Sydney Olympic Off-Season Blog #6 – February

We are now under a month away from the start of the 2017 NSW NPL season and our important season opener away against the Bonnyrigg White Eagles on Saturday, March 11 - 7pm.

Hopefully the players and everybody associated with the Club will be ready to put 2016 behind them, be ready for Match 1 and be ready to give the competition a real shake this season.

Over the last couple of months we have played a series of Pre-Season matches, with plenty of players getting a run in these matches to test themselves and to put their best foot forward into earning a spot in First Grade.

Stanmore Hawks 0-3 SYDNEY OLYMPIC
Bonnyrigg White Eagles 0-0 SYDNEY OLYMPIC
Mounties Wanderers 1-2 SYDNEY OLYMPIC
Blacktown Spartans 1-4 SYDNEY OLYMPIC

The squad is starting to take shape and given we are only working with what we have seen and heard so far, as well as on word of mouth, this is the current list we have of our current squad:

Paul Henderson
Will Angel
Yianni Spyrakis
Mitch Stamatellis
Jason Madonis
Niko Tsattalios
Jake de Marigny
Hagi Gligor
Peter Makrillos
Max Burgess
Darcy Burgess
Paul Katsetis
Steven Drewery
Costa Andricopoulos

Plus recent arrivals: Radovan Pavicevic, Yu Kuboki, Jinya An, Goran Subara

Not sure on the status of Howard Fondyke and Eoin Montford at this stage and whether they are still with us. I may have also missed a couple of players, if I have apologies.

Plenty of interest has also surrounded our new coach Jamie Monroy and how he has settled into the role. From everybody I have spoken to everybody is very impressed with him and how he is going about it, crucially and most importantly, the players seem to be enjoying having him as coach.

Our next Pre-Season match is this Sunday, February 19, at Cromer Park against Manly United, Kick-Off is set for 7pm.