At this time of the year it is always fairly
slim pickings for news, especially in a competition where there is no news
coverage anyway nor any media attention paid to it. In what is supposed to be
Australia’s “2nd Tier”, a “2nd Tier” that has a 6-month off-season.
Anyway, at this point of the off-season squad
wise, Sydney Olympic has re-signed the following players for next season:
Paul Henderson, William Angel, Niko Tsattalios, Jason Madonis, Jinya An, Darcy
Burgess, George Timotheou, Tom Whiteside, Jake De Marigny, Stephen Athanaseris.
Since the Club announced this a few weeks ago now, they have also added Riley Woodcock,
a Left-Back who played for Sydney United last season, Nicola Kuleski, a DM/CM
type from Sydney FC’s NPL team and Rafa Jimenez from Spain who has represented
Australia at youth level, he is primarily a Centre-Back.
So put them all together and we have 14 players
so far for next season, most of them are Midfielders and Defenders.
The Achilles Heel for Sydney Olympic clearly has been, and every Sydney Olympic
Supporter will tell you, is the lack of goals, the lack of Strikers and
Centre-Forwards who can regularly put the ball in the back of the net.
Obviously, 14 players is not going to do it for you as a squad size, especially
if you want to be challenging on all fronts.
Hopefully there are still a few announcements to come in terms of signings for
2018 and that a few of those are players who can score goals.
Onto other items of interest:
- First the AGM, no news has been forthcoming for this, maybe the fact we had
one last year means they feel there is no need to have one this year? Defeats
the purpose of the “Annual” part of the equation, maybe early next year, who
knows, we will wait and see I guess.
- Second, the whole Tempe business, it certainly does not look good. Given the
lack of any news about this I am going to assume yet another Local Government
has put the pen through yet another Sydney Olympic Home Base plan. Other
smaller park sides seem to be able to get what they want out of Councils and
Governments yet Sydney Olympic cannot for some reason, frustrating.
- And Thirdly, bring back the Souvlakia to Belmore next year (I can’t believe
this even needs to be uttered)
1. The entire Tempe proposal is based off strong political ties. How can we expect local and state governments to provide funding and support when we change our board every year and there is no point of continuity. Messaging is key to this project and we have no message beyond Olympic. An example of this is how South Melbourne have shifted their language from we deserve to be in the a-league to...not enough juniors are playong professionally and we can help give them a platform. End goal is the same but its all about the messaging.
ReplyDelete2. I have been a long time critic of the food at belmore. Its atrocious.
The fact we have heard nothing about it suggests it has been canned, i would like to know for sure from the club what has happened.
Deletechris great work as always - im hearing major issues with regards to the 18's and 20's for olympic - no coaches announced and I see on their website that "open trials" are now being held for these teams. Since when do Olympic hold open trials for these grades - wasn't it only last year we won the comp in the 20's? has the majority of that team left? why aren't young players knocking down the door to play with us like the old days? no other team in the npl is holding trails for 18/20's, and it makes you wonder if both teams carry on as they did this season in 18/s / 20's and 1st grade struggles, surviving relegation will be the main objective in 2019
ReplyDeletechris great work as always - im hearing major issues with regards to the 18's and 20's for olympic - no coaches announced and I see on their website that "open trials" are now being held for these teams. Since when do Olympic hold open trials for these grades - wasn't it only last year we won the comp in the 20's? has the majority of that team left? why aren't young players knocking down the door to play with us like the old days? no other team in the npl is holding trials for 18/20's, and it makes you wonder if both teams carry on as they did this season in 18/s / 20's and 1st grade struggles next year, surviving relegation will be the main objective in 2019
ReplyDeletemate spot on and am hearing the issue is coach for 20s has idea of who he wants to bring in but certain individuals at the club with influence are pushing for average players to be included for own benefit
Deletenot good
mate spot on and am hearing the issue is coach for 20s has idea of who he wants to bring in but certain individuals at the club with influence are pushing for average players to be included for own benefit
Deletenot good
Can honestly say i do not know what has happened at 18s and 20s level. It is getting very difficult to know what is happening, the lack of communication on several issues concerning the club is worrying.
DeleteAnd gone are the days of kids banging down the door to play for Olympic, unfortunately after being thrown to the gutter by Frank Lowy we as a club have not coped well at all with our current surroundings.
lol forget tempe stompa- these guys are more likely to build apartment blocks to service themselves then a football precent that benefits olympic
ReplyDeleteforget tempe more chance of these guys building apartment blocks for their own benefit that a football precent to service Sydney Olympic fc
ReplyDeleteforget tempe , this mob more likely to build apartment blocks for their own benefit then a football precent that services Olympic
ReplyDeleteBonnyrigg White Eagles FC are having the same problem, They cannot find any people to run their canteen so I don't think there will be any hot food there any time soon this year.
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