Olympic vs South LINEUPS

[anothermp]

Any word on South's starting 11? Will Zaim stay at South and play?

My tip..

Henderson
Kalouris Studman Tsanidis Giannaros
Angel Makrys Triantis Triantis
Di Salvo
??

Elrich on the bench, but who else?

[paoktzi]

Historic Clash To Open New-Look Stadium



TWO old clubs look forward to a bright future as South Melbourne and Sydney Olympic reprise their long rivalry on Sunday to celebrate a return to South's Albert Park home at Lakeside Stadium (formerly Bob Jane Stadium).

A much revamped South Melbourne, with a new coach, new general manager, and a predominantly new team, will take on reigning New South Wales Premier League champions Sydney Olympic in their newly upgraded home.
Over $50 million has been spent by the Victorian State Government to convert Lakeside from football ground to multi-purpose venue with the addition of IAAF standard athletics track, new administrative and training facilities, enhanced corporate entertainment suites, an electronic scoreboard, and a second grandstand which will take the seating capacity to 8,000 (with additional standing space for 7,000).
The upgrade will allow South to move forward on a commercial basis with general manager and former football agent Peter Kokotis claiming that this will put the club on a more solid financial footing.
“With the improved facilities we are now able to present the professional image that in the past the traditional clubs may have struggled to project,” he said.
South will welcome Sydney Olympic for the first time since the end of the NSL in 2004. Much has changed in Australian football since then and the game has moved on.
Both clubs are keen to move forward and play as big a part in the future of the game as they have in its history – so why revive old memories?
“We wanted to give the supporters something different, something they haven’t seen for a long time,” says club president Leo Athanasakis. "We wanted to do something exciting that would rekindle the old rivalries
“We couldn’t invite an Gay Leagueteam as they are all playing at the weekend, so we had to look interstate. Olympic have just won the New South Wales Premier League, so they are the best team outside Victoria – we always want to play against the best. That’s what being a football club is about.”
With the Smith Report recently re-opening the issue of appropriately sized stadiums, and apparently closing the door on Gay Leagueexpansion, the fixture is a timely reminder that venues and clubs do exist outside the Gay Leaguewho could potentially help build the competition.
Kokotis added: “We believe that we are an Gay Leagueclub in a state league competition.
"The door to the national league is shut at the moment, but it’s our job to keep on knocking and to convince them to open up. When the door opens we have to be ready because if we’re not ready we have no one to blame but ourselves.”
The gates at Lakeside will open at 11am on Sunday with supporters able to view the stadium whilst youth teams representing all levels of the club play exhibition games.
The club has also arranged for a bouncing castle and face painting to entertain the kids. The big match between South Melbourne and Sydney Olympic kicks off at 5.30pm. Entry is free.

au.fourfourtwo.com/news/225231,historic-clash-to-open-new-look-stadium.aspx

[anothermp]

Sama started and scored our second, good debut from him

P. Triantis subbed off after 5 mins suspected leg fracture early reports say maybe 3 months out, was taken away by ambos

Gullo and Angel our best, with Studman very impressive in centre of midfield in the second half

Very sloppy first 15mins plus a goal conceded after 30seconds but after that a pretty even game Olympic slightly better on the ball

about 8 Kalouris specials 1 converted 7 malakia tackles and 100 yard long halls

And South have copped their first boutsa at the new lakeside

[mini]

Studdman was a gun in centre mid

[Blaze]

What was the score??

[prostkxy]

Well done Olympic (im a hellas supporter). If South's team was the same as last seasons it may have been a different story.

But in saying that I hope we can get these clubs together for exhibition matches or for an interstate cup game every year. Its been 7 years too long for our clubs to play against each other.

All the best for Olympic, hopefully they go back to back, and to South Melbourne, hopefully we can be champions this coming season.

[cigan1996]

blaze sick supporter lol

[prostkxy]

3-2 olimpdick

[kon]

Prostkxy if Olympic team was the same it would of been 6 2 mate

Big difference nswpl to the vicpl mate lol

We had 12 players with first grade experience and the other 6 from the youth who havent played any first grade

If we had last years team you would of copped a big boutso lol

[kon]

Your Trifillio brothers where crap here lol

[Blaze]

Dec 11, 2011 20:37:25 GMT 10 @cigan1996 said:

blaze sick supporter lol

why?

[paoktzi]

It was a good day guys, south's facilities were top notch good luck to them in the future, they sold around 500 season passes on the day and had over 400 vips of polies, businessmen and the like


Football wise they had been training hard to pump us but we ruined the party.


David Gullo was man of match , studman, giannaros played very well didnt like sama we need a striker if we are to win it again.


nswpl is much more physical than vpl

[paoktzi]

Crowd was around the 5k mark

Around 100 olympic fans good to see decent numbers away im pumped for us to keep growing our club were the biggest club in nswpl and we push on to the a-league

[mini]

How funny was the lady who pronounced FIFA as 'FIGH-FAH'

[cigan1996]

Any photos or highlights ?

Was watching the updates on FB etc