We (Raynond Terrace) are struggling with numbers this year. We don't have enough to fulfill three squads. If we can't in the next fee weeks, you may have to have a bye round.
If there are any spare players in your squads, we will welcome them to King Park.
Teams being coy with their results, any news/results?
For da Blues:
Third grade and mix of 1sts/Ressies played West Wallsend ZL3 ressies and 1sts on saturday (Council double booked the field so was played on a makeshift tiny pitch - which was actually alright in the end). Both games were 4-0 wins or there abouts
Upcoming games:
This saturday Coogee Utd
Next week Lake Mac NPL
what trial games are coming up, I havent gotten to any games yet cos I never know when teams are on in preseason. this season should be a good one with last years top 4 competing with suns and azzurri who will no doubt be right up there. heard warners bay are pushing for finals too this year but cant see how they finish ahead of 4 of those 6
Went and watched the local derby Saturday Charlestown v Dudley. 4-0 to Charlestown but Dudley got in behind them a fair bit just couldn’t beat Archerbold. Charlestown are bloody slow at the back and might be in for a Long year.
Highlight was Azzurri legends vs Dudley legends good to see some of the old boys running around
Terrace played Cooks Hill from ZL1.
We had to borrow many O35's players to fill in for 3rds and a couple for reserve. 1st had only 11 and 2 boys from reserve grade backed up for 1st.
3rds: 2-3 Cooks Hill
Reserve: 1-3 Cooks Hill
1st: 3-2 Terrace
As I have just posted in another forum. Raymond Terrace have come to the decision that we will request to drop down to ZL2 due to having only 32 players registered to play ZPL this season. We did consider staying up and only fielding two teams but the majority of players believed that would not be in the best interest of our club or the competition. We now await a response from Russel Henry Yao see whether our request has been granted or not.
Can NL or CH be promoted to ZPL with them having NewFM teams? There used the be the thing where there had to be two divisions between squads from the same club......does that even apply to NewFM or only the Zone Leagues ???
either way, i think the most likely outcome is a 3rd grade bye, its getting late for teams to be switching competitions, no matter how much they may like to go up or down
Ditto. Came from the man himself. In the past, discussions we had between us around our ZL1 being promoted ZPL seemed to lean towards promoting clubs that were looking to work on
those other areas of criteria required and possibly looking at promotion to NL1.
We were already there, so it wasn't a logical consideration. That seems to have gone by the wayside. Quote" If you win it, you get promoted" R/Terrace 2018, Hamilton 2019. We were asked as the next in line.
Having said that, ZPL would be a great 'proving ground' for an aspiring club from Zone Leagues to move up the food chain. We did 5 years there. Great preparation for the leap into NL1.
I can now confirm that Raymond Terrace’s request to be relegated to ZL2 has been approved.