Mainland Premier League

From Selwyn United's Facebook page - posted late this afternoon.

Announcement: New Director of Football SUFC — Oct 12, 2018

We are excited to announce our new Director of Football is one of our own, Chris Brown.

Chris has been an integral part of Selwyn United for a number of years. In that time he has worked closely with Lee Padmore to develop our playing model, a first team capable of achieving and maintaining Mainland Premier League status and build the quality of our talent centre. The board had little hesitation in appointing Chris as our new Director of Football. He knows the club well, it's philosophy, its people and its aspirations. It is a natural fit.

The role of Director of Football now entirely focuses on our high-performance pathway. The role will work alongside a new Community / Football Development Officer who will oversee our participation pathway.

Brief Bio

Chris has a wealth of experience when it comes to coaching football. Having completed his BSc (Hons) in Sports Coaching at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2010, he travelled to America where he coached a wide variety of youth players over the course of two summers. After returning from America, Chris was an academy coach at Histon FC and also head coach of their U16 academy side.

After a season at Histon Chris accepted a new full-time, high-performance coaching role at the Burnley academy in Perth, Australia. From Australia, Chris travelled to New Zealand where he continued his high-performance coaching role under the Burnley academy at Waimak United FC and Selwyn United FC (2014-2016). From 2017 onwards, Chris was offered a full time “Head of Talent” role at Selwyn United, where he has played an integral part in establishing an in-house talent centre and also helping achieve MPL promotion with the first team, in partnership with Lee Padmore.

Throughout 2018, Chris has helped retain the MPL status of the first team by ensuring the relegation battle was won, maintaining the quality of coaching throughout the talent centre and working towards achieving his OFC ‘B’ license all in the space of a year. Chris aspires to make a start on his OFC ‘A’ license in the near future while stepping up to the role of ‘Director of Football’ at Selwyn United.

Was speaking to Robbie Stanton at English Park on Sunday and he confirms that he has been appointed at the Western coach / manager for the 2019 MPL season.

Posted on Western's facebook page ago 1 hour ago:

Club announcement!!

Due to work commitments John Brown has stepped aside from coaching the first team. The board would like to thank John for all his dedication and very hard work this year.

We would like to welcome and congratulate Robbie Stanton on the appointment of 1st team coach. Robbie has been the Western 1st team coach in the past so we know that he is a good fit for the team, coaching staff and club.

We are planning to have a meet the coach night soon - stay tuned for details.

The Waimakariri United AFC Board are excited to announce the appointment of Bradley Eiffe to the position of Waimakariri United AFC Senior Men’s Head Coach. Bradley has been appointed to a 3 years term as the board want to look to provide a high degree of continuity and stability as we look to push for promotion into Mainland Footballs Premier League competition as well as establishing ourselves as one of the desired clubs to play for in the Mainland region.

In 2018 Bradley completed a successful campaign with the Waimakariri United AFC reserve team finishing 2nd to Halswell United. In the recent Coastal Spirit U19 tournament held over labour weekend he successfully lead the team to a creditable 3rd place finish. Brad has also held coaching positions with Forrestfield United who play in the Western Australian State League. Bradley has also played top level football for over a decade with non-league and Midland Combination league clubs in the United Kingdom as well as in Australia in the Western Australian State League.

We believe that Bradleys appointment will support the club in finally reaching its potential in the senior men’s football landscape. The board will be working hard behind the scenes with Bradley to develop a plan which sees the club reach its goal of promotion into the Mainland Premier League men’s competition.

Regards,

Board of Trustees

WUFC

Posted on Coastal Spirits facebook yesterday:

We are delighted to announce that we have secured Ekow Quainoo as our Men’s Premier Coach for the next 2 seasons.
Ekow has put pen to paper on a contract that will keep him at the club until the end of the 2020 season.
Over the last 3 years Ekow has taken Coastal from being a mid-table team to challenging for trophies. The steady improvement has seen the team finish in the top 3 each season, including 2nd place in 2018. The team have also reached English Cup Finals and retained the Hurley Shield for the last 2 seasons. We are excited for the 2019 season!
Staff and player announcements to come.

One point for other train spotters Coastal have not retained the Hurley Shield for the last two season - they have ended the last two seasons with the shield, in 2018 they lost the shield to Ferrymead Bays in the third challenge 0 - 1. Bays then defended the shield three times before going down to Coastal 1 - 0 with Coastal then winning the final two challenges before the Southern League took place.   

Parklands United Sports Club

New head coach for the Rams. Announcement expected soon. I understand they have secured a reasonably big local name with good connections. 

Stu Kelly not enjoying the challenge at Halswell?

"Reasonably big local name"- huge contradiction here. Kind of like the time Chch Utd promised players they would be an A-League club by 2018! Absolute farce of a senior club out at Yaldhurst

Have you employed an administrator yet to prevent the senior teams keep fielding ineligible players (both 1st and reserves have been caught in the last 2 seasons!)

As a founding member of this thread, which is also the most popular on the website, I just need to confirm something. Is this: 

a) a place to share all sorts of football gossip, which may spoil another club's big announcement, or 

b) a place to talk about soft sh!t and wait for the club to announce it. 

Either way, massive signing by Chch Utd, and surprising to see him go for it. 

Let me know what you think. 

As someone who's life runs on myth, fear and superstition (i.e. Catholic) this is quite exciting!

Plenty of chatter at English Park this afternoon about this from personnal attach to both clubs that announcement will be that the Rams have signed Danny Halligan as head coach so if true Bays will be looking for a coach for next season and also chatter that maybe a player or two on the move as well to Yaldhurst Road.

From what I hear AW a lot more than a player or 2 - more like 1/2 his 2018 Bays squad & approaching players from other clubs too.

I'm sure all the 2018 Chch Utd squad will feel appreciated then! I already know of 1 that has decided enough is enough

Contract extensions??? Maybe Adam does a bit of coaching but way to go on making it sound like they're under contract therefore being paid

can we take the 2nd division chat to the 2nd division thread. 

Relegated!

From Bays Facebook page...

VACANCY: FIRST TEAM HEAD COACH POSITION
Ferrymead Bays is one of the most successful Football clubs in Christchurch, with the first team competing in the Mainland Premier League and the newly formed Southern League in 2018. The club was the first to win 5 MPL titles.
The club is seeking to appoint a first team MPL head coach. Expressions of interest and applications can be sent in the first instance to Club Captain

For those on facebook and need a laugh have a read of this page: Canterbury Football Transfer News

The transfer scenario from 2019 on has changed. In the past players were still tied to a club at the end of the season and other clubs asked for a transfer of a player in the next year. From now under Comet all players in NZ clubs are terminated on the 31 October (in each season). Then any player can register with a new club from 1 November of a season. The only exception is to red flag players in Comet who owe monies or gear etc (they will not be able register elsewhere until the red flag is sorted). This now puts the onus on each club to identify any players who owe monies, gear etc and red flag them on or before 31 Oct. This applies to Juniors and Seniors.

Hi everyone,

Just a quick message to let you know that the club are looking to recruit new coaches for the remainder of 2018 and for 2019 due to our increasing player numbers. 

These are paid roles for our Youth/Development/Academy/Reserve teams, ages u6 to u19, which run Monday-Saturday throughout the year. 

A great option for students to earn some extra cash over the Summer break and also for coaches wishing to develop their skills & experience as the club have always supported with the undertaking of coaching badges - Junior/Senior/Goalkeeper. 

Interested? Contact Colin Williamson:- [email protected]

Willie Gerdson out!! Am i the only one thats sick of this sharke? 

Falls out with all our best local talent Clapham and Lyle. Brings in rubbish. 

We have put up with this for 3 years... Hes got triple the budget or more then other coaches in the past. No improvement. Time for him and Joe Hall to jog on

For full debate to take place on this maybe best to paste on the the Canterbury United page on Yellow Fever:

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/asb-premie...

Lifed from Nomads facebook page:

We are proud to once again confirm Andrew Pitman as our Head Coach for the Nomads United First Team for the 2019 season! Andy and his team successfully lead Nomads United to a fantastic second place in the newly formed South Island League in 2018 and will be looking to improve on that placing in 2019!

MPL Coaching Staff 2019:
Head Coach: Andrew Pitman
Assistant Coach: Matt Jansen
Assistant Coach: Simon Bell
First Team Manager: Marcus Beaton

Welcome back to Simon and Marcus, and a Nomads welcome extended to Matt Jansen, joining the coaching team

Did we ever get a decision or any info regarding whether the South Island league will go ahead in 2019? 

Yes and yes.

Have christchurch utd managed to buy a place in si league this year ?

No, but The Rams club are starting a South Island League for their women’s team, the Ewes. Apparently a lot of planning has been discussed and interested parties to date include Otago Uni Womens Halls of Residence (late kick OFF’s only), ex Parklands WPDL players (experienced in leapfrogging processes), anyone who has ever repped for Western WPL, “the McMann Group”, and the Cardrona Ski Resort Futsal Rovers (except when it’s a powder day). Can’t wait. 

Appendix B

2019 MPL Promotion/relegation (for 2020)

• The MPL & CCL will play two (2) full rounds.
• The five (5) highest placed MPL teams at the completion of the second round will then compete in the 2019 Southern Football League.
• The three (3) lowest placed MPL teams will compete with the seven (7) CCL teams, playing a full round.
• All teams will retain points gained in their respective competitions.
• At the completion of the round the highest placed CCL team (total number of points gained) will be eligible for probation as per 9.1 and the MPL team with the fewest combined points will be relegated.

Intel from Bays training this week: the Murphy’s and a bunch of nobodies who haven’t played MPL. 

#danny’$boys

Story in tonight's The Star about ChCh United and players going from Bays with player quoted as payments being received along woth bonus if the Ram's win promotion. 

Hopefully this link work's - story is on page 33.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/62373223/th...

Link direct to the page https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/62373223/th...

Odd first post, but Bays can't really complain.

They were a bit of a nothing club until about 2003/2004 then when they got promoted they started poaching players from other established clubs. Off the top of my head they took guys like Siggy, Dean Hutchinson, Colin Evans, Michael Lilley, Glen Collins and a few other national league players.

Also did it at junior level too. 

Just a thought on this, pretty sure every club I ever played at you had to resign before the AGM from the club to avoid being liable for next years subs, so that makes your status on Comet irrelevant in regard to being "free" to join any other club. I guess one possibility  is for a club each year to red flag every player who hasn't resigned? 

And tieing it in with the mighty Rams quest for glory, if Bays are going to lose a hatful of players they should enforce the "resign before the AGM" rule then call a special GM, set the first team subs at say $2k and recoup that from the Rams.

I'm not even on the Bays board but that's a mighty fine piece of thinking, tear it to shreds everyone :)

Any news from friendly games this weekend?

I watched Coastal play Chch Utd yesterday. 3 30's, lots of changes, lots of new faces for us. Not sure whoever is paying the bills at Utd is going to be getting value for money as the mercenaries that have arrived in Yaldhurst didn't look that flash. 

Coastal won 3-1 in the end, were 1-0 down when we got there. 

Western lost to our reserve team 1-0 in the Waimak tournament. 

Nomads 7-0 FC Twenty11