Saturday friendlies - 25 January 2025

Photo:  South Hobart's Tobias Herweynen gets in a crucial tackle against a Green Gully opponent at South Hobart Oval today. [PlessPix] 

South Hobart 3 (Kobe Kemp, Nick Morton 2) beat Green Gully 2 (Deklan Wynn 6’, Brayden Portelli 49’)

Hobart City 1-5 Riverside Olympic

Kingborough Lions United 1 (Emanuel Ponce 62') Clarence Zebras 1 (James Ackerley 87')

South East United 3-5 Launceston City

Photo:  Action from today's game between Southern Championship outfit Hobart City (black shirts) and NPL side Riverside Olympic at Edgeworth Street, Warrane. [PlessPix] 

Under-21

Kingborough Lions United 1-0 Clarence Zebras

South East United 7-8 Clarence Zebras

Photo:  Clarence Zebras' Kane Hatcher (left) vies for possession with Kingborough Lions United's Greg Downes at Lightwood Park. [PlessPix]

Photo:  Kingborough's new coach, Jon Fenech. [Photo by Ellie Gordon]

Photo:  South Hobart's new coach, Max Clarke (left) [PlessPix].

Photo:  Nick Morton is congratulated by team-mates after scoring. [PlessPix]

Photo:  Riverside Olympic on the attack against Hobart City. [PlessPix]

Photo:  Kieran Brown, who has returned after four seasons in college football in the USA, played in goal in the second half for South Hobart.  He leaves for Dublin, Republic of Ireland, next week for several trials. [PlessPix]

NPL champions Glenorchy Knights down Taroona

Photo:  Jayden Hey (second from left) was a new face for Glenorchy Knights tonight against Taroona. [PlessPix] 

NPL side Glenorchy Knights beat Southern Championship outfit Taroona 6-2 in a pre-season friendly at KGV Pak this evening.

Knights led 4-1 at half-time.

Taroona lost Queenslander Daniel Buitago through what appeared a serious leg injury in the first half.

Knights scored through Cammron Morris (6^th minute), Andres Lagos (21^st), Riley Dillon (27^th, 65^th, 67^th) Ben McTaggart (41^st og).

Taroona replied through Ollie Maxwell (23^rd) and Nick (?) (80^th).

Dillon seems to have carried his form of last season, when Knights won the NPL championship, over to this 2025 campaign by hitting a hat-trick tonight.

Jayden Hey was an interesting new face for Knights.  He played for Clarence Zebras last season.

Tyson Barrett from Olympia Warriors was another inclusion in the Knights line-up.

Top import from Queensland last season, Jack Glover, also played for Knights, who’s new coach is the highly credentialed and experienced Brian Murphy.

Photo:  A Taroona attacked is outnumbered by Glenorchy Knights opponents. [PlessPix] 

Saturday friendlies - 18 January 2025

Photo:  Number 15 for Brunswick Juventus opens the scoring against Clarence Zebras today. [PlessPix] 

South Hobart sent out a warning to the other Tasmanian NPL teams today by beating the visiting Pascoe Vale 3-0 at South Hobart Oval.

The visiting Victorian play in Victoria’s NPL 2 competition.

South Hobart’s new senior NPL coach, Max Clarke, has worked in Victoria for a few years until returning to Tasmania recently and this may have helped him prepare his team for this game.

He would have had the intelligence on Pascoe Vale and his team obviously had their measure.

Photo:  A Brunswick Juventus attack is thwarted by a timely interception. [PlessPix] 

South Hobart’s Women’s Super League side thrashed the visiting Geelong Galaxy 9-0 at South Hobart Oval today.

That made for an auspicious start for their new coach, Ken Morton, who stepped down as the club’s NPL coach at the end of last season.

Glenorchy Knights got a commendable result today in their NPL hit-out against Riverside Olympic at KGV Park, winning 6-2.

In the Under-21 clash between the sides, Glenorchy Knights beat Riverside Olympic 5-1.

Clarence Zebras’ NPL side lost 3-1 to the visiting Brunswick Juventus at KGV Park.

The game was goalless at half-time.

Brunswick took the lead shortly after the resumption but Clarence Zebras were level shortly after.

Photo:  Brunswick Juventus celebrations after the opening goal. [PlessPix] 

Two more goals by the visitors proved too much for Clarence Zebras to handle.

Incidentally, Clarence Zebras beat Launceston United 5-2 away last weekend which was a sort of revenge for United NPL win over Clarence Zebras last season.

Kingborough Lions United downed Southern Championship side Taroona 5-1.

Photo:  Clarence Zebras celebrate their equaliser by Ethan Medhurst, but only temporarily. [PlessPix]

Devonport City beat Launceston City 2-1 away at Prospect.