Manly United FC

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For the final time in 2026, we've done it.

We've got to the grand final.

To our midfield quartet, we've gone with four in midfield, playing a 4-4-2 formation.

Our midfield four, left wing, but could easily play on the right, but we'll let them decide.

From Manly United, Sienna Dale.

We've gone for a bit of pace on the wings, and Sienna Dale's our left winger.

... and the thing that built the thing in the first place, which is the shared culture and history.

But then for clubs like Sutherland, for clubs like Manly United, who we've talked about a lot on this podcast, for clubs like Apiary who are probably the bridge between the two, um, in that they sit in this really defined geographic area with this great history behind them.

So they have two fronts on which they can target, even if neither is quite as strong individually as, say, a, a Sydney United's history or a, a certainly a, a cultural attachment that they have, or a Bonnyrigg or a, a Parramatta of old, even though you can get into the controversies about that-

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And then what happened was there was a rep- representative kind of competition that started to be developed, so because they wanted to improve football and in Australia.

And so the, the clubs like Manly United started, and they started their own development pathway.

So the kids that were really good or really talented got into Manly.

The kids at club level didn't have the same development pathway, and, you know, and sometimes it's a little bit expensive to join into the rep stuff.

Well, we kept playing, [laughs] we kept developing, and sort of it just kept working its course.

And then obviously you get the kids that then, because they've been developed quite well by the club, they are actually becoming quite talented now.

And so they get to go and play at places like Manly United, Northern Tigers, Spirit FC, St. George, wherever they decide to go, Sydney Wanderers, uh, [laughs] uh, Sydney FC.

And the other ones that are at club level stay at club level, and they keep going through.

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for this and it's off and it's in and it's tara andrews manly united has taken the lead chance for fine here's a moment he's an equalizer just like that we're level at one one and courtney vine she hasn't had many opportunities but she takes one when presented Plus his permanence, Lena Kavis, the super veteran with a super goal.

We're down to the final four in the NPL Women's Premiership season.

The semi-finals are here.

Heiderberg and you know it could be potential we see them in the show championship next year after having you know three months off in between seasons last year they just kind of kept going kept going they made the semi-finals of the show championship so there was no real kind of off time for the burgers so who knows what the burgers can do next year South Melbourne press on and once again reach another semi-final and against Oakley as well we'll talk a lot about that in just a moment Finally, in New South Wales, we have the elimination final and the semifinals to go over.

We've already kind of touched on some of these results when we were previewing the groups, but in the elimination finals, this was midweek, this was last Wednesday night, Sutherland were knocked out by Man Utd on penalties.

After rescuing the fixture with a 90-minute equaliser to make it 1-1, they eventually went down 5-4 on pens at home.

Meanwhile, at the Palace, the Marconi Stadions were stunned by NWS Spirit who defeated the Stadions 3-1 to end their season, which had so much promise just a few weeks ago, being top of the NPL New South Wales competition to finishing third and then also getting knocked out on the first week of finals.

So Marconi will be scratching their heads and again will be wanting to come out even stronger and better for the Australia Championship.

Then we progressed to the semifinals that were played on the Sunday just gone on Father's Day.

Sydney 958 overcame Manly United with a 3-1 result.

The highlight of that 3-1 win was a goal coming in the way of an Olympic goal by Mason Wells straight from the corner in off the post of really...