North v South Preview for 22 September 2007
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The Southern men’s Premier League representative squad will be unchanged for Saturday’s return leg against the North at Launceston’s
South coach Eamonn Kelly said there were no injury problems and that the players were eager to continue where they left off last weekend.
South beat North 2-0 at
“We’re two nil up, but we’ll go into this game as if we are at nil all and it’s the first game,” said Kelly, who has also been named as the State coach for next month’s two games against a South Australian amateur selection.
“We’ve trained three nights this week and the boys are raring to go at them again.”
Kelly also expressed dissatisfaction with the venue, saying that the surface at Prospect was poor.
In contrast, North coach, Tom McGinn, who will be Kelly’s assistant in the games against
McGinn said he would have to try and find at least two replacements to include in the squad that played last weekend.
South squad: Frank Mainella, Henry Fagg, Ryan Smith, Aaron Brazendale, Daniel Lapolla (Hobart Zebras), Janko Begovic, Jonathon Ladic, Josh Fielding (Glenorchy Knights), Michael Bulis (Hobart Olympic), Andrew Telega, Nathan Pitchford (New Town Eagles), Bart Beecroft, Tom Roach, Daniel Brown, Jonathon Lo (South Hobart), Billy Gasparinatos (Taroona).
In the women’s intrastate match on Saturday at 12.30pm at the same venue, South will seek to improve on their 3-2 win last weekend at KGV but may be without two key players.
Defender Karen Clark has work commitments and is unavailable, while striker Nicole Hale may also be missing because of junior coaching commitments.
Dannielle Raymond will be included in the squad as a replacement, but the 16-player squad will be reduced to 15 if Hale is unavailable.
“We will again give all of the players a fair amount of game time,” said South coach, Matthew Shaw.
“The goalkeepers will again keep for a half each, with Isoline Ottavi starting this time and Chelsea Thomas keeping for the second half.
“We will be looking to build on last week’s performance.
“Everyone made a positive contribution during the game, but all know that there were things we could have done better.
“It was a good, competitive game and we know that we will need to be sharp to contain what was a very good opponent.”
North coach, Jason Jones, will include defenders Krystine Jeffery and Sally Lewis, who missed last week’s match.
“The game last week was the first game together for the girls and they’ll be keen for this return meeting,” Jones said.
“We only had one sub last week and the girls ran out of legs near the end and we conceded the winning goal.
“We’ll be fully fit for this return and have a full squad.”