NTFA 2023

leb16 · Feb 14, 2022

Its been awhile since the NTFA has had a thread.
What is happening with the clubs?
Premier League-
Bracknell have picked a few up, goldfinch from East Coast, Shaun James form maindland ex Storm/South TSL. Dennis meant to be bringing a mate from Darwin.
South has been quiet? Tepper gone to North
Longford - Quiet also. Thorp doesn't like letting too much go. Mitch Bennet to scottsdale.
Rocha - Rushton will be a handy pick up.
Scottsdale - Bennet and Berry from South on good $$.

Div1
Lilydale lost a few back to gtown but still hard to beat.
St Pats - picked up Jake Cairns form Perth, lasky and perkins back from south.
OLS - picked up a few form mainland, Gunton from Evandale.

TassieFooty1 · Apr 12, 2023

Anyone have an examiner account and could send screen shots of the article from today?

Over The Post · Apr 12, 2023

TassieFooty1 here you go.
Sorry if the team names are wrong, I had to look them up.

There have been plenty of changes for teams in the NTFA division one men's competition and even a new team with the return of Bridport.
The Examiner previews each team ahead of the 2023 season.

Bridport
Coach: Andrew Philpott Co-captains: Joseph Robinson and Nat Barnett Last year: N/A
Ins: Liam Saunders, Josh Whelan, Joseph Robinson, Cody Kerrison, Christian Barnes (all Scottsdale), Will McBride (Byron Bay), Liam McKean (Launceston) and Josh Morgan (Bracknell)
Outs: Joe Krushka (Scottsdale) and Jack Deacon (George Town)
Coach's preview: "We have achieved our first goal by having two teams and being back into the NTFA. As far as the season goes, we want to play at least one final."

East Coast Swans
Coach: Kodie Joseph Co-captains: Lewis Ritchie and Marcus Hayley Last year: Elimination final
Ins: Jackson Riley, Cobey Evans, Gus Redman (all North Launceston), Chae Evans (George Town), Ty Ponting (Lilydale), Brad Doust (Rocherlea), Aladin Beshir (South Launceston), Lachlan Maynard (basketball), Max Salter (Longford), Ben Arnold (UTAS), Hunter Robinson (returning), Tadhg Blunt (juniors) and Daniel Bishop (new player)
Outs: Chris Novey (mainland), Robbie MacManus (Dodges Ferry), Paul Stoltenberg, Will Stoltenberg (both Meander Valley), Scott Fenton (Bridport), Corey Bosworth (Campbell Town), Adam Breen (Melbourne), Jack Calow, Aaron Oliver (Evandale), Chris Oakenfall (Perth) and Tobius Omenihu (UTAS)
Coach's preview: "Our main focus for 2023 will be around developing the next wave of long-term players for our club, whilst still aiming to be competitive with the top teams. We are lucky to have added and retained some highly talented and experienced players to help guide our youth."

Evandale
Coach: James Conroy Captain: Tyler Brown Last year: Seventh
Ins: Callum Smith (Deloraine), Alex Jordan (Longford), Matthew Dikkenberg (Hillwood), Elliot Lockhart, Sam Artis, Caleb Chapple (all South Launceston), Kade Gunton (Old Launcestonians) and Anthony Axton (George Town)
Outs: Aidan Bullman, Morgan Symonds (both Old Launcestonians), Aaron Bird (Evandale) and Jak Hadley (Lilydale)
Coach's preview: "The goal this season is to be more competitive for longer in every game we play. I feel as though we have more depth to our squad, so it should be a realistic achievement to make and certainly through that we should be winning more games of football."

Lilydale
Coach: Corey Lockett Captain: Louis Venn Last year: Preliminary final
Ins: Joel Holloway (Meander Valley), Jak Hadley (Evandale), Mark Walsh (North Launceston), Josh Youd (Bridgenorth) and Matthew Saunders (Launceston Development League)
Outs: Ty Ponting (East Coast) and Mark Quinn (UTAS)
Coach's preview: "After how we finished last year, losing the prelim has probably helped us refocus on our hunger to go one step further again. Obviously, we still want to finish top three and then hopefully be healthy for finals, I feel like our squad is as determined as ever before."

Meander Valley
Coach: Will Stoltenberg Co-captains: Kane Brugeaud and Anthony Johnson Last year: Ninth
Ins: Paul Stoltenberg (East Coast), James Kabak (Prospect), Malcolm Jones (George Town), Logan Jones (Tamar Demons), Ryan Braid (Sheffield), Kayleb Williams (King Island), Chad Honey (St Pats), Matthew Wright and Brock Young (returning)
Outs: Lachlan Bellinger (Perth)
Coach's preview: "We want to build towards putting a solid, competitive football product on the park. Something that the community and the club itself can be proud of week in and week out."

Old Launcestonians
Coach: Mark Edwards Captain: Matthew Spohn Last year: Semi final
Ins: Aidan Bullman, Morgan Symonds (both Evandale), Mitchell Cheeseman (Bendigo), Lochie Bonney, Jacob Bonney, Will Bonney (all Bridgenorth), Ezra Jackson (returning), Jack Wise (South Launceston), Andrew Rigby (Rocherlea) and Luke Good (Old Scotch)
Outs: Kade Gunton (Evandale)
Coach's preview: "Finals is an expectation we have definitely. Off the back of last year, it probably wasn't the year that we were looking for, but we've had a really good pre-season retaining everyone and then adding a few is going to be really helpful."

Old Scotch
Coach: Brayley Coombes Captain: Jonty Swallow Last year: Runners-up
Ins: Fletcher Seymour (Launceston), Ed Keach (Bracknell), Dougal Morrison (Mount Pleasant), Sam Briggs (Old Geelong), Tom Wigan (unattached) and George Oliver (returning)
Outs: Luke Good (Old Launcestonians)
Coach's preview: "We had a fairly successful season last year, but we were clearly outplayed in the grand final by a better St Pats side. We've actively worked on some things that we need to rectify and recruited fairly heavily in the off-season and so our aim is to go one step further, it's as simple as that."

Perth
Coach: Jade Selby Captain: Jakob Williams Last year: Sixth
Ins: Matthew Warren (Redlands), Ben Elmer (returning), Josiah Burling (Launceston), Ben Ronken, Blair McGillvery (both Campbell Town), Andy Potter (North Launceston), (Campbell Town), Ethan Steele (Scottsdale), Zac Connell (Bracknell), Lachlan Bellinger (Meander Valley) and Aaron Bird (Evandale)
Outs: Joel Murray (Victoria), Lukas Suter (NSW), Matthew Rigby (personal reasons) and Zack Kerrison (injury)
Coach's preview: "We don't put a ceiling on it, but the boys haven't played finals for a few years so that's obviously a goal, we're here to play finals footy. We want to be a lot harder team to play against and we should be in games for longer."

St Pats
Coach: Jake Laskey Captain: Tom Hilder Last year: Premiers
Ins: Jono Lawrence, Jordan Tepper, Brad Dodds, Ben Laskey, Claye Young, Dylaqn Morgan (all South Launceston), Zeik Johnston (mainland), Addy Cosslett (Deloraine), Mitch Bennett (Scottsdale), Kaleb Thomas (North Launceston) and Luke Guy (returning)
Outs: Luke Walsh (interstate) and Chad Honey (Meander Valley)
Coach's preview: "We don't really have expectations to be honest, because as soon as you start setting expectations, you start to limit yourself, so we're just keeping it open. Coming off the back of a flag, we're going to be hunted pretty hard, but it's just about trying to improve each week."

UTAS Lions
Coach: Brady Butwell Captain: Liam Guardia Last year: Eighth
Ins: Tobius Omenihu (East Coast), Peter Ludbey (North Launceston), Kyle Turmine, Kalab Canning (both George Town), Rodney Turnbull (Queensland), Brady Butwell (Rocherlea), Koby McLaren, Angus Cheek (both Wynyard), Edwin Smith (UTAS Hobart), Sam McAuliffe, Michael Coldham (both Perth, WA), Jack McLaren (returning), Mark Quinn (Lilydale), Zac Lieutier (Tas Uni FC), Anthony Burbury (Devonport) and Oscar Mitchell (Adelaide)
Outs: Ben Arnold (East Coast), Daniel McHugh (mainland), Harry O'Keane, Tanner McKenzie, Oscar Kennedy, Kye Moore (finished uni) and Zac Paul (injury)
Coach's preview: "We want to make finals first and foremost and play in an elimination final if we can. We've sat down, looked at our side looked at our opposition and that's where we want to see ourselves."

TassieFooty1 · Apr 13, 2023

Mark Walsh will be a good pick up for Lilydale.

popsikle99 · Apr 13, 2023

Looks like a great comp for 2023

Kingpin · Sep 15, 2023

NTFA Womens Division One: Grand Final.
Deloraine 3.6 (24) d Meander Valley 2.3 (15)