only way to find out is rock up i guess

Leichhardt Oval confirmed for the Grand Final venue.  Went as a neutral to the last one,  great venue & plenty of room for the kids to run around.  

9th September. 
 
https://nplnsw.com.au/2018/07/17/npl-nsw-mens-grand-final-venue-announced/

wolves and apia 1 all apia scored in extra time to grab a point. Again wolves defence was great as it has been all year we just can't score goals.

Massive weekend at the top and bottom ends of the table coming up. 

Bonnyrigg vs Hakoah in what is essentially a relegation playoff. If BWE dont manage to get more points than Hakoah across all grades they'll be struggling to avoid relegation in the final two rounds given they're away to APIA and Manly. 

At the top, APIA v United is our chance to put some massive pressure on both APIA and Olympic. A win puts us right in the fight for the Premiership, any other result leaves us battling Blacktown for 3rd. Final two games for us are against Manly (H) and Olympic (A). 

massive games this weekend between bonno and hakoah across all 3 grades.

realistically, bonno need to win both first grade and 20's. ray miller has been playing well for bonno and will be key.  hes the heart of that side.

theres a fight for top spot, for top 3, for fifth, and for relegation. plenty of drama over the coming weeks.

shit needs to go ASAP... no other fucken country in the world can you be 10 points ahead of the relegation zone & go down

it was one of the proposed reforms which have been shelved for a year.
IMO CC is a good idea to ensure clubs place focus on their younger senior grades, but maybe change the weighting.  at the moment you get x1 for 18's; x2 for 20's and x4 for 1st grade. id make first grade x5.

it can go once Bonnyrigg get RELEGATED! :cool:

Clubs shouldn't need to have a CC to ensure their 20/18's up to scratch - this should be a given full stop IF you wish to have future good players coming through to play 1st levels.
It is what is but its about to go finally.
At this stage
Bonno likely down to 2
Parra likely down to 3.
Fraser likely to State.

relegation battle not done yet.  if bonno can beat hakoah theyre back in it although tougher draw home with games against apia and manly.

anything is possible.

You'll be depressed if you don't have them to play against yearly. 

I know, FNSW backflipped like they always do. Shits me when people said oh if you get rid of it, it will hurt development... riiiight because there's no development in literally every other state that doesn't have it


Fraser 18's & 20's killing it recently.. only 2 points behind Western

FFA Cup game tomorrow will be interesting..

the fixture has become so boring for years now, after all the restrictions who would want to go. 

Sydney United's Adrian Vlastelica has left for Croatia for a trial. 

Signed for NK Dugopolje in HNL league 2

He wont be back, i'm happy for him and wish him all the best, but it leaves our defense very light at the back.

Fantastic, not like we've got any important fixtures coming up. Really difficult to take our competition seriously when players come and go as they please. 

This isn't directed at Adrian personally, hope he does well. But it highlights the problems with the footballing landscape in Australia - particularly in the NPL. 

Fraser Park's TD and Head Coach are gone. Since the start of the season, they have replaced all senior coaches and the TD. 

Does anyone know if the dates for the finals games and Grand Final are already confirmed??

So if they lose today against Hakoah does that mean they're going to drop?   

some Brazilian guy from ESFA the new coach

R Jenen. I think he was with UNSW Women.

Well, Jenen had a tuff start I guess and Fraser down all 3grades.

Went to see APIA United game.
Couldn't believe the score by HT.
United worked their butts off the 2nd and had much more ball but couldn't finish off enough, Sim was in good position many times to release the ball earlier but either held it too long or wrong option.

there was a decision that impacted the match when it was 2-0 for APIA, the referee awarded the goal for United for it only to be overruled by the linesman, suggesting that a United player hand balled in the process of scoring. Well after reviewing the photos from FNSW FB page, it was actually an APIA player who handled in the box. 
The refereeing standards in the competition are piss poor. 

i am not saying it would of changed the final outcome, but a big point in the match.

Bonnyrigg relegated.  

36 points behind Sydney FC in club championship. 

Still mathematically have a chance... but they'd have to win all 6 fixtures and hope SFC dont win any. Never going to happen with BWE having APIA away as well as SFC's 18s and 20s being too strong to not pick up any wins. 

The only small positive from their perspective is that promotion is likely to be based on the first grade table next year. It'll be much easier to buy your way back into NPL1 without having to worry about what your 18s and 20s are doing. 

Sad to see Bonnyrigg going down from what they have produced over the last 10 years. Central Coast or Mount Druitt look favourites to come up, not sure who I would rather.

Ref made a blunder with the disallowed goal. It should have stood.  Doubt it would have made a difference as United were otherwise thoroughly outplayed.  4-0 at halftime and could have been more.  APIA are in a purple patch and scoring for fun.  The second half was a training run for both teams.     

Ralerasic: any idea of were Jordan Murray is off to at the end of the season?

Jordan has signed for Mariners.  

As much as it pains me to say it, I suspect Mt Druitt will be the ones going up.

CCM are only 7 points ahead in the CC after losing to Canterbury over the weekend, and they face Mt Druitt this weekend. After that CCM play North Shore Mariners, St George, and Hills United while Mt Druitt face Spirit, Parramatta, and WSW.