Saturday, September 7, 2024

Saturday results - 7 September 2024

Photo:  Glenorchy Knights players celebrate their 2024 NPL Tasmania title win. [Photo by Craig Pitt] 

NPL Tasmania

South Hobart 2-1 Launceston City (Thierry Swaby)

Clarence Zebras 0 lost to Riverside Olympic 1 Emanuel Farias 46’)

Kingborough Lions United 6 (Jesse Hammond 4’, Alexander Brown 27’, Kobe Kemp 35’, Alfred Hess 42’, Noah Mies 61’ 82’) beat Launceston United 1 (Joel Digney 33’)

Glenorchy Knights 0-0 Devonport City

Photo:  Angus Burdon had a great game in goal for Glenorchy Knights and deserves much of the credit for the 0-0 draw which gave Knights the NPL Tasmania title. [PlessPix]

NPL Tasmania Final Standings (As at 7 September 2024)

TEAM

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pts

Glenorchy Knights

21

14

5

2

81

24

47

South Hobart

21

14

5

2

58

29

47

Devonport City

21

13

6

2

60

19

45

Kingborough Lions

21

11

3

7

66

43

36

Launceston City

21

9

4

8

38

34

31

Riverside Olympic

21

6

1

14

27

62

19

Clarence Zebras

21

3

2

16

28

60

11

Launceston United

21

1

0

20

17

104

3

NPL Tasmania Under-21s

Glenorchy Knights 0 lost to Devonport City 4 (Baxter Tu 10’, Miles Barnard 59’, Jake Lincolne 67’, Jordi Sheen 71’)

Kingborough Lions United 3 (Toby Moss 11’, Tristen Galt 46’, Callum Ellis 63’) beat Launceston United 1 (Riley Allen 18’ pen)

South Hobart 0 lost to Launceston City 3 (Solomon Clarke 26’, Tito Brown 28’, Aidan Sands 32’)

Clarence Zebras 4 (Charlie Benrley 13’, Oliver Jones 28’, Sanuek Tooze 31’, Jeremy Price 57’) beat Riverside Olympic 1 Thomas Milner 61’)

Women’s Super League

Glenorchy Knights 0-3 Devonport City

Kingborough Lions United 7-2 Launceston United

Taroona 3 (Jessie Williams 1’, Madison James 36’, Hannah Graham-Smith 72’) beat Riverside Olympic 1 Skyla Higgins 42’)

Men's Southern Championship [Thursday night]

New Town White Eagles 7 (George Ivanov 1', 6', Brett Andrews 12', 36', Adam McKeown 17', Samuel Leszczynski 40', Matthew Pace 62') beat Clarence Zebras 1 (Samuel Tooze 53')

Men's Southern Championship 1

New Town White Eagles 5 (Ronan Longden 10', Andrew Telega 20', Jamie Vernon 42', Tadiwanashe Madzikanda 76', 82') beat Clarence Zebras 0 

68 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who says you can't purchase a title.......

Anonymous said...

Great season for Clarence. Another one. Well done.

Anonymous said...

Devonport tried

Anonymous said...

Poor finishing cost the Port. Big chances.
Not often they have a sombre trip home.
They blew the title.

Anonymous said...

The Knights keeper played a blinder!!

Anonymous said...

Devonport obviously, they bought two players midseason and didn't get it done 👍

Anonymous said...

Devonport spend big Money on forwards to win the title and it’s ironic that they ultimately cost them winning the title.

Anonymous said...

Referee did a very good job. He handled the constant complaining and diving from the Devonport players ( particularly Capalino) very well. Thank goodness he was correctly given the job today.

Anonymous said...

He won them the game but let’s be honest , almost every shot was right at him

Anonymous said...

Who ended winning the league golden boot. Was it kemp. ?

Anonymous said...

Not to the extent of Knights.

Anonymous said...

Agreed. Was good to see this referee not so easily fooled by such behaviour. No wonder the dev players of old are embarrassed by the diving and complaining of some current players

Anonymous said...

The whining on this forum paid off

Anonymous said...

Devonport's waywardness in front of goal cost them points on multiple occasions this season, and ultimately it cost them again when they needed it most. Throw a Fernandez Garrido or Mann (in his prime) into that box today and I reckon they are taking the trophy back up the Midland Highway again, because they would have made sure young Burdon wasn't reaching one of those shots on goal.

Anonymous said...

Wow.
Launceston United conceded on average nearly 5 goals a game.
Well, 4.95

Anonymous said...

Devonport will look very different next year

Anonymous said...

Winner$ are grinner$$$

Anonymous said...

A big crowd at KGV to watch a thrilling game. No doubt that Devonport could have won the match and the league but were thwarted by the 17yr old Knights keeper who must have played the game of his life. He’d had a problem or two throughout the season but it is fair to say he won the game for the Knights, he matured as a keeper and deserved a great deal of respect for a match winning performance. A shame there was no PA system available for the presentation, could not hear a word anyone said.

Anonymous said...

Keeper didn’t win the game for Knights. It was a 0-0 draw. What he did do was enable them to get a draw and win the title.

Zizousifsandbutts said...

Yes..yes ..and if south had better defended that corner well into extra time they would have won the title, given the result yesterday ..but.. in the end, Knights F column makes them worthy winners of the 2024 League Title.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely correct
Knights pumped Port and took their chances Port can't say the same against either south or Knights

Anonymous said...

Agreed. Maybe only 3 players left from this years squad

Anonymous said...

Well done Knights best team all year

Anonymous said...

Well done Tom on your wsl title

Anonymous said...

Hahahahaha

Anonymous said...

Why?

Anonymous said...

New adventures away from Tas, family commitments?? Guess when you’ve won everything and you your 30 ish, what’s the point? It’s football in Tasmania after all.

Anonymous said...

Never played sport then? Winning is pretty fun.

Anonymous said...

Bit of a Ballantyne Bottle Job in the end!! Leaving Nick LA on the bench and having Barnard available and on the bench as a coach, but not a player was a huge selection/tactical error that could’ve made a huge difference. Nick LA consistently one of Port’s best all year and Barnard has scored that many winners late in games, especially from corners (which Devonport had atleast 12 of)!!

Anonymous said...

Well done Angus @ 17 you saved the knights as for the rest of the team Well Devonport played a better game .

Anonymous said...

Remember many a season where a Devonport keeper has saved a season

Anonymous said...

Cappallino and Ballantyne were lucky to stay on the pitch

Anonymous said...

Winning is fun. True. But not when you have to travel a minimum of 2 hours every second weekend.

Anonymous said...

Well done Devonport on playing the better game. Did you get a trophy for that

Anonymous said...

I couldn’t believe barnard wasn’t on the bench and Nick didn’t get on the field. Port supporters will be wondering what if for quite some time

Anonymous said...

Port with swaby up front will be right back up there next year

Anonymous said...

0/0 is no great medal deserving win
Should not come down to goal difference

Anonymous said...

A whole 2 hours. Shocking. Lived in Tassie your whole life?

Anonymous said...

Ballantyne always carries on like that. What did cap do?

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately there was no chance of that with their keepers this year

Anonymous said...

Capellini diving is beyond embarrassing for the league

Anonymous said...

Port the new knights with their massive spending. Cappalino mega $$ deal got them nowhere. While the Local dev boys got shafted.

Anonymous said...

It ended the state league footy and it will end the NPL. As soon as the NW coast don’t have a competitive side watch the whole comp collapse

Anonymous said...

What’s mega $$?

Anonymous said...

South are better than Knights

Anonymous said...

Move on South & Knights best teams the game is about winning and you need to score goals to win Knights did that better then all

Anonymous said...

Hello peoples.. This was not a grand final ! ! Just one of a twenty one game league.
GD is the fairest way to seperate teams. ( and I support south.)

Anonymous said...

Interesting that Ballantyne would go on a coaching course the week of the biggest game of the season. Surely that could have been rescheduled. It's the fine details that decide titles.

And leaving NLA on the pine and not playing Barnard will haunt him for a long time. Saying that, they had more than enough chances to win the game.

The presentation was the usual amateur hour production from FFT.
No sign of the CEO...

Anonymous said...

Fact Check. Nick LA has not been amongst Devonport best this season and it’s been a long time since Barnard has scored a winner in a big game

Anonymous said...

The saltiness in here is amusing. Bitter, sad people. Equal best team across the home and away season, with the best goal difference. Anyone who says different, can't call themselves a football purist. Dev knew they needed a win, and with some strange decisions (Nick LA, Barnard on bench..), didn't manage to breakthrough. Come Knights.

Anonymous said...

Swaby signing with launny city again

Ray Carroll said...

Watched 3 games on U Tube. Didn't bother with the Clarence game. Knights deserve their title but made hard work of it. With the side they had should have been clear on top. Only managed to click a couple of times this season. I feel sorry for Bidwell of Port. He plays his bollocks off every week.
Thanks again Walter for your coverage of our game.Without it we'd be lost. Stay well - See you next year.

Anonymous said...

The league table says south are not better then knights

Anonymous said...

Knight$ had the easiest draw home and away this year. So they should win

Anonymous said...

The whole comp is a farce. Should at least play each other home and away the same amount of times. Scrap it back to 6 teams and 24 rounds.

Anonymous said...

Devonport finished 2nd last the season before savill coached .if Savill hadn’t gone there and showed them what was possible devonport would have pulled out of npl citing travel as the reason

Anonymous said...

What about the last two shots he had, they were the most crucial one, they were definitely not at him

Anonymous said...

Why did the AFL teams on the NW coast pull out. Travel. Watch this space

Anonymous said...

Let Glenorchy City Council know!

gccmail@gcc.tas.gov.au

And while you are there, ask them why they decided to half pull down a grandstand before the end of the season.

And why the development of KGV has taken more than 5 years to complete since being announced.

And then ask them what they were on when the designed the new change rooms ...

Anonymous said...

Fact check. Nick LA has been far better then Liam Kelly (who came on instead of Nick) this year and Miles Barnard has scored more winners at NPL level than Jordy Payne (who came on from the bench) is likely to. Denehy to 9, Nick LA to 10 and Cappellino to the bench would’ve been a stronger starting 11.

Anonymous said...

Well done Glenorchy nice to see a change in winners

Anonymous said...

Not really.

Anonymous said...

Despite GCC being the butt of a KFC joke - FT can’t blame anyone else for not having a microphone and a speaker on hand - DJ Stratos could’ve hired one to them…

Anonymous said...

Ballantyne found out this year goes to show how reliant he was on Roberto.

Anonymous said...

Getting sick of people pushing this 6 team nonsense..as a player who the hell would want to play the same 5 teams all year round? boring as! The more the merrier to be honest. Yes there’s going to be teams struggling like Launny United..but have you people not watched the prem? Or any league for that matter? Some sides get battered every week and that’s at the highest level. Look at Riverside and Clarence..say what you want but both those teams put a valiant effort against the “top 4”- a lot of the games weren’t blowout games as one would imagine. And like someone mentioned before..the season Before Sav took over at Devonport they finished 2nd last..and look at them now. Things take time.

Living on the NW it’s a big issue keeping juniors playing football. The only real competition some of these kids play in is the Dev,Launny and Hobart Cup - which isn’t enough. These kids are playing the same 3,4,5 teams outside of these Cup tournaments and it would be boring as if I were a kid doing that. Rant over. Keep as many teams as possible in the NPL - this gap between the top and bottom will gradually fade away, especially if we can increase junior numbers/keeping them playing even if it’s just for fun - because heck that’s why we all love the game

Anonymous said...

I mean yes they were right at him. Yes, the pressure and stakes were high and I give him credit for keeping his composure when his team needed him. Bidwell’s shot was nowhere near the corner when he saved it. And same thing with Payne’s shot- keeper was already on that side and put his hand out. I guess that performance cancels out the many blinders and mistakes he made. I reckon if Knights had a proper keeper the league would have been there’s a long tie ago

Anonymous said...

Agreed. The time will come soon. The novelty has well and truely died of this state league. There is no publicity for it and Football Tas will once again blame something else when it collapses again

Zizou'sifsanbutts said...

Yes Peter Savill played his cards well, but think it no coincidence that that the seemingly miraculous transformation of Port during the15/16 offseason was going on at the same time as 5000/1 Leicester city was climbing the EPL ladder. That is ,think Sav was definitely peering over Ranieri's shoulder. First he took Braydn Vardy with him from south and then quickly formed a formidable back four and keeper combination. Presto Tasnpl's first counter attacking machine. That defence laid the foundation of all the subsequent success at Valley Road.