(Women’s Summer Cup, KGV Park, Saturday, 16 February 2019)
South Hobart 4 (P Choi 2, M Coy, K
Dutkiewicz og)
Taroona 0
HT: 0-0 Ref:
A Giusti
South Hobart: E Moutsatsos;
P Choi, M Coy, E Dick, P Djakic, B Gadon, C Ingram, O Mastrocola-Simon,
N Moutsatsos, L Roberts, S Rule, B Thapa, P Wood
Taroona: S Curtain;
K Rain, M Dunbabbin, B McGinn, H Parish, A Ashby, M Witte, M Fujiura, C
Zunlga, K Dutkiewicz, H Mayo, L Price, N Kreiling, C Loh
Photo: A Taroona player knocks a South Hobart opponent out of the way as she gains possession of the ball [PlessPix]
South
Hobart and Taroona have both lost many players from last season.
Taroona,
in fact, have given up their place in the State-wide Women’s Super League and
dropped to the Southern Championship competition for the 2019 season.
With
Ulverstone forfeiting their game scheduled for later in the day against
Kingborough Lions United, all is not rosy for women’s football in Tasmania.
Launceston
City are also reported to be considering withdrawing from the Super League.
Football
Federation Tasmania have yet to make an official comment about this, but it’s
obvious something has to be done, and quickly, if the women’s game is not to
implode.
Photo: South Hobart shoot at goal [PlessPix]
Taroona
did well to hold South Hobart to a goalless opening half, but South Hobart’s
players may well have been in shock after losing Phoebe Djakic to a knee injury
early in the game. She was taken to
hospital by ambulance.
South
Hobart gradually got on top in the second half and netted four times, including
an own-goal by an unfortunate Taroona defender.
Pishon
Choi grabbed a brace but should have had more as she sent some good chances either
wide or over the bar.
Mary
Coy also found the back of the net as South Hobart’s superior fitness told.
Photo: South Hobart on the attack against Taroona [PlessPix]
South Hobart coach, Craig
Westwood, said:
“It’s
early season for both clubs. I think
both clubs are down on numbers. [There’s
been] a lot of turn-over. We’ve lost a
lot of girls travelling to the Mainland, so it’s an opportunity for some new
girls to come through. I think we had
seven girls out of our thirteen today who played their first senior game.
“It’s
early days, so there were some good signs to come out of it.
“We
shared the ball around quite well. A
huge loss early in the game with Phoebe Djakic going down with a knee injury,
so she’s gone off in an ambulance and we’re just waiting to hear back about
that.”
Photo: A Taroona player in pursuit of a South Hobart attacker [PlessPix]
Taroona coach, Karen Wills,
said:
“I
thought it was a hot day for the girls first-up.
“Obviously,
we’ve lost a lot of players this year so we’re looking to build from the
bottom. We’ve got a lot of young players
coming through from the youth ranks so we’re going to be playing Championship
this year, which I think is the right place for the team. It’s more of a development team. We’re certainly not at that high performance
level any more.
“But,
I thought for a lot of those girls, it was a really solid performance. Obviously, we ran out of legs in the second
half. We lost our shape, we opened up
and they started to run through us. Once they got that first goal, they got a
bit of confidence about them so they then got to work.
“I’m
pretty happy. We’ve got a bit of work to
do, but, as I said, it’s very much a rebuilding, development situation for us. I’m looking forward to it. It’s a good group of girls so we should have
a good season in the Championship.”
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