2 points from 9 games, surely North Ryde are in the driver's seat for being the worst ever team to be in our Premier League...

Putney ressys vs north Ryde prems.... who wins ?

I dunno man they seem like they have a lot of potential just struggling to find their feet so far. So close to beating both EEW and Rovers;

Maybe stop posting keyboard warrior talk on an anonymous forum like an incel....

I actually think they're a decent side. Drew with EEW, only lost 1-0 to WRR. Try to play good football, perhaps to their own detriment at times.

Very surprised to see them only have 2 points. Blew a lead against a 10 men Normo, they should have more points on the board.

Expecting them to pick up more points in the second half of the season, but probably a case of too little too late for the relegation battle. 

Don't forget St Pats were in a similar position last season and ended up in the GF. 

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Woodies as well. Dead-last and then almost made Top 4 last year 

Things can happen but I don't think it will with North Ryde. Even with the quality, they are just too young and weak. Never gonna stand a chance against bigger fellas in more structure defensive lines. 

You never know, they could grab a win they can keep the momentum going rest of the season.

No chance they'll make top 4 but if they actually start playing well there's no doubt they can keep out of relegation. I reckon they've shown a lot of quality they just lose their heads and concede too many goals. Obviously need a change in defence, it isn't good enough. 

you forget the beecroft team of 2013...

Amazing squad.....not

NR play some decent football and as the above comments have said, have been unlucky dropping points. Relegation is almost a certainty but they play better football than ryde saints and north epping in recent PL years.

NR play some good football. They have been unlucky and often concede the losing goal late into the second half of matches. Definitely will pick up some points second half of the season if they can stay fit. Doesn't help when they have their legs snapped by opposition players every second week. Good luck to them

The jump from SL to PL was just a bit too much for North Ryde by the looks of it. The things that made them so successful last season they clearly haven't been able to rely on this year. Their defense can't handle the quality of attack, their strikers can't manage the structure of teams defences and overall they haven't been able to tiki-taka their way through teams like they did previously because they have come up against much more physically dominating players.

Putney ressys vs north Ryde prems.... who wins ?

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>The jump from SL to PL was just a bit too much for North Ryde by the looks of it. The things that made them so successful last season they clearly haven't been able to rely on this year. Their defense can't handle the quality of attack, their strikers can't manage the structure of teams defences and overall they haven't been able to tiki-taka their way through teams like they did previously because they have come up against much more physically dominating players.

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The other thing is that teams know how to do 'tiki taka' or hold the ball up better than the likes of HFC or Roselea whose first instinct is to kick it long. 

Super League teams don't have any idea how to mark space and so you let a creative forward in Gomez having a 1000 years to retrieve a ball and push forward, you're bound to concede a lot of goals. That space doesn't exist anymore. More than that, you then have a NR defence that isn't getting away with murder with stupid turnovers in their own half. It's getting capitalised brutually. 

Say what you want against North Epping, at least they had a defence that could withhold pressure. They sneaked an early goal and then parked a bus and it was so effective.

Interesting that NR who ran away with the comp can barely get a point, yet Putney, who finished 3rd, are in and around the top 4.

Is it just their style of play is more suited to surviving PL? Have they recruited? Or just some luck/improvement from last year? 

Recruited quite heavily to wipe the floor with super league this year then got put in prems by chance. A lot of first graders out at the moment but we copped that in round 5. Been hearing NR have had bad luck with injury from the get go so could be interesting to see what happens latter on still a long season.

NR have all their main players back in their team to select particularly Gomez who missed majority of the first half of the season.

They played West Penno on the weekend and got wiped off the pitch even before the red cards

The old "missing players" excuse is almost as old as football itself. 

Literally every single team in this competition has to deal with injuries and players being suspended/away.

If you're losing consistently it has nothing to do with "missing players" and everything to do with squad depth which is exactly why most SL teams struggle when they make the jump. They simply don't have the depth of quality players to choose from whether through poor recuiting or just having to chose players that got carried to Prems and aren't up to par.

If your team relys on 2-3 players then you're going to get exposed pretty quickly

Boys from Putney are a lot more physical, North Ryde can't just get away with being very fit which probably worked in SL last year.

Putney ressys vs north Ryde prems.... who wins ?

Who do you reckon have been the best teams to get promoted?

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Can't go past Dragons being promoted and then next year winning the comp

How many times has this happened?

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Kenthurst did it in 2012 and won during a season that had 18 games unlike  Dragons

And then also didn't struggle every year afterwards. Talk about flukes

As a member of a different club to both Penno and North Ryde (which will not be revealed due to some of the other shit that is served on this forum) I had to pleasure of watching the 'Worst ever PL side' yesterday at Penno.

The ladder may suggest this, but North Ryde are actually not that bad. They seem to be finding ways to lose, panicking on the ball whenever they have it for more than 3 seconds, but their attack is pretty good if they can find a way to stop relying on this "Gomez" fella, who is good but isn't Messi. I actually thought their attacking spark came from a young fella who was wearing the #50. Their defence was okay but Penno who are probably the most inform team in the comp were just too good. 

if North Ryde can somehow avoid the drop this season, they could challenge for fringe finals next season. All about taking opportunities though...

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>The ladder may suggest this, but North Ryde are actually not that bad. They seem to be finding ways to lose, panicking on the ball whenever they have it for more than 3 seconds, but their attack is pretty good if they can find a way to stop relying on this "Gomez" fella, who is good but isn't Messi. I actually thought their attacking spark came from a young fella who was wearing the #50. Their defence was okay but Penno who are probably the most inform team in the comp were just too good. 

>if North Ryde can somehow avoid the drop this season, they could challenge for fringe finals next season. All about taking opportunities though...

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I have only seen them play once this season but 100% agree that they are better than their results and probably play better than a few other teams in the bottom half. Need to get some experience and nouse in these games that they are losing closely

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kenthurst didnt win the first year they came up though

You would think that after only winning one game all season and with a goal difference of -23 they would of made some changes to their squad or atleast their tactics. looks like they will be heading back down to super league where they belong. 

North Ryde have some decent players in ressies and first grade. You can tell why they did well in SL, however they are a very young squad. Their lack of experience and disipline defiently shows. It is quite funny to think that ex "rep" players can come to PL and walk the park with everyone. Could this be an issue with the coaching? The culture? The players? Or perhaps all of the above.

Talent can only get you so far when you are up agaisnt well drilled squads who have been playing PL together for the last few years. 

Rumours of NR players spitting the dummy at the ref are almost weekly. Sin bins, red cards etc. 

It seems something needs to change at NR otherwise players could look at jumping ship with the inveitable relegation coming. 

Seems the culture needs a big shakc up if they ever want to come back up and be successful in PL. Look what happened to Ravens. Got relegated and completly fell apart. Could this be the start of a club loosing another PL/SL side? Is there potential for PL sides to profit off and poach quality players and mold them to THEIR clubs culture? 

A lot of questions to be answered...

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>North Ryde have some decent players in ressies and first grade. You can tell why they did well in SL, however they are a very young squad. Their lack of experience and disipline defiently shows. It is quite funny to think that ex "rep" players can come to PL and walk the park with everyone. Could this be an issue with the coaching? The culture? The players? Or perhaps all of the above.

>Talent can only get you so far when you are up agaisnt well drilled squads who have been playing PL together for the last few years. 

>Rumours of NR players spitting the dummy at the ref are almost weekly. Sin bins, red cards etc. 

>It seems something needs to change at NR otherwise players could look at jumping ship with the inveitable relegation coming. 

>Seems the culture needs a big shakc up if they ever want to come back up and be successful in PL. Look what happened to Ravens. Got relegated and completly fell apart. Could this be the start of a club loosing another PL/SL side? Is there potential for PL sides to profit off and poach quality players and mold them to THEIR clubs culture? 

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All Super League clubs that come up have more dummy spits at referees than the grounded teams. The grounded teams in many ways have built a culture of respect and playing to the referee's whistle that you simply don't see with Super League.

And therefore teams like North Ryde and Putney this year have been the worst offenders because they have come from a culture where that's not normal and when things don't go your way, discipline catches up with you.

The coaching was good enough to get them to Premier League but just like what Epping FC are going to experience next year, there is a huge step up to remain competitive and not be relegated. There are some well drilled teams in this comp that simply over-power and out-play 'classy football'. 

I mean look at Penno. They basically have the same squad as last year. They have lost a couple of players here and there and picked up virtually no-one. And yet they were second last pretty much for the majority of last season. This season, they could win the premiership if Tigers, West Penno and West Ryde continue to choke.

Now that's just experience and years of playing the trade that have got them to where they are. North Ryde don't have that. Arguably they play better football than most teams out there but the physical game of all the other oppositions have meant they get superseded every game.

How can anyone honestly claim that North Ryde "play better football than most teams"?!

They have 5 points out of a possible 45.

They have scored the least goals

They have conceded the most

They are coming dead last 

To me that sounds like a team that plays "worse football than most teams"