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Devonport City  10  v  Launceston   0

Compagne

Mulraney 3

Wilson, S 2

Ashdown

Comandari

Howe 2

Reserves: Devonport 4 v Launceston 0

18s: Devonport 4 v Launceston 0 

• Launceston City  3  v  Burnie United  0

• Mies                                 

• Kolojashnij

• Pinkiewicz

• Reserves: Launceston City 3 v Burnie 0 

18s: Launceston City 1 v Burnie 6 

• Northern Rangers  2  v  Riverside Olympic  3

• Schipper 2                              Otley

•                                               Rundle

•                                               Guy

• Reserves:

18s:

Ulverstone  0  v  Somerset  4

                                Snare

                                Eaves, B

                                Skene

                                Campbell

Reserves: Ulverstone 0 v Somerset 3

18s: Ulverstone 0 v Somerset 2

By RACHEL WILLIAMS (Examiner), Wednesday, 20 June 2007

THE Socceroos could soon play an official match at Launceston’s Aurora Stadium
as momentum builds to also include the ground in national rugby and soccer
fixtures.

The Melbourne Victory soccer team and the Melbourne Storm rugby league club have
been earmarked as the next clubs to play annual matches at the venue.

It follows the success of the Hawthorn Football Club’s venture into the
Tasmanian market - where large crowds flock to four AFL roster matches each
year.

York Park and Inveresk Precinct Authority chairman Robin McKendrick said
yesterday that the Socceroos dream was a very real possibility.

“I’d love to say it’s 100 per cent but I am fairly confident that if we keep
working at it and people keep turning up, it will happen,” he said.

“It’s early days, but we are trying to get our foot in the door for a Socceroos
match - maybe a friendly against Brazil.”

Ald. McKendrick said an appearance by the country’s best soccer players would
maximise the benefits of the sport’s junior popularity around Tasmania.

“(Football Federation Australia) is trying to extend the image of soccer - it’s
bigger than it’s ever been and they want to get it into more states.

“We have got recognition because of the surface and the way we have been able to
run events with the World Cup Rugby and the Olympic torch and the big one is
football, where we are getting consistent crowds of 18,000 when other regional
venues only get 11,000.

“We have got the best facility in Australia outside the capital cities.”

The international quest follows the city’s desire to host nationally significant
games, such as Victory’s pre-season hit-out with Adelaide United in a replay of
the last grand final on Sunday, July 15.

“Discussions have been held to get ourselves into the A-League roster and have
one game here a year and Melbourne Victory is the logical team (to involve),”
he said.

“NRL is probably three to five years away.”

[end article]

Melbourne Victory pair Ljubo Milicevic and Grant Brebner give Prospect Knights under-15 team members Nathan Butler, Matthew Heald and Jack Maher some soccer tips at a clinic yesterday. Pictures: PHILLIP BIGGS

by Matt Sheppard, FFA

Thursday, 14 June 2007

The Telstra Football Assistance Fund (TFAF) is an initiative through which Telstra shows their great support of grassroots Football in Australia.
For the 2007 TFAF, Telstra is teaming up with Football Federation Australia to award $250,000 worth of equipment to grassroots Football clubs across the country.

see inside for details

Knight’s Days
This is the first of what I hope will be a series where people who are making a name for themselves in the game will be ‘grilled’ so we can discover a little bit about them and what makes them tick.

Matty Sanders (hand raised), in action with Green Gully

Here’s a nice little thing that will impress the kids:   

A fixture chart that you can put on the fridge, coffee table, bedside, etc. so your ready to go for the first match of the 2007-08 English Premier League.

You can get a chart for any team from the Championship, League One, and League Two as well, it’s just not as pretty as the Premier League one. :-) 

To print your chart:

1. Click on the links below

2. When the pdf appears, click on the “print” icon

3. Stick on wall

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Birmingham City

Blackburn Rovers

Bolton Wanderers

Chelsea

Derby County

Everton

Fulham

Liverpool

Manchester City

Manchester United

Middlesbrough

Newcastle United

Portsmouth

Reading

Sunderland

Tottenham Hotspur

West Ham United

Wigan Athletic

thanks to www.timesonline.uk

Southern Premier League

Tilford Zebras  2  v  Taroona  0

Brazendale 

Pullen

Reserves: Zebras 2 v Taroona 0

19s: Zebras 4 v Taroona 1
 

University  0  v  Kingborough Lions  1

                              Kerr

Reserves: University 3 v Kingborough 2

19s: University 1 v Kingborough 3

• Hobart Olympic  2  v  New Town Eagles  0

Vavoulas

Grillas

Reserves: Olympic 2 v Eagles 1

19s: Olympic 1 v Eagles 3

South Hobart  1  v  Metro Claremont  0

Roach

Reserves: South Hobart 6 v Metro 0

19s: South Hobart 1 v Metro 2

Clarence United  2  v  Glenorchy Knights  1

Emmanueli                          Dzelalija

Walsh

Reserves: Clarence 3 v Knights 2

19s: Clarence 6 v Knights 0

Next Week’s Matches

Glenorchy Knights v University

Clarence v New Town Eagles

Kingborough v South Hobart

Hobart Olympic v Taroona

Metro v Zebras

Division 1

Walter Pless weekend preview

Christian United  2  v  Kingston Cannons  3

Northern Suburbs DOSA  1  v   Beachside  5

Hobart United   2  v   South Hobart  1

Kingborough Lions  3  v  Nelson Eastern Suburbs  2

Ulverstone  1  v  Launceston City  6

Meldrum               Mies 4

                           Beechey

                           Frost

Reserves:

18s:

Prospect Knights  1  v  Northern Rangers  0

Baker

Reserves:

18s: Prospect 5 v Rangers 1

Launceston  0  v  Riverside Olympic  3

                            Jackson 3

                            Otley

Reserves:

18s: Launceston 2 v Riverside 1

Somerset  1  v  Devonport City  0

Eaves

Reserves: Somerset 3 v Devonport 2

18s: Somerset 2 v Devonport 0

Like most things in football, the offside rule is pretty simple - but there are a few situations that can make the calmest of managers blow their top.

The ‘active’ ruling for example. Players can be in an offside position but not be offside. It doesn’t quite make sense at first, but let’s stick to the basics first.

A player is in an offside position if, when the ball is played by a team-mate, they are nearer to the opposition’s goal line than both the ball and the second last opponent.

From the graphic above, the second last opponent determines the line from where the offside area begins and can be anywhere in this half of the pitch.

The referee’s assistant will make their decision based on this offside area.

All straightforward so far? This is where the grey areas start to make life a little confusing.

A change to the rule was introduced two years ago, which allows a player to be in an offside position provided they are not “actively involved in play”.

It was designed to promote attacking football, but it is open to interpretation.

Fifa, world football’s governing body, gives the following definition:

“Interfering with play means playing or touching the ball passed or touched by a team-mate.”

However, a player does not necessarily have to touch the ball to influence play. They are still offside if they are judged to be:

• Interfering with an opponent If an attacker interferes with an opponent by either preventing them from playing or being able to play the ball, then they are offside. For example, blocking the goalkeeper, or obstructing their line of vision.
• Gaining an advantage If the ball is played into the penalty area and rebounds off a post, crossbar or an opposing defender, then the attacker is offside as they have gained an advantage by being in that position.

OFFSIDE ESSENTIALS

Here are a few more things to remember.

You can’t be offside if:

with thanks and acknowledgement to bbc.co.uk

This is ‘an interpretation’ (not the actual model)  of the competition structure put forward at the last presidents meeting prior to being discussed, and possibly adopted, at the next FFT board meeting.

As people can see the left side of the structure is the full competitive pathway, while the right side is a more social orientated but still highly competitive.

The first level (left side)is the Premier League and is a three tiered competition - Premier, Premier Reserves & U/19. All clubs MUST attain the assessment criteria to compete at this level. This is the pinnacle of the competitive pathway in Southern Tasmania

There is full promotion and relegation between the second level which consists of Div.1, Div.1 Reserves & Div.1 youth (?? U/18)

There is a promotion and relegation option between the third level (? Div.2) but clubs must attain the necessary criteria to enter the competition in the first place, ie. any team playing in Div.2 must have, as their long term goal the desire to reach Premier League.

The right side of the model is has a more social aspect but remains competitive…in fact, some teams in this competition may be extremely competitive with Div.1 or even Premier League teams but their focus is on the social aspects rather than development of players or infrastructure.

Media Release   Media Release   Media Release

Football Federation Tasmania is pleased to announce that highlights of the Tasmanian Premier Leagues will soon be appearing on Aurora Channel’s  Australian Premier League Football Show.The Australian Premier League Football Show, which showcases the best football from the State League competitions in Victoria and NSW will soon expand to include league highlights from Tasmania and Western Australia.

“We are very happy that Tasmanian and interstate fans will have the opportunity to see action from our Northern and Southern Premier Leagues to show what Tasmanian football has to offer,” said FFT CEO, Martin Shaw.“Now that it has moved to the Aurora Channel on Foxtel, the Australian Premier League Football Show has a growing audience around Australia, and we will now be able to add more Tasmanian football supporters to that base as they tune in to see our local leagues in action.”The show, which is broadcast at 7:30pm on Thursday evenings, will expand to a one hour format in order to cater for the additional content provided by Tasmania and Western Australia.  Each week, starting from Thursday June 21^st, football fans will be able to tune in to see all the week’s results, ladders, highlights of selected matches and interviews with players and coaches.In order to kick off the Tasmanian content on the show, Aurora plan to show some selected highlights from the 2006 season on Thursday June 14^th.“We must acknowledge the important contribution made by several people in making this opportunity a reality,” said Shaw.“We need to thank Ross Alatsas from the APL Football Show for his support of the leagues from around Australia and putting together a show that provides exposure to this important part of Australian football.“We are also being assisted by two loyal servants of Tasmanian football, in well known football writer Walter Pless and Stefano Lufi from Mr. Video.  Their contribution in the production aspects of the show goes above and beyond the call of duty, and shows their commitment to providing further exposure for Tasmanian football.”FFT looks forward to our Tasmanian football fans tuning in on Thursday evenings to support the coverage of our local leagues and becoming a part of the Australian Football community via the Australian Premier League Football Show.More information about the Aurora Channel can be found at www.aurora.tv