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23 days ago

Noah4thenix wrote:
LT01 wrote:
Noah4thenix wrote:
LT01 wrote:
And Miramar are the favourites now! 2-1 win over Napier
Idk if I would call them favourites just yet. Only 3-points above Olympic and 5 above suburbs.
Not saying they'll win for sure so much more football to play, but they are obviously the favourite i.e. the most likely team to win right??
I mean sure they're in the lead but I feel like considering Olympic's recent history are we really gonna say a 3-point lead is enough?

Maybe this is just a me thin,g but I feel like with just a 3-point lead Olympic are gonna overtake them sooner or later. You don't win 5 consequtive for nothing, Miramar will have to get a 5+ gap before we can call them the favourites. One loss and it's neck and neck.

But that's just my opinion

And a win today puts Olympic back on top….. Miramar far from favourites. I’ve heard Miramar reserves team are struggling a bit at the moment also.

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23 days ago

2nd half should be starting, any news on Karori vs Olympic? Olympic are usually more up to date on their socials about results

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23 days ago

Good game out at Endeavour Park despite the lack of goalmouth action at times. You could tell it was two really close teams. Momentum swayed back and forth at points but overall defences dominated.

Really enjoyed the energy from Wests today and think they just about deserved the win - a team without the bigger name players of Miramar/Olympic/Napier but genuinely every player on the park was up to it for them and even the subs off the bench kept the quality going. Honestly, I didn't recognise much of their lineup on paper but they were more than competitive and look really tough to get through defensively. 1 goal conceded against the top 3 now.

Miramar were a bit pedestrian - some passes not connecting, a lot of hopeful long balls, think a lot of their offensive game focussed on forcing mistakes rather than creating opportunities themselves and apart from one hairy moment Wests survived, keeper Quillan Roberts wasn't having it.

Hard to pick standards from this game for either team - it was just a strong team performance from Wests, perhaps centreback/captain Alifeleti Peini was their best and it was a well taken strike from Reilly Marlow-Jones. Bobadilla probably tried the best to make things happen for Miramar, but weren't really any other standouts.

Got to be honest - a lot of focus on the officiating from Miramar especially from one or two players I won't name, Wests just got on with it and I'm sure that played a part in the result. Sure there were some questionable calls here or there like most games but nothing at all major.

The top 4 looking very close indeed now...

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23 days ago

Hate to do it but told ya so, Miramar aren't the favouites. We're only halfway through the season and anything could happen but you have to imagine Olympic are gonna start slowly pulling away now.

With that said Miramar and Olympic play each other next round. Fair to say the winner of that (assuming it's not another draw) will become the favourites in the title charge

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23 days ago

Upper Hutt 1-0 over the Nix courtesy of a second-half Olimpico that even McCarron couldn’t get a touch on.

Things got pretty feisty towards the end and Upper Hutt nearly doubled their lead after McCarron got stranded upfield, but the shot landed just in front of goal then bounced over the bar.

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23 days ago

Noah4thenix wrote:
Hate to do it but told ya so, Miramar aren't the favouites. We're only halfway through the season and anything could happen but you have to imagine Olympic are gonna start slowly pulling away now.

With that said Miramar and Olympic play each other next round. Fair to say the winner of that (assuming it's not another draw) will become the favourites in the title charge

Fairs fair, but I stand by the fact that Miramar were favourites before this loss!

Such a close league at the top - all four teams have 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss against each other. And only Wests have dropped points against the rest (2-2 draw vs Karori)

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23 days ago

No Whitworth for Miramar and I do think he’s pretty important for the team. Next game will be a good one for sure.

It’s nice to have a competitive league as opposed to the boring versions at the top the last few years

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23 days ago

Western currently up 1-0 over NCR to make my weekend slightly better...

Been a very flat performance from NCR so far.

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22 days ago

Just tuned in and had to do a double take at the scoreline

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22 days ago

Well that didn't last. At least they had some time ahead

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22 days ago

I just can't have nice things it seems. 🥲

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21 days ago

Here's a story I recently remembered:

In 1954, back when Wellington Olympic were known as Apollon AFC, they were almost kicked out of the Wellington Football Association (WFA). In a match against Zealandia (Now known as Wellington United if I'm not mistaken) a few Apollon players had gotten physical, with one kicking a Zealandia player while he was down and another assaulting the referee, knocking him to the ground. I can't find any information and what was happening in the match itself to make a player angry enough to punch a ref but the result was the same either way. Because of this, the Wellington Referee association (WRA) wrote a letter to the WFA stating that they would no longer be sending referees to Apollon games and urging the WFA to kick Apollon. I can't find the exact article but if my memory is correct Apollon would survive the vote 17 to 14.

Kinda crazy to think back on when you consider how much of a power house Olympic has become that they nearly got kicked right from the get go

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21 days ago · edited 20 days ago · History

Decided to look this up, seeing as its old enough to be on the Past Papers website.

Was a Chatham Cup game between Apollon (Olympic) and Zealandia (Wellington United) played 5th June 1954 at Miramar Park

Referee makes his report of the incident.

Wellington Football Assocation considers the incident, Apollon players downplay it and 4 recommendations are made.

1, Player sent off be suspended for the season.
2, Player who hit the referee be suspended for life.
3, Apollon Captain suspended for four games.
4, The Appollon club expelled.

By a Vote of 17 to 14, Apollon club wasn't expelled.

A few years later, the player banned for life, was reinstated despite protest from the referee association.

Two years later, the referee who was attacked, was selected to officiate at the Melbourne Olympics, including being linesman for the gold-medal match between USSR and Yugoslavia where he flaged for offside ruling out an equaliser for Yugoslavia. USSR winning 1-0.

I'm an optimistic pessimist.

I'm positive things will go wrong.

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21 days ago

Papers past is so good for this kind of thing. I'm thinking that when exams end that I'm gonna search for more interesting stories like this

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20 days ago

Apollon were eventually kicked out a couple of seasons later, mainly from a continuation of the same issues.
When they returned it was still the Greeks, but I believe some others stepped in and took over the football side (could be wrong on that though). But the new club was called Christian Youth FC and they played under that name until 1983 when they changed the name to Wellington Olympic

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20 days ago

The JourneyFan wrote:
Apollon were eventually kicked out a couple of seasons later, mainly from a continuation of the same issues.
When they returned it was still the Greeks, but I believe some others stepped in and took over the football side (could be wrong on that though). But the new club was called Christian Youth FC and they played under that name until 1983 when they changed the name to Wellington Olympic

Apollon was formed by the Greek/Romanian immigrants, CYFC|Olympic formed by the Greek Church.

(Info from WSA records)
In 1957 Apollon had 2 teams, (div 3 and div 7). At a meeting in 1957 of the WFA, Apollon are to be suspended and at the same meeting were informed not to apply for entry to the 1958 season or beyond, any application would be rejected.
As such, Appolon disbanded the football side, but continued as a social club.

During 1958, the then Priest of the Greek Community convinced the WFA to accept a Greek based football club to start playing as of 1959.
The club to be known as CYFC and the Church will accept full responsibility for the behavior of such club.

CYFC/Olympic is a sub of GOYANZ.inc (Greek Orthodox Youth Association of NZ inc), which also caters for the likes of, netball, Greek dancing, football and many other activities.

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20 days ago

Noah4thenix wrote:
Papers past is so good for this kind of thing. I'm thinking that when exams end that I'm gonna search for more interesting stories like this

There are so many little details in there that hint at stories waiting to be rediscovered. Just taking the Chatham Cup coverage from the end of one article, we learn that Stop Out were already around in 1954, that games were played at Basin Reserve No. 2, and there were clubs like Institute Old Boys, Railways and Hospital whose names suggest fascinating social as well as sporting histories.

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20 days ago

The JourneyFan wrote:
Apollon were eventually kicked out a couple of seasons later, mainly from a continuation of the same issues.
When they returned it was still the Greeks, but I believe some others stepped in and took over the football side (could be wrong on that though). But the new club was called Christian Youth FC and they played under that name until 1983 when they changed the name to Wellington Olympic

Are you saying Olympic got in the back door and need to be thrown out the league?

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20 days ago

Simon B wrote:
Noah4thenix wrote:
Papers past is so good for this kind of thing. I'm thinking that when exams end that I'm gonna search for more interesting stories like this
There are so many little details in there that hint at stories waiting to be rediscovered. Just taking the Chatham Cup coverage from the end of one article, we learn that Stop Out were already around in 1954, that games were played at Basin Reserve No. 2, and there were clubs like Institute Old Boys, Railways and Hospital whose names suggest fascinating social as well as sporting histories.

100%

Also I think it's awesome how everyone instantly jumped in to expand on what I had said, such a great community :D

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20 days ago

Simon B wrote:
Noah4thenix wrote:
Papers past is so good for this kind of thing. I'm thinking that when exams end that I'm gonna search for more interesting stories like this
There are so many little details in there that hint at stories waiting to be rediscovered. Just taking the Chatham Cup coverage from the end of one article, we learn that Stop Out were already around in 1954, that games were played at Basin Reserve No. 2, and there were clubs like Institute Old Boys, Railways and Hospital whose names suggest fascinating social as well as sporting histories.

Stop Out have been around since 1919 though didn't become a football club until 1929. Was first called the Moera Stop Out. Don't know who Institute Old Boys is but Railways merged with Lower Hutt and Hospital was the psychatric hospital in Porirua, established in 1906 becoming Wester Suburbs in 1956.

I'm an optimistic pessimist.

I'm positive things will go wrong.

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20 days ago

Yakcall wrote:
Simon B wrote:
Noah4thenix wrote:
Papers past is so good for this kind of thing. I'm thinking that when exams end that I'm gonna search for more interesting stories like this
There are so many little details in there that hint at stories waiting to be rediscovered. Just taking the Chatham Cup coverage from the end of one article, we learn that Stop Out were already around in 1954, that games were played at Basin Reserve No. 2, and there were clubs like Institute Old Boys, Railways and Hospital whose names suggest fascinating social as well as sporting histories.
Stop Out have been around since 1919 though didn't become a football club until 1929. Was first called the Moera Stop Out. Don't know who Institute Old Boys is but Railways merged with Lower Hutt and Hospital was the psychatric hospital in Porirua, established in 1906 becoming Wester Suburbs in 1956.

That isn't quite right about Stop Out. They were formed in 1919, in Te Aro as a club for street kids who at the time were called 'stop outs'. There was a club that was connected to them that formed in Moera and called themselves Morea Stop Out and Stop Out eventually moved out to Moera and became just Stop Out.

Institute Old Boys, came from the Wellington Young Men's institute. They were formed in 1916. They merged with Brooklyn in 1956 to become Brooklyn United and then merged with Northern in 1972 to become Brooklyn Northern United (BNU).
Northern were formed by Chinese immigrants from the Northern region of China, but by the time they merged with Brooklyn, there were no Chinese left and the club was largely made up of UK immigrants

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20 days ago

Yakcall wrote:
Simon B wrote:
Noah4thenix wrote:
Papers past is so good for this kind of thing. I'm thinking that when exams end that I'm gonna search for more interesting stories like this
There are so many little details in there that hint at stories waiting to be rediscovered. Just taking the Chatham Cup coverage from the end of one article, we learn that Stop Out were already around in 1954, that games were played at Basin Reserve No. 2, and there were clubs like Institute Old Boys, Railways and Hospital whose names suggest fascinating social as well as sporting histories.
Stop Out have been around since 1919 though didn't become a football club until 1929. Was first called the Moera Stop Out. Don't know who Institute Old Boys is but Railways merged with Lower Hutt and Hospital was the psychatric hospital in Porirua, established in 1906 becoming Wester Suburbs in 1956.

What is Western Suburbs west of?

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19 days ago

Feverish wrote:
What is Western Suburbs west of?

Western Surburbs is further east than Wellington's geographical "eastern suburbs" of Seatoun/Miramar/Haitaitai/Kilbirnie. I guess its west of the Hutt.

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19 days ago

I was at the Wellington City mission who had Stop Out Club as part of their Whakapapa. Was curious to read that but makes sense as highlighted above

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19 days ago

Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

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19 days ago

whatever-11456-1 wrote:
Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

correct on when Tawa were formed, but not on most recent clubs in Wellington.
1972 - North Wellington, BNU
1986 - Wellington United
1987 - Waterside Karori
2007 - Wellington Phoenix
2023 - Te Kotahitangi (originally Horowhenua Costal)

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19 days ago

Feverish wrote:
The JourneyFan wrote:
Apollon were eventually kicked out a couple of seasons later, mainly from a continuation of the same issues.
When they returned it was still the Greeks, but I believe some others stepped in and took over the football side (could be wrong on that though). But the new club was called Christian Youth FC and they played under that name until 1983 when they changed the name to Wellington Olympic
Are you saying Olympic got in the back door and need to be thrown out the league?

Any excuse aye Greenie haha.

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19 days ago

The JourneyFan wrote:
whatever-11456-1 wrote:
Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

correct on when Tawa were formed, but not on most recent clubs in Wellington.
1972 - North Wellington, BNU
1986 - Wellington United
1987 - Waterside Karori
2007 - Wellington Phoenix
2023 - Te Kotahitangi (originally Horowhenua Costal)

Wellington United is the final name following multiple amalgamations so yes the final name is Wellington United, but before that you had Zealandia, Hungaria, Adriatic, Diamonds, Wellington City which was a mix of Miramar Ranger and Hungaria to go into National League. Waterside Karori, before amalgmation etc was Karori swifts and Wharfies... so yeah the final name are the dates you mention but the history goes way back. The history of the clubs in our community is seriously amazing. I am lucky to have a family who talks about the old days and I love it. This city and the clubs here have been melting pot of immigrant communities when it came to football. It's beautiful.

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19 days ago

The JourneyFan wrote:
whatever-11456-1 wrote:
Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

correct on when Tawa were formed, but not on most recent clubs in Wellington.
1972 - North Wellington, BNU
1986 - Wellington United
1987 - Waterside Karori
2007 - Wellington Phoenix
2023 - Te Kotahitangi (originally Horowhenua Costal)

Those are all mergers outside the Nix though. So technically the club is that old, but the history is older. Youngest in Capital Football I believe is Ōhau FC who were formed last year. Might be a few other young clubs, but I'm not well verse in the history.

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19 days ago

The JourneyFan wrote:
whatever-11456-1 wrote:
Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

correct on when Tawa were formed, but not on most recent clubs in Wellington.
1972 - North Wellington, BNU
1986 - Wellington United
1987 - Waterside Karori
2007 - Wellington Phoenix
2023 - Te Kotahitangi (originally Horowhenua Costal)

Yes but apart from the Phoenix the clubs you mention are as a result of an amalgamation, not start up clubs

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19 days ago

whatever-11456-1 wrote:
The JourneyFan wrote:
whatever-11456-1 wrote:
Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

correct on when Tawa were formed, but not on most recent clubs in Wellington.
1972 - North Wellington, BNU
1986 - Wellington United
1987 - Waterside Karori
2007 - Wellington Phoenix
2023 - Te Kotahitangi (originally Horowhenua Costal)
Yes but apart from the Phoenix the clubs you mention are as a result of an amalgamation, not start up clubs

Formation Years
1889 Rovers, Petone Wanderers.
1890 Queens Park.
1891 Wellington Rowing Club, Gardiner's School.
1892 United,
1893 Diamond, Thorndon (first club).
1894 Swifts.
1895 Thistle (first club), Pearls, Red Cross, Excelsior,
Golden Stars, Crescents.
1896 Rangers, Kaiwarra Wanderers.
1897 Karori Stars, Albion, Sign of the Cross.
1898 Petone
1899 Wadestown.
1900 Newtown.
1902 Marist, St John's.
1903 Kent Terrace.
1904 YMCA, Porirua.
1905 Kaiwarra, Ramblers, Toa, Petone Wanderers (re-formed)
1906 Northern Wanderers.
1907 Mental Hospital, St Thomas, St Paul's, Marist School (thorndon).
1908 Thistle (second club), Letter Carriers, Waterside (first club), South Wellington, Miramar, Brooklyn, Institute,
Newtown Congressional, Technical, Petone.
1909 Toa & Porirua United, St David's, Khandallah, Island Bay.
1910 Webb St, St Augustine's, Berhampore, Seatoun, Olympic,
Artillery, Union, Hearts.
1911 Corinthians, Johnsonville, St Anne's, Karori, G.T.S,
Amokura, Kelburn.
1912 Marist School (Newtown).
1913 Brooklyn United, Railway (first club)
1914 Star.
1915 Hutt (first club).
1916 Trentham, Empire, Thorndon (second club), St Peter's
1917 Kilbirnie.
1918 Trinity.
1919 NZAM Corps.
1920 Stop Out, St Peter's.
1921 Waterside (second club), Welgasco, Tramways, St Patricks College, St Peter's Mission.
1922 Kaianga, Scottish, Wanderers, Hutt (second club), Central Mission.
1923 Midland.
1931 Technical Old Boys
1934 Onslow
1942 Railway (second club)
1948 Naenae
1949 Northern
1951 Johnsonvilla
1953 Apollon
1954 Wgtn Working Mens Club
1959 CYFC, Wainuiomata
1960 Raumati Hearts
1962 Rnzaf (airforce), Hungaria.
1965 Eastbourne
1967 Stokes Valley
1970 Adriatic, Newlands Paparangi.
1971 Tawa, Wellington City
1973 Porirua City
1975 Mana
1976 Tararua, Arakura

No Dates () aprox dates
Hutt Marist (54)
Viard old boys 1977 won wgtn div 3
Paraparaumu 1994 accepted to wsa from horowhenua fa
Zealandia (54)
Caledonia Thistle (59)
Hutt Marist (56)
Shelley Bay (54)
Teachers College (56)
Upper Hutt (59) not in 65
Upper Hutt United (59)
Wgtn Police (64) not in 65
Boys Intitute (59)
Tartan Rangers (50)
Cambridge (50)

Name Changes, Amalgamations
Island Bay - Technical
Wellington Olympic - CYFC (Goyanz)
Brooklyn Northern - Northern, Institute OB (Brooklyn)
Kapiti Coast - Raumati Hearts, Paraparumu
Nth Wellington - Johnsonvilla, Newlands-Paparangi
Upper Hutt City - Upper Hutt, Tararua
Wellington United - Diamonds, Zealandia, Wellington City, Hungaira
Western Suburbs - Mental Hospital, Porirua United, Porirua Viard, Mana
Waterside Karori - Swifts, Waterside

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Olympic07 wrote:
The JourneyFan wrote:
whatever-11456-1 wrote:
Wellington Football has a proud history with most clubs established over 100 years ago. From memory the youngest Club is Tawa, formed in 1971.

correct on when Tawa were formed, but not on most recent clubs in Wellington.
1972 - North Wellington, BNU
1986 - Wellington United
1987 - Waterside Karori
2007 - Wellington Phoenix
2023 - Te Kotahitangi (originally Horowhenua Costal)
Wellington United is the final name following multiple amalgamations so yes the final name is Wellington United, but before that you had Zealandia, Hungaria, Adriatic, Diamonds, Wellington City which was a mix of Miramar Ranger and Hungaria to go into National League. Waterside Karori, before amalgmation etc was Karori swifts and Wharfies... so yeah the final name are the dates you mention but the history goes way back. The history of the clubs in our community is seriously amazing. I am lucky to have a family who talks about the old days and I love it. This city and the clubs here have been melting pot of immigrant communities when it came to football. It's beautiful.

Adriatic weren't part of Wellington United at any time.
Wellington United came from Diamonds (1893), they merged with Zealandia (1954, changed name to Wellington United 1964) in 1968 to create Wellington Diamond United.
Hungaria were formed in 1962 and were in the first National League in 1970, after one season they realised they couldn't survive financially so with Miramar Rangers formed a composite club, Wellington City. Hungaria and Miramar stayed as clubs in their own right at lower levels. In 1976 when City got relegated, Miramar pulled out of the arrangement. Hungaria merged with Wellington City in 1979 before merging with Wellington Diamond United in 1985 to create Wellington United (initially called Wellington City Diamond United, but name was shortened).

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18 days ago · edited 18 days ago · History

Is any of this gonna be on the test? Can I read about this stuff somewhere or do you just have to know?

Edit: I am genuinely curious if I can read about all of this somewhere because it's very interesting

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18 days ago

Hey, so this has all been really cool and I'm guilty of it myself. But I think we need a separate thread to talk about Wellington (and maybe wider) club history and move this one back to talking about Central League itself please.

I'm an optimistic pessimist.

I'm positive things will go wrong.

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18 days ago

Yakcall wrote:
Hey, so this has all been really cool and I'm guilty of it myself. But I think we need a separate thread to talk about Wellington (and maybe wider) club history and move this one back to talking about Central League itself please.

Fair call, new thread is here.

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Yakcall wrote:
Hey, so this has all been really cool and I'm guilty of it myself. But I think we need a separate thread to talk about Wellington (and maybe wider) club history and move this one back to talking about Central League itself please.

Fair call, I was actually thinking the same thing when i made my last post!
Noah4nix I'll DM you
great to see a new thread set up

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13 days ago

Miramar's win in the Chatham Cup this weekend just made this upcoming matchup between Olympic and Rangers a lot more interesting. In honour of the upcoming match I've gone through every matchup between the two dating back to 1971:

Miramar Rangers - 37 wins, 174 goals

Wellington Olympic - 26 wins, 136 goals

19 Draws

These two innitially met in 1971 in Rd4 of the Chatham cup which ended 1-0 to Miramar Rangers

Some interesting stats:

1. In their 52 encounters there's never been a goalless game between the two
2. Miramar has the longest unbeaten streak of 16 games between 2010 - 2017, with Miramar winning 13 of said games.
3. You could extend this to only one Miramar loss in 26 games dating between 2006 - 2017 with only three more draws.
4. They are 6 - 2 in the Chatham Cup in favour of Miramar
5. Olympic's biggest win is 7-0 in Rd10 of the 2023 CL
6. Miramar's biggest wins are 6-1 in 2015 and 7-2 in the 2021 NL grand final

This kinda falls into the history topic but given they face each other this weekend I felt it was appropriate. Fairly interesting to see how despite Olympic's current dominance they're still far from caught up to Miramar.

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Noah4thenix wrote:
Miramar's win in the Chatham Cup this weekend just made this upcoming matchup between Olympic and Rangers a lot more interesting. In honour of the upcoming match I've gone through every matchup between the two dating back to 1971:

Miramar Rangers - 37 wins, 174 goals

Wellington Olympic - 26 wins, 136 goals

19 Draws

These two innitially met in 1971 in Rd4 of the Chatham cup which ended 1-0 to Miramar Rangers

Some interesting stats:

1. In their 52 encounters there's never been a goalless game between the two
2. Miramar has the longest unbeaten streak of 16 games between 2010 - 2017, with Miramar winning 13 of said games.
3. You could extend this to only one Miramar loss in 26 games dating between 2006 - 2017 with only three more draws.
4. They are 6 - 2 in the Chatham Cup in favour of Miramar
5. Olympic's biggest win is 7-0 in Rd10 of the 2023 CL
6. Miramar's biggest wins are 6-1 in 2015 and 7-2 in the 2021 NL grand final

This kinda falls into the history topic but given they face each other this weekend I felt it was appropriate. Fairly interesting to see how despite Olympic's current dominance they're still far from caught up to Miramar.

A few numbers above are not correct (I am the Olympic historian and stats guy and have all CYFC/Olympic match results dating back to 1964 and team lists dating back to 1970).

- The actual figures are in 74 matches there have been 38 Miramar wins, 20 Olympic wins and 16 draws with Miramar on 169 goals and Olympic 119 goals.
- There was a 0-0 draw at Dave Farringdon Park on 29th May 2021 in CL (Olympic's first 0-0 since 5th September 2009 against Wests - an incredible streak of 235 matches) when the online match preview was talking up a goal fest!
- The longest unbeaten streak for Miramar was 15 games between 2011 and 2017 (Miramar won the 2010 match in April but lost the June one) with Miramar winning 12.
- There was only one Miramar loss in 27 games 2005-2017 (Miramar won the second league match in 2005).
- technically the 2-7 loss was the South-Central Series final not the NL final.

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13 days ago

The fact that this is your first post on this forum is basically a shank and a twist.

But appreciate the correction nonetheless, not trying to spread misinformation genuinely thought I had the right facts

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13 days ago

Great info thanks lads. Definitely the biggest game in local footy.

Will be a good watch! From what I’ve seen, I’m picking Miramar to win

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