Canterbury United

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Aaron Clapham plays his 50th game for Canterbury United on Sunday and with 30 goals not a bad strike rate.

Sorry should have added Russell Kamo played his 50th game for Canterbury United last Sunday against Auckland and has also netted 30 goals

Aaron Clapham puts Cantry 1 up over Southern United after 42 mins.

Now souuthern United 0 Canty United 2. Marquez in the 65 min.

Make take 3 - nil as Kamo adds  the 3rd in the 75 min.

FT Southern 0 - Canterbury United 3.

Make take 3 - nil as Kamo adds  the 3rd in the 75 

2nd and 3rd goals set up by SU players with defense splitting passes.

Not what was ASB Prem website says.

Cheers, thanks for that. If Keith is quiet the Southern coach must be the same.

Crowd of 150 in Invercargill according to the ASB Premiership website  - woeful !!!

No more ASB games in Invercargill then!!!

Relieved at a Canty win - 3-0 is very good when people say  we didn't play well...

Looking forward to seeing this new striker Chris Bacon, when his clearance comes through - a really prolific scorer in non-league football.

Canterbury at home to Wellington, Sunday 2 pm.

Wellington always have a good side on paper but have never really delivered.

Not that Canterbury have been all that good this season so far. Maybe they've turned the corner with last week's 3-0 win over Southern (but even Southern supporters suggest anyone would beat Southern at the moment).

Think Canterbury should click soon - have been bedding in several new players. 

Will be there.

Any news on the Canterbury line-up?

Mainland Pride women's team in the national final v Northern on the weekend after their away semi-final win v Capital in Wellington last weekend:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/football/9463667/Pride-nail-national-final-berth

Hoping for a Red and Black double. Understand that Chris Bacon is cleared to play. 

confident we can rind out a result

Canty up 2 0 at half time. Clapham penalty and mazy run.

Good win, match report anyone? Or are you all at the Fox celebrating the Pride's fantastic win?

Good win, match report anyone? Or are you all at the Fox celebrating the Pride's fantastic win?

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Good win, third clean sheet in a row. Canty awarded a penalty for a trip in the first ten seconds of the games which Aaron Clapham rifled home, in of the post when scored a double when allowed to run into the area after 27 minute. Team Wellington had three or four chances to tackle Clapham but he was allowed to keep running and score.

The Dragons hit the post twice after this with TW suffering from some very poor finishing, and when a player down when Cole Peverley (a former Dragon) received a second yellow to claim an unusual double of being sent of twice at ASB in suceesive season with two different clubs.

Plenty of Canty players had good games  and are now third on the table.

or maybe not as we coughed up a 1-0 loss to the ever improving Hawkes Bay today. Boo.

The highlights (from a HBU point of view)  can be seen on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNh2SHEnAQ

Followed up with a good 3-2 thrashing of Waitakere. 2-0 up at half time following the best 45 mins of football I've seen from the Dragons in a long time. Awesome goal from Bhoys free kick to make it 3 zip early in the 2nd half then the game became error ridden before Waitakere got a sniff through some ping pong in the box and a physically fading Dragons side who threatened to concede several more before Waitakere got their second with about 15 to go. Highfield saving their bacon more than once combined with some poor finishing and woeful option taking gave the Dragons all 3 points. They'll need to stay away from the Xmas pud though if they want to be finals contenders.

Yes well done Canterbury. The score from CHCH certainly got a cheer at Kiwitea Street. It's turning into a really good competition this season. See you in the playoffs. 

Xmas break memory lane interlude - back, back to 1978 and the time England B toured NZ (many legendary players) and Christchurch United drew with them at English Park (the only side who didn't lose to them on that Asia-Australasia tour)

NB Christchurch United were then known as "Trans Tours United":

http://www.englandfootballonline.com/MatchRsl/MatchRslTmB.html

http://www.rsssf.com/tablese/eng-b-intres-det.html

England B Air New Zealand Tour 1978:

 Manager: Bobby Robson

30 May 1978 - Malaysia A 1 England 1 [1-1]
Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur (45,000) Dhari Kennedy England: Joe Corrigan, Viv Anderson, Alan Kennedy, Brian Talbot, S.Sims (G.Roeder), D.Needham, John Hollins (G.Owen), S.Daley, Paul Mariner, John Richards (D.Geddis), Gordon Hill.

3 June 1978 - Trans Tours United 2 England 2 
English Park, Cranford Street, Christchurch; Park (2 pens) Speight, Talbot 

5 June 1978 - Otago 0 England 6 
Dunedin Hill (2), Talbot, Owen, Daley, Kennedy 

7 June 1978 - New Zealand A 0 England 4 [0-2]
Christchurch (4,000) Talbot, Needham, Hollins, Hill England: Joe Corrigan, Viv Anderson, Alan Kennedy, Brian Talbot, D.Needham, G.Roeder, John Hollins, S.Daley, John Richards (M.Speight), G.Owen, Gordon Hill (Paul Mariner).

11 June 1978 - New Zealand A 1England 3 [1-2]
Wellington (5,000) Anderson, Needham, Hill England: Joe Corrigan, Viv Anderson, Alan Kennedy, Brian Talbot (M.Speight), D.Needham, G.Roeder, John Hollins, S.Daley (T.Langley), Paul Mariner, G.Owen, Gordon Hill (M.Eves).

14 June 1978 - New Zealand A 0 England 4 [0-2]
Auckland (10,000) Talbot (2), Speight, Mariner England: Joe Corrigan, Viv Anderson, Alan Kennedy, Brian Talbot, D.Needham, G.Roeder, John Hollins (T.Langley), M.Speight, Paul Mariner, G.Owen (S.Daley), Gordon Hill (M.Eves).

18 June 1978 - Singapore A 0 England 8 [0-1]
National Stadium, Singapore City (40,000) Anderson, Kennedy, Daley, Mariner, Langley, Hill (2), Eves England: Joe Corrigan, Viv Anderson, Alan Kennedy, Brian Talbot (G.Owen), D.Needham, G.Roeder, John Hollins (M.Speight), S.Daley, Paul Mariner, John Richards (T.Langley), Gordon Hill (M.Eves).

Season 1979-80 

15 October 1979 - England 4 New Zealand A 1 [1-0]
Leyton Stadium, Brisbane Road, Leyton, London (9,634)Almond OG, Flanagan, Hilaire, HoddleNelsonHWEngland: Phil Parkes, K.Bond. D.Peach, Brian Talbot (Ju.Fashanu), M.Waldron, G.Roder, V.Hilaire, Glenn Hoddle, Alan Sunderland (R.Money), M.Flanagan, Graham Rix; NZL: Richard Wilson, Tony Sibley, Sam Malcolmson, Robert Almond, Brian Turner (Chris Turner 79'), Adrian Elrick, Steven Sumner, Clive Campbell (Duncan Cole 67'), Keith Nelson, John Verweij, Glen Adam (S Rufer 84')

Howard Wilkinson as manager v New Zealand:

went too 2 of those games

Viv Anderson was good

I reckon a whole lotta people jumped the fence to get in (NW corner) 

Anorak's trivia note; Keegan was on the cover of the 1978 tour programme (the same programme was used for all tour matches, with just the centre pages changed) - but he wasn't actually on the tour.

From memory the tour lost the NZFA about $40,000 too.

Yes memories. You just made me dig out my copy of this programme... went with my old Dad and brother

Scrappy 1-0 win over WaiBOP. Goal scored just into the second half: one of the centrebacks (think it was Tom Schwarz) hit it forward, the wind caught it, WaiBOP keeper started to come out but changed his mind, and Marquez slotted it near post. WaiBOP put a lot of pressure on the United defence in the last third of the game. Highfield made an excellent reaction save to keep the lead.

Almost felt like United had planned around having the wind at their backs for the second half, and when it died down for a large chunk of it they weren't 100% sure what they were doing.

Canterbury looked decidely average today, as if still recovering from too much Christmas pud. Young Shawn O'Brien started and had good game. Looked destined for 0-0 until Marquez's cracking bullet finish. Then that save from Adam Highfield was class. Big talking point today was the fourth official telling the Canterbury bench to settle their supporters down on the bank behind the dugouts. When poor old Martin gestured to them to settle down, was quickly yelled at to go away and sit down by the Canterbury fans ... They did quiet down when the big burly security guard ended up standing by them.Did not hear anyone gesturing to him to go away ;) ...

Yes plenty of drama today at the football, and not all on the field.  For me, as an avid observer and quiet person in the crowd, the fact that the referee, who tells his fourth official, to tell the Canty manager, to tell the crowd to stop cheering on their team was completely random.  Yes it can be intense, but as long as it isn't offensive then play on for the fervent support. 

But it was a good game with a good result.  

Great having football to watch over the summer. I even chose it over the cricket today too. 

Got to agree it was quite bizarre of the referee.  And an A league referee at that.  Canterbury United officials etc need to start realising that the fans are an asset to the team.  There was certainly nothing offensive - always seems to be good banter.  I have heard teams are envious of the rousing support from the vocal fans down at English Park. 

I heard today that Canterbury United officials had allocated people on the bank to 'keep an eye' on the supporters.  To use someone's daughter to text and tell feedback is a little desperate.  The big burly security guard seemed to enjoy his time on the bank and even joined in the banter with a few comments.

Keith came over to a few supporters as they were leaving to apologise for what happened and said to keep up the support.