Looks like we signed Eddie Bosnar... seeing though Paric did his ACL, we needed the cover.

Not a bad replacement.

Nice to see the draw officially released today. Lots of Sunday games for Round 1 though.

APIA 1-7 WSW

No idea the side APIA put out

Trial game or?

Yes mate, all warm up matches - comp starts 2nd week of March from memory.

It was the APIA 18s/20s.

First grade squad spent the weekend in Melbourne.

Sydney United 3-2 Melbourne Knights

The new Jap import really looks good, and Eddie Bosnar played as well

Heard Bosnar will be in and out, has business dealings in Croatia apparently.

Sutherland 0-1 BWE (Good game by both sides, fair few amount of trialists)

Yeah still trials. NPL2 starts March 6th, NPL1 starts the weekend after.

With the season 3 weeks away, any early predictions based on current squads?

i'll get the ball rolling,

1. Blacktown City
2. APIA
3. Rockdale
4. BWE
5. Olympic /or United

My dark horse this season would have to be Parramatta.

That there seems about right, and pretty much agree. Throw Parra into the mix. They seem like a well drilled and structured side and play very low risk football.
Apia, not sure how they'll cope with the loss of Powell, if he doesn't return to them post A-League.
Olympic seem OK at full strength, but very light on in terms of depth.
Spartans could push for the lower top 5 spots. Wolves have picked up a couple of players as well and seem to be moving in the right direction.
Manly and Sutho are probably mid-table at best on paper.
I'm not expecting much from Hakoah at all unless they start spending.

But why?

there is affiliations between the two clubs, isn't central coast their parent club now?

Yeh they are - like Western NSW Mariners in the tier below.

We have our own academy tho why change Northbridge's name?

CCM probably forced them to change their name. I know WNSW Mariners kept their own logo.

And then our semi-sort of "mother" club Spirit FC is in the same division as well.

Fun times this league!

Sydney United Squad: Bertolissio, Bosnar, Depta, Fragialos, Manos, Mileski, Nikas, Payne, Pom, Rizoski, Stavroulakis, Taleski, Triantis, A, Vlismas, K. Vlismas, Vrlic, Yui, Yuichi.

Melbourne Knights Squad: Andrijasevic, Batur, Cakarun, Cali, Colosimo, Cvitkovic, Dezic, Glavan, Grgic, Hicks, Jurcic, Jurkovic, Kataforis, Mikulic, O’Farrell, Purcell.


Interesting digressions to be made when comparing the two squads. Thoughts, 19-SU-58?

Chevapi definitely off the menu this season...

Mariners by 1.

Greeks dont choke in finals? :lol:

Yeah, it's a shame we've lost our identity, but at the same time, the resources and value central coast bring to us beyond makes up for it.

I coached against Northbridge for the past 3 years and will again this year and I've always been impressed with the way the club has played throughout all its age groups. No surprise that the CCM came knocking but to allow themselves to have their name changed sounds like they were willing to sell their soul. Not a fan of that.

Spot on FOOTBALLlover.
You don't sell your soul no matter what - all and good making an alliance but keep your badge.
NB FC fan, seriously your post says it all, its a shame you say but........
Sorry mate I just think its a shame of the blood sweat and tears of the past players and admin who worked it - someone lost their spine.
Anyway all the best for the coming season.

Less Croatians than last year, if that's what you are getting at, although paric, bilic aren't in the above team list, so that's 4 or 5 in total, where as we normally have 9 or 10.

We did lose Tomic, Tomelic, Zuvela and Cindric this season.

anyone know who pom, rizoski are?


Edited by 19-su-58: 17/2/2016 01:25:09 PM

Mark Rizoski im assuming.....

Played for BWE U20s in 2015, was average.

must be just some 20's players that were playing in the friendship cup.

anyone know how APIA went last night against Guangzhou r&f?

APIA's FB pages says 2-2. Elasi and Sekiya the scorers

Apia have 2 very speedy Jap forwards

They will run amok

Team to beat for me

Fingers crossed Olympic has found replacements for Go Shiral and Tiger Soaeda

Most Jap trialist looked good in our nil all drew with

Wollongong

Reports from Rockdale vs Olympic heardt reports that
Rockdale play a very dirty pysical games

All your new recruits look a league material
Greek boy and GUY with the curley hair