The 2021 NPL Tasmania title will be decided tomorrow.
The winner will be either league-leaders Devonport Strikers, the reigning champions, or second-placed Glenorchy Knights.
It couldn’t be a tighter finish.
The scenarios are:
If either team loses and the other wins, the loser won’t win the title.
If both lose, Devonport will probably retain their title. But, it could still depend on the scorelines.
If Devonport win and Knights lose, therefore, it’s Devonport’s title.
If Devonport lose and Knights win, then it’s the Knights’ title.
If both Devonport and Knights win, it will come down to the score-lines as Devonport currently have the advantage on goal-difference.
The stage is set, therefore, for an exciting final day of league football.
Devonport travel to Lightwood Park to take on fourth-ranked Kingborough Lions United.Kingborough beat Devonport 2-0 in Launceston in the curtain-raiser to an A-League match at UTAS Stadium, while Devonport downed Kingborough 2-0 when they met at Valley Road.
Tomorrow’s game should be an enthralling contest, therefore, which could go either way.
Knights know they must probably beat Launceston City if they are to win the title and they must win by a large score-line.
Knights haven’t managed large score-lines in recent weeks and so the pressure will be on them.
In other games, South Hobart host Olympia Warriors at South Hobart Oval, and Clarence Zebras entertain Riverside Olympia at Wentworth Park in a bottom-of-the-table clash.
All games kick off at 2pm.
NPL Tasmania schedule for Saturday’s final round, 11 September 2021:
Kingborough Lions United v Devonport Strikers (Lightwood Park, 2pm)
Glenorchy Knights v Launceston City (KGV Park, 2pm)
South Hobart v Olympia Warriors (South Hobart Oval, 2pm)
Clarence Zebras v Riverside Olympic (Wentworth Park, 2pm)
NPL
Tasmania standings (As at 4 September 2021)
|
TEAM |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
|
Devonport City |
20 |
15 |
2 |
3 |
53 |
13 |
47 |
|
Glenorchy Knights |
20 |
14 |
5 |
1 |
52 |
17 |
47 |
|
South Hobart |
20 |
12 |
4 |
4 |
56 |
24 |
40 |
|
Kingborough Lions |
20 |
10 |
4 |
6 |
40 |
36 |
33 |
|
Launceston City |
20 |
7 |
1 |
12 |
26 |
47 |
22 |
|
Olympia Warriors |
20 |
5 |
3 |
12 |
30 |
45 |
18 |
|
Clarence Zebras |
20 |
5 |
3 |
12 |
31 |
52 |
18 |
|
Riverside Olympic |
20 |
0 |
3 |
17 |
26 |
81 |
3 |
6 comments:
Cmon Port. Nobody wants a Knights win.
Didn't sound like that last week cobba
how do you think it rates with the 1981 State League finish?
Only Knights people want it. The rest of the comp dislike you.
2012 is hard to equal in that respect. A goal by Olympia at warrane or by Eagles at the Den right up until the final minute of the season would have flipped it.
In more optimistic times ..about 6 weeks ago when I still thought South could be in the mix today I was aware of the many parallels with 2012. Mainly a team feeling they have already won the title travelling to the Den for a last game of season formality. Interesting to see there is another twist to it reading the Pitchford interview. He is playing his last game there today for Port but in 2012 was in goal for Eagles .. don't know the exact details but his breaking his hand in that match may have handed the title to South.. or played some part in it .
It was an unexpected,exhilarating and stressful afternoon to be a south supporter I can tell you that. It was also a bit surreal, in that the trophy did have to travel from the Den to Warrane and by the time it got there the only member of the Olympia FC left at the ground was the one holding the key to the gate.
He he he boom
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