There have been a couple of new appointments at Football Tasmania for the 2023 season.
Greg Calvert is the new General Manager.
He is a former top player and coach at the highest levels of the game in Tasmania.
He has considerable management experience in the corporate world and will be an asset to the organisation.
Lucy Poskitt is the new social media manager.
She has been a journalist at The Examiner and more recently was the communications adviser to the Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
Football Tasmania CEO Matt Bulkeley is currently on leave and David Smith is the action CEO in his absence.
Smith is Football Tasmania’s Coach Development Manager but will perform both roles until Bulkeley returns from leave.
Emma Brown is the competitions coordinator and should be releasing draft rosters soon.
I understand that this season’s Summer Cup at the NPL level will involve the four southern NPL teams and the four northern NPL teams playing a round-robin series in their own regions with the top teams from the north and south meeting in the semi-finals and final.
Nathan Coad continues as Referee Manager, while Jayden Hey is still the Futsal Manager.
The new artificial pitch has been installed at KGV Park and the six floodlight towers are up and the lights just need to be wired.
They look good and I can hardly wait for a night game to see what lighting of 500 Lux does for the spectacle.
Work on the grandstand, toilets and change rooms is not expected to start at KGV Park until later in the season.
Meanwhile, Metro have had to find a new training venue in Claremont as work continues on their pitch.
Photo: We still have a way to go to match the lights (left) at the Glenorchy AFL ground. [PlessPix]
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There will be only 10 teams instead of 12 in this season’s Southern Championship.
Glenorchy
Knights and Clarence Zebras will not field teams in this competition as they
don’t think they have enough players for this competition following the
introduction of the State-wide Under-21 league underpinning the NPL Tasmania
competition.
8 comments:
The southern champ news is indeed sad on a personal note Walter. My son Sam has been with Clarence/Zebras in their Southern Premier League/NPL program since 2008. 358 club games including 137 senior appearances (82 in the NPL). He still wants to play at the championship level and will be forced to change clubs. It seems football administrators in Tasmania don't learn from history. The first year of the Victory League was Seniors and u/21 and the unintended consequence was a mass exodus of mid to late 20year old players - the backbone of most clubs - moving away to continue to play at a "reserves" level of football. After much complaining by the club presidents at the time it was changed the following season back to open age reserves. I wonder what the medium term impact will be on Zebras and Knights? Will players stay and play in social leagues or will they move away to the Southern Champ clubs to continue to play at the next senior level below the NPL?
Is move to U21 component an FA requirement?
Phil.This is why the game in this state is an absolute joke. Every couple of seasons someone decides that they will try something that has been tried before and failed. It happens every couple of seasons and every couple of years they try again .......and it fails.
They have to try and make a name for themselves somehow.
From your personal perspective , as you say, your son may go and play elsewhere and may actually enjoy it also. Its not always gloom and doom.
Phil your comments are understandable but there needs to be a differential between npl clubs and champ
Still having two npl clubs in the champ is silly
Now that npl has gone back to having a reserves each club shouldn’t have champ and champ 1
If your over age and not in the top 25 players then unfortunately you need to play champ football or below
Calvert is a great appointment. You need a Tasmanian in charge of our sport. The previous CEO appointments have shown they really don't care.
Greg Calvert is a decent guy and best of luck to him it maybe the change we need time well tell the only way is up .
Finally someone involved in our sport other than highly paid clowns.
Won’t be hard to improve things.
FT itself also needs a clean out of one or two.
If you know what I mean.
Totally agree with your comments Phil.
The competition should be an open NPL and reserve team structure and the same for the championship division with a championship 1 team.
NPL teams should not have to enter teams in the Championship competition.
With this under 21 rule, it might mean that some of these championship teams might get an influx of players like your son who would still like to play at the highest level that they are able to.
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