Another season fast approaches! Hope everyone's kept safe in these wild storms, I'm proud to announce the betting odds for the 2025 season. Lots of changes have come in with the return of Epping and newcomers, the former Northern HFC boys. North Ryde are gone and so are St Pats who have left for pastures closer to home. West Ryde are looking like they'll be difficult to beat again, and we can never count out those hungry Lions of West Penno. Their fellow Pennant Hills counterparts will be looking to emulate another successful year with an unexpected surge in first grade in 2024 which saw them be a side no one wanted to face. The stoic sides of EEW and STA are hungry for another year of heaping misery on visiting sides and we all know the Normo eagles will not stop running (even if this means a lack of goalscoring or actually playing attractive football). It's now been four years since we heard the deafening roar of the Dragons, can they revert to their form of Covid and burn their way through the opposition? The newcomers will find it tough but it'll be exciting to see how they go against the big boys. There have been quiet whispers of unrest at Putney. Given their performances in reserve grade last season it may not be a surprise. However, the most sinister of rumours are beginning to spread off a mass exodus of players and this may perhaps signal a return to the top flight of a soaring Hawk from the north-west or perhaps a return of a former giant, which Wednesday nights storm and thunder, may have been a sign from above of what's to come. Nevertheless, see your odds below, featuring the 10 teams that we currently are of understanding, will form this year's premier league competition!
Putney at risk of folding to be replaced by Thornleigh thunder or hills hawks again (thunder more likely apparently due to squad size)
Putney boys have left and gone to west ryde and penno as they didn't like the new coach (ironically a former penno boy) as well as their ressies being shite last year
WPH have lost a few players, some taking the year off apparently and their captain Andy injured for the whole year
normanhurst have had a mass exodus
haven't heard anything regarding dragons or any of the Epping clubs
For West Ryde & penno it comes down to who got the core group of quality players from putney, rumours have it penno got there, Not rovers....... if so penno have gone from top 4 to title challengers, if rovers got the core group they will win it again, if they didn't however and got a bunch of the weak players from putney a change at the top of the table is inevitable.
Penno win the last game of the season they finish 2nd they draw against Wph and finish 4th by 2points
Rovers pick them up trust me they win the comp
Putney last year start the season after the first 6-7 games they were 1st but no depth saw putney just drop which is expected with the ressys team struggling against the bats! Putney core players if you know football credit where it's due they are good players 5/6 of them but the rest of the squad were shit
WPH no Andy no Good.
First negative comments coming from this Hype tosser congratulations!
Though the team that get the good players are only gonna benefit and you'll see them contending if rovers have them congratulations on 2 years straight rovers!
Mac dragons are the dark horse to possibly get the putney lads from what I've heard today?
Penno win the last game of the season they finish 2nd they draw against Wph and finish 4th by 2points
Rovers pick them up trust me they win the comp
Putney last year start the season after the first 6-7 games they were 1st but no depth saw putney just drop which is expected with the ressys team struggling against the bats! Putney core players if you know football credit where it's due they are good players 5/6 of them but the rest of the squad were shit
WPH no Andy no Good.
First negative comments coming from this Hype tosser congratulations!
Though the team that get the good players are only gonna benefit and you'll see them contending if rovers have them congratulations on 2 years straight rovers!
Mac dragons are the dark horse to possibly get the putney lads from what I've heard today?
Penno win the last game of the season they finish 2nd they draw against Wph and finish 4th by 2points
Rovers pick them up trust me they win the comp
Putney last year start the season after the first 6-7 games they were 1st but no depth saw putney just drop which is expected with the ressys team struggling against the bats! Putney core players if you know football credit where it's due they are good players 5/6 of them but the rest of the squad were shit
WPH no Andy no Good.
First negative comments coming from this Hype tosser congratulations!
Though the team that get the good players are only gonna benefit and you'll see them contending if rovers have them congratulations on 2 years straight rovers!
Mac dragons are the dark horse to possibly get the putney lads from what I've heard today?
Normo have been the worst footballing team for a while they just run all day which serves them fairly well. Technically woeful. All white boys with no ounce of footballing ability and the same old rigid back 4
>>>I can see Normo in that group as well if the rumours are true and they've lost their entire first grade team
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>>Can confirm the rumours are not true. Their captain and the core group of players are still there and training.
>>Have heard that there was a plan for some of them to leave, however they have decided to stay and play another season.
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100% not true I know the coach quite well and came down to penno to watch some of their preseason.
The core group is still there, though notably no new players so expect the same marathon running performance from them each game.
The core group initially planned on leaving and did not attend the trials back at the end of last year so that could have been where the rumours started?
They are light years behind their local rivals from Penno and WPH
I must say I'm surprised with how Penno have turned a corner
Back in top 4 with both grades last year and seemingly have got rid of some deadwood in their squad this year and replaced with some Putney first graders and talented up and comers and returning players amongst their ranks.
WPH have had a few losses and big injury to Andy but I'm sure will be competitive once more across the board. Normo are inept though particularly if the rumours of losing quite a few first graders are true. Their coach is like Sarge from Locky Leonard. Typical white Aussie geography teacher trying to teach PE. No clue
>>>>I can see Normo in that group as well if the rumours are true and they've lost their entire first grade team
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>>>Can confirm the rumours are not true. Their captain and the core group of players are still there and training.
>>>Have heard that there was a plan for some of them to leave, however they have decided to stay and play another season.
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>> The rumours are true, their whole 1st grade squad left. They're going down
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>100% not true I know the coach quite well and came down to penno to watch some of their preseason.
>The core group is still there, though notably no new players so expect the same marathon running performance from them each game.
>The core group initially planned on leaving and did not attend the trials back at the end of last year so that could have been where the rumours started?
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Interesting to say the least. I guess we will see come round 1
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>They are light years behind their local rivals from Penno and WPH
>I must say I'm surprised with how Penno have turned a corner
>Back in top 4 with both grades last year and seemingly have got rid of some deadwood in their squad this year and replaced with some Putney first graders and talented up and comers and returning players amongst their ranks.
>WPH have had a few losses and big injury to Andy but I'm sure will be competitive once more across the board. Normo are inept though particularly if the rumours of losing quite a few first graders are true. Their coach is like Sarge from Locky Leonard. Typical white Aussie geography teacher trying to teach PE. No clue
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Penno have really turned it around in the last year. Their squad is looking very promising and I suspect that they'll be a dark horse for the premiership, although Rovers and WPHC will be tough to beat. Normo will probably be relegation candidates. A club of their size will always struggle and having lost their core 1st graders I can't see them staying up.
>>They are light years behind their local rivals from Penno and WPH
>>I must say I'm surprised with how Penno have turned a corner
>>Back in top 4 with both grades last year and seemingly have got rid of some deadwood in their squad this year and replaced with some Putney first graders and talented up and comers and returning players amongst their ranks.
>>WPH have had a few losses and big injury to Andy but I'm sure will be competitive once more across the board. Normo are inept though particularly if the rumours of losing quite a few first graders are true. Their coach is like Sarge from Locky Leonard. Typical white Aussie geography teacher trying to teach PE. No clue
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>Penno have really turned it around in the last year. Their squad is looking very promising and I suspect that they'll be a dark horse for the premiership, although Rovers and WPHC will be tough to beat. Normo will probably be relegation candidates. A club of their size will always struggle and having lost their core 1st graders I can't see them staying up.
Sportsbet
wrote on 17-Jan-25 15:26Another season fast approaches! Hope everyone's kept safe in these wild storms, I'm proud to announce the betting odds for the 2025 season. Lots of changes have come in with the return of Epping and newcomers, the former Northern HFC boys. North Ryde are gone and so are St Pats who have left for pastures closer to home. West Ryde are looking like they'll be difficult to beat again, and we can never count out those hungry Lions of West Penno. Their fellow Pennant Hills counterparts will be looking to emulate another successful year with an unexpected surge in first grade in 2024 which saw them be a side no one wanted to face. The stoic sides of EEW and STA are hungry for another year of heaping misery on visiting sides and we all know the Normo eagles will not stop running (even if this means a lack of goalscoring or actually playing attractive football). It's now been four years since we heard the deafening roar of the Dragons, can they revert to their form of Covid and burn their way through the opposition? The newcomers will find it tough but it'll be exciting to see how they go against the big boys. There have been quiet whispers of unrest at Putney. Given their performances in reserve grade last season it may not be a surprise. However, the most sinister of rumours are beginning to spread off a mass exodus of players and this may perhaps signal a return to the top flight of a soaring Hawk from the north-west or perhaps a return of a former giant, which Wednesday nights storm and thunder, may have been a sign from above of what's to come. Nevertheless, see your odds below, featuring the 10 teams that we currently are of understanding, will form this year's premier league competition!
Sportsbet
wrote on 17-Jan-25 15:29Winner
West Ryde $1.90
West Penno $2.50
Penno FC $9
EEW $10.50
STA $25
Dragons $50
Normanhurst $101
Epping FC $251
Putney $501
NHFC $ 501
Sportsbet
wrote on 17-Jan-25 15:37Winner
West Ryde $1.90
West Penno $2.50
Penno FC $9
EEW $10.50
STA $25
Dragons $50
Normanhurst $101
Epping FC $251
Putney $501
NHFC $ 501
Sportsbet
wrote on 17-Jan-25 15:52Winner
West Ryde $1.90
West Penno $2.50
Penno FC $9
EEW $10.50
STA $25
Dragons $50
Normanhurst $101
Epping FC $251
Putney $501
NHFC $ 501
Massive odds
wrote on 20-Jan-25 06:31You would never get a job at Sportsbet my friend
Nostradamus
wrote on 21-Jan-25 10:141.Penno
2.WPH
3.STA
4.WR
5. EEW
The rest
Rumours
wrote on 23-Jan-25 11:50Heard a few player movement rumours
couple of Putney boys gone to penno and west Ryde m. Seems like everyone wants a piece of the Astro
Thunder might be back
wrote on 25-Jan-25 16:44Any truth to the rumours?
Thunder might be back
wrote on 25-Jan-25 16:57Any truth to the rumours?
Peev
wrote on 26-Jan-25 06:30Thunder might be back wrote:
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Where’s putney
wrote on 26-Jan-25 22:28The question everyone wants to know
WHERE IS THE PUTNEY BOYS?
Rumour mill
wrote on 27-Jan-25 10:34Apparently a few have gone over to Penno?
Rumour mills
wrote on 28-Jan-25 19:33A lot of chat on a few different fronts
Putney at risk of folding to be replaced by Thornleigh thunder or hills hawks again (thunder more likely apparently due to squad size)
Putney boys have left and gone to west ryde and penno as they didn't like the new coach (ironically a former penno boy) as well as their ressies being shite last year
WPH have lost a few players, some taking the year off apparently and their captain Andy injured for the whole year
normanhurst have had a mass exodus
haven't heard anything regarding dragons or any of the Epping clubs
Double
wrote on 29-Jan-25 01:34Pen hills double favourites
Rumour
wrote on 29-Jan-25 16:05For West Ryde & penno it comes down to who got the core group of quality players from putney, rumours have it penno got there, Not rovers....... if so penno have gone from top 4 to title challengers, if rovers got the core group they will win it again, if they didn't however and got a bunch of the weak players from putney a change at the top of the table is inevitable.
Rumours are rumours?
Truth be told
wrote on 29-Jan-25 16:16Core players have gone to Penno.
Replying
wrote on 29-Jan-25 17:47Truth be told wrote:
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I got told the core are at rovers
Rumours are rumours?
Wikileaks
wrote on 29-Jan-25 18:00Someone who actually knows clarify aha?
wander how the new boys in Epping and HFC will go this year
Replying
wrote on 29-Jan-25 20:26Truth be told wrote:
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I got told the core are at rovers
Rumours are rumours?
Replying
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>Core players have gone to Penno.
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I got told the core are at rovers
Rumours are rumours?
CORE
wrote on 30-Jan-25 12:54Why would we move?
Won chamionship
New Ground coming soon @ Meadowbank.
CORE
Hype
wrote on 30-Jan-25 15:46Truth be told wrote:
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Why would a "core" of a team that finished 8th improve a team that finished 4th?
How many players have gone to Penno from Putney?
Which Putney players would get a start in the Penno team over their 2024 players?
Asking for a friend.
Facts
wrote on 30-Jan-25 17:37Read
Penno win the last game of the season they finish 2nd they draw against Wph and finish 4th by 2points
Rovers pick them up trust me they win the comp
Putney last year start the season after the first 6-7 games they were 1st but no depth saw putney just drop which is expected with the ressys team struggling against the bats! Putney core players if you know football credit where it's due they are good players 5/6 of them but the rest of the squad were shit
WPH no Andy no Good.
First negative comments coming from this Hype tosser congratulations!
Though the team that get the good players are only gonna benefit and you'll see them contending if rovers have them congratulations on 2 years straight rovers!
Mac dragons are the dark horse to possibly get the putney lads from what I've heard today?
In the know
wrote on 30-Jan-25 18:05Putney core have gone to PH not WR. PH to win FG and WPH RG
Facts
wrote on 30-Jan-25 18:07Read
Penno win the last game of the season they finish 2nd they draw against Wph and finish 4th by 2points
Rovers pick them up trust me they win the comp
Putney last year start the season after the first 6-7 games they were 1st but no depth saw putney just drop which is expected with the ressys team struggling against the bats! Putney core players if you know football credit where it's due they are good players 5/6 of them but the rest of the squad were shit
WPH no Andy no Good.
First negative comments coming from this Hype tosser congratulations!
Though the team that get the good players are only gonna benefit and you'll see them contending if rovers have them congratulations on 2 years straight rovers!
Mac dragons are the dark horse to possibly get the putney lads from what I've heard today?
Facts
wrote on 31-Jan-25 01:51Read
Penno win the last game of the season they finish 2nd they draw against Wph and finish 4th by 2points
Rovers pick them up trust me they win the comp
Putney last year start the season after the first 6-7 games they were 1st but no depth saw putney just drop which is expected with the ressys team struggling against the bats! Putney core players if you know football credit where it's due they are good players 5/6 of them but the rest of the squad were shit
WPH no Andy no Good.
First negative comments coming from this Hype tosser congratulations!
Though the team that get the good players are only gonna benefit and you'll see them contending if rovers have them congratulations on 2 years straight rovers!
Mac dragons are the dark horse to possibly get the putney lads from what I've heard today?
Putney Ranger
wrote on 31-Jan-25 22:32Putney core gone to penant hill
Sad that the fight to stay up after a long awaited promotion for nothin jumping ship at the first chance
Win the championship with pen hill watching the club that rewarded many with free rego last season slides back to SL
If ya want loyalty buy a dog i guess
Putney Ranger
wrote on 31-Jan-25 22:32Putney core gone to penant hill
Sad that the fight to stay up after a long awaited promotion for nothin jumping ship at the first chance
Win the championship with pen hill watching the club that rewarded many with free rego last season slides back to SL
If ya want loyalty buy a dog i guess
Insider source
wrote on 02-Feb-25 10:07So the Putney coach of 2024 got banned ( unsurprisingly)
So his boys left with him and went to Pennant Hills. Only those 2 players from what I've heard.
The rest are still there.
rumours are rumours
West Ryder
wrote on 03-Feb-25 18:08We have exactly 0 ex-Putney players
Knowledge
wrote on 05-Feb-25 21:19Appears 4 or 5 have gone to Penno
1 or 2 only to West Ryde
west Penno tried poaching a few Penno players but were told no that their field is too shit
Normo apparently still training like they're the cross country team. Will
be interesting to see if they know how to kick a ball this year
Appearance
wrote on 07-Feb-25 10:30Hill Hawks & Ravens are making a return to Super League. Will The Rock make an appearance once more as coach?
The Y
wrote on 12-Feb-25 09:18With our depth doubt anyone will keep up
Relegation
wrote on 12-Feb-25 09:23Will be between Putney HFC and Epping surely
Relegation
wrote on 12-Feb-25 09:23Will be between Putney HFC and Epping surely
Relegation
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I can see Normo in that group as well if the rumours are true and they've lost their entire first grade team
THE ROCK
wrote on 12-Feb-25 11:32As much as i would love to, i've moved onto a different project.
Cross Country team
wrote on 12-Feb-25 12:39Normo have been the worst footballing team for a while they just run all day which serves them fairly well. Technically woeful. All white boys with no ounce of footballing ability and the same old rigid back 4
Scout
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Can confirm the rumours are not true. Their captain and the core group of players are still there and training.
Have heard that there was a plan for some of them to leave, however they have decided to stay and play another season.
Better Scout
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>>I can see Normo in that group as well if the rumours are true and they've lost their entire first grade team
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>Can confirm the rumours are not true. Their captain and the core group of players are still there and training.
>Have heard that there was a plan for some of them to leave, however they have decided to stay and play another season.
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The rumours are true, their whole 1st grade squad left. They're going down
Scout
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>>Can confirm the rumours are not true. Their captain and the core group of players are still there and training.
>>Have heard that there was a plan for some of them to leave, however they have decided to stay and play another season.
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100% not true I know the coach quite well and came down to penno to watch some of their preseason.
The core group is still there, though notably no new players so expect the same marathon running performance from them each game.
The core group initially planned on leaving and did not attend the trials back at the end of last year so that could have been where the rumours started?
Local
wrote on 14-Feb-25 13:09They are light years behind their local rivals from Penno and WPH
I must say I'm surprised with how Penno have turned a corner
Back in top 4 with both grades last year and seemingly have got rid of some deadwood in their squad this year and replaced with some Putney first graders and talented up and comers and returning players amongst their ranks.
WPH have had a few losses and big injury to Andy but I'm sure will be competitive once more across the board. Normo are inept though particularly if the rumours of losing quite a few first graders are true. Their coach is like Sarge from Locky Leonard. Typical white Aussie geography teacher trying to teach PE. No clue
Better Scout
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>>>Can confirm the rumours are not true. Their captain and the core group of players are still there and training.
>>>Have heard that there was a plan for some of them to leave, however they have decided to stay and play another season.
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The rumours are true, their whole 1st grade squad left. They're going down
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>100% not true I know the coach quite well and came down to penno to watch some of their preseason.
>The core group is still there, though notably no new players so expect the same marathon running performance from them each game.
>The core group initially planned on leaving and did not attend the trials back at the end of last year so that could have been where the rumours started?
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Interesting to say the least. I guess we will see come round 1
Dark horse
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>They are light years behind their local rivals from Penno and WPH
>I must say I'm surprised with how Penno have turned a corner
>Back in top 4 with both grades last year and seemingly have got rid of some deadwood in their squad this year and replaced with some Putney first graders and talented up and comers and returning players amongst their ranks.
>WPH have had a few losses and big injury to Andy but I'm sure will be competitive once more across the board. Normo are inept though particularly if the rumours of losing quite a few first graders are true. Their coach is like Sarge from Locky Leonard. Typical white Aussie geography teacher trying to teach PE. No clue
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Penno have really turned it around in the last year. Their squad is looking very promising and I suspect that they'll be a dark horse for the premiership, although Rovers and WPHC will be tough to beat. Normo will probably be relegation candidates. A club of their size will always struggle and having lost their core 1st graders I can't see them staying up.
Favs
wrote on 14-Feb-25 17:33Penno dark horses? Solid team coupla results gone there way and woulda won it . with their pickups its theres to loose
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>>They are light years behind their local rivals from Penno and WPH
>>I must say I'm surprised with how Penno have turned a corner
>>Back in top 4 with both grades last year and seemingly have got rid of some deadwood in their squad this year and replaced with some Putney first graders and talented up and comers and returning players amongst their ranks.
>>WPH have had a few losses and big injury to Andy but I'm sure will be competitive once more across the board. Normo are inept though particularly if the rumours of losing quite a few first graders are true. Their coach is like Sarge from Locky Leonard. Typical white Aussie geography teacher trying to teach PE. No clue
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>Penno have really turned it around in the last year. Their squad is looking very promising and I suspect that they'll be a dark horse for the premiership, although Rovers and WPHC will be tough to beat. Normo will probably be relegation candidates. A club of their size will always struggle and having lost their core 1st graders I can't see them staying up.
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