The Boards of Olympia Warriors FC and Clarence Zebras FC issued the following media release a short time ago announcing that the proposed merger between the two clubs will go ahead:
The Boards of Clarence Zebras and Olympia FC are pleased to announce that a yes vote prevailed to merge. Selected people from both clubs will be meeting in the coming days to elect the executive and start the due diligence required to form the new football entity. Both boards are excited with the outcome and look forward to becoming one united NPL - WSL club in the Clarence City area. Players, sponsors and supporters will ultimately experience a seamless transition with the new club ready for the 2025 season. More details will be released as decisions get made.
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Maybe three presidents for the new club. GM ND and RB. That will work!
Sad
Clarence Olympia Zebras the new name? What a f…….g joke!
This is going to be good.
You want to make it work, one President and a new club name entirely, don’t be the laughing stock of Tasmania. For example, Eastern Lions is a club in Victoria, something around the Eastern moniker could really work.
How can they enter the NPL as a new club? NPL nominations were due a month ago and one would have thought they would not have entered a nomination as one merged entity, Also neither team had a team in the WSL competition in 2024 (Olympia came second last in womens champ and Zebras couldn’t even field a team in that). For them to be granted a WSL spot would be an absolute farce.
Embarrassing
I believe that's just an assumption from some hack on Facebook. My understanding is they haven't decided on a name yet.
Eastern Suburbs says it all
Easily football tas do whatever they want and make it up as they go.
Look how well it turned out for beachside hsc
Seamless transition?!
They don’t even have a club name.
I can’t believe the Greeks rolled over
This has been creeping up on Olympia for last couple of years. Poor management and mediocrity the acceptable standard.
May as well include South East United now….. how about Clarence Olympia South East Zebras United.?
Saves them having to apply in 2 years.
Big clubs don’t have to merge with other clubs, that’s all I’ll say.
I’m pretty sure I have seen heaps of juniors on weekends in the Hobart city kit, and with some good appointments they have grown?
Fact is S.E United are the biggest club on the eastern shore right now. The new club will not be that new at all rather fragments of 3 clubs struggling to work. Guaranteed Mamacas has kept warrior park out of reach for when this falls through and clarence will return but zebras are well and truly gone now.They won't last and in time S.E united will fly past them.
10.04 nowhere near as many kids as I used to see with Beachside kits though.
Keep telling yourself that. You can’t afford to keep paying players to play champ and these lies of “next year we’ll be NPL” will come back to bite you
You could see this coming from the late 00’s and early 2010’s for zebras. Horribly mismanaged, they never gave a shit about youth or anyone under the senior men’s team.
What a disgrace of an outcome. The leaders of this decision should be ashamed of themselves.
Is there any insight on the vote counts for yes and no?
8:57am, not true at all, Zebras cared immensely about the youth of the club in the 2010s, the women's program especially. The women's side of the club won many trophies, and it wasn't until the merge that they began to fall off and lose numbers due to mismanagement. The men's side had competitive years also, coming second one year I remember, of course until many members of the commitee and other roles get treated poorly, and of course the merge killed off a lot of support.
12.06 pm. Really ? Wake up. The comment was not just about women’s side. The club did drop the ball numerous times over long periods and continue to do so. At one point they have hundreds of young/ youth players to then all of a sudden not many. This occurred repeatedly only to bolster numbers again and then they all leave again. The culture is toxic and will continue to be unless there are serious changes.
If the controlling board is just a combination of those that have failed - how is it expected to be any better? OR is money being promised to fund recruiting?
No it won’t be any better and yes money may fix things in the short term. Those mercenaries in our game who only chase the dollar will pop their heads up again. You will recognise who they are as they begin to appear. Time will confirm everything. It will be a short fix only. It happened before and it will happen again.
Only in Tasmania. First it was Beachside with Hobart City, a club which only existed on paper at the time. The follow up is equally impressive, a triple merger of Clarence Zebras. & Olympia. A Tassie
first if not an Australian one. Not that it causes any concern, but from a record keeper’s point of view Clarence, Zebras and Olympia cease to exist. As from 2025 the Clarence Olympia FC Zebras
start with a clean sheet, now on their way to gain their first trophy. The history of the original
clubs may provide some problems when it comes to bragging rights?
Surely an amazing outcome that most wouldn’t have expected ever
To make this happen those in power like Dj Ronnie and the sane from Olympus need to step down there are plan and simply reasons why these clubs haven’t been able to stand alone and its directly attributed to the running of the clubs
They are great people but not the right people to run the club successfully
Keep them in roles that suit them Dj bbq and canteen Ronnie junior girls
GM has proven he can run a club and be successful but not many coaches can work with him
Great times ahead for the neutral and don’t worry sth east there is still room for you guys and Ulverstone in 25 / 26
2:46pm It is my understanding that all players get paid in the NPL and if you don't get paid you are a bad negotiator. So, explain the mercenaries' bit of your whine.
Beachside was a purely social club with no juniors, Now as Hobart City FC they have juniors and going off what Nick Giovanni said in his last interview, they have the same amount of juniors and youths at the club.
Yes some disliked the merger and name change, and majority embraced it, going off numbers alone it has been a positive move.
You’re obviously one of the clowns running things at City. Beach had an extensive junior set up, and would rub shoulders with the NPL clubs in that space. And you lost the entirety of two senior sides plus the extensive socials sides. Don’t kid yourself, you have run the club into the dirt for your own egos
9.00pm - I recall my children playing against many Beachside underage teams over the years as they grew up. Surely the Beachside underage teams were made up of juniors and not adults in disguise!
2.46pm. You obviously haven’t been around very long. The mercenaries are those that move clubs for ridiculous over the odds payments. They play for the most money they can get and that’s it. No loyalty , just greed? Do you understand now?
I think it will end in tears, some big egos in that lot.
Zebras comments on news utterly disgraceful. You and your cronies have killed off the history and heritage of previous years. Too much work to fix this and get the club back on track. Much easier to approach another club and merge and think that will fix the issues. This is the only way that Olympia were ever going to get into NPL also. Unable to put in the hard yards to fix the issues required for NPL . Easy way out for two clubs who are where they are due to poor management. Should be embarrassed.
Petition to coin the new club
Howrah Warrane Horses Un-united FC
Hobart City are light years away from anything resembling a decent football club. The final ever Beachside president got taken for a ride and sadly Howrah | Beachside no longer exist. There went any credibility about what happens in lower Sandy Bay
I give it 5 years max. Mamacas will get bored of his new toy soon enough. It’s just the way he’s wired.
Hobart City are more a social club now than they were 5 years ago.
Can't be taken seriously
Some players pay for the love of the game mate, I doubt Launie united players are paid.
So are we kicking those touch footy players off the grounds and making it the super hub it deserves to be? Good work Tony Pignata on getting this to happen.
Had to laugh when I read about this. Pull up a chair, grab some popcorn & watch the circus unfold. GM has already sent one club to oblivion, this new merger is doomed with his sidekick by his side. Two powerhouse clubs gone (Olympia & Zebras).
Bang average clubs at best. Calling them powerhouses is a pisstake.
Since when did we call two champ teams at best powerhouses? Maybe they were 15 years ago but now they aren’t.
10.22pm. Spot on comment. Let’s see who is the first to spit the dummy and take their bat and ball home when they don’t get their way.
B1 and B2. Hilarious.
Is it time to take the Micky.
COZ it's lettuce or COZ their rubbish
where does the new club go after games?
Do they take it in turns. One-week Wentworth Park, then the Italian club and the following week the Hellenic club. There's now way this can succeed .
It’s not an Italian club. They do have a cheak if they continue to link themselves with the Italian club. They have distanced themselves for many years for their own selfish reasons. .
Mate neither team go there after games the cubs don't have that culture anymore.
Zebras have end of year dinner at Italian club bit of roast chicken from the chicken takeaway .
No link to community that's why they are both broke
I doubt they’re going anywhere but home after getting beat every game.
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