Game Day Thread - Round 1 - 31st March-1st April

[Norris Lurker]

Pre-season is nearly over, and we're almost ready for some live footy action.

We've got a full round of matches to start the season on 31st March and 1st April.

Please post any fixture changes and game-day information to this thread. And if your club is having a special promotion (eg Ladies Day, Past Players Day etc), I'm happy for clubs to give their events a plug on these weekly threads.


The fixtures for the opening weekend:

Saturday 31st March

Monarch Oval
10:00am ? Division Three ? Campbelltown v Southern Power
12:00pm ? Under 18s One ? Campbelltown v Illawarra
2:10pm ? Premier Division ? Campbelltown v Illawarra

Trumper Park
8:30am ? Division Five ? UTS v UNSW-ES
10:30am ? Division Four ? UTS v UNSW-ES
12:30pm ? Division One ? UTS v UNSW-ES
2:30pm ? Premier Divison ? UTS v UNSW-ES

Mike Kenny Oval
10:00am ? Division Four ? Gosford v North Shore
12:00pm ? Under 18s One ? Pennant Hills v North Shore
2:00pm ? Division One ? Pennant Hills v North Shore
4:10pm ? Premier Division ? Pennant Hills v North Shore

Bruce Purser Reserve
12:00pm ? Under 18s One ? Sydney Hills v Western Suburbs
2:00pm ? NEAFL ? Sydney Hills v Queanbeyan
4:30pm ? Division One ? Sydney Hills v Western Suburbs
6:30pm ? Premier Division ? Sydney Hills v Western Suburbs

Gipps Rd Oval
8:30am ? Division Five ? Holroyd-Parramatta v Macquarie Uni
10:30am ? Under 18s Two ? Holroyd-Parramatta v Southern Power
12:30pm ? Division Four ? Holroyd-Parramatta v Southern Power
2:30pm ? Division One ? Holroyd-Parramatta v Southern Power

University Oval
10:00am ? Division Three ? Macquarie Uni v Blacktown
12:00pm ? Under 18s Two ? Macquarie Uni v Manly-Warringah
2:00pm ? Division Four ? Macquarie Uni v Manly-Warringah
4:10pm ? Division One ? Macquarie Uni v Manly-Warringah

Bensons Lane
10:00am ? Division Four ? NorWest v Penrith
12:00pm ? Under 18s Two ? NorWest v Moorebank
2:10pm ? Division Two ? NorWest v Moorebank

Harrington Park
12:00pm ? Division Five ? Camden v Penrith
2:10pm ? Division Two ? Camden v Illawarra

Mahoney Park
2:10pm ? Division Two ? Auburn v UNSW-ES

Pioneers Park
10:00am ? Under 18s Two ? Saints AFC v Balmain
12:00pm ? Division Five ? Saints AFC v Moorebank
2:10pm ? Division Three ? Saints AFC v Moorebank

Sunday 1st April

Henson Park
9:00am ? Under 18s One ? Sydney Uni v St George
11:00am ? Division Two ? Sydney Uni v St George
1:00pm ? NEAFL ? Sydney Uni v Belconnen
3:45pm ? Premier Division ? Sydney Uni v St George

Mahoney Park
10:00am ? Division Three ? Sydney Uni v Western Suburbs
12:00pm ? Division Two - Balmain v Manly-Warringah

Riverview First Field
10:00am ? Under 18s One ? St Ignatius Riverview v UNSW-ES


BYE ? Balmain (Premier Division), Penrith (Division One), Sydney Uni (Division Five), Penrith (Under 18s One), Sydney Hills (Under 18s Two).

[ShortHalfHead]

Re Div 5 games. I believe that a few changes are in order. Manly pulled their Div 5 team and were replaced by UTS. Auburn then withdrew from Div 5 making it a 9 team comp.

Website not updated as yet, but will probably see Sydney Uni play UTS and Uni NSW have the bye.

I think.

Good luck to all teams for round 1 (except the ones playing Penrith). Hopefully the "fine weather gods" are working hard.

[Norris Lurker]

Footyweb hadn't been updated when I put this thread up - it now has. UTS are in, Auburn are out.

Weekend's weather forecast looks OK:
Friday 30 March
Summary Min 17 Max 24. Shower or two.
Sydney area - Partly cloudy. Isolated showers until evening. Light winds.
Saturday 31 March
Summary Min 17Max 25. Mostly sunny.
Sydney area - Mostly sunny. Light winds.
Sunday 1 April
Summary Min 17Max 26. Mostly sunny.
Sydney area - Mostly sunny. Light winds tending north to northeasterly up to 20 km/h during the afternoon.

[BeeEmmAre]

Both the Sydney Hills v Western Suburbs and Sydney University v St George matches will be streamed live at Digital Sports - Specialists in sports video production

The NEAFL game Sydney Hills v Queanbeyan at 2pm on Saturday can be heard on Alive 90.5FM.

Both this game and Sunday's NEAFL game Sydney Uni v Belconnen may also be streamed live at Digital Sports - Specialists in sports video production - these are still to be confirmed.

[BeeEmmAre]

It's a big day for the Nor-West Jets this week, with Peter 'Pekay' Kyle to play his 100th match for the club on Saturday.
I'm sure everyone will join with me in congratulating him on an achievement that looked like it would never occur on that fateful second semi final day in 2009. Two years is a long time to wait, and everyone is champing at the bit to see Pekay finally run out again.

It is also the return of our under 18s team for the first time since 2004, a sure sign that the club is on the right track. Best of luck to all the boys as they build a future for the Jets.

[DLH]

Hear that Campbelltown have forfeited in the U/18's, not a great start.

Especially given their results last year and the fact that the 16's down that way have been very strong of recent times.

[Norris Lurker]

This week's RWO Wrap of the weekend action is now online.

[nugget]

Hear that Campbelltown have forfeited in the U/18's, not a great start.

Especially given their results last year and the fact that the 16's down that way have been very strong of recent times.

Not a good start for the young blues. Hopefully they are able to find a few more over the next couple of weeks in time for round 2. There were a large number of Under 18 teams who were unable to field full squads. Is this a sign that we have spread our numbers too thin in this grade across the clubs? I know teams are able to play 16 a side if they don't have enough but will we see more forfeits during the year as you get a few injuries and a few get promoted to higher grades etc?

[Norris Lurker]

Campbelltown have dropped back to Div 2 in the U18s.