But apart from a change in the Club Emblem, most things are as you were, especially on the communications front.
The Club either does not understand or does not have the resources to fill in a major role, and that is having someone who actively updates all of the Club’s social media channels; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.
It might not sound important but these are major avenues where supporters find out any information about the Club as well as Match Day details. For these channels not to be utilised is a shame. The Twitter account for example has not been active for 3 months, not good enough. Granted we are now in the off-season, but the point still stands.
It also couldn’t hurt to have someone who knows a little bit about Sydney Olympic running these channels.
It appears that the Club has appointed a CEO, John Boulous, who was formerly the CEO of Football Federation Tasmania.
Up until recently he was CEO of the Parramatta Eels NRL Club. I’m not across the whole Parramatta Salary Cap story, as I’m a South Sydney man, but yes it is that John Boulous. As I said I’m not totally across what happened there but obviously that whole salary-cap debacle would have involved more than just one person and as we all know it all ended in tears there at the Eels.
What is interesting however, is that the Board and the Club felt the need to appoint a CEO, we’ll see how this pans out.
Obviously with the lack of official announcements or activity from the Club this list may not be 100% correct, but I am fairly certain the following players will be with Sydney Olympic for 2017:
Paul Henderson, William Angel, Niko Tsattalios, Mitchell Stamatellis, Jason Madonis, Hagi Gligor, Jacob Boutoubia, Jake De Marigny, Eoin Montford. Plus a few U20s players who will be part of the First Grade Squad from 2017.
Michael Gaitatzis, Yianni Spyrakis, Peter Makrillos are 3 players reportedly close to or have already signed on for 2017.
As for the departures it is looking fairly certain that the Green brothers, Oliver and Jack as well as Anthony Tomelic won’t be with us next season, all 3 are fine players and all the best to them if in fact they are no longer with us. Leigh Egger and Howard Fondyke may also be moving on.
It also looks likely that Brayden Sorge may not be with us for 2017, injuries have hampered this player for a while, which is disappointing as he has been fantastic for us and seemed to have a big future in front of him before his injuries.
Also confirmed as gone is Harris Gaitatzis, who for the past 3 seasons has been terrific for us and many times he’s been a lone wolf in what has been an ineffective Sydney Olympic attack. But how anyone can play for that disgraceful mob I will never understand, is it only about money? Who knows? But we wish him all the best, hopefully he scores every game but his new team loses every game.
And finally, there still has not been an announcement regarding the AGM.
Till next time…
