Tuggers Queanbeyan, Olympic and Canberra FC win.

Canberra Times have a new Sports Editor. Paul Newman from the Central Coast. And he's a football fan so goes the word from the Coast. Good news! Welcome Paul.

And Tuggers down O'Connor Knights in ACT Men's Premier League. All the ACT Men's Premier Scores below. Thanks to Russ Gibbs for the inside word on the games.


AT A GLANCE
CANBERRA OLYMPIC 3 (S Barsley, S Vanzetti, T Flanigan) bt Woden Valley 0 at Woden. CANBERRA FC 2 (P Ivanic 2) bt CANBERRA CITY 0 Deakin Oval. QUEANBEYAN CITY 4 (M Naumoski, D Gjorgievski, G Josifovski, J Barac) bt ANU FC 1 (L Harbon) at Riverside Stadium. Tuggeranong 1 O'Connor Knights 0 (Andrew Bobinskas)

Tuggeranong 1 O'Connor Knights 0 (Andrew Bobinskas)
The Brett Holman of ACT Premier League Football, Andrew Bobinskas netted late in the game to stun O'Connor Knights.

Tuggeranong outplayed their more fancied opponents according to Nearpost football expert and Tuggers fan Russell Gibb.

Brent Chick played well in the middle of the park, Tuggers defence led by Jeremy Butler snuffed out ace scorer Goran Veljanovski.

Rockets representative keeper Brett Dickens made a number of saves including one stunning reflex saves to ensure the Knights were goal less on the day.

Interestingly when Dickens was asked at ACT Rockets training by Canberra FC keeper Nathan Denham, "Do you do shot training at Tuggers during the week," he replied without thinking, "Nah mate, I get all my shot practice on Saturdya afternoon!"

Nice one Brett! And nice win Tuggers.

Thanks to Russ Gibb for "the knowledge."

CANBERRA OLYMPIC 3 (S Barsley, S Vanzetti, T Flanigan) bt Woden Valley 0 at Woden.

Olympic Coach Ian Hayward was happy with the win, but is rueing his sides loss of players over the coming weeks.

Lucas Roth heads to the USA on a scholarship, Ruben Ares is out for the season with a knee problem, Steve Kounnas heads to Europe and Nick Keith has a season ending injury.

But his side had enough class to overcome a spirited Woden Valley side. Futsalroo keeper Angelo Konstantinou saved a penalty for Olympic and at the other end Scott Barsley, Steve Vanzetti and Trent Flanigan (pen) were knocking them in.

CANBERRA FC 2 (P Ivanic 2) bt CANBERRA CITY 0 Deakin Oval.

Did you know every club Paul Ivanic played for in the old National Soccer League quickly folded. No wonder no A-League club will touch him!

But he keeps knocking them in for Canberra FC. Another two for Ivanic takes FC to the top of the league.

Canberra City Coach Robbie Graham said, "we played well. We conceded goals in the second half."

Canberra FC continue to get the wins despite rumoured to be doing it easy at training these days.

It would be good to see the standard of fitness lifted across the league, particularly if young players want to move up another level. But Canberra FC and others need only train to a level required to win.

From all accounts they're not doing it to tough at Deakin Oval on training nights this season. But they keep on winning.

And next week they meet Belconnen United in the clash of the season on Saturday night.

Nearpost reporter Russ Gibbs predicts a Canberra FC, but when questioned further and realising the size of the town, he quickly added, "but it could easily be a draw or possibly even a Belco win." Fearless our Russ:)

QUEANBEYAN CITY 4 (M Naumoski, D Gjorgievski, G Josifovski, J Barac) bt ANU FC 1 (L Harbon) at Riverside Stadium.

Queanbeyan City clamed their first win, and now have gone three games undefeated.

And it could have been more. Coach Goran Neveski was very happy. He said, his side "had a good pre-season then had some internal problems and this showed on the pitch. But now we are playing well. And we need to beat teams like ANU if we are to climb the table."

Next week they are hoping for another win against Canberra City. Not sure Canberra City will be so keen to oblige.