There's more to football in third division Newcastle than getting paid. The Suns have had a few boys come along for preseason over the past couple of years to leave before the season proper due to the clubs stance on not paying players. It's easy to sit on the outside, joke around and think that the clubs is spending dollars on players. The reality is that the Newcastle Suns have never paid a player to play for them, ever. It's enabled the club to create an equal and welcoming environment that boys want to be apart of. Yes, we have lost potential good signings, but what we have is something we are proud of and it's a bit enjoyable to hear comments from outsiders thinking we must pay players.
Rant over.
Wishing everyone and enjoyable and injury free season for 2017!
It's football, not s***er!!
Tsk Tsk, it's all banter lads. I'm looking forward to the game against you boys. Good luck for the season.
There's a few more first grade departs that aren't on the list;
Ben Radstaak (Suns 2016 player of the year), Liam Mercer, Daniel Hutchison as well as Igor Karafilovski and Alex Vojdanoski who are both travelling overseas and can't commit due to work, etc so they will be player/coach third grade for just the beginning on the season.
So that's 5 of the starting grand final team (3 of the 4 GF goal scorers) as losses, plus Johnny on top of that and a couple others who were fringe first graders.
Last edited by Lofty; 27-03-2017 at 09:32 AM.
It's football, not s***er!!
Predictions for this weekend?
No winners there
Cardiff v Swansea
Suns v Uni
Jesmond v Dudley
Kotara v Warners Bay
Beresfield v Mayfield
It's football, not s***er!!
Let's hope most of the grounds hold up from this weather.
not sure if clubs are willing to give this information up, but outside of the suns (maj, palozzi etc), what ZPL teams have ex NBN league players in their squads?