As it should be
As it should be
Absolutely. Will be a fantastic day thereOriginally Posted by The Hacker
Currently looking like Dudley and Suns in all 3 grades. What teams can we see upsetting that in any of the 3 grades
The way kotara ressies are coming home i wouldnt rule them out
but being biased Cardiff will make a run hopefully
Any chance of Olympic moving their finals matches to Darling St? With all due respect to Islington oval a finals game deserves better if a more suitable venue is available.
Watched a bit of Kotara ressies on Tuesday night and they are pretty impressive. Definitely a good chance of going all the way I reckon.
Yes 0-0 draw would be declared.
Yes extensively, including Zone team representatives on the sub-committee that looked into it. That the zone leagues still have a finals series for 1st grade is proof of consultation as the end of the season was going to look very different.
I'd rather the money go to a ZL1 team rather than into the hands of NPL. Yes it might be good but why are they getting the coin from ZL1 supporters?
I know NOFC have a team, that's fine, but Suns put on a great day last year and deservedly shown that ZL1 clubs can host finals and get the coin that go along with it. I'm sure clubs like Cardiff, Dudley, WB would all be able to host a good grand final day, and supporters dollars can then end up back in teams involved in the league.
I don't disagree with the sentiments of your post, however there was only one club that nominated for ZL1 and only one club that nominated for ZL2/3.
I don't doubt that other clubs could host, they just don't want to. There lies the issue.
NL1 GF / Playoff gone to NPL too. My belief is semis and GF should be hosted by a ground within the said comp.
Well that's a shame, no doubt part of it is the amount of volunteers required to run a grand final day as well which many clubs don't have enough of.
Most pitches in the comp currently are trash. But if clubs aren't putting their hands up to host, then there's not much you can do.
Has a club within ZPL/ZL1 other than Olympic or Suns put their hands up to host a grand final in the last 10 years? I don't know the answer, genuine question.
My guess is that there hasn't been, so I'm not sure what more you can do. If clubs aren't willing to do the work, then you can't really force them to.
There's probably a couple of main reasons and that would be clubs don't want to host a day they aren't a part of and clubs don't want to have the burden of working on a day that they are a part of.
It's a big day. There's a lot of planning and prep in the lead up. There's risk in hosting too. You need to order enough stock to last the day to keep everyone happy and also not over ordering and having wastage since it's your last game for 6 months.
On gameday you really need at least 20-30 people working the whole day. Much earlier start for volunteers to finish for the day too.
Yeah they were sharp and came out of the blocks at pace.
Their press was consistent and high.
It was 3-1 after 15mins, Bay?s goal being off a free kick that was a generous call, but really well taken.
Cardiff did think about throwing hat into the ring, but ground condition this year, turned us off, needs to be a better surface than ours at the moment.
The GF should be on a neutral ground i believe, in its own comp preferably, but if this cant happen NPL is the best choice.
Not a big fan of ZL1 & ZL2 GF's at the same ground, sort of distracts a bit from the games being played, this is meant to be the pinnacle and should be kept separate.
You mean ZL2 and ZL3 and yes should be separate.
yeh stuffed that up
100% agree they all should be separate. My way of thinking is that if Zl1 was 12 teams as I can't see that changing and the other grades were 10 team then the ZL1 competition could finish a week after the other Zone league finals on a Saturday.
Which could be something like
First week Saturday ZL3
First week Sunday ZL2
Following Week Saturday ZL1
As for grounds Darling Street could have ZL1. Keen to host, good facilities
Myer park ZL2, run good grand finals last year deserve another GF
As the ZL3 Competition is very well spread with a few hunter valley teams I wouldn't be against somewhere like Carmichael Park at Bellbird getting a start. As of last week pitch was up there with most grounds in Newcastle. Excellent surface and club run a good match day
Why not have ZL3 and ZL2 on the Saturday.
Kickoff times: 9, 11, 1, 3 and 5?
Then ZL1 on the Sunday
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