IPL round one chat | February 28, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

WATCH as Illawarra Mercury football reporters Josh Bartlett and Jordan Warren discuss the opening round of the IPL season.

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00:00 Well Illawarra football is back this weekend I'm so excited the Illawarra

00:03 Premier League, the District League returns also the Wolves and the Stingrays

00:07 are on this weekend there's plenty to talk about now Josh what's what's on

00:11 your radar this weekend obviously there was some big news yesterday with

00:13 Cringella tell me about that. Yeah huge news last year there was obviously an

00:17 incident involving multiple flares or at least at least one but we think multiple

00:21 flares during the IPL first grade grand final. Wynn Stadium was a sea

00:27 of orange at times, I've used the expression before but it really was true. Since then

00:31 there's been a deep investigation undertaken by Football South Coast they

00:35 found there was fan involvement involving Cringella as a result the

00:39 Lions have copped a three competition point penalty and will start the year

00:42 behind the eight ball three points behind their rivals so obviously you

00:46 mentioned the IPL we mentioned the IPL starts this weekend what are you most

00:49 looking forward to seeing? Yeah I've just done that Cringella stuff mate

00:52 that's gonna be really interesting if Cringella lose the league by by two

00:55 points at season's end it's gonna be yeah we'll wait and see but that's 22

00:58 weeks away but no I'm really excited for Shell Harbour obviously promoted from

01:01 the District League last year they won the league championship

01:04 in the District League last year performed really well I'm really looking

01:08 forward to seeing their squad performing in the Illawarra Premier League I really

01:11 think that they can push for that top five so it'll be really interesting to

01:14 see how they go obviously we mentioned the District League the Wolves are on

01:17 the Stingrays but we've got to mention the Matildas tonight they're 3-0 up

01:20 they've got to get through this game against Uzbekistan to get to the

01:23 Olympics we think that they will but what's your prediction for the game

01:26 tonight mate? Look you gotta you don't want to jinx these things of course but I'd be

01:30 pretty confident obviously as a Matildas fan will we see a repeat of the first

01:34 game it was Wollongong 3-0 with Michelle Heyman, Caitlin Ford and Mary

01:39 Fowler also getting on the scoreboard so I think they'll get the job done it'll be

01:43 interesting to see how they play whether they go conservative or really try to

01:46 just hammer it home what do you think mate? Yeah look I think I'd love to see

01:49 Wollongong 3 Uzbekistan 0 again but we'll wait and see I think if the

01:52 Matildas had a near-law draw tonight they'd probably still be happy because

01:54 they'll get through to Paris 24 but yeah there's plenty happening mate

01:58 for all the latest football news in Illawarra just head to illawarramercury.com.au

02:02 we're doing plenty of stories throughout the week in the lead-up for all

02:05 the local stuff and also on the weekend we'll be writing stories as well so head

02:08 to that website to check out the latest news