NPL VIC Round 19/18

NPL ROUND 19: 

Port Melbourne Sharks SC 1 Green Gully SC 1(HT: 0-0)

Northcote City FC 1 South Melbourne FC 1(HT: 0-0) 

Goulburn Valley Suns FC 1 Melbourne Knights FC 1(HT: 0-0) 

Dandenong Thunder SC 1 Pascoe Vale SC 2(HT: 1-2) 

Werribee City FC 1 Ballarat Red Devils SC 3(HT: 0-1) 

Heidelberg United SC 2 Hume City FC 0(HT: 2-0)

Oakleigh Cannons FC 2 Bentleigh Greens SC 1(HT: 2-0) 

NPL1 ROUND 18: 

Springvale White Eagles FC 1 Box Hill United SC 2(HT: 0-0) 

Dandenong City SC 2 FC Bulleen Lions 1(HT: 0-0) 

North Geelong Warriors FC 2 Kingston City FC 1(HT: 0-0)

Moreland Zebras FC 1 Avondale Heights SC 0(HT: 0-0) 

Brunswick City SC 2 (A. Kromah 1, S. Mazzolini 1) Whittlesea Ranges FC 0(HT: 1-0)

St Albans Saints SC 1 Sunshine George Cross SC 0(HT: 0-0)

Richmond SC Seniors  3 FC Bendigo 3(HT: 0-0)  

Tables

NPL

Pos Team                                    P       W       L       D       F       A     GD      PTS    

1   South Melbourne FC                19      16      1       2       42      16      26      50     

2   Oakleigh Cannons FC               19      13      2       4       46      14      32      43     

3   Heidelberg United SC                19      10      4       5       48      28      20      35     

4   Bentleigh Greens SC                  18      10      5       3       34      22      12      33     

5   Hume City FC                           19      9       9       1       25      26      -1      28     

6   Pascoe Vale SC                        18      7       6       5       23      23      0       26     

7   Northcote City FC                     19      7       7       5       30      31      -1      26     

8   Melbourne Knights FC               19      7       10      2       30      29      1       23     

9   Green Gully SC                          19      7       10      2       35      40      -5      23     

10  Dandenong Thunder SC            19      6       10      3       24      40      -16     21     

11  Port Melbourne Sharks SC        19      5       9       5       25      35      -10     20     

12  Ballarat Red Devils SC               17      5       10      2       33      40      -7      17     

13  Werribee City FC                      19      5       12      2       22      42      -20     17     

14  Goulburn Valley Suns FC           19      2       14      3       19      50      -31     9      

NPL1

Pos Team                                  P       W       L       D       F       A     GD      PTS    

1   Avondale Heights SC              18      14      2       2       38      16      22      44     

2   Box Hill United SC                  18      10      5       3       36      16      20      33     

3   North Geelong Warriors FC    17      10      6       1       40      24      16      31     

4   St Albans Saints SC                18      10      5       3       31      22      9       30     

5   Richmond SC Seniors              17      9       6       2       37      33      4       29     

6   FC Bulleen Lions                     18      8       6       4       43      34      9       28     

7   Moreland Zebras FC               17      8       7       2       30      24      6       26     

8   Sunshine George Cross SC      18      7       7       4       30      36      -6      25     

9   Kingston City FC                     18      7       9       2       38      33      5       23     

10  Dandenong City SC                18      6       7       5       31      34      -3      23     

11  FC Bendigo                             17      5       9       3       30      37      -7      18     

12  Springvale White Eagles FC     18      5       11      2       31      43      -12     17     

13  Whittlesea Ranges FC              18      4       10      4       25      43      -18     16     

14  Brunswick City SC                  18      2       15      1       18      63      -45     7      

Soccer in Otago 1875

Recorded games of soccer in NZ are a little earlier than those in Australia. This is from Otago in 1875.

FOOTBALL.
The third football match this season took place at the South Recreation Ground, on Saturday afternoon, when the sun shone out beautifully. The Oval, however, was rather wet, from the recent showers. The sides, each numbering ten, were captained by Messrs A, K. Smith and H. Rose. The former won the toss, and chose the western goal, commencing play with a capital kick from touch. After an hour's vigorous contest, the second goal of the season fell to the same player (H. Rose), who had the honour of scoring the first. He impelled the ball along capitally for some distance. Two other goals were obtained by Rose's side, one being spiritedly taken by Sampson before time was called, at 4.45 p.m. Smith's side was doubtless much the weaker of the two. The English Football Association Rules, as determined in February, 1867, allow no hacking, knocking over, or tripping. They have been revised, printed, and distributed amongst the members of the local club, and therefore it is scarcely probable that accidents will happen. Of course courage, and a disregard of the chance of a little danger, are required to make an efficient player. We adhere to our former opinion that, when possible, an umpire should be appointed. 

Otago Witness 22 May 1875 Page 16

NPL VIC Round 17/16

NPL :

ROUND 17: 

1. Bentleigh Greens SC 4 (D. Stirton 3, W. Wallace 1) Werribee City FC 0 (HT: 2-0)  , 
2. Ballarat Red Devils SC 5 (P. Harvey 2, S. Murphy 1, S. Harding 1, D. O'Donnell 1) Heidelberg United SC 5 (D. Heffernan 2, D. Vasilevski 2, J. Williams 1) (HT: 2-2)  , 
3. Green Gully SC 1 (O. Ederaro 1) Oakleigh Cannons FC 5 (D. Piemonte 3, G. Zoric 1, D. Bosnjak 1) (HT: 1-2)  , 
4. Port Melbourne Sharks SC 1 (L. Prelevic 1) Goulburn Valley Suns FC 0 (HT: 0-0)  , 
5. Northcote City FC 1 (W. Dekker 1) Pascoe Vale SC 1 (L. Santilli 1) (HT: 1-1) 

NPL1:

ROUND 16: 

1. Richmond SC Seniors  5 (T. Cahill 4, A. Quinn 1) FC Bulleen Lions 2 (J. Katebian 2) (HT: 1-0)
2. Whittlesea Ranges FC 1 (T. Trbuhovich 1) Sunshine George Cross SC 1 (M. Sadik 1) (HT: 0-0) 
3. Dandenong City SC 0 Box Hill United SC 0 (HT: 0-0)
4. North Geelong Warriors FC 3 (J. Julardzija 2, M. Paleka 1) Springvale White Eagles FC 2 (V. Milojevic 2) (HT: 3-0)
5. Brunswick City SC 1 Avondale Heights SC 2 (D. Campelj 1) (HT: 0-2)
6. St Albans Saints SC 1 Kingston City FC 1 (M. Etheridge 1) (HT: 1-1)
7. Moreland Zebras FC  FC Bendigo (HT: 0-0) (Washed Out)

TABLES

NPL

Pos Team                                    P       W       L       D       F       A       GD      PTS    

1   South Melbourne FC              16      14      1       1       35      12      23      43     

2   Oakleigh Cannons FC            17      12      1       4       43      11      32      40     

3   Heidelberg United SC             17      9       4       4       46      28      18      31     

4   Bentleigh Greens SC               16      9       4       3       32      20      12      30     

5   Hume City FC                        16      8       7       1       23      21      2       25     

6   Pascoe Vale SC                      17      6       6       5       21      20      1       23     

7   Northcote City FC                  17      6       7       4       26      29      -3      22     

8   Green Gully SC                       17      7       9       1       32      36      -4      22     

9   Dandenong Thunder SC          16      6       7       3       22      33      -11     21     

10  Melbourne Knights FC           16      6       9       1       22      23      -1      19     

11  Port Melbourne Sharks SC    17      5       9       3       24      34      -10     18     

12  Werribee City FC                  17      5       10      2       20      36      -16     17     

13  Ballarat Red Devils SC           16      4       10      2       28      39      -11     14     

14  Goulburn Valley Suns FC        17      1       14      2       15      47      -32     5      

NPL1

Pos Team                                    P       W       L       D       F       A       GD      PTS    

1   Avondale Heights SC                16      14      1       1       38      15      23      43     

2   FC Bulleen Lions                      16      8       4       4       40      27      13      28     

3   Richmond SC Seniors               15      9       5       1       33      27      6       28     

4   Box Hill United SC                   16      8       5       3       29      15      14      27     

5   North Geelong Warriors FC     15      8       6       1       33      21      12      25     

6   St Albans Saints SC                  16      8       5       3       27      21      6       24     

7   Sunshine George Cross SC       16      7       6       3       28      33      -5      24     

8   Moreland Zebras FC                 15      7       7       1       27      22      5       22     

9   Kingston City FC                       16      6       8       2       34      30      4       20     

10  FC Bendigo                              15      5       8       2       26      31      -5      17     

11  Dandenong City SC                  16      4       7       5       27      33      -6      17     

12  Springvale White Eagles FC      16      5       9       2       30      39      -9      17     

13  Whittlesea Ranges FC               16      4       9       3       25      41      -16     15     

14  Brunswick City SC                    16      1       14      1       16      58      -42     4      

The Heavy Sleeper's World Cup Reviews

One of the features of this World Cup for me has been Paul Mavroudis' literary efforts, not from some exotic location or press box in Brazil but from his home in Altona. The Heavy Sleeper's World Cup Reviews (published by Shoot Farken) represent a combination of wit, intelligence, irreverence, sense and nonsense, relevance and irrelevance. They make for hypnotic writing bursting with value and pleasure for all who get to read them. Share this with your friends because it's the best writing I've seen from the World Cup.

1. Brazil v Croatia, Spain v Netherlands
2. Australia v Chile, Uruguay v Costa Rica, Italy v England
3. Côte d’Ivoire v Japan, France v Honduras, Argentina v BiH
4. Germany v Portugal, Iran v Nigeria, USA v Ghana
5. Brazil v Mexico, Russia v S Korea, Australia v The Netherlands
6. Spain v Chile, Cameroon v Croatia, Uruguay v England, Japan v Greece
7. Italy v Costa Rica, France v Switzerland, Honduras v Ecuador
8. Germany v Ghana, Nigeria v BiH, S Korea v Algeria, USA v Portugal
9. Australia v Spain, Croatia v Mexico
10. Italy v Uruguay, Greece v Côte d’Ivoire, France v Ecuador, Algeria v Russia
11. Brazil v Chile, Colombia v Uruguay, Costa Rica v Greece
12. Germany v Algeria, Argentina v Switzerland, Belgium v USA
13. Germany v France, Brazil v Colombia
14. Argentina v Belgium, Netherlands v Costa Rica
15. Brazil v Germany, Netherlands v Argentina
16. Brazil v Netherlands, Germany v Argentina

Hobart Football Grounds, 1866-1912

List of grounds in Hobart football

These grounds are taken verbatim from news articles at the time so as to capture the changing usage of names and ownership. The post 1898 grounds are soccer grounds.

Year	Name	information
1866	Domain
	Government Domain
	Southern Tasmanian Cricket Club Ground
187? - 78	Butler’s paddock	The Mercury Monday 29 September 1879 page 3 Mr. Leitch stated that lt was the establishment of the Australian code, which was then known as the Victorian rules, that first led to the inauguration of North and South matches. Prior to the Australian code being adopted in Hobart there were two forms of Rugby played, the principal ground being Butler's paddock, at the corner at what is known as Hampden Road and Montpelier Road.
1878	Butler’s Ground
1879	The Domain
	New Town
	The Association Ground	Cricket
	The Battery Ground	Queen’s Domain
	Lower cricket ground
	Mr McFarlane’s Paddock
	Marsh’s Ground	Newtown
	Canvey’s Hotel	Richmond
	“the slope near the battery”
	Jerusalem
	Lower Cricket Ground	“The scene of the encounter was the lower cricket ground – the narrow strip at the eastern side which has been used by the City Club throughout the season under the government grant.”
1898	New Town Showground
1902	Victoria Sports Ground	New Town
1908	New Norfolk	“The green at New Norfolk”
	North Hobart Recreation Ground
	Arthur Square Reserve	New Norfolk
	Suburban Sports Ground	New Town
	Elwick Junction
	South Hobart Recreation Ground
1909	Elwick
	The Clare St Ground
1910	The association’s ground	South Hobart
1912	South Hobart Ground
	Lindisfarne
	Cornelian Bay

Hobart Football 1877-1879

Notes taken Monday 24 May 2010 at State library of Tasmania.

These are the notes I took and a table I drew up after visiting the library. I think that I recorded nearly all of the football games reported on in Hobart in the 1877–79 period.

Newspapers in Hobart (not incl Mercury) during that time
1877–79 Tasmanian Tribune, Tasmanian Mail
1879 Evening Star

I went through and listed all the games of football I could find in the randomly chosen Tasmanian Mail (a weekly published on Saturday). I also noted any peculiar or interesting information. The list is not completely thorough and the holding needs revisiting.

Tasmanian Mail (nb reports are on matches played the previous Saturday – unless noted otherwise)

Date of article	Date of game	Page	Game	Code (if indicated)	Score	Notes
4 Aug 1877		18	New Town v High School		1-0
1 Sep 1877		19	New Town v High School		0-10
1 Sep 1877		19	Richmond v City		0-0	‘It is only fair to say that they [City] were at a great disadvantage in having to make the great concession to their opponents of not “running with the ball.”’ [Richmond at this time play a non-running game.]
8 Sep 1877		18	Junior High v Hutchins School		17-0	Played previous Wednesday. Supposed to be U14 but HS had a number of over age players
8 Sep 1877		18	City School v City Club juniors		2-4	Football seems to peter out in September
11 May 1878		18	City FC scratch match			Played at Sandy Bay. Several goals kicked.
18 May 1878		17	City v City School			Poor turnout
1 June 1878		18				Report on the death of an English footballer in England.
8 June 1878		18	City snr v City Jr		5-1	11 v 16
15 Jun 1878		18	City v High School		5-0	First game of season
15 Jun 1878		18				Report on England v Scotland FA match – notable because of the way the description of the game differs from the local description.
22 June 1878		17	City v Collegiate School		7-1	Supplemented by a long piece on football controversy in Adelaide.
29 June 1878		19	City v Richmond		2-1	‘The Richmond team were evidently placed at a disadvantage by the novelty of the mark rule of which they made acquaintance for the first time.’ [We can conclude from this that Richmond play a non-running, non-marking game at this time – or that their mark is from another code]
20 July  1878		18	Lawyers & Merchants v Civil Servants & Bankers	Refs to “little marking” and drop kicking.	3-1	Played at Mr Butler’s Ground. Wales v Scotland FA report supplements.
20 July 1878		18				Report on England v Scotland FA match
27 July 1878		18	City School v New Town		2-0
27 July 1878		18	High school 3rd form v High School 2nd form		4-2	12 v 25
10 Aug 1878		17	City jr v Hutchins School	Refs to “carrying”	3-2	On Butler’s ground
17 Aug 1878		17	City v High School		3-1	“City v Richmond to be played this day.”
24 Aug 1878		17	Richmond v City	Playing the mark	0-1	By ‘Old Harrovian’. Announces games to come: City jr v Hutchins Aug 25 Fancy Costume match Sep 7
31 Aug 1878		18	Hutchins v City jr		2-0
31 Aug 1878		18	Richmond Jr v Tea Tree		7-0
31 Aug 1878		18	Launceston v Horton College		1-0	Played in Ross: “The first football match that has ever been played in the township.”
7 Sep 1878		18	City jr v Hutchins School		4-2
14 Sep 1878		17	Civil Servants & Bankers v Lawyers & Merchants		2-0
14 Sep 1878		17	Richmond v Oatlands		0-1
21 Sep 1878		17	New Town v City School		2-0
21 Sep 1878		17	Costume football match
Mercury 28 April 1879		2		Soccer +		City Club “The committee recommended the adoption of a fresh code of playing rules, as the present code entirely prevented the club from meeting any foreign team, recommending those of the English Football Association, with the addition of the drop kick. Captain Boddam was appointed captain!!
10 May 1879		19				City Club receives a request from Hotham to play in Tasmania. “Such an attention . . . from Victoria will demonstrate the necessity for the formation of an Association, uniformity of rules . . . The article suggests that rancour exits between the Hobart clubs formed. The Cricketers’ Football Club at their May 5 meeting adopted the English Association Rules. The vote was 10-9! Boddam and seconder preferred Rugby but realised the rules were too ‘complex’. [suggesting their motives are imperialist]. They were derisory in relation to Victorian Rules. New Town FC adopted VR with some modifications [indeed!]
17 May 1879		18				Railway Club adopts VR – but confusions reigns Railway, City – VR New Town – modified VR Cricketers – EAR
24 May 1879		19	New Town v High School		1-1	Opening game of season. Also – Mercury Club emerges. Reference to “Locomotives” [ahh Locomotiv Glenorchy – if only!]
31 May 1879		19	New Town v Cricketers	modified VR spherical ball	5-1	“hybred character of the New Town game, which while allowing handling the ball, prohibits it being carried so that a player catching the ball, must stand positively to be knocked down by an opponent charging him, for if he moves a yard to dodge him, a “free kick” is the penalty”.  The writer is scathing about the rules which he sees as a mockery of the Victorian game. City Club “maintain their in cognito” and play a scratch match.
31 May 1879		19	Hich School v Railway		1-1
7 June 1879		19	New Town v City	Oval ball	2-2	Clashed on rules
7 June 1879		19	City jr v City School		3-0	Railway scratch.
14 June 1879		19	Railway v City		1-0
14 June 1879		19	Cricketers v New Town	Soccer	0-0	“Morriss for the New Town causing special amusement by playing the ball with his head.” The writer complains of the ‘absurdity’ of the keeper being allowed to throw the ball.
21 June 1879		19	City v High School		1-3
21 June 1879			New Town v Hutchins		1-2	8 v 9
21 June 1879			Mercury Juniors v Battery Point Public School		2-0
21 June 1879		19	Oatlands v N Richmond	CNA	0-2
21 June 1879		19				Report on the first meeting of the Association on June 12 – where VR are adopted with one or two exceptions – one of which is a crossbar over which the ball must pass. The writer argues that Tasmanian Rules has emerged – a “hodge podge of the Rugby Union, English, and Victorian Rules”. The executive decided after the meeting to add the crossbar! Accusations of the committee being a “Star Chamber”
28 June 1879		19	Cricketers v Railway	Cross bar uniform	1-0
28 June 1879			City v New Town		1-0
28 June 1879			Battery Point PS  v Mercury Juniors		2-1
5 July 1879		19	New Town v Cricketers		4-1	Boddam scored for the cricketers. Notice that Launceston will play Richmond in mid July.
12 July 1879		19	Railway v City		1-2
12 July 1879			Cricketers v Richmond		0-0
12 July 1879			Longford v Launceston		1-4
19 July 1879		19	City v Cricketers		0-1	Unclear whether the ball is a “sphere” or an “oval”
19 July 1879			Railway v New Town		1-1
19 July 1879			Richmond v Launceston		1-0
26 July  1879		18	Cricketers v Railway		1-2
26 July  1879			New Town v City		1-1	New Town may have won. The report is contradictory.
2 Aug 1879		19	Yachy Club v Rowing Club	“new rules”	0-1
2 Aug 1879			City jr v Railway jr		3-0
2 Aug 1879			New Town jr v Hutchins School		1-2
9 Aug 1879		18	Hutchins School v High School		12-0
9 Aug 1879			City jr v City School		0-0
9 Aug 1879			Oatlands v City		1-2
16 Aug 1879		18	Richmond v City		1-2
16 Aug 1879			Railway v High School		2-1
16 Aug 1879			Mercury jr v Battery Point		2-2
23 Aug 1879		18	Railway v Launceston		0-0
23 Aug 1879			High School v City		0-2
23 Aug 1879			Hutchins School v City jr		3-0
23 Aug 1879			Mercury v Trinity Scholars		2-1
30 Aug 1879		19	Cricketers v Railway		5-1	Notice of New Norfolk v Railway Aug 30 Hutchins v Ross (????) Sep 6
30 Aug 1879			New Town v City		2-2
30 Aug 1879			Mercury jr v Tribune jr		2-0
6 Sep 1879		17	New Norfolk v Railway		0-10
13 Sep 1879		19	New Town v Railway		4-0
13 Sep 1879			City v Oatland		1-0
13 Sep 1879			Horton v Hutchins		2-2	Played in Ross
20 Sep 1879		19	Launceston v Cricketers 13th		0-2	Notice of end-of-season game, Tasmanians v All-Comers on 27th.
20 Sep 1879			Launceston v Richmond 12th		0-2
27 Sep 1879		19	High School v City		1-0
27 Sep 1879			Horton v Ross School		14-0
4 Oct 1879		19	Tasmanians v All-Comers		3-0	4000 present at Battery Ground. Tas won. Notice of a game, Longford v All-Comers. [note to self that entire report is worth copying – can’t quite remember why – perhaps that it summarised the year and layed out plans for the future]
11 Oct 1879		20	Railway v All comers		4-1
Mercury, 29 September 1879		3				[This is noted as a summary to the three years previous] Mr. GIBLIN proposed the toast of the evening, "Success to the Tasmanian Football Association." (Loud and prolonged cheers.) There was not the least doubt that the game of football had taken such a hold of the young men of Hobart Town that season such as none of them could remember before. (Hear, hear.) It was a grand winter game. Many of them loved cricket with an intense love, but in our climate cricket could not be played all the year round, and there was no game to be compared to the manly old English game of football. (Cheers.) [I’m struck that even after all the shenanigans that they see themselves as playing an English game.]
May 15 1880		19	Railway v High School		1-6
May 22 1880		19	Cricketers v City		1-0	Cricketers captained by George Bailey!!
May 22 1880		19	New Norfolk v Railway		0-1