Glenorchy Knights will play South Hobart in a pre-season friendly at KGV Park today at 7pm.
Knights
have been promoted to the NPL Tasmania top-flight competition after three years
in the wilderness of the Southern Championship.
They showed
they were the best team in that second-tier competition by winning the league title
three years in a row and they deserve to be included in the new 9-team
top-flight league.
“I’m happy
with the preparation pre-January and looking forward to returning after the
break,” said Knights’ new senior coach, James Sherman.
“We’ve
added two or three really good signings to the squad to strengthen us for our
NPL return.”
One of
those signings is Thomas Bellini from Olympia Warriors, who will team-up again
with his brother, Alex Bellini, who is already with the Knights.
South
Hobart have beaten NPL rivals Olympia Warriors 4-1 in a pre-season scrimmage
recently, but they lost 4-3 on Wednesday night to Hobart Zebras.
Fullback-cum-midfielder
Connor Schmidt suffered a broken leg in the game against Zebras and he will be
badly missed by South Hobart.
Photo: Jack Bowman (second from left in background), Gilly De Sosa and Tobias Herweynen against Zebras' Matthew Pace and Mathew Sanders on Wednesday night [PlessPix]
Their
defence is clearly missing the experience of Daniel Brown and Hugh Ludford,
while the loss of midfielder Kobe Kemp to Victoria is also a blow.
More
responsibility is therefore being placed on Jack Bowman in defence, while much
is expected of captain Nick Morton, Loic Feral and Alex Walter.
The return
of striker Ben Hamlett is a huge plus, while the club has also signed
midfielder Gilly Desouza and defender Tobias Herweynen, who both played for
Kingborough last season.
Conditions
will be wet tonight and the artificial surface at KGV Park should be slick and fast.
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