1995/1996 Season Round 01 Results written by Thomas Esamie
Played (06/10/1995) Breakers Stadium Referee : Shaun Micallef, Crowd : 6,837
Newcastle Breakers Steve Carter, Adam Sanderson, Steve Hickman, Ralph Maier, Andy Roberts, Gary Wilson, Craig Sharpley, David Lowe, Jason Bennett, Clayton Zane (Troy Halpin 80), Damian Brown Goals : Jason Bennett 16, Damian Brown 75	2	-	2	UTS Olympic Mike Gibson, Dave Barrett, Adam Ciantar, Nick Orlic, George Sorras, Kimon Taliadoros, Peter Tsekenis, Norman Tome, Kris Trajanovski, Elias Augerinos, Milan Blagojevic Goals : Peter Tsekenis 32, Kimon Taliadoros 51pk
The 1995/6 season begins with this intriguing battle between two teams who are generally expected to feature prominently in sentences containing the words "losers", "no hopers" and "couldn't score in a brothel". It is pleasing then that the 6,837 Novocastrians were rewarded with an entertaining match which promised much when Jason Bennett intercepted a really bad square pass from the UTS defence and beat both chasing defenders and the goalkeeper to give the Breakers the lead. However a Milan Blagojevic engineered opening was well put away by Peter Tsekenis before Ralph Maier fouled Kimon Taliadoros in the box and it was only a late-ish strike from Damian Brown that brought smiles all round.
Played (07/10/1995) Falcons Park Referee : Cain Naumcevski , Crowd : 2,840
Morwell Falcons Jim Kourtis, Justin Geri (John Alesi 89), Claudio Canosa, Doug Marcina, Scott Miller, John Waddell, Marcus Stergiopoulos, Ernie Tapai, Sonny Sevin, Michael Reda, Warren Spink Goals : Warren Spink 8, 42, 59, Michael Reda 31	4	-	1	Wollongong City Brett Hughes, Bill Gjakovski, Richard Lloyd (Robbie Middleby 67), Martin Bourke, George Jolevski, Lupcho Naumovski, Matt Horsley, Pedro Ricoy, Claudio Cellini, Stuart McLaren, Tony Perinich Goal : Tony Perenich 64
Whoa! Watch those Morwell boys go. Warren Spink dined richly on the rather poor defensive errors of the Wolves and by what little I saw on the highlights I would say he might well have added to his tally.
Played (07/10/1995) Suncorp Stadium Referee : Derek Crawford, Crowd : 6,118
Brisbane Strikers Clint Bolton, Steve Jackson, Alan Hunter, Mark Battistin, Troy Cranney, Danny Wright (Chris Slater 74), Jason Polak, Chris Zoricich, Sean Cranney, Rod Brown (Craig Williams 82), Frank Farina Goal : Frank Farina 12pk	1	-	3	Marconi-Fairfield Bob Catlin, Robbie Stanton, Luke Casserly (Darren Iocca 30), Aaron Holst, Jean-Paul DeMarigny, Mathew Bingley, Eric Hristodoulou, Paul Beltrame, Brad Maloney, Andrew Harper, Francis Awaritefe (Ramon Climent 82) Goals : Andy Harper 5pk, 47pk, Matthew Bingley 64
Frankies back! Brisbane have moved to Suncorp Stadium (from Perry Park) and bought in one of the Socceroos favourite sons - Frank Farina. The game was more or less decided on penalties. First Clint Bolton made an absolute mess of a cross and bought down Andy Harper who looked likely to benefit. Then Farina got the even-upper when Jason Polak was hacked down by Luke Casserly and gave Farina his first goal in the A-League for quite a while. However it was a very clumsy Steve Jackson challenge for a header against Francis Awaritefe which bought the games third penalty before Bingley took his opportunity while Brisbane pushed for an equaliser and sprung the offside trap and took his shot unchallenged.
Played (08/10/1995) Hindmarsh Stadium Referee : J. Papanicolas, Crowd : 4,680
Adelaide City Jason Petkovic, Milan Ivanovic, Sasha Nedeljkovic, Alex Tobin, Bradley Armour, Jamie Perin, Goran Lozanovski, John Gibson, Craig Foster (Angelo Costanzo 78), Damian Mori, Bradley Hassell Goals : Damian Mori 70, 89	2	-	0	Canberra Cosmos Danny Milosevic, Paul Wade, Paul Dee, Richard Watson, Jason Dunn, Joe Gagetti, Arsenije Popovich, Jimmy Baxter, Willie Hastie, Michael Garcia, Lachlan Armstrong
Damian Mori is going to score plenty this season but of the greatest significance was the Cosmos ability to hold the Zebras to 0-0 for nearly an hour. Although not really creating many chances Canberra showed that they are not going to be the leagues easybeats everyone makes them out to be.
Match report by Nick Guoth
Played (08/10/1995) Melbourne Croatian Sports Centre Referee : Eugene Brazzale, Crowd : 7,448
Melbourne Knights Frank Juric, Fausto De Amicis, David Cervinski, Zoran Markovski, Andrew Marth, Mark Silic, Joseph Spiteri, Lubomir Lapsansky, Oliver Pondeljak, Danny Tiatto, Ante Kovacevic Goals : Steve Mangos 64og	1	-	0	South Melbourne Dean Anastasiadis, Steve Mangos, Alex Kuzmanovic, Con Anthopoulos, Vaughan Coveny, Paul Trimboli, Ivan Kelic, Bill Damianos, Mike Petersen, Tansel Baser (Michael Curcija 76), Sasa Nikolic
A tight match between the local rivals which was notable for the complete and utter absence of quality finishing. The only goal came from an attempted hook away from the goal which was misjudged and ended up looping into the goal beyond Anastasiadis' reach.
Played (08/10/1995) Sydney Croatian Sports Centre Referee : Mark Shields, Crowd : 4,160
Sydney United John Perosh, Robert Trajkovski, Velimir Kupresak, Mark Rudan, Mark Babic, Paul Bilokapic, Domenic Usalj, Robert Enes (David Zdrilic 63), Ante Moric, Ante Milicic, Sean Babic (Robbie Markovac 86)	0	-	0	West Adelaide Peter Blazincic, Richie Alagich, Robbie Slager, Frank Tibaldi, Robbie Hooker, Con Kokkinoplitis, Ross Aloisi (Jim Keramidas 89), Mark Brazzale, Pablo Cardozo, Jose Iriarte, Peter Tsekinis (Rechat Mezonsof 83)
No goals but a win to United on points. West Adelaide were able to defend when neccesary and left the rest to the now legendary inability of United to put the ball in the net.