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Nobody happy - South Melbourne 5 Eastern Lions 2
Come on, Pierce, give us a smile! You're playing for South Melbourne!Photo: Luke Radziminski. It was said a few times after this game, but when was the last time we put five goals past an opponent and...
View ArticleThat's Entertainment! Oakleigh Cannons 0 South Melbourne 0
Once more, forgive the lateness and brevity and crapness of this report, only some of which can be put down to the grinding boredom of this game.Consider this: in the lead up to this game, our...
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Middlebrow - Port Melbourne 1 South Melbourne
Not that anyone's happy about it, or that anyone should be happy be about it, but given the last two and a bit years, did anyone expect us to be any better than one win, two draws, and one loss at this...
View ArticlePress Pause - Altona Magic 1 South Melbourne 1
Late, late, late, not that anyone cares, least of all me. There are bigger things to worry about these days, but nevertheless, to the game itself. Oh, dear. A late flurry of activity doesn't make up...
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NPL shutdown extended
So the pause that was set on grassroots soccer in Australia until mid-April has now been extended until the end of May. Given the way the COVID-19 situation continues to unfold, that extension won't be...
View ArticleNick Maikousis on South Radio
South Radio has put up a rather good interview with club president Nick Maikousis. For those not keen on listening to the full 30 minutes, here's a brief summary, though I won't have done the interview...
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#itstime artefact Wednesday - #SMFC4ALEAGUE t-shirt
Time has stopped. Time no longer exists. There is no A-League. There is no South Melbourne Hellas. There is no soccer. We exist in the collective individualised state of attempting to engage with the...
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Jump! Jump! Jump! artefact Wednesday
Ah, 2007. It was a season which held so much promise. We were fresh off a championship, two years after almost going broke. We had what looked like a good squad, and a good first up crowd against the...
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Tassie All-Stars stun the mighty South Melbourne Hellas in 1981 (via Walter...
Photo of a pennant from the game between the Tassie All-Stars and South Melbourne Hellas, sent to Walter Pless by former Tasmanian player Craig Pitt. According to Pitt -who played against South for...
View ArticleMore nothing than you can poke a stick at
Even though the pandemic is hardly over, Australia is gradually opening up again, and across the board sports are looking to resume in some form or another. So are is the NPL Victoria coming back this...
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Scrapbook artefact Wednesday - SM Hellas vs Newcastle BHP, 1993
After initially being a cautiously keen user of the Australian Football Before the A-League page, I'd boycotted it for a few years. Partly because I'm not a Facebook fan; partly because the page was...
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Who knows? Not me, that's for sure.
So where are we at with a potential restart and/or resumptio to the season? Who knows. Every day it seems there's restrictions being lifted, or at least talk of such in the near future. And yet in...
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News! Sweet, nourishing news!
Finally some solid sense of when local soccer might come back, as well as in what form. Hold on to that feeling for as long as you can though, because you don't know when it will be taken away from you...
View ArticleThe extended gist of the June 2020 president's message
As many of us are aware, as part of a personal push to improve member/board relations, president Nick Maikousis had promised to instigate regular member forums to inform members of ongoing matters at...
View Article2020 NPL Victoria season cancelled
So, that's it for senior men's or women's soccer in the mainline metropolitan competitions for 2020.While Football Victoria and a select few clubs who believed in their (given by who knows) mandate of...
View ArticleStephen Folan returns home
As reported by the club's media avenues, visa player Stephen Folan is returning to Ireland.With the 2020 senior men's season now cancelled, our Irish recruit Stephen Folan has decided to return home...
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Party like it's 1998
I'll play them if I have the chance - usually by being the stingy sort and just borrowing it from the local library - but I'm not a big enough fan of modern soccer video games to go out and buy my own...
View ArticleCAKE!
Having spent over a decade at a western suburbs university full of self-doubting weirdos, I'm well aware of the idea of "impostor syndrome" - but the creator of this minor masterpiece being critical of...
View ArticleHarry Sawyer goes north
Harry Sawyer - the likely winner of South Melbourne's 2020 golden boot award, for whatever that's worth this year - has signed up with Gold Coast Knights for rest of the season. The move has been...
View ArticleMarco Jankovic heads north, then South
So, in previous pandemic dispatches from the president there was mention made that, in true NRL style. we had already signed players for next season. Well, here's one of those - defender Marco Jankovic...
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