Sydney Olympic is limping to a meek surrender of
its NSW Championship. As a poor season was compounded even further, by losing
to an anti-football Marconi side on Sunday Afternoon at Belmore Sports Ground.
We are entering territory where we now don’t have matters in our own hands and
we start needing “favours” and “results to go our way elsewhere” to even make
the Top 5, play Finals and defend our Championship. Which all things considered,
is very unlikely to occur anyway.
I will not be going through all the same issues and wasting everybody’s time, especially
about things that I have been posting about all season, as it is getting all
too repetitive, I’m sure. Most people who have eyes and who have either been to
matches or watched the games on the internet throughout the year, know and
understand what has been dished up this season.
Offensively, none of our supposed strikers have scored in any of the last 6 rounds.
Obviously, relying on your midfielders and defenders to score your goals every
match, is going to bring you nothing, and get you nowhere.
Defensively, we haven’t conceded this many goals (31) since season 2010, when
we finished a pathetic 2nd last. Bear in mind that there are still 2 rounds to
go though, so there is ample time to match the 40 we copped that year.
What a difference 12 months makes, we can’t score and can’t defend now and the
doom and gloom times have returned.
We were on a hiding to nothing from the get go. Everybody involved at the club
have dropped the ball. I’m not sure what went through their minds at the end of
last year, we just rock up in 2019 and everything just happens like magic
again?
Did they really think that was how it was going to play out?
Don’t bring in any new faces, don’t replace the talent that left in the off-season,
don’t sign anyone of note, then sign players who are duds who were way passed
it.
Good plan.
We got what we deserved in 2019 and that’s nothing. Not to mention the Cup run
we had this season, where it was as if we were trying very hard to get
ourselves knocked out by some random park teams at the earliest point possible.
People at the club instead have been too busy running around discussing
frivolous things like alleged National 2nd divisions and chasing agreements
concerning some sort of phantom promotion and relegation to the a-league.
I only speak for myself here, others may agree or disagree, but I couldn’t care
less about any of it, our focus should be fixing our own problems and getting our
own house in order, both on and off the field.
Speaking of which, there has still been no official communication from the club
over the Tempe debacle. Where’s the transparency? Whatever happened to those
CEO updates?
The official end to the season can’t come quickly enough.
In the Club Championship the 18s won 2-1 and the 20s won 2-0.
Next week is our final home match of the season, our home record in 2019 reads:
4 losses, 3 draws, 3 wins, with 1 of those home wins coming at Lambert Park in
the match that was moved against Hakoah in Round 15, so it is 2 wins at home at
Belmore this season. Disgraceful.
Next week: Sydney Olympic v Sydney United, Sunday Afternoon, August 4, Kick-Off
is at 4pm.
On the women’s side of things, they have done very well in their first season
in NPL 1. They are sitting in 2nd place, after a 1-0 win over the Northern
Tigers on the weekend. In the final round, they face NWS Koalas at Peter Moore
Field this Sunday, Kick-Off is at 3pm.
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