i thought the same thing as well, its basically the clubs with no fans. 
Saturday's are kids sports, people work etc, not a good way to promote the game, when you make it impossible to attend.

Friday nights - fine
Saturday nights - fine
Sunday afternoons - fine 

thats how it should be. 

Well NPL1 comp starts Friday night.
Notable games for me,
Marconi vs Sydfc
SO vs SU - should be a great game but Sat 4pm koff as some have mentioned.
BC vs APIA
Suns vs Wolves

and will be interesting how the new Bulls match up with the returning Sutho.

The rest of us NPL's koff following Saturday March 6.

We are doing it to try to get crowds back. Not ideal. I’d personally rather mixed times. Friday nights would be perfect.

I believe so, he is front of shirt sponsor.

I thought you guys just announced a new jersey with Ultra Football on the front?

good solid away win against Olympic on saturday, i felt like we were the better side and deserved the win.

Rockdale hammered Wolves, seems as though they are weaker this season?

agreed, I was surprised of the Wolves result but good on Rockdale.
Glad you guys won SU and away !
Be keen what Sutho reports re their game.

I believe that’s the away jersey. Not sure if PipeKing will be the shirt sponsor or Ultrafootball for the away kit. All jerseys and shirts are from Ultra Football though.

Mixed feelings from our game, we really need to be beating Northbridge if we are going to do anything successful this season, I thought they were quite poor. We had good passages of play but lacked creativity in the midfield. Their 2 goals really should’ve been delt with by Bouzanis. James Andrew, McStay And our back 4 looked good at times as did Masciovechhio when he came on. 

They missed James up front and Stojcevski in the middle, but their, I imagine, full strength defence seems a bit shakey more than anything.

i heard james will be suspended for half a season, from his antics in last years semi final match against us. 

your game plan is very simple.  theres only so much of play 5 at the back and hoof it long to the pace of james andrews etc that you can do.  but if it works it works.  mcstay looks decent for me. not convinced on the back 4 but if they have cover, and that appears to be the setup, they will be ok.  
northbridge i think will improve.

both him and antelmi although im hearing there are appeals on foot to get reductions.  lets see.

Antelmi only got 2 weeks. he is back this week against syd fc.

I live in the Shire & want to attend Sutho v Marconi but 3:30pm is ridiculous if you have family commitments as most people with kids do on an early Saturday afternoon. 

I agree 5 at the back isn’t great, hopefully when Simonovski/Oliver Green are in the line up will give us a better option of playing through the middle more. 

Sutherland 1-1 Marconi
Mt Druitt 3-1 APIA
Wollongong 1-1 Manly
Blacktown 2-0 Northbridge
Rockdale 1-0 Olympic
Sydney United 5-2 Sydney Fc

Sutherland 1-1 Marconi, 2 points dropped for us, we really should have finished our chances better on Saturday, just lacking that deadly striker which hopefully Simonovski will provide when he returns. In saying that we are performing better than expected. Marconi looked really poor especially in the first half, Mallia was introduced at half time and made an impact for their side but on paper I was expecting a lot more from Marconi.

Decent crowd of around 800-1000 for us and a good day out, at the end of the day happy to have our team back playing and being able to attend again.

Thanks Sutho, yep main thing nothing being back at the football proper compared to last season, worse for your guys opting out.
I watched bits of games on npl.tv. - got annoyed by the intermitted coverage I was experiencing, this really needs some tweaking.
Not a bad crowd down there for you guys, didn't you miss a pen ? Marconi sounds like they are going to struggle, same goes for APIA again :(
Early days I guess.
I expected BC and Suns wins.
Shame Manly had the win till late allowing the draw.
Rippa result by SU, nothing like knocking off those Clubs so convincingly.

early days but we could see our first coaching casualty pending on what happens at belmore this weekend.  

sutho so far competitive. depth will be an issue.
mtdruitt surprising me.
the academy teams will be hot and cold.
united look strong. payne antelmi trifiro sim perkatis - very strong.
blacktown always surprise.
marconi will click into gear and when they do they can beat anyone.
wolves so far very disappointing. lucky to snatch the draw.
manly solid without being spectacular. good to see richi cardozo playing so well
apia is a weird one to work out,  on paper a very strong team, perhaps a few have stayed on for too long? still plenty of quality and firepower.
anyway wait and see.
 

good summary from your perspective Kolner.
APIA puzzles me the last 2 seasons.
I take my hat off to Parisi but at 38 odd yrs and still a main cog to a degree (by the way nice goal) asks you why haven't they found a sound successor to date and more up and comers.

Agreed, this weekends match up between APIA and Olympic will be interesting with the losing coach under some pressure.

APIA gloating how last year was non-existent, treating it poorly and claiming still to be champions, has come back to bite them it seems? 
Still early days in the season, i'm sure the former champions will turn it around....

3 from 3 for us. Solid start to the season, which we hope continues this week. I thought Sutherland put up a good fight in the second half. 

what happened between Marconi and Rockdale, besides the cracking 3-3 scoreline, seemed like there were some afters between both benches?!

I actually thought we started off well in the first 30, could’ve got a goal with a few decent chances. United started off slow but then started to control the game, after the second goal we were never coming back. Our options up front seem to be our weakness, McStay again was easily our best player.

Marconi with Mallia on looked like a different team from last week and with the striker from last seasons North Shore Mariners look to be kicking into gear now.

yes very good start SU58, you guys and Suns should be hovering those positions for the season barring injuries and the odd curve ball loss.

Bit of time wasting from the Marconi bench throwing balls onto the pitch a couple times whilst 3-2 up followed by a fun celebration by the boys when they got the equaliser...

we gifted them all 3 goals. notwithstanding our sloppiness, we should of won easily.

a fair goal disallowed before half time for a supposed offside and the clearest pen second half.  ridiculous officiating.

anyway, fair play to marconi.  you know how they are going to play.  

APIA sack their coach after 3 Rounds.

cheeeez