NSW Premier League Grand Final Preview
26.08.10 08:15

Bonnyrigg White Eagles skipper Paul Cotte shown playing a ball while Blacktown City FC skipper Luke Roodenburg watches on during their last encounter. (Photo by Damian Briggs)
Blacktown City FC and Bonnyrigg White Eagles go into battle for NSW Premier League supremacy this Sunday at Parramatta Stadium where the victors will take the title of Minor Premiers for 2010.

With these sides finishing first and second on the League ladder following the regular season, there could not have been a better scripted finale.

Aytek Genc’s Blacktown City FC enter the final coming off a weekend with no ‘serious’ football, even though the side has been working hard on the training fields in anticipation of Sunday’s final. Positive news for Blacktown City has been the return to full fitness of Tolgay Ozbey, the striker missed the recent 4-0 defeat of Bonnyrigg due to a hamstring injury, though has shown he is ready and up for the grand final match.

Genc will have captain Luke Roodenburg calling the shots out of midfield; the club captain has been instrumental in organising his teammates on the field, especially with the younger players in the group, and is entering his fifth grand final.

In the attacking third, Joel Chianese will have a licence to attack, with target man Tolgay Ozbey vital to his side’s chances of success. Ozbey finished the regular season as top goalscorer, and Blacktown City FC supporters will be hoping the marksman has a couple of goals to come in Sunday’s grand final.

Bonnyrigg White Eagles enter the grand final full of confidence following a rather impressive showing against Sydney United last weekend. Despite falling a goal behind after only 7’ minutes, and struggling to find their feet in the opening 15’ minutes, Brian Brown’s men turned it all around from the 20’ minute onwards, scoring three unanswered goals and putting together a very well polished performance. Milorad Simonovic’s marshalling in-front of the defensive line has the side in good order, as does the pace and ball skills of Jamie McMaster, Daniel Severino and Nathan Elasi going forward. Striker Brad Boardman will be the ‘go to’ man in the front-line, with the quick movement of Elasi and McMaster expected to cause Blacktown City some cause for concern.

Blacktown City FC hold a 2-1 head-to-head lead against the White Eagles from the three times these two teams have met in 2010. The two regular season encounters produced 2-0 victories in both matches for the home-side, meanwhile the recent Major semi-final showdown provided victory to Blacktown City FC 4-0.

In what is expected to be a fantastic afternoon of football at the very impressive Parramatta Stadium venue, supporters of both teams – and the neutrals – do get out there to see some fireworks on Sunday.

In the Grade-20 grand final, Sydney United play host to Blacktown City FC, with the latter hoping to make a winning start for the Blacktown club in this exciting encounter on grand final day, with kick-off set for 12:30 pm.

While at 10am the South Coast Wolves take on Sutherland Sharks in the battle for the Grade 18’s Grand Final.

-By Joseph Carlucci

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Parramatta Stadium to host 2010 NSW Premier League Grand Final
24.08.10 17:53

Legendary Parramatta Stadium has been chosen to play host to the 2010 NSW Premier League Grand Final set to be played on Sunday August 29th with three high quality matches scheduled from three respective age groups.

During the former National Soccer League days Parramatta Power played its home matches between 1999 till 2004 and hosted seven NSL Grand Final matches in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2001 and 2004 (the last ever NSL Grand Final match before the competition folded).

A-League side Sydney FC have utilised the pitch with one of their AFC Champions League games against Persik Kediri while in February 2010 during the 2009-2010 season, the Sky Blues played out a thrilling 3-2 victory over Perth Glory.

The venue has played host to many other sporting codes with Baseball, Rugby Union and of course Rugby League with it being the home base for NRL side the Parramatta Eels.

Once known as Cumberland Oval, the stadium itself can hold a maximum capacity of 20,741.

Parramatta Stadium is one NSW's premier multi-purpose arenas regularly hosting a variety of sporting, entertainment, corporate, cultural and community events. Opened in 1986 by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Phillip on 5th March 1986.

Situated just over 20km from Sydney's CBD and is located in the geographic epicentre epicentre of the city close to more than 2 million people living in Western Sydney Region.

The well looked after pitch will be ready for all competing teams come Sunday as the NSW Premier League Grand Final fever grips Parramatta Stadium.

2010 NSW Premier League Grand Final Schedule

Grand Final Sunday 29th August 2010 at Parramatta Stadium, Parramatta

Blacktown City FC v Bonnyrigg White Eagles at 3.00pm

Grade 20’s

Sydney United v Blacktown City FC at 12.30pm

Grade 18’s

South Coast Wolves v Sutherland Sharks at 10am

Admission: Adults $12 – Concession $6, Under 16 Free (Gates open at 9am)

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:lol: no sight of Olympic in any grade.

Revolutions, you fail at them.

You can't fail at a revolution. A revolution is a Movement of 360 degrees, meaning you start and finish in the exact same spot. If you were crap to begin with and are crap now, then you have completed a revolution.=p~

I haven't heard of either of these two teams - they're not in the A-League? Are they pub sides? ;)

Blacktown City is a 57 year old Club.

Bonnyrigg White Eagles is a 48 year old Club.

Brisbane Roar is a 53 year old Club that lost it's history, heritage and traditions.

Bye.

Nice work

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great clip :D

:lol:

central coast's matt ryan and matt lewis and sydney fcs ivan necevski,sung hwan byun,scott jaminson and liam reddy will be in attendence this sunday

Really? very interesting. I know Ryan was Blacktowns' old number 1

As was Necevski.

Learn something new everyday :)

I have my grand final at 12:30... otherwise i would show up.

yer they will be there to sign stuff n hand out awards etc etc

Great Final.

BWE were really going at it in the last 10 minutes. Exciting finish.

I was (pleasantly) suprised with the amount of Blacktown fans there were, but the vast majority will still BWE fans.

Better team won.

Did they announce the crowd at the game?If not what was your guess?

they didnt announce, id say about 3000?

first grade was a good game, i enjoyed it,

bruno pivato in the 20's riped it up, be interesting to see how he goes in the future

Blacktown are champs huh....

Good game... Blacktown deserved the win and through who better than Tolgay.

Looked like a bloody riot was about to happen with the amount of police around the ground though.... things don't change in 30 years :(

15-20 cops to a harmless game was ridiculous.

It's not like the blacktown fan is going to chant Ubi chetnik or shit like that

You're whinging about 15-20 cops :lol:

You make it sound like there were 2,000

Give in mate :lol:

Riot Cops.

not including the normal ones