Monday, September 2, 2019

NPL Tasmania round-up (as featured in 'Goal!Weekly')


Clarence United completed their NPL Tasmania season on Sunday with their 23rd loss from 24 games when they went down 8-0 at home at Wentworth Park to newly crowned champions Devonport City.

Clarence, the bottom side, have conceded 160 goals in those 24 games and have scored just eight.

Miles Barnard netted twice to remain level on 29 goals with Hobart Zebras’ Mathew Sanders in the race for the Golden Boot Award.

Raphael Reynolds hit a hat-trick for Devonport, while the remaining goals came from Joel Stone, Daniel Syson and Max Fitzgerald.

Second-placed Olympia Warriors beat second-last Riverside Olympic 4-2 away at Windsor Park in Launceston on Saturday and their two import, Englishmen Jordan Scott and Jack Ryan, grabbed two goals each.

Third-placed South Hobart will hang on to their position despite going down 2-1 to fifth-ranked Glenorchy Knights at home at South Hobart Oval on Sunday.

Sam Berezansky hit the opener for South Hobart after 13 minutes, but Alex Leszczynski equalised for Knights with a penalty in the 32nd minute after South keeper Graeme Wright had brought down Alex Bellini.

Nick Naden scored the winner 15 minutes from the end after receiving a pass from Thomas Bellini.

It was the final game for Knights keeper Dmitri Nester, who is retiring after an illustrious career with Olympia Warriors and Glenorchy Knights.

Fourth-placed Hobart Zebras won 4-0 away against fellow Italian-backed club Launceston City on Saturday.

Mathew Sanders scored twice, while the other goals came from Nicky Edwards and Jayden Hey.

Sixth-ranked Kingborough Lions United had the bye.  They played last Wednesday and drew 1-1 with South Hobart.

NPL Tasmania (As at 31 August 2019)

TEAM
P
W
D
L
F
A
Pts
Devonport City
23
20
2
1
91
21
62
Olympia Warriors
23
17
2
4
75
29
53
South Hobart
23
13
5
5
78
30
44
Hobart Zebras
23
11
6
6
67
43
39
Glenorchy Knights
23
10
2
11
56
42
32
Kingborough Lions
23
8
3
12
40
48
27
Launceston City
23
7
4
12
35
45
25
Riverside Olympic
23
4
2
17
24
66
14
Clarence United
24
1
0
23
8
160
3

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Surely relegation of Clarence men’s and south’s women’s is on the horizon.

Anonymous said...

Not if they merge with Zebras. Easy way of staying in the league for Clarence.
Interesting comments on facebook from Zebras. More lies !!!!

Anonymous said...

I may have missed it in an earlier post, but what happened in the end to Olympia's appeal against the possible three-point deduction? Wasn't it supposed to happen towards the end of August when George M got back from overseas?

Anonymous said...

Walter, keen to hear your thoughts on this proposed merger between Zebras and Clarence, a Western shore club merging with an Eastern shore club for mine sounds more like a Clarence takeover than a merger, Zebras will lose everything except the name Zebras, the bulk of their senior and junior players will walk here, not wanting the travel or Clarence name associated with them.

Anonymous said...

12:57 what a load of garbage. Clarence are not in the position to take over anything. Olympia need to be scared. They are a club in disarray and this merger shifts the balance towards Clarence Zebras. This will be a good thing.

Anonymous said...

Sick of comments saying both clubs will be stronger.
There is only one club that will be stronger and we all know
which that is.
If this goes ahead Zebras will disappear like Callie’s have done
with the Kingborough merger.