Rat gone from northcote, not sure if amicable. Hopefully it was.

What's going on over there? All the talk pre-season was about Northcote and how good they were going to be, how good they've recruited, etc. Now players and the coach gone?

Rat has moved to Heidelberg as a senior technical director, the Heidelberg coach George katsakis is of course his cousin. No word on who will take over at northcote, the word around during summer was that their pre season was shambolic, let some decent senior players go and signed players at the last minute who hadn't even done a pre season, not sure to what extent that's true but the results aren't lying.

Who said that? Pretty much everyone had them as their prime relegation candidate. Lost a bunch of great players (Mbarga, Obradovic, Theodoridis, Eliopolous), signed nobodies.

I thought they'd do ok :lol: Deluded I guess

On a side note Lozanovski is back

Yeah same, not championship winning material but I thought they'd go a bit better than relegation.

It was more them talking themselves up preseason I guess :p

What would be deemed a good crowd for the South game on Sunday?
I'm intrigued to what kind of turn out they get.

South fans to enter stadium via gate 2 - the traditional stand.

Victory fans to enter via gate 1 - new grand stand side.

They could be expecting anything as low as 1200 to as high as 4000-5000...it's really hard to say. Will probably be somewhere in between.

Word is they're expecting 2k which is about right... anything over 4 would be mental. The stands only hold 5.5k so the place would be rocking since they've sectioned off behind the goals.

The seating capacity is 5.5k but the main grandstand has plenty of standing room in front of the corporate areas and at the front of the stand, you could fit about 7k without opening the behind the goals.

Going to lakeside tonight to watch South Melbourne vs Pascoe Vale (my local team) anybody going?

Went to knights v Avondale (1-3) spoke to murdocca after the game told me they charged him for parking :lol:

You guys fought very hard and deserved the win, we were pathetic and butchered everything. Had a feeling it was gonna be one of those nights after the missed penalty, Pascoe vale always give us a torrid time not sure why they are so low on the ladder.

Our coach is back in England with his sick father and unfortunately our assistant had no idea last night, held out his final sub until injury time](*,)

Draws in the two matches between the top four teams in NPLV2 West tonight set up a tasty top of the table clash next week, and they're both regional teams, North Geelong and Ballarat Red Devils.

Ballarat with six wins in a row before tonight's draw and North Geelong undefeated in eleven in all comps sets this up as a huge one!

It was a very crazy game thats for sure, the indirect free kick followed by the saved penalty . The standard although was pretty shocking thought Deng stood up for Pascoe Vale and young Miano showed composure when given a chance. Epifano for South was dangerous at times i thought

In terms of quality it was the worst game I've seen this season, Pascoe vales ability to remain compact and run both ways was very impressive, taught us a lesson in work rate, epifano might look good at times but if you watch him closely when he loses the ball he just throws his arms up in the air and doesn't chase. Deng I agree was great and van schip was all class holding the ball up. That's pretty much the blueprint for beating south just stack the back line and move it quickly on the counter, we struggle when we can't get in behind teams and our usual dangerous wing play was easily negated...granted it didn't help that we wasted about 15 corners and every decent crossing situation. Expect Pascoe vale to make a run and finish close to the playoff positions.

NPL Victoria standings after Round 12:
1 South Melbourne FC 12 9 1 2 33 14 +19 28
2 Bentleigh Greens SC 12 8 2 2 31 11 +20 26
3 Green Gully SC 12 7 2 3 26 10 +16 23
4 Hume City FC 12 7 1 4 23 10 +13 22
5 Heidelberg United FC 12 7 2 3 31 17 +14 20
6 Oakleigh Cannons FC 12 5 4 3 15 18 -3 19
7 Port Melbourne Sharks SC 12 5 3 4 20 15 +5 18
8 Melbourne Knights FC 12 4 3 5 15 25 -10 15
9 Avondale Heights FC 12 4 2 6 11 19 -8 14
10 Pascoe Vale FC 12 3 3 6 11 16 -5 12
11 FC Bulleen Lions 12 2 5 5 9 14 -5 11
12 Melbourne Victory FC 12 3 1 8 15 23 -8 10
13 Richmond SC 12 2 3 7 20 39 -19 9
14 Northcote City FC 12 1 2 9 6 35 -29 5

Round 13:
Friday May 20th 8.15pm Pascoe Vale v Melbourne Knights
Friday May 20th 8.15pm Avondale Heights v Richmond
Friday May 20th 8.30pm Port Melbourne Sharks v Bentleigh Greens
Saturday May 21st 3.00pm Green Gully Cavaliers v South Melbourne
Saturday May 21st 3.00pm Northcote City v Oakleigh Cannons
Sunday May 22nd 4.00pm Heidelberg United v Melbourne Victory at Olympic Village
Monday May 23rd 8.30pm Bulleen Lions v Hume City at Veneto Club – David Barro Stadium

NPL 2 West Standings after Round 12:
1 North Geelong Warriors FC 12 7 4 1 24 10 +14 25
2 Moreland Zebras FC 12 7 1 4 29 17 +12 22
3 Whittlesea Ranges FC 12 6 4 2 31 23 +8 22
4 Ballarat Red Devils SC 12 7 1 4 25 21 +4 22
5 Melbourne City 12 6 3 3 33 15 +18 21
6 St Albans Saints SC 12 6 3 3 25 15 +10 21
7 Moreland City FC 12 4 1 7 21 24 -3 13
8 Bendigo City FC 12 1 1 10 9 51 -42 4
9 Werribee City FC 12 0 3 9 15 36 -21 3
10 Sunshine George Cross SC 12 1 3 8 14 30 -16 2

Round 13 – Saturday May 21st:
3.00pm Moreland City v Moreland Zebras
3.00pm Sunshine George Cross v Melbourne City
3.00pm North Geelong Warriors v Ballarat Red Devils
3.00pm Whittlesea Ranges v St Albans Saints
5.15pm Bendigo City v Werribee City

NPL 2 East Standings after Round 12:
1 Dandenong Thunder SC 12 12 0 0 42 9 +33 33
2 Kingston City FC 12 9 2 1 28 10 +18 29
3 Box Hill United SC 12 7 2 3 30 18 +12 23
4 Dandenong City SC 12 6 2 4 30 15 +15 20
5 Springvale White Eagles FC 12 5 3 4 24 19 +5 18
6 Brunswick City SC 12 5 3 4 19 15 +4 18
7 Goulburn Valley Suns FC 12 5 1 6 21 21 +0 16
8 Eastern Lions SC 12 5 1 6 20 22 -2 16
9 Murray United FC 12 1 2 9 15 34 -19 5
10 Nunawading City FC 12 0 0 12 6 56 -50 0

Round 13:
Saturday May 21st 3.00pm Springvale White Eagles v Dandenong Thunder
Saturday May 21st 3.15pm Box Hill United v Dandenong City
Sunday May 22nd 3.00pm Goulburn Valley Suns v Eastern Lions
Sunday May 22nd 3.00pm Nunawading City v Murray United
Monday May 23rd 8.30pm Kingston City v Brunswick City

Any word on a MV sanction?

Georgies are lucky there's no relegation. Absolute shambles at the minute.

Kieran dover(victory) to bentleigh and petreski(mcity) to heidelberg

James brown (city) to avondale. Avondale continuing wifh the city retirment party

Edited by thejollyvic: 19/5/2016 09:46:19 PM

http://www.mfootball.com.au/ffv-punishments-handed-down-to-six-lakeside-stadium-brawl-participants/

Heidelberg v South tomorrow. 1st v 4th (would be 3rd if it weren't for their fans)

Big game, anyone here going?

Berges 5 south 0 ... this season is so weird the f*** is going on lol

Conversely, the U21 sides finished 2-8

We tend to capitulate when things arent going for us. The scoreline was justified and could have been more. With luke adams away with the nz nt our undersized defensive stocks are getting exposed. Very worried about the upcoming cup game on wednesday night. Despite being on top of the npl we arent a very good side and i think we have progressively gone backwards since 2014. The transfer window which opens today will be very important for us. We need at least 3-4 players to bring us up to scratch again. We have our next 5 league games at home mostly against the bottom teams but thats no guarantee considering we lost to pascoe vale at home recently. Interesting times ahead.

Btw heidelberg are a cracking team and its unfortunate for them that they wont be in the ffa cup. 3-4 a league level players in that team. Just goes to show the cup doesnt really represent the best of the npl.

Didn't want to take risks before the cup game maybe? A home game in the cup has got to be top priority for a club like south going for an a-league spot

We have a very big squad, we could have played the fringe players on Sunday if that was our thinking, we went in with our best team available and got spanked, remember we have already been defeated 6-3 as well this season.

If we get past tomorrow night we will need to beat bentleigh away to quality, on current form this is incredibly unlikely.

How many of those first team players are going to bust a gut to get back into a game after going down 2-0? With nothing else on midweek it would be far more worrying, but with the 10x more important game on a few days later it seems like they might've just had a rest.

You've also already beaten Bentleigh this season and Heidelberg by even more than they beat you. Based on form though I agree Bentleigh should be favourite for that game (should you make it) but I'm just really looking forward to it.

We beat bentleigh 2-1, they were reduced to 10 men in the 50th minute, despite that they played us off the park a man down, our goalkeeper saved 2 penalties late in that game. Our keeper is the reason we are on top. We need to sneak through tomorrow night and then hit the transfer window hard.

This may sound very dodgy but I was attending the Greece VS Australia game at Etihad tonight and the guy in front of me recieved a text message saying that Archie Thompson had signed for Hedielberg. Can anybody confirm????