Football Matters with Cyclops

Local

Pre-season training for the 2025 season has started for Burdekin Panthers. Thursday evenings at International Park 6pm to 7pm for Men and Youths. Only Night Soccer left on the local Calendar. The Group rounds continue until 3 December followed by the Semi-finals on 10 December and Grand Finals on Friday 13 December.

Night Soccer

Delta Cleaners Night Soccer’s Week 11 for some reason had six forfeits but made up for it with three Sin Bins. The sixteen games produced 50 goals. Top scorers for the Men were Wires Down with six goals and  for the Women, no team scored more than three goals.

Mottin Earthmoving are back on top of Group A1 after defeating Nutrien Ag Solutions and UDS still lead in Group A2 after beating JB Automotive. In Men’s B Grade, 7 Stooges remain on top of the Group after beating  Oary’s Levellers and Pacific Thunder is now in second place with a 3-0 win against Karls Mowing Service. In Men’s Social Wires Don lead the Group followed by Old Grumpies and Jamie’s Boys.

In the Women’s competition UDS Ladies still top the A Grade table followed by Sanco Produce and in the Social A Grade, Shin Kickers stay at the top followed by DILLIGAF and The Hangovers.

Juniors

Week 5 of Junior Social Soccer had some great team and individual performances.
Team performance of the week went to Pink Panthers, the girls playing so well as a team! Goal of the week went to Jensen Power for Young Panthers for a long run from inside his own half with defenders in pursuit concluding with a precision finish in the far bottom corner of goal. Keeper performance of the week went to Delphaine Savage for Mini Fillies for her first stint in goal ever and she did an amazing job against the boys.

The kids have three weeks to go, the season will end on Tuesday, 3 December. A huge shoutout to Travis Butler for the marking of the fields each week!

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