After a few years of not having one and as promised by the new board,
Sydney Olympic has had its Annual General Meeting, which took place on November
30.
Several outcomes and assurances were given by the Board during the AGM,
concerning several issues.
1) There was a thorough examination of the Club’s finances, which was
undertaken by an accounting firm. It was discovered that the Club was left with
a significant amount of debt by previous Boards. The current Board, has
been working extremely hard to manage this situation.
2) The current Board assured us and is confident, that the Tempe-Redevelopment
will be going ahead as planned and it will become the new base and home of
Sydney Olympic, with talk that it will be ready by 2018. Now with all of these
things and given how many “projects” and “new homes” we have been promised and
have had fall through for the Club throughout the years, I personally will
remain pessimistic about the whole thing until I see it has become a reality,
with my own eyes. I’m sure many others feel the same way.
3) The Club is also pushing through with trying to get a synthetic
surface installed for Peter Moore Field.
4) The Club is aware of the lack of communications, via the Website and via Facebook,
Twitter etc. and will be taking steps to resolve this problem.
5) The Board has also made assurances that First Grade will not suffer or be
neglected as a result of the many other issues the Club is currently dealing
with, they also re-iterated that Sydney Olympic will be more than competitive for
season 2017.
Continuing with the playing side of things, with some team news. There
hasn’t been much more to add to the previous blogs in this regard. What is for
certain though is Jacob Boutoubia, who was decent for us during season 2016,
before he was seriously injured towards the back end of last season, has left
the club to play on the Gold Coast.
So at this stage without being able to confirm it 100%, as more players
may have come and gone over the last few weeks, this is roughly what our current
squad looks like:
Paul Henderson, Eoin Montford, Mitch Stamatellis, Jake de Marigny, Niko
Tsattalios
Will Angel, Howard Fondyke, Yianni Spyrakis, Peter Makrillos, Jason Madonis,
Hagi Gligor, Paul Katsetis, Nikita Andricopoulos
Michael Gaitatzis, Evan Patramanis
Looking at this list alone, we need a couple more defenders and at
least 1 quality striker if we are to seriously challenge on multiple fronts
next season.
Finally, we also have some pre-season hit-out news, we will be having a match
this Sunday Night, December 11, at Arlington Oval in Dulwich Hill against
Stanmore Hawks, Kick-Off is set for 7pm.
