I can only imagine the calibe of visa players clubs would be able to get if we had a pro rel 5 visa player system up to A-League....

AUSSIE U-TURN 

Former Hearts star Ryan Stevenson dramatically pulls out of his move to Peninsula Strikers HOURS before he was due to fly to Australia

He was set to start a new life Down Under with the semi-pro side who play in the Victorian State League Division 2 South-east

By Mark Walker

25th April 2017, 9:30 am

 

Updated: 25th April 2017, 10:00 am

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RYAN STEVENSON has dramatically pulled out of his move to Australian club Peninsula Strikers – just HOURS before he was due to board a flight Down Under.

The ex-Hearts midfielder stunned football last month when he announced he was quitting the game after becoming disillusioned with it.

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But he then made a surprise comeback at Troon Juniors, before announcing he was set to start a new life in Australia with the semi-pro side who play in the Victorian State League Division 2 South-east.

However, he’s had another change of heart because of family reasons hours before he was due to arrive in Oz.

And Peninsula Strikers – who had arranged a work visa and gained international clearance for him – were amazed at the u-turn.

Manager Craig Lewis said: “I received a text from Ryan just hours before he was due to board a flight to Australia saying that he wouldn’t be coming here as it was too big a move away from his two young sons.

“He has pulled out of the move. It’s completely off and to say I am devastated is an understatement.”
Former Hearts star Ryan Stevenson dramatically pulls out of his move to Peninsula Strikers HOURS before he was due to fly to Australia – The Scottish Sun

NPL Victoria standings after round 10:
1 Bentleigh Greens 10 6 2 2 20 12 8 20
2 Avondale Heights 10 6 2 2 12 7 5 20
3 Green Gully Cavaliers 10 5 3 2 21 18 3 18     
4 Pascoe Vale 10 4 5 1 16 10 6 17    
5 Hume City 10 17 5 2 3 15 9 6 17      
6 Heidelberg United 9 4 3 2 16 7 9 15      
7 South Melbourne 10 4 2 4 13 14 -1 14      
8 Kingston City 9 3 4 2 16 14 2 13      
9 Oakleigh Cannons 9 2 5 2 14 9 5 11      
10 Port Melbourne Sharks 9 3 2 4 14 13 1 11      
11 Bulleen Lions 10 3 2 5 12 16 -4 11      
12 Melbourne Knights 10 3 2 5 15 22 -7 11      
13 St Albans Saints 10 1 1 8 4 20 -16 4       
14 North Geelong Warriors 10 0 3 7 8 25 -17 3      
 
Round 11 schedule,
 
Friday April 28th:
8.30pm Port Melbourne Sharks v FC Bulleen Lions
 
Saturday April 29th:
3.00pm Avondale Heights v Kingston City
3.00pm North Geelong Warriors v St Albans Saints
6.00pm Green Gully Cavaliers v Melbourne Knights
7.00pm Hume City v Oakleigh Cannons
 
Sunday April 30th:
3.00pm Heidelberg United v Bentleigh Greens
4.00pm South Melbourne v Pascoe Vale

worked hard to make sure they signed them

;) <3

NPL 2 East standings:
1 Melbourne City Youth 11 20 6 2 3 27 16 11       
2 Dandenong City 11 6 2 3 22 12 10 20
3 Dandenong Thunder 11 6 4 1 26 17 9 20
4 Murray United 11 4 4 3 18 14 4 16     
5 Springvale White Eagles 11 4 3 4 15 17 -2 13
6 Goulburn Valley Suns 11 3 4 4 19 22 -3 13     
7 Richmond 11 3 3 5 15 22 -7 12     
8 Eastern Lions 11 3 2 6 13 21 -8 11      
9 Nunawading City 10 2 3 5 21 24 -3 9      
10 Box Hill United 11 0 6 5 3 15 -12 6
 
NPL 2 West standings:
1 Northcote City 11 9 1 1 26 9 17 28      
2 Moreland City 11 5 5 1 23 13 10 20      
3 Moreland Zebras 10 5 4 1 24 12 12 19
4 Whittlesea Rangers 11 5 3 3 19 11 8 18     
5 Melbourne Victory Youth 11 5 3 3 25 18 7 18      
6 Sunshine George Cross 11 5 3 3 14 11 3 18      
7 Brunswick City 11 4 2 5 15 15 0 14      
8 Ballarat City 11 4 1 6 19 20 -1 13      
9 Werribee City 11 1 2 8 7 19 -12 5     
10 Bendigo City 11 1 0 1 10 3 46 -43 1             
 
Round 12 schedule,
 
Saturday April 29th:
3.00pm Brunswick City v Goulburn Valley Suns    
3.00pm Melbourne Victory Youth v Eastern Lions
3.00pm Moreland City v Melbourne City Youth
3.00pm Murray United v Northcote City
3.00pm Springvale White Eagles v Ballarat City
4.00pm Moreland Zebras v Richmond
5.00pm Bendigo City v Dandenong City
6.00pm Dandenong Thunder v Whittlesea Ranges
 
Sunday April 30th:
3.00pm Nunawading City v Sunshine George Cross
3.00pm Werribee City v Box Hill United

Ah gotcha!

Watch the vid on South Melb youtube. Has the other side. 

The camera always faces the side of the ground that's closed off. The main stand was about a third full, fits around 3k, so I'd say 1k odd was the attendance.

Wonder if we can increase that next Sunday on the back of a few wins.

Crowd must have been on the same side as the camera because it looked like about 300.

Was it really 27k views? Think that's almost on par with the final round of A league games lol.

Crowd of just over a thousand is shit house, I said all along being fixtured away from home for the first 2 months of the season will knock the stuffing out of us. Poor start to the season didn't help either.

It's also noticeable that year on year knights seem to bring less fans to our ground, probably one of the worst knights turnouts that I can remember yesterday, Heidelberg bring heaps more now.

crowd was defs over 1000.  good to have the social club up and running aswell

Over 27k views on Facebook. Huge #metrics!

apparently over 1,000 at Lakeside Stadium for South Melbourne v Melbourne Knights according to Brandon Galgano who is doing this match on South Melbourne facebook page on its live stream.

Sometimes stays a few days to get a training session in.

what accom? he'd be flying in & out on the same day wouldn't he?

So you believe the package of flights, accommodation and match payments comes in at less than $2K a week?

Casey Comets v Morwell Pegasus - abandoned at halftime on Saturday due to thunderstorms in the area (catch-up fixture date To Be Confirmed by FFV)

@NTNP

Matt Sanders flys in flys out for Hobart Zebras but trains with his previous club Avondale during the week. Appears to work well for them.

so he doesn't train? weird

Get your hand off it. 

Kids rego money means they can afford to fly him in just for matches.

What's the situation with the Trifiro that plays for Nuna? Like how does he play in Melbourne & coach at SD Raiders in Sydney at same time?

Zadkovich has a better chance

Kenny's goals were quality. Not sure if he has his Aus citizenship by now, if he does, A-League clubs must be looking at him for next season.

NPL Round 8
Bentleigh 3 Bulleen 0
Melbourne Knights 2 Heidelberg 2 
Green Gully 2 Oakleigh 1 
Hume City 1 Avondale 0
Pascoe Vale 2 Port Melbourne 2 
South Melbourne 2 North Geelong 1
Kingston - St.Albans

NPL 2 East Round 9 
Richmond 1 Murray Utd 2
Box Hill 0 Dandenong City 0
Goulburn 2 Melbourne City 1
Dandenong Thunder 3 Eastern Lions 2
Nunawading 2 Springvale WE 2

NPL 2 West Round 9 
Moreland City 3 Brunswick City 2 
Melbourne Victory 5 Bendigo 0
Northcote 1 Werribee 0
Ballarat 3 Sunshine GX 0
Whittlesea Ranges 1 Moreland Zebras 2

State League 1 NW Round 3
Sydenham 4 Western Suburbs 2
Essendon Royals 2 North Sunshine 3
Banyule 3 Yarraville 2
Geelong SC 3 Westgate 1
Altona Magic 5 Altona East 2 
Preston 0 Keilor 1

State League 1 SE Round 3
Casey - Morwell
Mornington 1 Manningham 2
St.Kilda 0 Malvern 0 
Mooroolbark 2 Warragul 3
FC Clifton 1 Caufield 0 
South Springvale 0 Langwarrin 2  

1	Bentleigh Greens SC	8	5	2	1	18	9	9	17
2	Avondale FC	8	5	2	1	10	4	6	17
3	Pascoe Vale FC	8	4	4	0	14	7	7	16
4	Heidelberg United FC	7	4	2	1	15	5	10	14
5	Hume City FC	8	4	2	2	14	8	6	14
6	Green Gully SC	8	3	3	2	17	17	0	12
7	Melbourne Knights FC	8	3	2	3	15	14	1	11
8	Kingston City FC	7	2	4	1	12	11	1	10
9	Port Melbourne Sharks SC	8	2	2	4	11	13	-2	8
10	South Melbourne FC	8	2	2	4	10	14	-4	8
11	Oakleigh Cannons FC	7	1	4	2	7	8	-1	7
12	FC Bulleen Lions	8	1	2	5	8	14	-6	5
13	St Albans Saints SC	7	1	1	5	2	14	-12	4
14	North Geelong Warriors FC	8	0	2	6	6	21	-15	2

1	Dandenong City SC	9	6	1	2	20	8	12	19
2	Melbourne City FC	9	4	2	3	22	15	7	14
3	Dandenong Thunder SC	9	4	4	1	22	16	6	14
4	Goulburn Valley Suns FC	9	3	4	2	16	13	3	13
5	Murray United FC	9	3	3	3	10	12	-2	12
6	Eastern Lions SC	9	3	2	4	12	17	-5	11
7	Nunawading City FC	8	2	3	3	18	17	1	9
8	Springvale White Eagles FC	9	3	2	4	13	16	-3	9
9	Richmond SC	9	1	3	5	10	22	-12	6
10	Box Hill United SC	9	0	5	4	3	14	-11	5

1	Northcote City FC	9	8	0	1	23	8	15	24
2	Moreland City FC	9	5	3	1	20	10	10	18
3	Moreland Zebras FC	7	4	2	1	21	10	11	14
4	Whittlesea Ranges FC	8	4	2	2	10	5	5	14
5	Brunswick City SC	9	4	2	3	15	13	2	14
6	Melbourne Victory FC	9	3	3	3	18	16	2	12
7	Sunshine George Cross SC	9	3	3	3	11	10	1	12
8	Ballarat City FC	9	3	1	5	12	18	-6	10
9	Werribee City FC	9	1	2	6	7	13	-6	5
10	Bendigo City FC	9	0	1	8	3	33	-30	1

1	Geelong SC	3	3	0	0	11	4	7	9
2	Altona Magic SC	3	3	0	0	10	3	7	9
3	Banyule City SC	3	2	1	0	6	4	2	7
4	North Sunshine Eagles SC	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6
5	Keilor Park SC	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
6	Essendon Royals SC	2	1	0	1	7	6	1	3
7	Western Suburbs SC	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	3
8	Sydenham Park SC	3	1	0	2	8	9	-1	3
9	Yarraville FC	3	1	0	2	7	9	-2	3
10	Preston Lions FC	3	0	1	2	4	7	-3	1
11	Altona East Phoenix SC	3	0	0	3	4	9	-5	0
12	Westgate FC	3	0	0	3	4	10	-6	0

1	Langwarrin SC	3	3	0	0	9	3	6	9
2	Caulfield United Cobras SC	3	2	0	1	4	2	2	6
3	South Springvale SC	3	2	0	1	4	3	1	6
4	FC Clifton Hill	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
5	Mornington SC	3	1	1	1	5	4	1	4
6	Warragul United SC	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
7	Manningham United Blues FC	3	1	1	1	4	5	-1	4
8	Casey Comets FC	2	1	0	1	3	2	1	3
9	Morwell Pegasus SC	2	1	0	1	3	2	1	3
10	St Kilda SC	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1	2
11	Malvern City FC	3	0	1	2	0	5	-5	1
12	Mooroolbark SC	3	0	0	3	5	10	-5	0

Melbourne Knights 2-2 Heidelberg United
Bentleigh Greens 3-0 Bulleen Lions

today I had a return email from NPL & Community competitions department RE - Playing NPL & Community competition fixtures against Rule 1.4 protection of important fixtures – any Hyundai A-League Finals Series fixtures in Melbourne on the same day,

Hi Brenton

Thank you for your email.

The NPL fixture was created and released publically in December of 2016, taking into many different factors and variables such as competition season lengths, council ground allocations, FFA Cup qualifying matches, inclusion of catch-up rounds, NPL Finals, reducing the time gap for NPL playoff and so forth.

This demonstrates the various complexities with creating the NPL fixture. Furthermore, at the time of creating the fixture, we were not in a position to understand which Hyundai A-League teams would qualify for Hyundai A-League finals let alone the details of finals fixture involving either Melbourne Victory or Melbourne City.

Whilst we continue to support both Melbourne based Hyundai A-League clubs, it would be irresponsible of FFV to not schedule any fixtures across all levels of NPL & community competitions for an entire weekend given the constraints listed above.

Nevertheless, when the Hyundai A-League finals are confirmed, where possible we are more than willing to work with those clubs who may wish to amend their fixtures to avoid clashing with Hyundai A-League finals.

Regards Nathan

I'll See you there... Yeah look, my mate who used to play for them really disliked the whole way everything was run, Now he's playing for Tatura, in the Bendigo amateur soccer league and is enjoying  it so much more. You only had to watch the FFA cup match which they got knocked out in to understand why he didn't want to play so much.

In Shepparton for the week so heading down to Goulburn Valley Suns vs Melbourne City, should be good.
On a more depressing note the Goulburn Valley Suns never paid Dan Heffernan (Former Mariners Striker) for his games :/