North Shore Mariners FC V Sydney FC
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KICKOFF 2020 - ROUND 03 SUNDAY LAMBERT 15TH MARCH PARK 3PM MEN’S CLUB WELCOME A very warm welcome to our Club members and followers on what is a momentous season in our Club’s short history. We are extremely thankful to have secured a fantastic home ground for the 2020 NPL season and we hope, with your help, that we can make it a fortress in which no team will come here and enjoy playing. As recently appointed Technical Director for the Club, it gives me great pleasure to be able to extend a welcome to all of our club patrons and say thank you to the officials at Lambert Park, Football NSW and Football Federation Australia. I would also like to take time to congratulate First Grade Coach Joe Haywood and the team for what was an excellent season in 2019. For Joe to take the go on to represent at the highest level possible. We Club all the way from a local community team over 10 hope to see an extension of the amount of youth years ago to the heights of the NPL is an outstanding league players being pushed in to our First Grade achievement that cannot be underestimated. squad and even beyond in to the Hyundai A- League However, that was last year and it is critical that we space and hopefully the National Team set up. Joe focus on the new season and the new challenge has to be credited with work done so far, as we now which is exactly what the players have done. A have numerous players that have come through our tremendous amount of effort has been spent on ranks representing our NPL squads today, and NSM getting this group of players together to represent alumni players currently contracted to A-League North Shore Mariners in NPL top tier and they have Clubs. We will keep enhancing our relationship with been working exceptionally hard to ensure that we our hyundai A-League parent club Central Coast are not here just to make up the numbers. I look Mariners and we are proud to present our players a forward to watching our staff and players embrace genuine pathway to professional football, as one of the challenge that NPL will bring, focus only week only 4 Clubs in the NPL to do so. to week and aim to finish as high up the table as Whilst we know we are still building and our possible. existence in the NPL world has only been relatively As TD of North Shore Mariners, my aim is to ensure short, I personally am loving the challenge in that we as a Club are renowned for the quality of working with all members of our Club in making programs that we can offer all the way from our pre North Shore Mariners a heavy presence in NSW. SAP developmental U6-U8 group through to the Good luck to all North Shore Mariners squads in the SAP, Youth League and NPL spaces. I am determined 2020 season! to ensure that we match the tremendous work on the Ryan Doidge field with the work off the field in continuing to build North Shore Mariners Technical Director our Club’s reputation as one that creates players to Website: nsmariners.com.au Twitter: @NSMarinersFC Facebook: /northshoremariners 2 #NPLNSW CORPORATE PARTNERS NPLNSW.COM.AU 3 1ST GRADE TEAM LISTS 1 Ryan Wood (GK) 1 Adam Pavlesic 2 Rainer Smahel 2 Cameron Fong 3 Chris Lindsay 3 Aaron Gurd 4 Sean Eve 4 Anton Mlinaric 5 Charlie Cox 5 Thomas Fay 6 Brian Jamba 6 Calem Nieuwenhof 7 Hugo Forlico 7 Jake Hollman 8 Tristen Van Rhoon 9 Benjamin Koop 9 Braden Cheng 10 Marco Tilio 10 Marquin Smith 11 Jaiden Kucharski 11 Emmanuel Peters 12 Fletcher McFarlane 14 Jesse Piriz 13 Jordi Swibel 16 Daniel Dias 14 Thomas Main 18 Mitch Smith 15 Scott Browning 19 Daniel Saric 16 Yinka Sunmola 23 Damir Prodanovic 17 Callum Talbot 26 Daniel Olaniran 18 Cameron Peupion 27 Panny Nikas 19 Jayden Trenkoski 30 Zac Sfiligoi 20 Levi Kaye 32 Keanu Ismic Patrick Flottmann 41 Joel Tinker (GK) Luke Ivanovic Head Coach: Joe Haywood Thomas Heward-Belle Assistant Coach: Chris Deblaere Managers: Wendy Pyl, Will Piriz Head Coach: Jim van Weeren GK Coach: Elvis DeMarchi Assistant Coach: Howard Fondyke Technical Director: Ryan Doidge Physiotherapy: Sports Focus Physiotherapy Referee: M. Bailey Assistant Referees: S. Edeling, A. Hosnani Fourth Official: N. Ryan *TEAM LISTINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE MATCH PREVIEW North Shore Mariners are out to claim back-to-back Sydney FC had a bit of a reality check last week wins in the NPL NSW for the first time when they host suffering a 4-0 thrashing against league leaders Sydney FC at Lambert Park on Sunday. Marconi Stallions only seven days after opening the season with a shock win against Mt Druitt. The competition new boys have made a brilliant start to their time in the state league top tier with a It is back to the drawing board for coach Jim van draw and a win in their opening two games. Weeren who will be determined to avoid an early season slump. A shock upset of Wollongong Wolves last round was Jordi Swibel and Benjamin Koop showed good form proof the Joe Haywood coached outfit is not here in the opening game and will need to find that level just to makeup the numbers. of performance again if they are to win. Panny Nikas had a debut to remember last week Neither side are in this competition to make up the scoring an absolute screamer, while Emannuel numbers and will be doing everything they can to Peters has made it two goals in two games and has claim a valuable three points. been the talk of the competition thus far. Prediction: North Shore Mariners 2 Sydney FC 1 FROM THE COACH established club within the league and last seasons Grand Final winners. NSM will not be fearing anyone though and will be building on its roots that have enabled the club to progress into the division. A young and exciting team has been built and the players and staff have been working hard, a lot of last seasons core team have signed on for the season with some new signings also added to the group. The first two games have provided the squad with different challenges, ones that we have risen to although a lot of lessons have been learnt. We feel the players are improving each week, and becoming more aware of the style of play, patterns and the movements of each other. Unfortunately we have also had some set backs with injuries to Centre Back Rainer Smahel (broken foot) and Captain Chris Lindsay (ruptured ankle ligaments). Both will be big misses for the team. North Shore Mariners (NSM) was These injuries will on the other hand also challenge the squad’s created through the evolution of depth and provide opportunities for other players. a grassroots football club namely Northbridge FC. The club started The U18/20 squads have been playing some good football but in local football in the Northern unfortunately have not had the results. These will come as the Suburbs Football Association and groups develop thoughout the season, their main aim is to develop has worked itself through the FNSW individually and become better football players, pushing for 1st leagues in a small amount of time. Grade ie. Eddie Caspers (17 yrs) who has started the first two NSM is excited to now be involved games. with the NPL1 League and is looking The Sydney FC game will provide a new challenge and we are forward to the season ahead. The looking forward to playing them in Round 3. first game in NPL1 sees the club play against Apia Leichhardt, an Joe Haywood - Head Coach NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 FIRST GRADE REVIEWS Sutherland Sharks 1 – Rockdale Ilinden 1 at Seymour minutes from full-time proved the difference between the Shaw Park two rivals from Sydney’s inner-west. A Blake Powell strike in the closing stages has helped APIA dominated what was a physical first half of football, Sutherland Sharks fightback to claim a 1-1 draw against taking the lead in the 17th minute through a David Southern Sydney rivals Rockdale Ilinden FC at Seymour D’Apuzzo header. Shaw on Saturday. Olympic hit the pitched refreshed after the break and The result was a solid improvement from the Sharks took control of the second stanza, with Bai Antoniou after their round one drubbing at the hands of Marconi netting the equalizer in the 60th minute. but new coach Nick Dimovski still has plenty to do in a The match looked likely to finish in a draw, but as the performance which was still lacking at times. game came to a close Payne pulled off an 87th minute After a scoreless first half, Rockdale thought they had thriller that saw the home side take all three points. done enough to claim the win when Sam Gulisano fired Wollongong Wolves 2 – North Shore Mariners 3 at home from range with only 20 minutes left to play. Albert Butler Memorial Park However, the Sharks rallied in the closing minutes with North Shore Mariners secured a dramatic 3-2 victory Powell finding the equaliser to ensure Sutherland went over reigning National Premier Leagues NSW premiers home with their first competition points of the campaign. Wollongong Wolves on Sunday afternoon at Albert Butler Manly United 0 – Blacktown City FC 1 at Cromer Park Memorial Park. For the second consecutive week, Matthew Lewis proved Mitch Smith’s strike in the dying stages helped stun the to be the match winner as his spot kick sealed a hard- reigning premiers as the Mariners secured their first win fought three points for Blacktown City against Manly in the state league top flight.