Sydney Olympic – June

Three months since this virus came into our lives and turned everything upside down and 3 months since the 2020 NSW NPL season was halted, there might be some light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of seeing any football resuming this season.

It seems like a lifetime ago, since we saw any live football and some of you might need your memories jogged, on what happened in the first 3 rounds of season 2020.

Round 1 – 2-1 loss at home vs. Wollongong
Round 2 – 2-1 loss away vs. APIA Leichhardt
Round 3 – 2-0 loss away vs. Marconi

Most decent judges would say, that they have been and are the 3 best sides in the competition in 2020 and luckily for Sydney Olympic, we drew all 3 of them for our first 3 matches of the competition.

Nevertheless, it has been one of our worst starts to a season for a while, certainly one of the worst that I can remember. From afar, things didn’t look right within the squad.

Regardless of who our opponents are/were, to start the season 0 and 3, after all the hype and optimism about our squad and all our signings before a ball was kicked, to start like that was disappointing and has been a huge let down.

As mentioned at the top, we may soon see some football again in 2020, given that most other sports in Australia and around the world have started back up, or will start back up shortly.

Hopes of there being a full 22 round NSW NPL season however, look increasingly unlikely though, from what I have been told by various people. More than likely, we will see something of a shortened season of 11 rounds. If that does end up happening, promotion and relegation between the various NSW NPL’s, will almost certainly not be taking place.

Of course, there is still a possibility that we will not see any football at all and that the 2020 season will be abandoned.

All in all, we just have to continue waiting around for FNSW to make a definitive decision about what will happen to season 2020.

On another front, as for any hopes of there being some sort of National 2nd Division kicking-off any time soon, with promotion and relegation to and from the a-league, this virus seems to have put a serious dent in that discussion.

As the a-league (and I don’t follow what goes on there all that closely in all honesty), looks like is struggling big time, with a myriad of problems. Which is nothing new from what I hear and are told.

Plus on the whole, we have heard and been on the receiving end of a whole lot of lip service regarding this for many years now, so whether that actually happens or was ever close to happening is highly doubtful.