South Hobart won the state Cup Final, beating Devonport.

I was too crook to attend.:(

That's how I pictured it, yeah. Not sure about the Semi-Final pairings, though. Will that be a draw or will it be divided into North/South:

QLD v NNSW
-------------WINNERS
ACT v SNSW
-----------------------WINNERS
VIC v TAS
-------------WINNERS
WA v SA

ok I see so from 2014 when VIC, WA and NNSW join it will look like this in the quarters

FQLD v NNSW

FNSW v Captial Football

FFSA v FFWA

FFTAS v FVIC

That's Right, and according to this article:

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/1675893/battle-of-the-champions/?cs=86

...because the Quarter-final Matchups are geographically linked, the Tasmanian team (who would normally play the Victorian team) will receive a bye to the Semis. So South Hobart only need to win 2 matches to become National Champions!

So they will be the NPL Tas representative in the national playoff if Im not mistaken?

South Hobart has won the inaugural V League premiership.

They have won it with quite a number of games to spare.

http://walterpless.com.au/2013/july/muscat-visit-state-training-and-psychological-warfare.html


Tasmania will field a rep team to play against Melbourne Victory in a practice game.

It will be a precursor to Victory playing WSW in a practice game straight after the Tas/Victory game.

In response to Danny Allsopp playing with Launceston City, they really need him. It is a shame he cannot play more games for them.

They have really struggled to date.

Troll from an Anarchy sycophant of Judy Free's. What relevance does this have to this topic? There was a response to Judy's earlier troll.

I wouldn't have the intelligence to masquerade as JF. He has an incredible, innate intelligence. Whenever I've seen him post on the interweb, he has a unique and inimitable style.



On crowd numbers in the V League, the state Knockout Cup Final drew a record 1100 spectators, between the Zebras and Olympia.

Edited by Decentric: 19/6/2013 11:15:20 PM

He annoys you so much you posted on The Roar forum under his username in some kind of sad attempt to get back at him.

Awesome news

The game is being played about 200m from my home. I'll try to remember to go and take my camera with me to get a few shots. Unfortunately I won't have my new telephoto lens by then.

Danny Allsop has signed for Launceston City. Just for one match against Northern Rangers

http://www.footballfedtas.com.au/index.php?id=15&tx_ttnews%5Byear%5D=2013&tx_ttnews%5Bmonth%5D=06&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=501&cHash=1d664f7569d166b5263b3cc3d3ad19a2

That's awesome, great to hear, keep updating us Decentric :D

I probably should add this.

Judy Free invested a lot of money in Sydney FC. He lost it. If anyone had to lose money in football, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. He was an A League lover, but after his financial loss and rejection from elite coaching circles, he retired from coaching geriatric teams of corpulent tubbies.

Instead he has become an internet troll who hates everything about the current Australian football milieu, particularly coaches who pursue the FFA Advanced Pathway, where he was shunned.


Back to the thread topic. There has been a lot of extra media generated by FFT this year. Last year they had a media officer who was not a former footballer.

This year they have a new media guy who has a football background. There is a discernible difference in media coverage. There are press conferences at FFT before and after every game, with most mainstream media outlets attending.

:lol: :lol:

http://walterpless.com.au/2013/may/morton-appointed-as-tasmanias-state-coach.html#comments


Ken Morton has been appointed as Tasmania's state coach, selecting players from the V League, to play Melbourne Victory later this year.

This is a change in policy from FFT . In the past they used to appoint the state TD to coach the team.

My rep team sometimes plays practice games against Ken's crack under 16 squad. South Hobart, under the auspices of the Morton Soccer School, have a good development program.

Edited by Decentric: 31/5/2013 07:58:42 AM

I'm just horrified reading this post about the disrespect exhibited from players and a coach towards a referee .](*,) Disgraceful.

At levels lower down, a lot of players really appreciate having a qualified referee. I usually make a point, as a parent, spectator or coach, to thank the ref after the game.

I'm pretty sure refs get a better go in this state, at any level.







Edited by Decentric: 30/5/2013 09:58:56 PM

No I stopped refereeing a couple of years ago, just got sick of being treated like a mug by 70% of people. Once I was refereeing a NSW Premier Youth match or Super Youth match, u15s I think, and basically I gave a clear penalty but the goalkeeper didn't stfu so I cautioned him and he said I was shit so I said mate you're just having a wank. Long story short, the kids all went off saying I called him a wanker and what have you, then at the end the coach did not give a damn that his team had just lost I think 3-0 or 4-0, all he wanted to do was have a rage at me bla bla; said something like 'I know people in FNSW, I'm going to make sure you never officiate at this level again' that type of dickhead stuff. He ended up losing his job and being suspended for a few months as did the kid, I reffed the next week. But I just got so sick of that type of rubbish, I bailed at the beginning of the next season :D

As for the NPL, I live up here near Hornsby-Epping type area, there is literally no NPL div 1 teams at all - Manly is half hour drive in no traffic away, even further to Blacktown clubs, inner West ones (APIA, Olympic) are upwards of 45 mins away. It's a damn poor area representation imo, but what can you do if the best clubs all just come from one area then that's the end of it.

Edited by 4wanderer4: 30/5/2013 10:51:33 AM

Are you officiating in the NPL?

I live in Maroubra and there are literally no teams near me. The closest would would APIA but they don't play home games, so the next best option becomes Rockdale. Will be attending their matches for the rest of this season. I'd guess that the amount of potential spectators Olympic lose because of this forum must be pretty significant :lol:

I've officiated a bunch of state league matches, they'd have been lucky to have 2-300 max. Some of the finals matches can push a few thousand, notably a few years back 10k was cracked and again last year for the GF. Disappointing, but the reality is there is bugger all known about the state level games here in Sydney because there is just no coverage other than the Football NSW site. The irony being, the few times I've taken friends to these matches they've said in many ways they prefer them to A-league matches - cheaper food, no lines for anything, better seating (halfway or behind goals, wherever you like is free), easy parking and the actual football is much more serious and passionate, and the drop in standard is easily forgiven when you consider how rough the games are played in much better conditions (12 degrees as opposed to 28!) for faster more agressive football. It's a shame.

As for the Judy Free stuff, fair enough - not like it bothers me what half the trolls on this site reckon :lol: For example, half the posters seem to have some crazy idea that the Socceroos have an actual chance of qualifying for Brazil with one or two simple squad changes but the same manager :shock:

Edited by 4wanderer4: 30/5/2013 12:10:56 AM

What are the average crowd sizes in the VPL and NSWPL?

Maybe the median sizes too?

Mmmm

Mmm

Let me guess, you're one of the movers and shakers?

Keep plugging away down in Tassie, Decentric

Yeah I was going to let you know Wanderer, but I just wanted Decentric to come and explain the situation :lol: =d>

Edited by Draupnir: 29/5/2013 06:28:00 PM

At the very least Decentric, that was a great laugh :lol:

Seemed more like 600 to me.](*,)

Wanderer, Judy Free, is an infamous troll on this site, and others. He is also known as Chips Rafferty. He is the archetypal, malcontented, disaffected Bitter, after being ignominiously dumped as a wannabe high level coach, from the sub-elite coaching circles in Sydney.

He has failed to understand the new FFA NC, failed a FFA Refresher Course and has been deemed a useless, cerebrally challenged anachronism by the movers and shakers in the Australian football milieu.

JF's main claim to fame, is winning a national title as a 45 year old, playing against 80 year old former Socceroos. He is an anonymous non-entity and a nobody going nowhere. That is, apart from falsifying his birth certificate, to win a national title, cheating with his age. Fortuitously for him, he looks old enough for the over seventies, veteran age group.

JF's major recent claim to fame is being banned from most forums he has been a member of. JF has been banned from 442 on at least two occasions, and inexorably gravitates towards an impending third. Ostensibly, he is chronologically mature, but has the emotional and cognitive maturity, equivalent to the average early adolescent.


JF's posts are synonymous with perpetrating disinformation, and are at best perceived as comic entertainment from an emotionally immature, and disaffected old man.](*,)








Edited by Decentric: 31/5/2013 08:29:34 AM

This.

-PB

Well come on, most local grounds in the country would be lucky to crack a couple hundred non-family of players associated spectators :lol: