Believe me, the Club Championship means a whole lot to some people. In theory, at the SAP level you can only play for your local team. Its open once you hit premier leages though. The number of players that left Blacktown Spartans last year, when they thought they were going to be relegated was insane. Same again this year, and it looks like theyre heading to Town Rangers in droves. Every parent who thinks their kid is good enough is lining up for Sydney Uni or Manly or APIA. Every club has been scouting players to the point where the association has sent out a communication telling the clubs to stop.
Not sure where to put this but is there any reason why WSW are joining the women’s NPL next year and sydney is now the only Aleague club with out a team.
Aren’t wanderers taking over NSW institute women’s?
Yeah from what I can tell and with no expansion there is no more room I guess.
Sydney FC going to announce their women’s NPL soon.
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And Bulls took over Northbridge men and women both, so that’s how Bulls women NPL came about. Is their NPL team youth, considering they don’t have an ALW team?
About time. I hated half-arseing vague interest in the Tigers and/or Uni.
“Wollongong is red (and white?)” is the clunkiest chant I’ve ever heard.
Anyone else having an issue with the stream on You Tube?
Yeah it’s unwatchably shit and blurry tonight.
Having just posted that it’s improved. 
There were two separate streams under FNSW, one only ran for 11 minutes and cut out as the teams were coming out, the other marked “scheduled for 7:45” is now working fine.
So…Paramount+?
Getting relegated might actually do our youth some good. U20s will hopefully absolutely smash NPL2 U20s and Firsts might do well too among a new group of teams.
Yeah it looked like someone just have accidently ended the steam.
I had the blurry start as well but then it came good.
It goes blurry again for about 30 seconds if I go back to look at soothing then go back to live.
If we finish second last do we play third last in the playoff or second place from NPL2?
This has been a pretty poor performance all round so far.
Will Kennedy hasn’t covered himself in glory with both goals.
First goal he was easily beaten and his recovery was lacklustre at best.
Second goal came from him giving the ball away trying to play a cross field ball in the middle of the park only to find a Wolves player.
Hoefsloot probably should’ve done better as well.
Gotta say, up until now really thought it was just a matter of time until we got ourselves out of this hole, only just starting to think about what might happen if we do go down. Anyone have any ideas about how detrimental it could be?
As a pure spectator, no vested interest, got NFI what players and parents would make of it. We have just given first team deals to quite a few kids (Glasson, Amanatidis, De Jesus, even Wataru and France maybe?) who’ve comparatively done fuck all in NPL1. It’s already a bit different down there to the likes of Woody, Gurd, JK, Sega, Scarcella and even Hayden Matthews who bashed the door down and proper earned their deals at that level (there are plenty of others who’ve done likewise but ended up at other ALM clubs, Taylor, Priestman, Paull, Schreiber etc).
We’ve had a few close calls in previous seasons. We did pretty well to have stayed up this long after that first season promotion. Looks like just an adjustment…I hope.
In the short term I don’t think it will have much impact on the parents or the players.
SFC is a big club with a clear pathway to becoming a professional player.
The biggest issue will be how long we spend down there. If it’s just the one season then I don’t think there will be too much of an impact.
If we spend multiple seasons in NPL2 though then the quality of plaster we will be producing will be of lower quality given the strength/quality of that competition.
There’s already a big enough gap between NPL1 and the A League. I can’t imagine us producing any ready for the A League players while we’re in NPL2. Look at the quality of the young players WSW were bringing through before they got promoted.
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