Marconi Stallions FC

[laughs] Um, in terms of surprise, I think we could see some surprise here in Group C coming up.

So we got Marconi Stallions, Sydney Olympic, Oakleigh Cannons, and Bayswater City.

Now, I think we touched on it when we first started this, um, you know, conversation about predictions about Sydney Olympic, and, you know, we've talked about question marks in kind of every group.

But I think Sydney Olympic, what they've done, you know, being relegated in the NPL New South Wales was a shock to everyone.

They've done well.

They've done well.

Um, now we'll continue on with, say, the NPL New South Wales conversation here, and we'll look to the Marconi Stallions.

They finished third in the NPL New South Wales.

Who are they?

I want to say Marconi.

Yeah.

Sydney.

South Melbourne's a shoe-in.

I'm going to go left of field and completely biased, being an Adelaide boy, say Adelaide City, because Adelaide United need a rival.

So I'm going to go South Melbourne, Adelaide City, Marconi, because I think their setup is absolutely phenomenal.

And I'm going to go Sydney Olympic as well.

Saturday, the 3pm game on SBS is Avondale FC and Broadmeadow Magic.

Also at the 3pm time slot is Marconi Stallions versus Oakley Cannons at Marconi Stadium.

Canberra Croatia finish off the Saturday football with a 5pm kickoff against the Sutherland Sharks.

Before on the Sunday, you have Wollongong Wolves versus South Hobart in a repeat from last year's fixtures.

Blaine, obviously your crosstown rivals Bayswater in the Australian Championship, as we have mentioned.

What are your thoughts on the group there? They've got a difficult group of, you know, Marconi Stallions, City Olympic, a couple of old NSL enemies and obviously Oakley Cannons from the VPL.

Yeah, Oakley's an interesting one, isn't it? Getting qualification into the competition.

Marconi, of course, is one of the foundation clubs.

Yeah.

And I remember going out to the Marconi Football Club, a soccer club out in Western Sydney in Fairfield.

And here was Whitlam in 1977 giving-

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