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NPL 2025

Beretta said:
@Glenardo i was listening to a podcast last night, and one thing that surprised me was, Marconi have never won an NPL premiership (minor premiers) in NPL. i guess i was just shocked, because it's such a status club.

Good chance this year to get the first.
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Yea pretty sure I listened to the same podcast. Very interesting title race this year, Marconi well ahead, seemingly bottle it, get caught and overtaken by Rockdale only for them to then drop a few games and give up the position they’d worked so hard to get into. Massive game this weekend for them v spirit. As they mentioned on the podcast, not only the title race but could basically decide which club qualifies for the championship.

Re Marconi not winning the nsw premiership, it’s an interesting quirk of history, obviously before my time but Marconi only really started to get strong late 60s/early 70s. Marconi actually have spent comparatively little time in the nsw top flight. 5 or so years prior the nsl, and then obviously alongside South Melbourne, Marconi are the only other club to have played in every season of the NSL from its foundation to its demise.
 
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Glenardo said:
Yea pretty sure I listened to the same podcast. Very interesting title race this year, Marconi well ahead, seemingly bottle it, get caught and overtaken by Rockdale only for them to then drop a few games and give up the position they’d worked so hard to get into. Massive game this weekend for them v spirit. As they mentioned on the podcast, not only the title race but could basically decide which club qualifies for the championship.

Re Marconi not winning the nsw premiership, it’s an interesting quirk of history, obviously before my time but Marconi only really started to get strong late 60s/early 70s. Marconi actually have spent comparatively little time in the nsw top flight. 5 or so years prior the nsl, and then obviously alongside South Melbourne Marconi are the only other club to have played in every season of the NSL from its foundation to its demise.
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Not to rub it in but even being outside of the Victorian top flight for 27 years (during the NSL) South still have the most Vic state titles :P
 
If anyone’s interested, final year of the nsw state league prior to the start of the NSL, interesting to see how many of these are the same clubs who still make of the nsw npl today. All the foundation championships clubs from Sydney were top half of the table even then. Goes to show that these clubs are genuine pillars of the game in Sydney and Australia.

For those who don’t know and I doubt there’s many who follow this thread that don’t; but Pan Hellenic is obviously Sydney Olympic, Croatia is Sydney united
 

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