George Tsamouras Football Journey

Whilst the recent wet weather has slowed the progress with the new drainage installation on the playing field, the NCC staff and contractors have been busy completing the positioning of new cabling, poles and associated lighting upgrade at the Oval. 

The third of the 4 new light pole foundations
was completed yesterday, with just the foundation at the north western
corner left to be finished.

The new cabling is almost complete, and
yesterday saw the delivery of the 4 new light poles, ready for their
assembly.

source: Con Gounis

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Head Coach, Peter McGuinness would like to announce his Senior Coaching Staff for the upcoming season, 2019:

• Under 20s Coach- Daniel Dawkins. Daniel is an ex- Olympic Senior player, who moved back to Newcastle a couple of years ago following a teaching transfer to a local High School. Whilst in Sydney, he played and coached there.  Daniel was a coach of our Under 18s for the last two years, and his calm demeanor and knowledge of the game will continue to be a great asset which is in line with the club policy of nurturing and developing our younger footballers.
• Under 18 Coach- Paul Devitis. Another ex- Olympic Senior player,  Paul has developed a great reputation over the last few years in working with emerging talented footballers. He will again be in charge of our under 18 Squad for the upcoming season.
• Football Manager- Greg Smith. The club are excited to have our longest serving ex- Coach, Greg Smith, back involved with the club. Greg was Olympic’s Head Coach for  a decade, from 1996 until the season 2005. During that time, we were Major Premiers in 4 successive years, from 1998 until 2001. Greg also coached Peter for a number of those years. Greg will be an adviser and mentor to all things football, bringing with him a wide knowledge of our sport.   Welcome back, Greg!!

Finally, our Under 20s coach of the last three years, Greg Asquith will be stepping back in his role at the club, due to work commitments. Greg fortunately won’t totally be lost to the club, as he will coach one of our Under 9 SAP teams.

source: Con Gounis

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Congratulations to the following boys that were successful in the recent trial and have secured a place in our 2019 Under 13 NPL YOUTH Squad.

The squad certainly looks a strong one, and no doubt coach Reece and his assistant Luke will have a great group of boys to work with and do their best to defend the U13 Grand Final Trophy won this year.

Giles Harrison
Cody Hopton
Izac Lavender
Ethan Lewis
Jamie Lloyd
Lorcan McCallum
Aidan Maher
Jude O’Brien
River Petersen
Charlie Stevenson
Noah Stevens
George Tsamouras
Lucas Walshe
Cooper Wilson
Nikolai Zervas

Coach: Reece Fellas
Assistant: Luke McGuinness
Manager: Stuart Hopton

source: Con Gounis

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Darling Street Oval was certainly a busy place last week, with the NCC staff
and their contractors busy getting the foundations ready for the erection of
the 4 new light poles and associated electrical works, while Trent and his
staff from Turfspec began the task of straightening the hill at the northern
end of the ground in preparation for the eventual moving of the playing
field, and also the installation of a complete new drainage system on the
playing surface.
All work is on track to be completed by the end of October, which would then
give the surface plenty of time for readiness for the 2019 football season.

source: Con Gounis

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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