CU vs HBU

CU vs HBU

4 mins

Both teams win early corners, with game being played in fine conditions

7 mins

Darren Overton (Canty) receives yellow card

15 mins

Left foot shoot from Jeremy Brockie into side netting

20 mins

25 metre shot by Graham Fyfe well wide

22 mins

Long 30 metre ball from Sam Jenkins finds Brockie unmarked with Canterby keeper Adam Highfield blocking shot

25 mins

Goalmouth scramble has shot for Hawkes Bay hit the cross bar with Canterbury awarded a free-kick for hand ball

30 mins

Jeremy Wild (Canty) cautioned after clash with Brockie

31 mins

Canterbury shot cleared off line after Mitchell O'Brien failed to gather ball

35 mins

Canterbury gives away kick-off in front of goal - Fyfe's shot goes around wall with Highfield turning ball away for corner

38 mins

Jarrod Smith finds Fyfe with a great ball who shots on turn but just wide  

42 mins

GOAL!!! Well taken goal by Dave Walker puts Canterbury 1 up

44 mins

Third yellow card for Canterbury as Okubo Yusaku cautioned by referee Peter O'Leary

45 mins

Half-time Canterbury 1 Hawkes Bay 0

46 mins

Play under way again with Okubo replaced by Ryan Faichnie for Canterbury

51 mins

Free-kick by Hawkes Bay punched clear by Highfield

59 mins

First shot by Faichnie crashs on to crossbar

61 mins

Good build up by Bays ends with Fyfe pushing ball wide

62 mins

Jarrod Smith (Hawkes Bay) off, replaced by Stu Wilson

66 mins

Brokie unable to finish off another good build up with the striker hitting ball straight at Highfield who has hast parried cross by Fyfe into Brockie's path

69 mins

GOAL!!!! Brockie easy finish after Canterbury defense fail to clear ball

72 mins

Tom Lancaster cautioned for Canterbury

75 mins

Canterbury goes to bench as Michael Fifii replaces Chris Morris

76 min

GOAL!!! Canterbury looses ball at back with Sam Massam putting Bay in front 2 - 1

81 mins

Hard working Brockie replaced by Stu Hogg

85 mins

Hawkes Bays pressing forward looking for killer goal

86 mins

GOAL!!! Leon Birnie puts Bays 3 - 1 up with drive from 20 metres out in front of goal

90 mins

Final Canterbury 1  Hawkes Bay 3 

Great to see the boys take it out- also earned be a bit at the TAB too...

Anyone go to the game? HB as dominant as it sounds above? How'd the teams look?

Great to see Hawkes bay win this game.

I was at the game, and to be honest Canterbury looked quite shocking. It was painful to watch.

Credit to Hawkes Bay, they did well. I think they are contenders this season if they keep it up.

Hey,

Anyone else at this game interested in hearing any more thoughts on the game. From what I have read and spoke to one person who went to the game Hawkes Bay should have won by alot more than 3-1 and played canterbury off the park for long periods of the match. I will be a very interested spectator this week in Auckland to watch the HB vs Auckland match think its shaping as a pretty decent game. Also heared through the grapevine that the TAB took an absolute hammering on this game as they opened HB at $9. Heard there was at least 1 collect of $100,000 and alot more big collects off it!

Yer I was there and it was pretty ruff.  Hawkes Bay could have (maybe should have) scored more however some poor finishing and good saves means they didn't.  Was pretty exciting match, lotsa action, however result went the wrong way.  Canty didn't do too much to impress, and it could be a little dicey against the big guns.  However there was a few players out so will have to wait and see.  Oh, and the goals were the result of some awful things going on at the back, so don't think too much into the result either.  Does that sound to biased?  Hope not...

Canterbury's team this season looks poor. Having said that, we did have two top players suspended, so we will have to see how we go next week.

crowd estimate??

Umm.... ruff guess.... 300?  Not very good with assessing.  Stand was full as was the two banks either side, and splattering of those around the edges.

Why can't Canterbury draw a crowd at English Park. I lived there when we moved in the 70s and you used to get 3000 plus to national league games at English Park. It used to be packed. What's gone wrong.

I'd estimate 500.

Don't know whats gone wrong. To many fairweather fans I suspect + the age old problem of people who think it isn't football if it isn't the English Premier League.

to be fair club rugby used to get those types of crowds back then, the key is it was back then. people just arent as willing anymore, who knows why and i dont think it is a good thing but its a fact