grades. Their attack at the moment is the best in the league. New lambton have a strong defence, so to score 3 is a decent effort. I can see plenty of goals come finals in first grade. Is the four settled? Was suprised kahibah lost to abermain. Have they dropped players to stack ressies or given up?

Wallsend have been solid in ressies and deserve minors. Edgeworth have done well to make finals. New lambton have fallen away a little and still need a result to make finals. Could be a good final day.

It is good to see Abermain get some points together finally. IMO a much better team when where they stand on the table.

Stacking ressies has got to be the most ridiculous thing ever. Why bother? #Edgeworth

[heistofthecentury]

Stacking ressies has got to be the most ridiculous thing ever. Why bother? #Edgeworth

Stacking? Only wins are stacking up for them, against all teams of late. Watching them against Jesmond they looked short across both grades. Maybe the stacking talk should change to talk of being late favourites?

[E.J.S.C ZL]

It is good to see Abermain get some points together finally. IMO a much better team when where they stand on the table.

Stacking ressies has got to be the most ridiculous thing ever. Why bother? #Edgeworth

We have never stacked our 2nds and aren't going too. They have made the semi's on there own merit. I think people are making these accusations, so when they do it they can say well Edgeworth has been doing it so we're going to do it too. Name games we have done it, rather then saying we are doing it ? Albert how many games have you seen us play ?

We plan on staying in the ZL comp and if we are stacking 2nds, players in 1st grade won't be happy if we aren't giving ourselves every chance in 1sts and won't be back. Outside of the 2 Wallsend games we have always been competitive in 1st grade.

[hawk]

but geez the 2nds know how to party when they do win it, stacks on

[anfield]

We have never stacked our 2nds and aren't going too. They have made the semi's on there own merit. I think people are making these accusations, so when they do it they can say well Edgeworth has been doing it so we're going to do it too. Name games we have done it, rather then saying we are doing it ? Albert how many games have you seen us play ?

We plan on staying in the ZL comp and if we are stacking 2nds, players in 1st grade won't be happy if we aren't giving ourselves every chance in 1sts and won't be back. Outside of the 2 Wallsend games we have always been competitive in 1st grade.

I suppose the stacking claim will allways come up when a team finishes lower grades strongly. Good to hear edgeworth not stacking ressies, their first grade results lately show this. Well done on the season

[Albert]

What are some early predictions for premiers for each grade given top 4 for both is pretty much sorted?

[WFC_ZL]

With all the talk about leading goal scorers in the other threads, how is everyone's leading goal scorer looking for the golden boot?

Wallsends top goal scorer is sitting around 22 goals in 1st grade for the season.

[Eggs]

Wallsends top goal scorer is sitting around 22 goals in 1st grade for the season.

If that's true then he's scored more goals on his own than any of the bottom three clubs. Must be a beast!

[Charman]

With all the talk about leading goal scorers in the other threads, how is everyone's leading goal scorer looking for the golden boot?


Wallsends top goal scorer is sitting around 22 goals in 1st grade for the season.

Good effort, haven't scored 22 in my career!. Dudley top scorer maybe 10. Shared around between the squad. Shut down wallsend top scorer = win the game. Thanks for the tip, what number does he wear?

[amishpanda]

Good effort, haven't scored 22 in my career!. Dudley top scorer maybe 10. Shared around between the squad. Shut down wallsend top scorer = win the game. Thanks for the tip, what number does he wear?

Considering the other striker is on 19/20, the plan should be to nullify both strikers...which is the job of the backline anyway.

[heistofthecentury]

What are some early predictions for premiers for each grade given top 4 for both is pretty much sorted?

First grade:
Wallsend to beat RAAF in both legs.
Might call a bit of an 'upset' in Dudley beating lambton over both legs.
Wallsend going on to win minor and major premiers.

[Sanchezz]

\ Was suprised kahibah lost to abermain. Have they dropped players to stack ressies or given up?.

What?????? Funnily enough up until the Abermain game we were still in with a good shot to make first grade finals so why on earth would we stack reserves?? Not to mention that we as a club have been fair and will always continue to be. We had a draw with N.L in first grade 2 days ago so that proves our best players are still playing there.

Dudley have been quick to have shots at other teams for stacking on this forum.

As a casual reader of the forum It never bothered me until today when I heard a direct quote from a Dudley player that there was banter at a Dudley BBQ about stacking reserves this weekend. ( They need to draw or win and firsts result doesn't matter)

Now I understand joking around about it at a team get together and actually doing it are two very different things! But hearing that made me laugh as to how strongly they have been against it on here.

At the end of the day everybody knows Dudley is one of the clubs with 2 very separate squads and apart from injuries has been very little movement of players between the 2 grades. So if any of the better players turn up in reserves as a one off on the weekend then that would be an extremely hypocritical thing to do.

But I trust all parties will do the right thing.

Goodluck All with the finals series and Congrats to Wallsend on Promotion!!!

[WFC_ZL]

Goodluck All with the finals series and Congrats to Wallsend on Promotion!!!

Thanks Sanchezz, has been a good season. Thanks to all the teams for the year. Looking at past years and numbers ZL3 has been improving and I hope the clubs stick with it to continue its growth.

As for this weekend, Saturday is shaping up to be a good battle for that final spot in Ressies, 3 teams in the running. Dudley and Kahibah being the 2 with a real shot as I dont see RAAF pulling the goal difference back if results go there way. But who knows...... crazy things can happen.

Good luck to all teams in the finals.

[anfield]

What?????? Funnily enough up until the Abermain game we were still in with a good shot to make first grade finals so why on earth would we stack reserves?? Not to mention that we as a club have been fair and will always continue to be. We had a draw with N.L in first grade 2 days ago so that proves our best players are still playing there.

Dudley have been quick to have shots at other teams for stacking on this forum.

As a casual reader of the forum It never bothered me until today when I heard a direct quote from a Dudley player that there was banter at a Dudley BBQ about stacking reserves this weekend. ( They need to draw or win and firsts result doesn't matter)

Now I understand joking around about it at a team get together and actually doing it are two very different things! But hearing that made me laugh as to how strongly they have been against it on here.

At the end of the day everybody knows Dudley is one of the clubs with 2 very separate squads and apart from injuries has been very little movement of players between the 2 grades. So if any of the better players turn up in reserves as a one off on the weekend then that would be an extremely hypocritical thing to do.

But I trust all parties will do the right thing.

Goodluck All with the finals series and Congrats to Wallsend on Promotion!!!

Wow, calm down champ. A little bit of stirring/banter floating around. For the record the stacking banter has come from reps from multiple teams. It will always come up, epecially when results look a little off.

For the record dudley has ONE squad that breaks into firsts and ressies on weekend. All bar a few of the squad have played first grade at some stage, dont know where your seperate claims based on??? Maybe go check the teamsheets, 'The truth is out there'.

[anfield]

As for the weekends games. It will be business as usual. With 3 weeks between games im sure all attempts will be made to have as many players available as possible to have 2 strong grades.

[the man]

Lambton 4_0 win in first
Res Lambton 3_2
Good luck New Lambton for the semi

[2leftfeet]

Kahibah vs Raaf

3-2 win kahibah in reserves

5-3 win to kahibah in first grade.

Came out to show we should have been playing finals football in first grade today and I think we proved that. 2 very hard faught matches. Consistancy was the issue in both grades. Play top football one week and then lose to last place the next.

Best of luck to all the teams playing finals football in first grade.

seeyou all next season.

[Charman]

Motha f$&ker. Edgie win res 2-0, dudley win 1st 3-2 after being down 2-0. Ressie in top 4 all year and miss the finals in the last week, shattered. Well done kahibah for hanging in there.
Contrats to all teams for making finals, extra credit to the teams who made it first year in. Will be a good finals series in what has been a very close comp.