Newcastle Olympic Reserve Grade march towards the 2025 Premiership with an emphatic 5-0 crushing of Belmont Swansea in a Round 11 deferred fixture at the LMRFF in Speers Point on Tuesday night! This comes only a day after disposing Lambton Jaffas 3-1 at Darling St Oval in Round 18 of the competition.
Any notion of underestimating their opponent was wiped out on Tuesday night when a minute into the game Olympic were 1-0 up through a thunderbolt from outside the box from midfield ace George Tsamouras! No sooner had celebrations settled it was the turn of winger Charlie Halls to make it 2-0 within the second minute of the game!
The artificial surface of Speers Point was ideal for the slick one touch and two touch passing by the Olympic team which at times made their Belmont counter parts appear to be chasing shadows into the night! In the 17th minute a well taken free kick from outside the box by George Tsamouras served the ball perfectly to Jed Hornery who scored the third goal for Olympic and put the result beyond doubt!
Hornery added another two goals in the 22nd and 31st minutes to record his hat trick for the night and send Olympic 5-0 up at the half time break! To the credit of the Belmont Swansea team, their players did not throw in the towel and in the second half they threw everything at Olympic to try and get a consolation goal, but it was not meant to be! Having secured the result, Olympic spent the second half giving playing time to players normally on the bench.
This result gives Olympic 37 points on the table and 12 wins and one draw from 16 games! They are 9 points in front of second placed Maitland. Instead of looking behind, all they need is to win their remaining 6 games against Adamstown (a), Edgeworth (h), Cook Hill (a), New Lambton (a) Belmont (a) and Weston (a) and they collect the 2025 Premiership!
Given that they have led the competition for most of the season, all they need is to focus on each game at a time.
Source: Tom Tsamouras
George Tsamouras Football Journey 