Photo: The New Town White Eagles Championship 1 team that took out the title this afternoon by beating University. [Photo by Matthew Rhodes] Women’s Southern Championship
University 1 (Tash Hinds 90+1) lost to New
Town White Eagles 2 (Zoe Nichols 20, Nina Daniels 89)
Olympia Warriors 3 (Isobel Kearney 15,
Malia Stagg 25, Brooke Fiemann 74) beat Kingborough Lions United 1 (Laura Davis
59)
Clarence Zebras v South Hobart (anybody’s
guess!)
Photo: Eagles' Maddie O'Brien and University's Mikalhya George fight for possession. [PlessPix] Men’s Southern Championship
South Hobart 4 (Josiah Otto 17, 45+2,
Jackson Dent 26, Fred Lagu 44) beat South East United 3 (Rommy Moyniham 28, 69,
Daniel Harris 30)
Photo: A South East United player shoots at the South Hobart goal at South Hobart Oval today. [PlessPix]
Photo: A South Hobart winger takes on a Clarence Zebras defender at Wentworth Park today. South Hobart were leading 2-0 when I left. ['PlessPix]
Photo: Kingborough's Phoebe Clifford (left) gets a pass away against Olympia at Warrior Park today. [PlessPix]
Photo: Hobart Cup action between South Hobart and Clarence Zebras at Wentworth Park today. [PlessPix]
Photo: Hobart Cup action at Wentworth Park today between Launceston City and South Hobart. [PlessPix]
11 comments:
So Eagles take out the Champ and Champ reserves again, and now the women have won the title as well. Congratulations are in order, but the question has to be asked when will they go to the top level! Would certainly be an improvement on the league and good to have a grand old club competing where they belong
Anon 11.43AM.
It doesnt work that way.
Two words: Clare Street. No NPL football should and likely will ever be played at this venue.
Brand new facilities, and the ground surface has improved massively over the last few years. Put a fence around the outside and put some seating ground level and the ground would be not much different to most npl grounds.
While they are a very competitive club in the men and women’s they have barely any structure with junior and youth development and their ground wouldn’t meet the standards, majority of there men’s teams are full of players coming to the end of their careers which is not a problem as they are still competitive but eagles have no youth to back that up with in years to come.
Clare Street is a lot better than most facilities and has more potential too. Yes it has had some drainage problems in the past but it is reasonably flat, unlike many grounds, and it also isn’t the size of a postage stamp which you can’t say about too many grounds either. I remember playing junior games on a current npl ground and thought at the time the facilities over there were purely for underage games. But they just put a fence around it and called it an npl ground.
Definitely a big plus that they have sorted the new change rooms (credit where due) but the case remains the ground doesn't meet NPL criteria and has a massive cricket pitch in the middle of it..
NTE are successful because of the current playing group - most of whom I would suspect have no interest in playing NPL. The core group would leave immediately, or drop back to Socials. They are a good champ side, and I believe the playing group are happy just being that.
Genuine question. If they remove the cricket pitch, rotate the ground 90 degrees or flatten it, and put fences around it, how is it any different to Wentworth Park?
Clare St is fine for top league. Where had this sudden need for immaculate grounds come from?! Eagles seem
Perfectly suited and well settled in the Champ. They’re probably just waiting for the inevitable collapse of the state league.
Darcy St is an excessive ground for dogs. And boy does it show. The conditions are really poor. Lightwood is average at best. The list goes on.
Clare St, Kelvedon, Olinda etc- are all more than satisfactory if clubs want to go down the NPL path.
Clare street is a council ground which allows dog exercise
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