Hobart Zebras take on Clarence United at 7.30pm at KGV Park today in an all-NPL Tasmania pre-season friendly.
Zebras
will be without fullback Dwayne Walsh, who has an ankle injury, and Mathew
Sanders, who will not fly over from Victoria for this game.
Japanese
utility player Ryu Yonezawa will play for Zebras.
He
has been playing on the Gold Coast for three or four years and tried out with
Zebras late last year in some practice games.
He
has secured a place at university in Tasmania and will sign for Zebras for the
coming season.
Clarence
United will be missing Paul Palmer and Jeremy Price and will have no back-up
goalkeepers. Former Zebras keeper Jake
French will be in goal.
“We’ll
have 15 or 16 players in our squad and we’ll be working on the type of
formation we’re trying to play,” said Zebras coach, David Smith.
“We’ve got this game tonight and then we’ve got another one on Monday night against Kingborough
and that’ll give us a bit of an opportunity to try and gel and get things together
with three weeks to go before the season starts.
“We
had Thomas Little training with us, but he’s gone to Kingborough because they
offered him a starting-eleven spot, which I couldn’t.
“He
would have been good value to us as he’s a good young kid, but these things
happen.
“Realistically,
we’ve just had two weeks training and we haven’t played for two weeks so we’ll
just line up pretty much the same as we did against Olympia, with the smaller
boys up front and with a bit of pace and just see what happens.”
Photo: Matthew Pace (left) is quick by name and nature. He has the speed to destroy the Clarence defence tonight. [PlessPix]
Clarence
coach Warren Burt said he would again experiment with players in different positions
and he would field a young team.
“We’ll
be trying players in different positions and trying to get the structure right,”
Burt said.
“There’s
still a big task ahead of us.
“We’re
still looking to recruit some senior players and we’ve got some players coming
either just before the season starts or just after.
“I
think if we can get everyone on the field we’ll be more competitive.
“We’ll
be out to play normal attacking football tonight and playing in the patterns we’re
trying to develop.”
Photo: Let's hope Clarence coach Warren Burt is pointing to someone on the field and not to that unlucky number [PlessPix]
12 comments:
At least New clarence coach trying to get the best out of what he’s got.best to do it in practice matches
Surely all kingsbourgh players would want starting positions guaranteed.But wouldn’t that depend on form through out season
I wouldn't be surprised if Warren stops communication with this site given the constant negativity and the current text of "destroy". Given the difference in resources, one team should be winning based on the amount spent on players. Maybe this writer should go and coach a team with little resources for a year.
This writer has done that, mate. Check my bio.
Ohh poor us. Woe is me....
CUFC get off your behinds and do something about it instead of feeling sorry for yourselves. Walter quite rightly is calling it as it is. If you dont like it change so that it can not be written this way.
Did you win many trophies Walter?
Yeah probably a bit nasty Walter ! But I doubt any of the players read this anyway
Anonymous: Yes. Two.
Anonymous (2) [The Gutless Wonder who won't put his/her name) I don't consider it nasty but it's calling a spade a spade. And, if you think the players don't read it, you're on another planet.
?. As I remember Clarence were on top of zebras until some weak lacklustre defence leaked a few goals in there last encounter late in the game
Two with similar resources or as anon 2 said fewer? I think you said it to get a reaction so might want to cut the gutless crack.
So we're the headlines correct tonight
So how did that go for you this evening? Mr look how we did last year......
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