solid win by our lads last night against blacktown. blacktown played well firt 20, could of taken the lead. funny game. we then hit them with 3 goals before half time.
whilst only trials, good day all round for us given our track record against blacktown isnt the best. we won in 13's, 15's, 18's, 20's and first grade. lost in 14's and 16's. good to see our 20's get a win. again pre season only, but good for the confidence.
manly this sunday at home!

Is Reidy only coaching this year or playing also?

I might be wrong but yeah think they just continued training after the NYL season finished.

player coach. IMO, he still has a lot to offer.

I agree, the couple times I saw him play especially against MVFC he stood out, happy to see him going around for another year.

Word on the street is that this will be happening sooner rather than later

Good the earlier the better for us, we look weak at the back.

Highlights of Blacktown City V Rockdale City Suns

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1lfJYISLw

Sydney United V Guangzhou R&F - Tonight 7pm @ Valentine Sports Park for anyone that's interested.

who won lol

Guangzhou R&F 5-1 Sydney United.

first half was 1-1 where we played a fairly strong side, second half mostly youth bar 3 players, and in the end the Asians were too good.

Do you know if Guangzhou played anywhere near their full strength side for the games they played here?

Decent hit out for the game, 2 and a half draws out of 3

no idea, they all look the same to me. :lol:

Season kicks off in just under two weeks.

Which sides are looking strong? Who are the favourites? Who'll struggle?

Rockdale would be my favourites with Bonnyrigg and Blacktown City pushing for top spot also, Hakoah look like they will struggle.

theusual suspects wll be there:
apia- have a strong team again, lost a few but recruited a few as well
bonnyrigg- similar squad, no tadrosse but otherwise strong, petersen and younis upfront will be a handful
blacktown city- again veyr little change, frogiganos is a loss, but with the likes of cairncross, antelmi, mallia, major, choi, lewis- they will be very strong.
rockdale- solid suqad, some good new inclusions

even syd united, yeah theyve lost some players, but theyve picked up frigiganos from blacktown, chris payne up front, bosnar, uskok if he comes back, a couple of very good jap boys.

manly and the wolves never grab attention pre season but going to cromer and down to the gong is never eady, they will both be tough.
parra have recruited well and will be stronger.
spartans have added the likes of perkatis and prioa
sutho will be an interesting one, yeah they have lost a few, but theyve snapped up josh da silva, takuya murayama to name a couple.
olympic another interesting one. lost some key players but then added stamatellis, traintis, and a couple from united. depth might be an issue.
hakoah- who knows!

it will be a tough comp as always, no clear favourite.

probably half a dozen teams pre season who seriously fancy themselves as contenders, but much to separate the rest.

I think Hakoah's first grade have kept a lot of the squad from 2015. I think the main goal is to stay up.

thats always the goal of any team who gets promoted. its always tough first season. parra did well last year to survive.

not much has been said about hakoah's teams. i suppose thats the team that got them promoted so they will stick with it.

Apia Blacktown Bonnyrigg Rockdale the favourites

Olympic not sure yet
A few signing short to being top 4

Sydney United to struggle slow defence nothing changed

Hakoah to finish last
Melita to finish second last

Squad looking mint, alot of depth in there.

Rockdale squad

BRADASEVIC (GK)
BAZZI (GK)
HESKETH
PETKOVSKI
PETRILLO
DASCAL
MCLENEHAN
I SAVOR (20'S)
P SAVOR
DUBOCANIN (20'S)
REID
ALAMADDENE
RICIUTTO
MAKRILLOS
CANAK
EL HAFIANE
TANOSKI
MACALLISTER
UROSEVSKI
LEKOSKI
OZBEY

Olympics squad:

henderson
green
green
stamatellis
triantis
fondyke
sorge
angel
gaitatzis
gaitatzis
vranic
tsattalios
boutoubia
madonis
tomelic
cindric
egger
morris

APIA

norval
libaand
sekiya
hasegawa
austin
o'connell
millgate
bartels
biczo
d'apuzzo
olsen
parisi
symons
ucchino
elasi
studman
hooper
murray
cox

Where are these squad lists coming from? nothing on FNSW.

Bonnyrigg have signed a former A-League defender. Will be announced on Monday

@ Kolner, how has Canak been for you fellas ?

Edited by srbin22: 26/2/2016 09:51:42 AM

because i know all the teams. could put em all up here if i had the time!

anyway, like i said, for me:

bonno, apia, blacktown city will be thereabouts.

yeah hes settled in well. hes a passionate guy and i like that. hes got great stamina as well. weve got plenty of competition for places so theyre all super keen and so they should be. great bunch of lads. what exactly happened at bonno when he left? heard a few tjings but who knows!

Vrankovic? :lol:

what I am saying is, are these squad lists already been submitted to FNSW?

or is there a deadline day?

I spoke to Sam K on Wednesday, he said the only addition to our squad will be Uskok but that's after his contract with CCM

Interesting. So the usual suspects. Thanks all.