Monday 24 July 2017

Sydney Olympic 1-2 APIA Leichhardt

This was by far, one of the worst performances I have ever witnessed from any Sydney Olympic team and I’m sorry to say, but if the players are not giving a rat’s ass because they don’t like the coach or don’t like his style or whatever and want to see the back of him, this doesn’t interest me nor does it interest any other supporter. You play for the shirt, I know that is a foreign concept to kids and younger people these days, but that is the truth. The effort last night was disgraceful. As for the coach himself and the whole farce of him being appointed in the first place I will cover this, don’t worry.

The match started in disastrous fashion, before we even had time to get into the ground and settle in our seats we had conceded a penalty, there was barely 1 minute gone on the clock. The APIA Leichhardt player stepped up and made no mistake as he slotted the spot-kick, meaning we were down 1-0 and would be chasing the game right from the very beginning. Instead of trying to come out and play a little given we were now behind, we for some reason decided to park the bus. That’s right we were losing at home and decided to play defensive football, it defied belief and all logic. We could only muster one solid chance in that entire first-half and wouldn’t you know it, the chance was blown as we missed a sitter from 6 yards out. We had nothing else to offer in the way of chances or our play for the rest of the first-half. It was not as if APIA were some sort of special or outstanding team either, which only made things seem worse, we were dishing up this sort of rubbish performance against this APIA team, really? It was unbelievable. We went to the half-time break trailing 1-0.

The second-half saw an equally inept performance from Sydney Olympic and as poor of a start to the second-half as the first-half, as just a few minutes into it we gave away possession far too easily and APIA went down the other end to make it 2-0. The frustrations on the faces and in the voices of the Sydney Olympic Supporters who made it to the game, were there for all to see. It was unbelievably sad to see such a Great Club in the state it was in, and what a poor state it is in. We managed to somehow score near the end but it made no difference to the result as we suffered yet another defeat. The nature of the defeat no doubt left a sick feeling in the stomachs of the supporters as they filed out of the ground, muttering to themselves and to each other and no doubt asking themselves what the hell has happened to this season and why the people in charge of the Club have let it get to this and have effectively destroyed our season.

The people in charge of the Club are either stupid of epic proportions or something more sinister is happening here. Why on Earth would they go out, at such an important period of the season and bring in another coach, especially when we were doing fairly well? We were seriously challenging for the Minor Premiership and we were looking like a shoe-in for a Top 3 finish. So what do these geniuses go and do? They go and bring in a new coach who has got no idea about the League he’s come to coach in.

Ever since he came in we have played 4 matches, had 1 draw and copped 3 losses, we have not won a match, these incompetent morons running the Club have ruined our season. Why not just leave Peter Zorbas where he was, we were travelling OK, and then at the end of the year if the Club wanted to again assess the situation they could.

That decision alone to appoint a Coach beggars belief.

Next up is the recruitment, another massive failure for the Club and for those involved in recruiting roles. We let too many good players of ours leave and we replaced them with junk. Some of the players that were signed for this season have no business being in a Sydney Olympic jersey. It is actually very embarrassing, they are not fit for park football, let alone fit to represent Sydney Olympic.

The other issue and probably more worrying, is the fact that the people running the Club now have no interest in seeing Sydney Olympic be successful and challenging for trophies. They couldn’t care less where First Grade finishes or what First Grade does, they are only interesting in selling off our players overseas and lining their own pockets.

Max Burgess has been sold to Portugal, Liam Youlley to South Africa, Tass Mourdoukoutas is trialling in Germany and Peter Makrillos is trialling in Poland. None of these players have been replaced, also take into consideration that Jake de Marigny has been injured all year and has not played a game for us this season, Mark Rodic and Goran Subara as well as a couple of others have also walked out on the Club.

The people running the Club know and knew all of this and still insisted on not bringing in any players to replace them, this is a contributing factor to our decline.

Two years ago there was a lot of optimism about an alleged new home for Sydney Olympic at Tempe and people were excited. Nobody has heard anything about it since, yes the issue of the council mergers would have no doubt thrown a thousand spanners in the works, but since we have heard nothing about it, are we to assume that it is all off? Should we throw this dream onto the pile with all the rest of the other plans that have never come to fruition?

Oh and finally fix the Sydney Olympic website, it is shit.

For the Club Championship, the U20’s grabbed a 3-3 and the U18’s grabbed a 4-4 draw. For those interested, Sydney Olympic has now not won an 18’s, 20’s or First Grade match since June 18, that’s right we have not won a senior match in any of the 3 grades in over 5 weeks.

It’s all enough to make a grown man cry.

Our next match is next Sunday Afternoon at Edensor Park as we take on Sydney United, July 30, Kick-Off is at 4pm. Our season is effectively over anyway as we are sinking like the Titanic, but anything less than a win here and our season is officially all over. We know that the Sydney United players will be up for it as usual, but will our players turn up? That is the question.

19 comments:

  1. Last year's under 20's team won the grand final. You would assume that the club would have prioritised keeping some of these boys to promote into the first team. From what I hear most of those players were not spoken to by the recruitment manager and had to find alternative playing arrangements. There were at least 6-7 good players that left the club because their parents pockets were obviously not deep enough. How disgusting!
    To continue with the horrible decisions, they did not appoint the championship winning coach of the 20's last season because he was not following orders of the recruitment manager who wanted specific players to play.

    The rotation of the current coaches at Olympic will continue as long as inept people are in charge of footballing decisions.

    As for the Tempe project........ someone needs to tell them that they are not allowed to build units for their own personal benefit!

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    1. Harry Gaitatzis and Brayden Sorge should never have been allowed to leave, shocking decisions to let those players go.

      Combes, Montford, the Green bros. Loupis also should have been kept from that 20's Championship winning side at the least.

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  2. Looking at the coaching situation in the last 12 months

    Jamie Monroy Zenith loses 1 game all season then mysteriously walks off a few days later

    Peter Zorbas does a solid job as interim , (despite the embarrassment of the FFA cup) , yet not trusted enough to be given an opportunity to at least see out the year

    Jim Patikas departs after 2 games in the under 18's
    John Theodoropoulos , the under 20’s coach from last year who won the competition from 2nd last place (he also won the under 16’s at the club the year before) nowhere to be seen this season

    Are these coaches seeing something we are not? Are they not being given an opportunity because they interfere with certain agendas? Why are we turning our backs on those that have been successful at the club , or at the very least not giving them an opportunity at all? Are we heading down the International coaching line to prosper future sales or are certain board members who have kids at the club set to reap the rewards of these appointments in the near future? Or both?

    Questions , questions and more questions

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  3. Looking at the coaching situation in the last 12 months
    Jamie Monroy Zenith loses 1 game all season then mysteriously walks off a few days later

    Peter Zorbas does a solid job as interim , (despite the embarrassment of the FFA cup) , yet not trusted enough to be given an opportunity to at least see out the year

    Jim Patikas departs after 2 games

    John Theodoropoulos , the under 20’s coach from last year who won the competition from 2nd last place (he also won the under 16’s at the club the year before) nowhere to be seen this season

    Are these coaches seeing something we are not? Are they not being given an opportunity because they interfere with certain agendas? Are we heading down the International coaching line to prosper future sales or are certain board members who have kids at the club set to reap the rewards of these appointments in the near future? Or both?

    Disappointing to say the very least

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  4. Some of your facts are way off its not funny

    John Theodoropoulos who took over 18s 20s from Harry Paras who mind you took them from bottom of league both age groups champion team with best players we had in years hand picked scouted buy Harry Paras

    Reason Harry had to go was personal between graham and harry brutal honesty graham son.

    Zorba does everything graham said players left because of zorba ,
    Coaches like John and Arthur and graham are one group people like Grant lee and previous players been stabbed silent assassin .
    To put your mind at ease I put down Anonymous cause I played there seen it all. currant players are leaving want to leave cause Zorba he is know silent assassin dressing room .
    I'm not Italian Croatian serb English . I'm greek that's the truth top player left and great coaches

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    1. Hopefully your football ability is better than your English!

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  5. Diles Zorbas Jafari Gorka Athanaseris should be all cleared out of the club.

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  6. The boys are still in a good position to make the top 5.

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  7. Bring back Katholos and Soper and make the club great again!

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  8. It is quite apparent that when it comes down to footballing decisions the people in charge have either no idea or a hidden agenda. While I am content to accept that players can move on to bigger and better things ( like an overseas move) the club must ensure that this is not at the expense of the team. If that is the case, then Sydney Olympic simply becomes a business and ceases to continue as a football club with ambitions to succeed and win championships. If this is the case, please let the supporters know!

    So far we have lost some players that would have helped us to be much higher on the competition ladder. In one of the previous posts I read that there was a coach who recruited well. Perhaps with all his recruitment skills, Harry Paras is better suited to the recruitment managers role than the current person.

    The way things are going this new first grade coach will also be on his way out and Sydney Olympic can bring in another coach! Let's just keep rotating the coaches, that will solve the problem.




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    1. Wasn't Harry Paras involved in some transfer scandal with the club as well?

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  9. I appreciate all the comments but jeez it is confusing with all the anonymous' in here.

    If people don't want to reveal their identity that is understandable and fine, but maybe use alias' so we know who is saying what, when and at what time

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  10. chris stompa your last anonymous is Graham athanaseris he accused u 20s players signing with player agent Tony Rallis which not one player did I'm sure if you ask those players they will back this statement and none are or have been with Tony rallis.
    infact graham himself promised these player trials Greece and Germany
    Graham are Most of the ex coaches still owed Money

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  11. What is going on with the tempe project - anonymous#5

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    1. I live in the area , rumour around the community is high rise apartments are more likely than any football precinct

      Be nice for the club to come out and dispel these rumours

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    2. The Torch (local newspaper in the Canterbury area) today has a full page spread saying the surrounding areas around Belmore Sports Ground are about to be turned into residential areas, including Peter Moore Park where the senior team train and the women's/youth teams are based

      If the rumours about Tempe having being lost is true , and with this article claiming residential developments around Belmore being scheduled , where does that leave us?



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    3. If its true that the Tempe thing has fallen over and if it is true that Peter Moore Park will be turned into flats, then we have a serious problem

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    4. I read the story about Belmore, there were a lot of ifs and buts in that story...

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  12. Not taking away from the fact that we were shit on Sunday.

    But having not had a good angle and view on Sunday, looking back on the replay of the game, there is no way a penalty should have ever been given in that 1st minute of the game, the referee was a joke all game in actual fact

    You can all see for yourselves in the first 10 seconds of this video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffU8lGg8QA

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