The curtain came down on the 2022 NPL Tasmania season this past weekend with only one game resulting in more than a single goal.
That was in the Clarence Zebras versus Devonport Strikers game on Saturday at Wentworth Park.
League champions Devonport won 5-1, but they feel behind to a 9th-minute goal from Dwayne Walsh, who showed how easy it could be to breach the league champions’ defence.
Walsh ran past three Devonport defenders with ease and beat the second-choice goalkeeper, Thomas Pearce, who was in goal because regular custodian Keegan Smith was sidelined because of a shoulder injury.
The home-side’s lead did not last long and Roberto Fernandez Garrido equalised in the 26th minute.
Garrido, the league’s leading marksman, gave Devonport a half-time lead when he scored his second 7 minutes before the interval.
Clarence Zebras fell apart in the second half as Garrido went on to score twice more, with Brody Denehey squeezing a goal in between Garrido’s brace in each half.
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Garrido won the NPL Golden Boot award with 27 goals in 18 games. After the final whistle, he was presented with the Ibro Cahut Award as the league’s leading scorer by Paul and Robbie Furjanic.
The remaining three games of the final round resulted in 1-0 victories.
Glenorchy Knights, the deposed league champions, finished fourth but knocked off third-placed Kingborough Lions United 1-0 at the neutral venue of Empire Couriers Park on Friday night in an exciting match.
The Lions might have got a draw, but Noah Mies’s first-half shot stuck the crossbar.
Nick Naden grabbed the only goal in the 73rd minute when he received the ball just outside the box and managed to poke his shot past Greg Downes and keeper Lee Mackie.
Launceston City finished their campaign with a 1-0 win over Olympia Warriors at Empire Couriers Park on Saturday, the goal coming from Gediminas Krusa in the 20th minute. He converted a low right-wing cross from close range.
Olympia should have done better and missed at least four one-on-ones with the keeper.
South Hobart would have been expected to thrash wooden-spooners Riverside Olympia at South Hobart Oval on Saturday, but a brilliant display of goalkeeping by Daniel Nash kept the score at 1-0.
That goal came in the 25th minute from Josh Divin, who turned Sam Berezansky’s left-wing cross home at the near post. It should never have happened as a Riverside defender had ample opportunity to clear the ball on the wing but hesitated and was robbed by Nick Morton, who fed Berezansky.
NPL Tasmania
South Hobart 1-0 Riverside Olympic
Olympia Warriors 0-1 Launceston City
Clarence Zebras 1-5 Devonport Strikers
NPL Tasmania Final Standings (10 September 2022)
|
TEAM |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
|
Devonport Strikers |
21 |
19 |
1 |
1 |
71 |
11 |
58 |
|
South Hobart |
21 |
14 |
3 |
4 |
64 |
23 |
45 |
|
Kingborough Lions |
21 |
13 |
2 |
6 |
53 |
32 |
41 |
|
Glenorchy Knights |
21 |
13 |
1 |
7 |
45 |
25 |
40 |
|
Launceston City |
21 |
9 |
2 |
10 |
34 |
44 |
29 |
|
Clarence Zebras |
21 |
5 |
2 |
14 |
35 |
52 |
17 |
|
Olympia Warriors |
21 |
3 |
0 |
18 |
21 |
69 |
9 |
|
Riverside Olympic |
21 |
1 |
3 |
17 |
12 |
79 |
6 |
21 comments:
How can the coaches vote for a coach who lost 10 games to be coach of the year?
Give it a rest mate!!!!
No mate.its important to get these awards right.i have no wish to be disresectable to the winner .but you can’t loose 10 games and loose one game 10to 0 and be awarded coach of the year.these awards are the pinical of a long season and have to be correct
Lino last won it in 2015. Check out the stats of that year who won the title and how much the title winning team beat Launceston City his team by.
Be interested to read the learned comments about that.
I have no desire to get involved in names.I don’t know any of the coaches personally.i just want the coaches who deserve the award to receive the award.and i will repeat myself coach of the year cannot finish 5th loose 10 games,and loose one game 10to0 this can’t be right.
Anon 5.38
Maybe says more about the coaches who voted than anyone else.
Anon 6..14.
Interesting.
Winners that year V L/ City over 3 games - 17 goals to 1.
Maybe that is the criteria for winning that award.
Maybe it says more about the coaches who voted also.
From now on , no point voting for coach of the year.
Whoever wins title is the winner . Simple! No voting required .
Mate Zebras beat them ,the super league clubs never have their best champ squad ,as players are in and out of team.
Plus they couldn't even beat Taroona in Cup game.
Get over yourself
> coach of the year cannot finish 5th loose 10 games,and loose one game 10to0 this can’t be right.
Well actually they can if their peers think they are the best coach that season. Who's to say that City aren't the most improved team in the competition?
There are other coaches that might feel hard done-by but unless coaches are voting on personality or friendship then it is going to who they as a group deemed the best. There was probably one vote in it. So you don't know any of them, so how do you know who is worthy?
1.06 then the peers got it wrong .improved team is not enough to win a coach of the year award.if the peers cant get it right then take the voting off them.devonports coach is coach of the year by a long way
Shermo has been hard done by here literally the only coach to go down swinging
> improved team is not enough to win a coach of the year award
So say Lino coaches Devonport next season, exact same squad and wins the league with 2 points fewer. Ballantyne coaches City, exact same squad and they come second. Who is coach of the year?
The port crew are out in force as soon as they don't what they think they deserve Anyone else complains about the refs favouring port and the port fans are out if force with the crying emoji or the whinging tags
Mate, you literally have no idea. Let’s use Collingwood as a comparison. They were a basket case, have gone fro 17 to 4. Have won 12 close games, which is entirely about the attitude the coach has instilled...and you say that Craig McCrae cannot by definition be coach of the year because they didn’t finish first. The good news buddy is that you are the only person in Australia who thinks this.
I don’t follow afl.the are two main points to this debate.1 the right coach receives coach of the year.2 that some coaches are clearly voting to stop the correct coach winning the coach of the year.its up to fft to identify and correct these issues.that’s what they get paid for.the good news is that we live in society where there is freedom of speech.the post i have entered have all been of a polite nature and will continue to be so.
Surely you are not saying that if FFT don't like who the coaches democratically elect as coach of the year then they should change it...seriously?
What if they don't like who wins the Walter Pless Media Award...should they change that as well?
You're not running this argument just to wind us up, are you? Because if you are, you're winning, because it's working on me!!!
> the right coach receives coach of the year
They did.
> that some coaches are clearly voting to stop the correct coach winning the coach of the year
In your opinion.
Correct i am not saying that if FFT don’t like who the coaches democratically elect they should change him.no way.in my opinion some coaches are voting to stop the correct winning the coach of the year .to take away any doubts FFT could simply read out the coaches votes on the night .just as they do for the main award.this would give some transference to the award and shut idiots like me up.
To 8.11 they did not.yes in my opinion
He should have been given an award for services to the game. He simply wasn't coach "of the year"! Another silly moment for a poor season.
What happened to the zebras women last year they won the super league ,2nd in the champs and won the socials.
Now they are fourth or worse in all the leagues.
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