Since I put up my first such list for the pre-season on Saturday, I have come into some new information, or rather clarifications, on this matter. And since we've reached a little Christmas/New year break where there will be no more games, it was perhaps worth providing a perfunctory update.
Named in official South Melbourne FC social media during what might be called the 2020 post-season/2021 pre-season, or noted to me during the members forum yesterday, and thus one might assume that they are on the senior men's roster for 2021:
- Luke Adams (played in pre-season friendly, and interviewed following one of those games)
- Zac Bates (played in pre-season friendly, and interviewed following one of those games))
- Daniel Clark (yes, back from Queensland)
- Pierce Clark ((yes, also back from Queensland)
- Ben Djiba (could yet become the right-sided fullback or winger of our NPL dreams)
- Lirim Elmazi (was wished a happy birthday, distinctive head spotted in other social media content)
- Chris Irwin
- Perry Lambropoulos (was wished a happy birthday)
- Mathew Loutrakis (interviewed post friendly)
- Jake Marshall (played in pre-season friendly
- Brad Norton (scored goal in pre-season friendly)
- Luke Pavlou (some sort of mention in a social media gimmick video or something)
- Harrison Sawyer (yes, also back from Queensland)
- Marcus Schroen (was interviewed in that video about South Melbourne;s new blind football team)
- Gerrie Sylaidos (scored goal in pre-season friendly, also easily recognisable thanks to trademark bandana)
Youth team players named as part of social media guff from a recent friendly played with a "youthful side", and/or, 20s players that might still be around next season:
- Sasha Murphy
- Yianni Panakos
- Esad Saglam
- Giorgi Zarbos (unclear if he will stay or seek greener senior football pastures)
In:
- Marco Jankovic
- Josh Wallen
Neither here nor there as far as I can tell:
- Josh Meaker
Out:
- Melvin Becket
- Josh Dorron
- Stephen Folan (returned to Ireland in mid-2020)
- Amadu Koroma
- Nick Krousoratis
- Nikola Roganovic (retired, again)
- Peter Skapetis (Kingston City)
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