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NPL 2026

HappyGuus said:
Does anyone know what the cut off is for travel time before a team has to stay overnight before the match?

AI tells me that two hour flights is a common cut off, but in Australia we have teams in the NRL and NPL doing three to four hour road trips and playing the same day. Even Mount Gambier played same day after a five hour trip to Adelaide.

I'm thinking about the Championship and how to keep costs down, and travel is the biggest killer. One thing I haven't seen mentioned anywhere but could be an interesting point is that by professionalising the NST we can open the travel calendar to cheaper and more flexible flights and accommodation, instead of working around the bricklayers work schedule 😅
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Had relatives who used to play in the nsl in the 70s-80s. They used to fly back the night of, sometimes with connecting flights, barely get time to eat all day pre or post game with travel and often get home after midnight and have to go to work the next day
 
HappyGuus said:
Does anyone know what the cut off is for travel time before a team has to stay overnight before the match?

AI tells me that two hour flights is a common cut off, but in Australia we have teams in the NRL and NPL doing three to four hour road trips and playing the same day. Even Mount Gambier played same day after a five hour trip to Adelaide.

I'm thinking about the Championship and how to keep costs down, and travel is the biggest killer. One thing I haven't seen mentioned anywhere but could be an interesting point is that by professionalising the NST we can open the travel calendar to cheaper and more flexible flights and accommodation, instead of working around the bricklayers work schedule 😅
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Yoogali and Riverina would rarely stay overnight in Canberra for NPL games.

I believe at youth level though, Canberra clubs coming to Griffith (especially the age groups that would play first thing in the morning) would come up the night before.
 
southmelb said:
Its very hard to repair relationships when they sour. You wouldnt blame Siki if he was the one that actually wanted out.
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A chance to defend his title in the Championship with a squad he (possibly) built, and then go on to Oceania again vs playing in the daytime in front of 25 people in a commission housing estate? Relationships must be very sour...
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
A chance to defend his title in the Championship with a squad he (possibly) built, and then go on to Oceania again vs playing in the daytime in front of 25 people in a commission housing estate? Relationships must be very sour...
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Sometimes the lower pressure job is better, if he just wants to coach without all the nonsense i can see why flying under the radar with 20 fans is appealing.
 
southmelb said:
Sometimes the lower pressure job is better, if he just wants to coach without all the nonsense i can see why flying under the radar with 20 fans is appealing.
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He strikes me as a pretty ambitious bloke to be fair. I could be way off the mark but I would think he would leave (on his own) for a higher position NOT a downgrade.
 
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