Looks like the only clash with HAL is on 26th April. Heart away at the same time as APIA home. After that we’ve got several consecutive ‘home’ Sunday games through the finals.
Definitely happy to have Sunday fixtures instead of Saturday ones. Might make it to a few more games this year.
Season kicks off this weekend with the lads away to Mt Druitt at the iconic poppendetta Park on Sunday.
I thoroughly recommend listening to the latest @Sky_Blue_Stories episode which has an interview with head coach Jim van weeren.
As mentioned in the podcast our squad has 2 under 23s & the rest are required to be under 20.
Promotion this season is only determined by first grade results so with a really talented but incredibly young squad we may be in some danger of dropping to Npl2.
Thanks @sinjin. For those that may not have time to catch the whole pod(Or… just not keen on listening to our ramblings for the whole pod) we start our JVW chat at 27min 30 Seconds and it wraps up around 57min 30 Seconds. Enjoy
This is a pretty important season I think if what I read is correct. No more club championship means the team lives and dies on the success of the first grade side.
Think Sydney can scrape through for another season? Sure hope so.
That’s the hope but I imagine we are keeping largely the same squad who will be a year older / better / wiser. Surely there’s at least one other basket case to replace last seasons Hakoah… basically the longer we stay in NPL1 with other HAL sides in NPL2 the better talent we should be able to attract and those players will be more ready for the step up into our first team.
Fantastic result for the boys, only saw the second half but could’ve finished 8 all. Some great last ditch defending and THB got through plenty of work.
Mt Druitt had some experience in Poljak, Saliadarre, Alameddine and his ridiculous long johns (he scored against us for Rockdale in FFA Cup) and John Roberts who made a few appearances for WSW. Superb start to get the 3 points.
