85' Eastern Lions 1-3 Melbourne Victory.

Yi

NPL -

Bentleigh 2 South Melb 2
Pascoe Vale 1 Oakleigh 0
Melb Knights 1 Dandy Thunder 0
Avondale 0 Heidelberg 1
Northcote 2 Port Melb 1
Hume City 4 NGW 3

Green Gully v Werribee ( Monday Night )

NPL 1 -
EAST
Richmond 2 Kingston 0
Dandy City 3 BHU 0
Easter Lions 1 MVFC 3
GV SUNS 2 SWE 0
Nunawading 1 MU 2

WEST
Ballarat 4 Bendigo 1
SGX 1 St.Albans 1
Melb City 3 Brunswick City 2
Whittlesea Ranges 2 FC Bulleen 0
Moreland Zeb 2 Moreland City 1


Edited by thejollyvic: 22/3/2015 06:12:52 PM

Another win for MV :D

Ladder so far http://www.foxsportspulse.com/comp_info.cgi?c=0-10178-0-337120-0&a=LADDER

3 sides still undefeated, perhaps unsurprisingly its lasts years Cup winners, FFA cup semifinalists and defending premiers.

Big surprise is Oakleigh on 0 points so far. :shock:

Edited by tbitm: 23/3/2015 07:04:30 PM

I didn't expect Oakleigh to be a contender this season but still surprised they didn't take any points from the Pascoe Vale game. I've heard rumours that Miron's very close to being sacked with Arthur Pappas possibly getting the job there.

I think the ladder at this stage flatters Knights, they've had some soft kills and I expect after the game against Werribee they'll have a tough run against Bentleigh, South, Green Gully and Heidelberg

Hume Northcote tonight.

Edited by TheSelectFew: 25/3/2015 08:59:16 AM

Hume City beating Northcote City 5-0 at the 87th minute when the sprinklers came on, forcing an abandonment.

It might be bold, but Northcote could argue that it was Hume City's fault that the game got abandoned, given it was their home ground, and get a replay...

2015 Player Points System rosters released

Miron's still a quality manager, must be internal issues and thats having an affect on the club.

Knights are lucky to have all 12 points from the games i've seen. Not too many convincing wins and a couple last minute winners have helped. I expect them to be around the top by the end of the season though.

South or Bentleigh to win it

Edited by tbitm: 25/3/2015 11:18:49 PM

I would have my money on Bentleigh.

To be honest, all evidence is pointing to him having very little quality as a manager. Copped a 4-0 drubbing against Port Melbourne last night, I'd be very surprised if he even lasts until next week

Bentleigh and South Draw 1-1 against Green Gully and Heidelburg, Knights defeat Werribee 2-1 with a winner in the 86th and Hume storm into 2nd with a 2-0 win over Dandenong.

Big games next week. Knights v Bentleigh, 1st v 3rd, and Green Gully v South, 5th v 4th

Explains why they just signed Mirjan Pavlovic from Sydney United.

Mid-season transfer window doesn't open for a while though does it?

NPL1

MV 3-0 Richmond
Bullen Lions 2-0 MC

Victory 2nd with a game in hand in the east
City 4th with a game a hand in the west

Knights 2 Oakleigh 2

North Geelong Warriors FC 1 - 2 Avondale FC [HT: 1-1] | U20: 0-4
Green Gully S.C 2 - 8 Heidelberg United FC [HT: 1-3] | U20: 1-6 :shock:
Bentleigh Greens Soccer Club 1 – 0 Hume City F.C. [HT: 1-0] | U20: 1-0
South Melbourne FC 2 - 1 Melbourne Knights FC [HT: 1-1] | U20: 1-0
Dandenong Thunder 1 - 0 Port Melbourne "Sharks" Soccer Club [HT: 1-0] | U20: 6-3

NPL 1
Sunshine George Cross FC 1 - 1 Dandenong City SC [HT: 1-0] | U20: 2-3
Brunswick City Soccer Club 1 - 3 Kingston City FC [HT: 1-2] | U20: 1-1
Whittlesea Ranges 3 - 1 Eastern Lions SC-The Official Site [HT: 0-1] | U20: 1-6
Bendigo City FC 0 - 2 Melbourne Victory [HT: 0-1] | U20: 1-7
Murray United FC 1 - 3 FC Bulleen Lions [HT: 1-0] | U20: 2-4
Ballarat Red Devils 3 - 3 Goulburn Valley Suns FC [HT: 1-3] | U20: 0-6
Springvale White Eagles FC 0 - 2 Moreland Zebras FC [HT: 0-1] | U20: 0-2

Edited by thejollyvic: 11/4/2015 09:56:04 PM

With Victory possibly looking at bringing in a keeper to replace Coe does anyone rate any of the NPLV keepers as being capable of stepping up?

Disregarding the visa players at Hume & Knights, the options would be:

Avondale- Siddall - Don't know too much about him tbh
BG- Bray - I'd be happy with him getting a shot
DT- Zeneli - Has sat on the bench for Victory before as injury cover but I think his form has gone backwards since those days.
GG- Gonzalez - Out for the year with his knee injury
HU- McMaster- Proven to not be A-League standard but he might be one of the less risky options
NGW- Baresic - I think he's been their keeper this year, similar age to Spinella so I doubt they'd bring him in.
Northcote- Theodoridis - Decent but I think there's better options
OC- Honos - Maybe the pick of the bunch? He's pretty old but as short-term band-aid solution he might be ok.
PV- Sardelic- Nowhere near good enough. Pavlidis- Could be an option? Haven't seen a whole lot of him
PM- Gal- From what I've seen, I don't think he'd be up to the standard
SM- Roganovic- Proven failure at A-League level
Werribee- Saric- Not good enough imo

I guess there's also the issue of potentially derailing an NPL club's season by taking their keeper which probably wouldn't go down too well

Ballarat Red Devils defeating Dandenong City 3-0.

The points system has seemed to have done the job of forcing clubs to focus on bringing young players through but i still think it is weighted too far in their favour.

The point of having young kids play first team football is so that they can improve by playing against adults, not against kids their own age.

That is one reason why A-league youth teams are entering their local State-based comps, to have their young players improve by playing against players who are better than them at this stage in their careers (but not so much better that they can't compete).

Perhaps a revised version of this could work in the A-league, freeing up clubs with their financing of players but still preventing them from just signing whoever they want.

A lot of issues with the PPS but admittedly the system is a decent early attempt and was never gonna please everyone.

Is the PPS a common element of the NPL nationwide?

Nice shirt, Sam! \:d/ \:d/ \:d/ \:d/ \:d/

https://twitter.com/oakcannonsfc/status/590613493092605952

Incidentally, I wish dingy (spelling) would post on here again.

Ballarat 2, Melbourne City 0. \:d/ \:d/ \:d/ \:d/

Awesome! There's also a vid going around of Dukes joining in on some drills with the team the other night. From the vids he's still got it haha

Good to see Thurtell & Ingham are two of the leading scorers, how they going down there? any closer to the Aleague?

No idea about how close they are to an A-League gig but imo Ingham is a fantastic player and I'm sure he will land a deal sooner or later, he is just a class above whenever I've seen him. Thurtell I'm not as sure on, he's super effective for the league but I don't see him scoring the goals that does against higher quality opponents, he'd definitely be first on the list for me though if a club was looking to try out a striker from this league.

Melbourne city youth are just a big a fail as their senior side. Dont see them getting direct promotion.