Monthly Archives: September 2018

Hamilton Olympic FC held their 42nd Annual Senior Presentation on Friday night at The Premier Hotel. Sponsors, officials, players, committee and family members had a great evening where all Major Award winners were announced.

Congratulations to the following 2018 HOFC Award Winners:

BEST AND FAIREST – 2018
1st Grade – Mathew Austin Perpetual – Cody Lucas
U20’s – Tom Suters
U18’s – Bodhi Deamer

PLAYER’S PLAYER – 2018
1st Grade – Tom Davies
U20’s – Tom Suters
U18’s – Connor Henderson

GOLDEN BOOT – 2018
1st Grade – Scott Pettit – 10 goals
U20’s – Kane Treble – 8 goals
U18’s – Connor Henderson – 13 goals

MOST IMPROVED – 2018
Joe Temperley

CLUBMAN OF THE YEAR – 2018
Alex Tagaroulias

BRUCE MORROW RISING STAR AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – 2018
Jarryd Sutherland

JIM PAPAS PERPETUAL TROPHY – 2018
Kon Tantos

The club also announced two more Life Members, both worthy recipients, who have given great service to Hamilton Olympic FC for over 15 years. They were both presented with their Life Membership last night:
LIFE MEMBER NO 7: George Fellas
LIFE MEMBER NO 8: Brett Tyrrell

The club also celebrated Brett’s 60th Birthday on the night. Many Happy Returns Brett.

Source: Jim Pappas

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This week at Coffs Harbour, the Under 13 and 14 FFA National Youth
Championships for Boys are being held. Our club are being represented by two boys in the Under 13s, and three boys in the Under 14s.

Under 13s -Northern NSW Under 13  State team- Sam Jackson and Will
Southcombe

Under 14s- Northern NSW Under 14 State team- Kai Karaka, Lachlan Newtown and Lachlan Griffiths

We congratulate all 5 boys for this wonderful achievement. The club wish
them all the best in the tournament. Please find photos of each of the boys
receiving their playing shirt for the tournament.

source: Con Gounis

Last Monday saw the start of the installation of 4 new floodlight poles and associated upgrading of the lighting system at Darling street.

Staff from the NCC and contractors will be there for the next few weeks making sure all works are completed well before the start of the 2019 football season. Their work will  be supplemented by the recent grant the club received courtesy of the 2015 Asian Cup Legacy fund.

The existing floodlighting system was completed by club volunteers just before the beginning of the 1993 football season, so the upgrade is certainly required to improve our LUX reading so we can host associated fixtures.  

Starting this week, a new internal drainage system on the main playing surface at Darling Street Oval will be installed by one of the leading experts in that field, Turfspec Pty. Ltd.  

The majority of this funding was from our successful 2017 Community Building Partnership grant that we received from the State Member of Newcastle, Mr. Tim Crakanthorp. This grant  will be used to fix drainage problems and therefore improve the playing surface.

The field last had major drainage works completed in 2001, so in the ensuing period, the drainage has deteriorated. All drainage works will be completed by October this year, and should be ready to go for season 2019.

Source: Con Gounis

               Secretary HOFC

Last night Hamilton Olympic held their 2018 NPL Youth presentation night to acknowledge the efforts & achievements of our U/13’s, U/14’s, U/15’s & U/16’s NPL sides.

Our award winners:
U/13’s:
Players Player: Sam Jackson
Best & Fairest: Sam Jackson
U/14’s:
Players Player: Lachlan Griffiths
Best & Fairest:Declan Hughes
U/15’s:
Players Player: Matthew Hallett
Best & Fairest: Cooper Hunt
U/16’s:
Players Player: Jared Muller
Best & Fairest: Jackson Lane

A big thank you to everyone involved, from all our players, Sponsors, Parents & Supporters! We look forward to 2019

Source: Tom Tsamouras

Hamilton Olympic FC congratulate the following boys who trialled successfully for our 2019 Under 12 NET programme run and co-ordinated by Newcastle Football.

These boys will be representing the club in the Under 12 Combined competition next year, and will for the first time play on a full sized field against teams from the three combined Zones, Newcastle, Macquarie and Hunter Valley.   

UNDER 12 HOFC NET 2019

Tommy Butcher

Brandon Christoffersen

Harry Cornwell

Maddyk Dimis

Julian Dunn

Jett Floyer-Kell    

Zane Hancock

Chazz Harris

Callum Hewitt      

Manning McCann

Callan McCormack       

Jonah Reed

Oliver Steinerts   

Rocco Tripodi      

source: Tom Tsamouras 

Youth Grand Final Day saw HOFC under 16s also feature as our second team on “decider day.” Our team went into the match as favourites against Valentine Phoenix, who had upset Premiers Newcastle Jets by 3 goals to 1 the previous weekend, while our boys had defeated Lambton in a hard fought semi- final by one goal to nil, courtesy of a late penalty to Jared Muller.

The boys came out firing early, and by the 31st minute had put three goals
past the Valentine custodian. A 7th minute own goal , followed by a
beautiful Muller header in the 26th minute saw the boys go up 2 nil. Scoring
on the day was completed by Elliot Paksec, who pushed up from his defensive
position to tap in the third goal.

The boys then basically shut up shop, running  out convincing winners by 3 goals to 0. A top performance by all the boys, and no doubt coaches Payton and Blair would have been extremely happy with the 2018 season. In a side note, it was great to see the support that the Paksec boys had from some of their friends on Grand Final day, as can be seen by the photo below.

Source: Tom Tsamouras

Saturday 15th September, 2018 REVIEW:

Last Saturday saw an exciting 13s Grand Final, between Olympic and the home
team, Broadmeadow.  Olympic had come into the decider confident after having
beaten  undefeated Lambton in a seven goal thriller by 4 to 3 in the semi-
final the previous week. 

The boys certainly continued their great form on Saturday, with two early goals to Byron Bennett and Sam Jackson seeingOlympic taking an early lead, before two penalties in the 16th and 24th
minute to Broadmeadow saw the teams go into the sheds at 2 all at half time.
In an inspiring second half, where Olympic played some exciting football to
score two more goals to Oscar Cathcart and Remi Flood , the boys deservedly
ran out winners by 4 to 2.

A huge result! Congratulations to all the
players, coaches Reece and Luke, and hardworking manager Adam.
Team members- 13s Youth NPL

Mitchell Connors (GK)
Jack Knowles ( Captain)
Byron Bennett
Oscar Cathcart 
Dylan Christoffersen    
Ryan Duchemin          
Sam Jackson     
Nate Robertson 
Jettson Hunt   
Shiwa Dul
Matthew Novak  
Cale Conserdyne
Wil Southcombe 
Riley Egerton  
Remi Flood     

Source: Tom Tsamouras

Hamilton Olympic FC would like to announce our 2019 Under 11 NET team that was recently selected.

Newcastle Football run an extremely successful Development Pathway programme ( NET) under the direction of Technical Director, Richard Hartley. The boys will begin training in early February, and the club congratulate the following boys who will participate in 2019 in the 11 Year age group for Hamilton Olympic-

UNDER 11 HOFC NET 2019

Maximilian Cohen

Felix Dos- Santos

Jet Gossner

Eli Hunt

Cooper Knight

Macki Lees

Eden Purcell

Louis Reed

Taj Reed

Hamish Searles

Isaac Scott

Preston Ridd   

source: Con Gounis

Hamilton Olympic FC were able to keep their strong 3-0 first half lead over Valentine Eleebana FC and as a result are crowned 16 Years NPL NNSW Grand Final.

source: Tom Tsamouras

Hamilton Olympic FC shined in the second half to beat Broadmeadow Magic FC and take out the NPL NNSW 13 Years Grand Final.

source: Tom Tsamouras