Yer it’s farked so many washouts- screws up the comps totally - doubleheaders when possible makes it worse later.
Now I have to spend more time with the Mrs as well haha

18 rescheduled fixtures NPL Queensland as it stands - due to recent severe weather has been happening across South East Queensland in first half of the season,

Round 3:
Sunshine Coast Wanderers v Brisbane Roar – Wednesday June 11th 7.30pm

Round 5:
Gold Coast Knights v Brisbane Roar – new date TBA
St George Willawong v Olympic FC – Wednesday May 28th 7.30pm
Eastern Suburbs v Moreton City Excelsior – Wednesday June 11th 8.30pm
Peninsula Power v Wynnum Wolves – Wednesday June 25th 7.30pm
Gold Coast United v Sunshine Coast Wanderers – Sunday June 29th 3.00pm

Round 6:
Sunshine Coast Wanderers v Eastern Suburbs – new date TBA
Peninsula Power v Gold Coast Knights – new date TBA

Round 7:
Moreton City Excelsior v Sunshine Coast Wanderers – new date TBA
Wynnum Wolves v Brisbane City – Wednesday June 4th 8.30pm
Eastern Suburbs v Brisbane Roar – Wednesday June 25th 7.30pm
Gold Coast Knights v Olympic FC – Friday July 25th 7.30pm

Round 8:
Moreton City Excelsior v Gold Coast United – new date TBA
Olympic FC v Brisbane City – Sunday June 29th 6.00pm
Eastern Suburbs v Lions FC – Wednesday July 9th 8.30pm
Peninsula Power v St George Willawong – Wednesday July 16th 7.45pm

Round 10:
Eastern Suburbs v Gold Coast Knights – new date TBA
Peninsula Power v Olympic FC – new date TBA

NicCarBel said:

Expecting the same here in Canberra - There are a synthetic grounds I gather that they can/will use as much as possible - priority for CF seems to be the NPL + CPL games.

Am expecting:

• NPL Youth to be split up across Nicholls and Hawker. Possibly even ANU if they can wrangle it?
• NPL + CPL + NPLW Seniors to be split up across AIS Synthetic Pitch, Melrose High, and possibly even the new one in Jerrabombera/Hume

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Rain has eased up here, so some pitch inspections happening tonight.

Monaro v Gungahlin confirmed still on at Riverside.

O’Connor v Yoogali has been moved from O’Connor to Hawker (synthetic)

The grounds in Wagga for CPL have been inspected and passed

Haven’t heard on anything else

A bit potentially happening in SA's structure. Major review underway, a few rumours about what it could lead to. Maybe the amateur associations linking in to the pyramid, maybe a choice of reserves or youth teams, maybe resizing the divisions, maybe a 10 team Super League again! Some sound great, some sound stupid.

HappyGuus said:

A bit potentially happening in SA's structure. Major review underway, a few rumours about what it could lead to. Maybe the amateur associations linking in to the pyramid, maybe a choice of reserves or youth teams, maybe resizing the divisions, maybe a 10 team Super League again! Some sound great, some sound stupid.

Review of Senior Men’s Competition Structure Underway

Football in South Australia has seen steady growth over the past decade, particularly in junior boys’ participation.

www.footballsa.com.au

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Well.. if it’s run anything like Capital Football’s, I would expect Northern Demons to be removed.

Fortunately, I think Football SA has more sense in their brains and won’t do that.

Linking the amateur leagues would be good - the whole Saturday, Sunday and Collegiate system is very hard to follow in terms of tiers and pyramids haha

NicCarBel said:

Rain has eased up here, so some pitch inspections happening tonight.

Monaro v Gungahlin confirmed still on at Riverside.

O’Connor v Yoogali has been moved from O’Connor to Hawker (synthetic)

The grounds in Wagga for CPL have been inspected and passed

Haven’t heard on anything else

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NPL games here I think are all going ahead at their normal venues (for first grade), other than the O’Connor v Yoogali game already mentioned

Monaro’s game confirmed to be going ahead at the original venue (Riverside), and Queanbeyan City’s home ground is just across the river, so I’d assume that’s going ahead there too.

Deakin Stadium is hosting a relocated referee’s course this weekend as well, so assume the pitch standard has been inspected for that game to be going ahead tomorrow

Turf grounds majority closed in my association.
Syn pitches obviously going ahead.

Just noticed Morton City has two senior teams, one in NPL and the other in FQPL2. What's going on there? The Qld NPL teams already have reserves/U23, what's this extra team Morton City has?

I know NNSW, ACT and TAS have reserves teams in their pyramid, but I thought Queensland was too good/deep for that. Certainly lowers my opinion of it slightly.

NicCarBel said:

Well.. if it’s run anything like Capital Football’s, I would expect Northern Demons to be removed.

Fortunately, I think Football SA has more sense in their brains and won’t do that.

Linking the amateur leagues would be good - the whole Saturday, Sunday and Collegiate system is very hard to follow in terms of tiers and pyramids haha

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Yeah linking up SAASL and Collegiate should be easy enough. Let's hope they get it done.

Just for comparison on the ACT travel saga... In the Limestone Coast league, clubs can travel 140 minutes or 210 kms one way to play. In the Sunday SA amateurs, clubs travel 150 minutes or 220 kms every week. This isn't NPL level, not even 2nd or 3rd divisions, these are amateur and regional leagues! In Tassie the trips can be 210 minutes or 270 kms. In the 1980s, SA teams would travel over 4 hours or 390 kms each week because Whyalla was in the league.

ACT is weak as piss. It's the NPL and they aren't taking it seriously.

HappyGuus said:

Just noticed Morton City has two senior teams, one in NPL and the other in FQPL2. What's going on there? The Qld NPL teams already have reserves/U23, what's this extra team Morton City has?

I know NNSW, ACT and TAS have reserves teams in their pyramid, but I thought Queensland was too good/deep for that. Certainly lowers my opinion of it slightly.

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This has happened because of a merger of two clubs at the end of the 2023 season. Moreton Bay Jets were in NPL and Albany Creek Excelsior were in FQPL1. Both played and trained out of the same home ground, and obviously had some links even though they were nominally separate clubs. Although Albany Creek also had a second ground for the juniors. They merged after the 2023 season to form Moreton City Excelsior, and FQ allowed them to keep the two teams. The lower team is now in FQPL2 after being relegated in 2024. FQ seems to have an unwritten policy of encouraging clubs to merge, and it seems like part of the quid pro quo to encourage the merger was allowing MCE to keep the two senior teams in the pyramid.
The same thing happened at exactly the same time with Western Pride (FWPL1) and Ipswich City Bulls (FQPL4), who merged to form Ipswich FC and were allowed to keep teams in FQPL1 and FQPL4. The original two clubs did have their own separate grounds though in this case.
There was a lot of debate at the time in the FQ community about whether the new clubs should be allowed to have two teams in the pyramid, but it seems FQ’s desire to merge clubs to make the new club a bigger, stronger entity, overrode the common sense position of allowing only one team per club in the pyramid.

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This has happened because of a merger of two clubs at the end of the 2023 season. Moreton Bay Jets were in NPL and Albany Creek Excelsior were in FQPL1. Both played and trained out of the same home ground, and obviously had some links even though they were nominally separate clubs. Although Albany Creek also had a second ground for the juniors. They merged after the 2023 season to form Moreton City Excelsior, and FQ allowed them to keep the two teams. The lower team is now in FQPL2 after being relegated in 2024. FQ seems to have an unwritten policy of encouraging clubs to merge, and it seems like part of the quid pro quo to encourage the merger was allowing MCE to keep the two senior teams in the pyramid.
The same thing happened at exactly the same time with Western Pride (FWPL1) and Ipswich City Bulls (FQPL4), who merged to form Ipswich FC and were allowed to keep teams in FQPL1 and FQPL4. The original two clubs did have their own separate grounds though in this case.
There was a lot of debate at the time in the FQ community about whether the new clubs should be allowed to have two teams in the pyramid, but it seems FQ’s desire to merge clubs to make the new club a bigger, stronger entity, overrode the common sense position of allowing only one team per club in the pyramid.

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Yep pretty spot on - was confusing when I tried to do my database/spreadsheet

HappyGuus said:

Yeah linking up SAASL and Collegiate should be easy enough. Let's hope they get it done.

Just for comparison on the ACT travel saga... In the Limestone Coast league, clubs can travel 140 minutes or 210 kms one way to play. In the Sunday SA amateurs, clubs travel 150 minutes or 220 kms every week. This isn't NPL level, not even 2nd or 3rd divisions, these are amateur and regional leagues! In Tassie the trips can be 210 minutes or 270 kms. In the 1980s, SA teams would travel over 4 hours or 390 kms each week because Whyalla was in the league.

ACT is weak as piss. It's the NPL and they aren't taking it seriously.

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Great points re: travel - We’ve been doing it in Griffith for quite a while.

90’s and 2000’s saw Hanwood and Yoogali SC travelling to to Shepparton et al in the now defunct Goulburn Valley league, and then again in the 2010’s for a couple seasons (with Yoogali FC and West Griffith joining them - from memory, but I could be wrong)

For years we’ve had it in our leagues, with trips to Hay (140km), Hillston (115km) and Deniliquin (196km) being a regular thing.

Keeper66 said:

This has happened because of a merger of two clubs at the end of the 2023 season. Moreton Bay Jets were in NPL and Albany Creek Excelsior were in FQPL1. Both played and trained out of the same home ground, and obviously had some links even though they were nominally separate clubs. Although Albany Creek also had a second ground for the juniors. They merged after the 2023 season to form Moreton City Excelsior, and FQ allowed them to keep the two teams. The lower team is now in FQPL2 after being relegated in 2024. FQ seems to have an unwritten policy of encouraging clubs to merge, and it seems like part of the quid pro quo to encourage the merger was allowing MCE to keep the two senior teams in the pyramid.
The same thing happened at exactly the same time with Western Pride (FWPL1) and Ipswich City Bulls (FQPL4), who merged to form Ipswich FC and were allowed to keep teams in FQPL1 and FQPL4. The original two clubs did have their own separate grounds though in this case.
There was a lot of debate at the time in the FQ community about whether the new clubs should be allowed to have two teams in the pyramid, but it seems FQ’s desire to merge clubs to make the new club a bigger, stronger entity, overrode the common sense position of allowing only one team per club in the pyramid.

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Excellent knowledge. Do you think the second team will be phased out eventually? What if they end up in the same division?

HappyGuus said:

A bit potentially happening in SA's structure. Major review underway, a few rumours about what it could lead to. Maybe the amateur associations linking in to the pyramid, maybe a choice of reserves or youth teams, maybe resizing the divisions, maybe a 10 team Super League again! Some sound great, some sound stupid.

Review of Senior Men’s Competition Structure Underway

Football in South Australia has seen steady growth over the past decade, particularly in junior boys’ participation.

www.footballsa.com.au

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Just make it a normal league systme and watch it flourish. Engineering things to the lowest common denominator is dumb.

HappyGuus said:

Excellent knowledge. Do you think the second team will be phased out eventually? What if they end up in the same division?

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The FQ Rules of Competition state that clubs are only permitted one team in any NPL or FQPL division. So if the two teams are in consecutive leagues (e.g., NPL and FQPL1, FQPL1 and FQPL2, etc) and the lower team finishes in a promotion position and the upper team doesn't, the lower team will not be promoted. If the upper team finishes in the relegation position, it will be relegated and the team in the lower league will also be relegated, regardless of the position of the team in the lower league, unless the team in the lower league finishes in a promotion position in which case the two teams will essentially swap leagues.

The FQ pyramid is very similar to the one in Spain. Except that, in Spain, a club having 2 teams in the pyramid is common and some clubs even have 3 teams eg Real Madrid, Barcelona, Real Sociedad and there are some others I can't recall right now.

Promotion and relegation is handled in the way described for Queensland by Keeper 66. It is not at all rare in Spain for a team to be denied promotion, or forced into relegation, because of the "only one club team per pyramid level" rule.

The system in Spain seems to work OK, so maybe in the fullness of time the FQ desire to see teams in Queensland amalgamate might not be such a bad outcome.

Weekend results – May 23 to May 25.

NPL ACT round 7:
O'Connor Knights 5 Yoogali 1
Queanbeyan City 1 Cooma Tigers 2
Monaro Panthers 7 Gungahlin United 0
Canberra Croatia 5 Tuggeranong United 0

NPL NSW round 16:
Sydney FC 2 NWS Spirit 0
Sutherland Sharks 1 Sydney United 2
Mt Druitt Town Rangers 1 Western Sydney Wanderers 2
Wollongong Wolves 0 APIA Leichhardt Tigers 2
St George City 1 Rockdale Ilinden 4
St George Saints 2 Sydney Olympic 0
Blacktown City 0 Marconi Stallions 2
Central Coast Mariners v Manly United – postponed

NPL NNSW round 13:
Lambton Jaffas v Broadmeadow Magic – postponed
New Lambton v Charlestown Azzurri – postponed
Maitland v Cooks Hill United – postponed
Valentine v Adamstown Rosebud – postponed
Edgeworth Eagles v Belmont Swansea United – postponed
Weston Bears v Newcastle Olympic – postponed

NPL Queensland round 11:
Gold Coast Knights 0 Gold Coast United 1
Brisbane City 1 Sunshine Coast Wanderers 1
Wynnum Wolves 2 Eastern Suburbs 4
Lions FC 1 Peninsula Power 1
St George Willawong 3 Moreton City Excelsior 1
Olympic FC 1 Brisbane Roar 0

NPL South Australia round 11:
West Torrens Birkalla 1 Croydon Kings 3
Adelaide Croatia Raiders 1 Adelaide City 2
Adelaide United 1 Modbury Jets 0
Playford City Patriots 0 Adelaide Comets 1
FK Beograd 0 Campbelltown City 1
North Eastern MetroStars 2 Para Hills Knights 1

NPL Tasmania round 8:
Glenorchy Knights 3 Clarence Zebras 0
Launceston United 1 Launceston City 6
Kingborough Lions 2 South Hobart 3
Riverside Olympic 1 Devonport Strikers 2

NPL Victoria round 15:
Melbourne Knights 0 South Melbourne 2
Oakleigh Cannons 3 Green Gully Cavaliers 1
Port Melbourne Sharks 0 Avondale FC 1
Preston Lions 1 Dandenong City 1
Dandenong Thunder 1 Hume City 1
Melbourne Victory 0 Heidelberg United 3
St Albans Saints 0 Altona Magic 1

NPL Western Australia round 9:
Perth SC 0 Bayswater City 1
Balcatta 1 Floreat Athena 1
Fremantle City 0 Armadale 5
Sorrento 0 Perth RedStar 1
Perth Glory 0 Olympic Kingsway 1
Stirling Macedonia 2 Western Knights 2

Upcoming fixtures – May 30 to June 2.

NPL ACT round 8,

Friday May 30th:
7.30pm Gungahlin United v Tuggeranong United

Saturday May 31st:
3.00pm Cooma Tigers v Monaro Panthers
5.30pm Canberra Croatia v O'Connor Knights

Sunday June 1st:
3.00pm Yoogali v Queanbeyan City

NPL NSW round 17,

Saturday May 31st:
5.00pm Sutherland Sharks v Manly United
5.30pm NWS Spirit v Blacktown City
6.00pm APIA Leichhardt Tigers v Central Coast Mariners
7.00pm Western Sydney Wanderers v Sydney Olympic
7.15pm St George City v Wollongong Wolves

Sunday June 1st:
3.00pm Marconi Stallions v Mt Druitt Town Rangers
3.00pm Sydney United v Sydney FC
3.00pm Rockdale Ilinden v St George Saints

NPL NNSW round 14,

Friday May 30th:
8.00pm Broadmeadow Magic v New Lambton

Saturday May 31st:
2.00pm Lambton Jaffas v Edgeworth Eagles
4.30pm Cooks Hill United v Weston Bears
4.30pm Belmont Swansea United v Valentine

Sunday June 1st:
2.00pm Charlestown Azzurri v Newcastle Olympic
4.30pm Maitland v Adamstown Rosebud

NPL Queensland round 12,

Friday May 30th:
7.30pm Lions FC v Gold Coast Knights
7.30pm Wynnum Wolves v Gold Coast United Men

Saturday May 31st:
3.00pm Brisbane Roar v Peninsula Power

Sunday June 1st:
4.15pm Moreton City Excelsior v Brisbane City
5.00pm St George Willawong v Eastern Suburbs
6.00pm Olympic FC v Sunshine Coast Wanderers

NPL South Australia round 12,

Friday May 30th:
8.00pm (7.30pm Adelaide) North Eastern MetroStars v Campbelltown City
8.45pm (8.15pm Adelaide) Adelaide City v FK Beograd
8.45pm (8.15pm Adelaide) West Torrens Birkalla v Para Hills Knights

Saturday May 31st:
3.00pm (2.30pm Adelaide) Adelaide Comets v Modbury Jets
3.30pm (3.00pm Adelaide) Playford City Patriots v Croydon Kings
5.30pm (5.00pm Adelaide) Adelaide United v Adelaide Croatia Raiders

NPL Tasmania round 9,

Saturday May 31st:
12.15pm Launceston United v Riverside Olympic
2.30pm Devonport Strikers v Kingborough Lions
2.30pm Clarence Zebras v Launceston City

Sunday June 1st:
2.00pm South Hobart v Glenorchy Knights

NPL Victoria round 16,

Friday May 30th:
7.30pm Heidelberg United v St Albans Saints
7.45pm Dandenong City v Dandenong Thunder
8.15pm Oakleigh Cannons v Port Melbourne Sharks
8.30pm Hume City v Green Gully Cavaliers

Saturday May 31st:
3.00pm Avondale FC v Melbourne Knights*
6.15pm Altona Magic v Preston Lions**

Sunday June 1st:
5.00pm South Melbourne v Melbourne Victory

*must be moved an hour earlier to 2.00pm kickoff (due to Isuzu UTE A League Men grand final).
**must be moved to Friday 8.30pm kickoff (to avoid direct clash against Isuzu UTE A League Men grand final).

NPL Western Australia round 10,

Saturday May 31st:
5.00pm (3.00pm Perth) Armadale v Stirling Macedonia
5.00pm (3.00pm Perth) Balcatta v Perth Glory
5.00pm (3.00pm Perth) Bayswater City v Fremantle City
5.00pm (3.00pm Perth) Olympic Kingsway v Perth
5.00pm (3.00pm Perth) Perth RedStar v Floreat Athena
5.00pm (3.00pm Perth) Western Knights v Sorrento

Marconi back on track it seems and five points clear after their shock loss to the Wolves a couple of weeks back.