C'mon ...excuses excuses. Toronto, Singleton, Wallsend all should be punted for not meeting criteria. The 18s being backfilled by 16s is a given at any decent Club and at last count on these threads NL Res are still 18s?. Thats development I think? Surrounded by NPL clubs. Toronto can do their best to talk it up, the broader Club has failed. A short lived stint in the finals should not gloss over the fact that ZPL is where they need to be unless they have full squads in all ages. Kudos to all Clubs who did. I have no past connections, no gripes, but I agree with jessepink.
Who knocked the stags out of the FFA cup with a third grade keeper and half their reserve grade team. I’ll let you answer that for everyone. And from what division
In fact apart from New Lambton and Belswans ask all the teams who they got knocked out by. West Wallsend got beat by Swansea who have won 2 games all year. So yeah Toronto, Singo wouldn’t be celebrating finals football in ZPL
You scored a hammy goal and threw 11 men behind the ball for the rest of the game because your side can’t play football.
Stags we’re also missing 5/6 first graders that night.
Also beat Cardiff 5-2 with 4 players out in pre season. Stags and Singo would be playing finals football in ZPL.
Great win for Kahibah over Belswans yesterday. Terrible pitch to play football on; Mick Stafford must be cursing the extra games that were played on their ground . Kahibah defended well and rode their luck. Entertaining game.
Anyone that thinks a one off game or pre season results determine whoÂ’s better than another team and how a team will preform in a competition over a full season are having a laugh.
Bing back promotion and relegation from Zl3 to NPL
Then and only then, we will know whoÂ’s the top dog.
Don't stress zpl lads, we all know what your saying is true... other than old mate.
Well done. I'm glad to see my predictions provided a bit of motivation for the lads. Sounds like it was a bit of a roller coaster of a game. Any post match afters with the singo boys? Go back to the royal for a boat race?
Belswans have now not scored in the last 3 games (approx a month). Prediction for this weekend. Toronto 3-0 in a canter. In the other semi, flip a coin, maybe a shootout.
Actually the singo boys and supporters were very well behaved and respectful of the result. Some sledging etc but light hearted enough to laugh with each other. Stags fought hard as singo scored the equaliser the very last kick of the game, which of course got the supporters very noisy ( understandably ) , they refocused in ET to go to penalties and was great to see Drew Olsen save a pen to get us through. Good club man sticking by the club when Shayne Van as turned up and reaped his rewards yesterday.