Devonport City all but secured the 2019 NPL Tasmania title on Saturday with a 4-2 home win over second-last Riverside Olympic at Valley Road.
City can be caught by second-placed Olympia
Warriors, but Devonport’s superior goal-difference (+58 as opposed to +41) would
see them retain their title. The Warriors
have no chance of making up this leeway.
Both Devonport and Olympia have three games
remaining, but Olympia could still be docked 3 points after playing an ineligible
player in the 3-1 win over South Hobart.
It beats me why Olympia’s appeal hearing has
not yet been held. I asked Football
Tasmania president Bob Gordon when it would be held and he told me he had no
idea.
If the hearing had been held and if Olympia
lost and were deducted 3 points, the title race would be over.
Now it remains for Devonport to make certain of
the title when they host Riverside Olympic again on Wednesday night at Valley Road
in a catch-up game.
Having beaten Riverside 4-2 at Valley Road on
Saturday, they are unlikely to lose any sleep about this meeting four days
later and they can crack open the champagne after this game.
I don’t know if they will be presented with
the trophy on Wednesday night or if they will have to wait until the last day
of the league season on 7 September, when they are away to South Hobart.
On Saturday, Mile Barnard netted twice against
Riverside, with the other goals coming from Joel Stone and Todd Hingston, the
latter with a penalty.
Riverside’s marksmen were Nil Sanz and Will
Coert.
Photo: Kingborough keeper Kenneth Perkinson parries the ball [PlessPix]
The weekend program had got off to an exiting
start on Friday night at Lightwood Park, where home side Kingborough Lions
United beat Hobart Zebras 3-2.
A curling chip from range by Keenan Douce in
the first minute if stoppage time at the end of the match proved the winner for
the Lions.
Horacio Gutierrez Jr had given them the lead
two minutes after the break from a Cameron Steele corner, but Mathew Sanders
equalised for the visitors two minutes later.
In the 52nd minute, another
set-piece by Steele was nodded home by centre-back Nick Cuthbertson to restore
the Lions’ lead.
An own-goal by Chris Downes midway through the
second half made it 2-2 before Douce came up with the late winner for the home
side.
Photo: Knights' Alex Leszczynski controls the ball ahead of City's Matthew Oh [PlessPix]
Glenorchy Knights took the lead against the
visiting Launceston City after just 13 seconds through Nick Naden and they
never looked back after this terrific start. The move involved Tyler Harrison, Alex Bellini and Alex Leszczynski, while Naden finished superbly.
An own-goal by Matthew Oh in the 9th minute made it 2-0, while Naden hit the third in the 71st
minute following a brilliant piece of skill and an out-side of the right-foot cross by Bellini.
On Sunday, South Hobart annihilated
bottom-side Clarence United 13-1 at home at South Hobart Oval, with Ben Hamlett
netting five goals.
Siyar Kurdistan scored his first NPL goal in
his first start, while Nick Morton and Sam Tooze each grabbed a brace and Adam
Gorrie and Bradley Lakoseljac netted one goal each.
Romolo Moynihan scored a consolation goal for
Clarence.
Latest NPL Tasmania Results
Kingborough Lions United 3 (H Gutierrez Jr 47,
N Cuthbertson 52, K Douce 91) beat Hobart Zebras 2 (M Sanders 49, C Downes 66
og)
Glenorchy Knights 3 (N Naden 1, 71, Matthew Oh 19 og) beat
Launceston City 0
Devonport City 4 (M Barnard 15, 39, J Stone
70, T Hingston 75 pen) beat Riverside Olympic 2 (N Sanz 41, W Coert 86)
South Hobart 13 (B Hamlett 10, 42, 66, 84, 86,
87, S Kurdistan 35, A Gorrie 36, N Morton 46, 71, B Lakoseljac 58, S Tooze 80,
85) beat Clarence United 1 (R Moynihan 65)
NPL Tasmania (As
at 18 August 2019)
TEAM
|
P
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
F
|
A
|
Pts
|
Devonport City
|
21
|
18
|
2
|
1
|
77
|
19
|
56
|
Olympia
Warriors
|
21
|
15
|
2
|
4
|
68
|
27
|
47
|
South Hobart
|
20
|
12
|
4
|
4
|
73
|
27
|
40
|
Hobart Zebras
|
21
|
10
|
6
|
5
|
63
|
41
|
36
|
Glenorchy
Knights
|
21
|
8
|
2
|
11
|
52
|
40
|
26
|
Kingborough
Lions
|
21
|
8
|
2
|
11
|
39
|
44
|
26
|
Launceston City
|
21
|
6
|
4
|
11
|
31
|
41
|
22
|
Riverside
Olympic
|
20
|
4
|
2
|
14
|
20
|
53
|
14
|
Clarence United
|
22
|
1
|
0
|
21
|
7
|
148
|
3
|
6 comments:
Apparently the Olympia appeal is still on hold because they are waiting for Mamacas to come back from overseas. Apparently he "represents" the club on these matters. Hearing set down for the 28th August.
What piffle - they broke a pretty black and white rule, they pay the penalty. Wouldn't surprise me if Devonport sew up the title on Wednesday night, that Warriors withdraw the appeal, knowing they can't delay the inevitable any longer.
Dying to know what they are appealing on. The rules are straight forward. It's the clubs responsibility to make sure their players are eligible. Please let the appeal happen and please let us know what their argument is...we need some late-season humour! Merry Christmas all
Surely Olympia will be penalised for dropping back five players to the Challenge when the maximum is three.
Does anyone at Olympia know the rules and laws of the game?
Fft are toothless when it comes to player movements.
Look how they did nothing about Kobe Kemp. A South Hobart player that transferred outside of the transfer window.
That's a restriction for two teams in the same league. There is no rule against stacking in the challenge league. I agree it should be a rule that exists but every team has stacked during the course of the competition and all teams have lost points because of this.
This rule doesn't exist. Challenge league has no rules related to the stacking of players as it's considered a senior or championship competition.
Olympia did not break any laws in playing their players and most clubs have done this at some point during the competition particularly with the introduction of byes. In the end every team has dropped points as a result of other senior teams having byes and it's a fault of the league not having rules, even South Hobart have done this.
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