ASBP 2015/16 TV games | Thurs 10th Mar | GF: Auckland City v TeeDubs | 7:30pm | SS4

Really enjoying having the ASBP on telly. Its nice to be able to sit down on a Thursday and Sunday night and watch some local football. Really rate Piney and Glen Lamars commentary and even NZ Football weekly is getting better

Wee Nix leading 4 3 -0 against Hawkes Bay 41 mins in

The WeeNix are probably the most unpredictable side in the ASBP

How the hell are HBU second in the league and how did they take points of ACFC. They are poor right across the park and boy do I mean poor, but good on the youth team from Wellington the two Aussie boys look average though and to think they are fulltime pro's

2-5 now to wee nix.  Penalty just scored by Stevens

Can't take your eyes off this one, HB score from a free kick 3-5.  Nix down to 10 men after Dylan Fox got his 2nd yellow card.

Sam Mason-Smith makes it 5-4, Nix still ahead by 1.  Fantastic game this

5-4. Most mental game i have watched in a long time. Hamish Watson heavily involved in all 4 of HB's goals as a substitute..

Absolutely nuts, 5-5 it finishes

What a game. Screwed up my multi though

First draw ever for the WeeNix, and what a draw

Good game for the neutral  but both sides very average at defending and to Aussie boys are average

What doesn't he like about them?

1st half like Brazil. 2nd half like Tonga.

This game reminded me of the game above.

Not sure Danaskos is a centre back and so far Evans has been better than Fox in the games I have seen.

Next game is Waitak v HBU at QBE Stadium, be interesting to see if they are still painting the ground green!

I wont be driving up for that one.

Anyone got a livestream for the game tonight? Don't have Sky sports..

Anyone else think Sam Mason-Smith looks a lot like Hamish Watson?

that game was Cap Prem quality

Congrats Waitak, good win. Could have been a few more, at both ends.

You say it like you have only just realised that this is the standard of our league. Sunday's 10 goal game might have been entertaining but with crap keeping and shark defending conceding at both ends, don't sit there and say it's a high quality football league.

BREAKING NEWS: amateur football league is of amateur quality. 

It's not so much that, it's that people build it to be more than it is. Some games can be entertaining but not because it's good football. In pretty much 99% of cases, it's crap football and the entertainment is a bonus.

10 years ago, in the 1st season, it was better than this from a quality of football perspective. You get the players telling you it gets better every year in the media but your own eyes should tell you it does not.

would be true if most of these lads weren't on good coin

I think there is a perception - across all eras - of greater spectator enjoyment when attacking players have an edge over defenders.

At the moment it appears to me like there is a dearth of competent central defenders, which is abetting that perception.

You are correct though, just as we don't judge the quality of a book by how many chapters it has, we shouldn't judge match quality by the number of goals.

However goals are, erm, the goal. Goals are the orgasms of football. 

My favourite era as a fan was 1992, no coincidence that my team was setting goalscoring records in the national league.

More rubbish football. Teams get offered chances and can't take them. 3 touches and possession changes and a ref who can't spot a blindingly obvious penalty on Jones.

This is not a good advert for football in NZ.

Your expectations are too high.

My expectations or perhaps the way others talk it up?

My two cents.

As long as the football has tempo and passion I'm not worried about quality too much. 

I would rather a game with a turnover rate with some bite than a game where both teams complete 80% passing at a low slow tempo... Snooze..

Don't watch a Pep side any time soon then.

At their peak they were not slow though, tempo was good, passing was flowing and movement was quick. 

ASB All Stars (to date) vs Auckland City (give City a run, plus no City policy)

1. Zac Speedy GK, WaiBot

16. Scott Basalaj RGK, TW

2. T. Dimaido LB, Weenix

3. Bill Robertson, CB, Capt, TW

4. James Musa, CB, TW

5. Kohei Matsumoto, RB, HB

15. Khair Jones, Back, HB

6. Aaron Clapham, Mid, Cant

7. Jake Butler, Attacking Mid, Waitak

8. Joel Stevens, Right wing, Weenix

9. Andre De Jong, Left wing, Cant

14. Mark Jones, Mid, Waibot

13. Cole Peverley, Mid, TW

10. Max Mata, FW, TW

11. Hamish Watson, FW, HB

12. Bowen, FW, Waitak

Moloney just misses out to Peverley's experience.

                                                                                                   Speedy

                                                                     Matsumoto      Robertson       Musa     K. Jones

                                                                     Mark Jones     Butler      Clapham           Stevens

                                                                                 Hamish Watson       N.  Bowen                            

Be nice to have the ASB back this weekend too as well as a home Nix game.

First ASBP game I will be attending at Newtown park for the season. Should be a good day. 

Acfc are a slick unit. Southern are doggered though. Looking forward to the second half

Get in southern

ASB Transfers

Source	Dest.	Player Name	Result
Northern Football Federation (NFF)	Southern United	Caunter, Jack	Approved
WaiBOP United	International Transfers	Evans, Marc	Approved
Heartland Wairarapa	Wellington Phoenix	Hare, Liam	Approved
Heartland Wairarapa	Hawke's Bay United	Ifill, Paul	Approved
Capital Football Federation	WaiBOP United	Lissette, Tyler	Approved
Southern United	Otago Football	Mclennan, Tim	Approved
Christchurch Football	Southern United	O'Brien, Shawn	Approved
Southern United	WaiBOP United	Redwood, Sam	Approved
Auckland City	International Transfers	Smith, Alexander	Approved