Southern League 2023

After today's results Nomads cannot finish bottom and only Coastal and the Royals can catch Technical. 

FC now need to at least two wins to avoid the drop, assuming Green Island and Selwyn do not pick up any more points, FC final three games are away to Bays then United at home and are away to Suburbs in final round. FC have now failed to score in 10 of their 15 games., with the next worst at failing to score are Coastal, Bays and Selwyn - all with four.

Today's result:
Coastal Spirit 2 (Liam Cotter, Omar Cameron) Nelson Suburbs 3 (Ben Polak, Josh Creswell, Alex Ridsdale) HT 1 - 1

Updated table - PP column on right is Possibles Points, so Technical need three points to secure a top two finish.

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Round 16 fixtures:
Saturday
Midday
Dunedin City Royals vs. Cashmere Technical
1:30pm
Selwyn vs. Green Island
2:45pm
Ferrymead Bays vs. FC Twenty11
Nomads vs. Coastal Spirit
Sunday
Midday
Nelson Suburbs vs. Christchurch United

One change to Round 16 with the Ferrymead Bays vs. FC Twenty11 now at English Park with a 5pm kick-out. 

HT Dunedin City Royals 1 Cashmere Technical 2

FT Dunedin City Royals 1 Cashmere Technical 4

FT Selwyn 1 Green Island 2 HT 1 - 0

FT Nomads  1 Coastal Spirit 4

FT Ferrymead Bays 6 FC Twenty11 1 HT 3 - 0 

Today's Scorers - Round 16 of 18

Dunedin City Royals 1 (Connor Neil - pen) Cashmere Technical 4 (Garbhan Coughlan 2 - incl pen, Luke Tongue, Lyle Mattysen) HT 1 - 2
Ferrymead Bays 6 (Kenshin Hayashi 2, Daniel Thoms 2, Mark Zimmerman, Alex Meaclem) FC Twenty11 1 (Ari Johnson) HT 3 - 0  

Nomads 1 (Luca MacLeod-Watts) Coastal Spirit 4 (Omar Cameron, Dominic McGarr, Apisai Rabuka) HT 0 - 1 

Selwyn 1 (own goal) Green Island 2 (Caleb Williams 2) HT 1 - 0

Played tomorrow: Nelson Suburbs vs. Christchurch United

 

After today's results ChCh United and Cashmere Technical confirmed as the Southern League qualifiers for the National League and while mathematically FC can still avoid the drop, they will need a minimum of 4 points, plus turn around their present - 15 goal difference and hope Selwyn do not pick up any more points. Selwyn's final two games are Coastal (Away) and Nomads (Home) with FC - United (Home) and Suburbs (Away).

Updated Table: 

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Today's result:
Nelson Suburbs 1 (Alex Ward) Christchurch United 6 (Sam Philip 3, Eoghan Stokes 3 HT 0 - 3

Updated Table: United need two more points to claim back-to-back SL titles.

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Games for next Saturday:
Catch-up game from Round 14
Nomads vs. Cashmere Technical

Round 17 game brought forward - this to allow the catch-up game from Round 10 Green Island vs. ChCh United to be played on 27 August.
Green Island vs. Dunedin City Royals 

Today's Results
Green Island 1 (Trevin Myers) Dunedin City Royals 1 (Connor Neil) HT 1 - 1

Nomads 1 (Flynn Holdem) Cashmere Technical 3 (Aiden Barbour-Ryan, Lyle Matthysen, Yuya Taguchi) HT 0 - 1

Updated Table:

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This weekends games:
Round 17
Saturday
11:30am
Nomads vs. Nelson Suburbs  
2:45pm
Coastal Spirit vs Selwyn - this game now at English Park (also a Hurley Shield game)
Cashmere Technical vs. Ferrymead Bays
Green Island vs. Dunedin City Royals  - played last Saturday finishing 1 - 1
FC Twenty11 vs. Christchurch United being played on Tuesday evening at 7pm
which allows for the Round 10 catch-up game between Green Island and Christchurch United to be played this Sunday at Midday. 

So UC Football have won the Mainland Premiership - does this mean they'll playoff for promotion or will they have the same regulations issues that OU had last year? Or will it be someone lower down - Waimak/Halswell? Be concerned for either going up given they're both behind Cashmere and Nomads reserve teams...

FC Nelson also won the Nelson Bays league but not sure if going for promotion. Last years winner Rangers Blenheim didn't. 

Is it true the Dunedin City Royals are under investigation for falsifying team cards? Some ex Southern Football guy with a B license now on their bench for the last couple of games of the season, but apparently they haven't had a B licensed coach all season.

Does anyone if there is a list of current coaches with B Licence plying their trade in NZ. 

TrentAA

Is it true the Dunedin City Royals are under investigation for falsifying team cards? Some ex Southern Football guy with a B license now on their bench for the last couple of games of the season, but apparently they haven't had a B licensed coach all season.

lthomas20

FC Nelson also won the Nelson Bays league but not sure if going for promotion. Last years winner Rangers Blenheim didn't. 

Posted on FC Nelson's facebook page earlier today.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS HERE WE COME!!

FC Nelson are heading to the Southern League playoffs ... 

In line with our Strategic Plan, and thanks to the hard work of so many people in the club.

Details of the draw will be released by the end of the week ... get ready to support our team in their bid to enter the league!!

Well so far no reaction to TrentAA post.

From what I have seen this season there have been a few breach's of the regulations that cover the Southern League / National without any action appearing to have taken, for games in and around Christchurch.

For example:
1) pitches not fully marked or incorrectly marked
2) yet to see a qualified registered electrician at any game played under floodlights
3) at least one game played which had a change of venue were changing rooms for players and officials did not meet the regs
4) no ball persons on hand
5) a lack of a scoreboard at several games

I agree that some of these are minor and not likely to affect the result of the game but are covered in the regs.   
 
The regs also cover what happens if there has been a breach with the club concerned having to be advised in writing of what needs to be done to resolve the issue with time allowed to achieve this.

FT Nomads 4 Nelson Suburbs 1

FT
Cashmere Technical 2 Ferrymead Bays 2
Coastal Spirit 3 Selwyn 1

Christchurch United, who are away to Green Island tomorrow, are now confirmed as Champions  

Today's scorers:
Cashmere Technical 2 (Garbhan Coughlan 2) Ferrymead Bays 2 (Daniel Thoms, Kenshin Hayashi) HT 1 - 1
Coastal Spirit 3 (Roque Fuentes Salinas, Liam Cotter, Omar Cameron) Selwyn 1 (Darius Van Wyk) HT 1 - 0

Nomads 4 (Flynn Holdem, Seth Simpson, Niraj Basnet, own goal) Nelson Suburbs 1 (Lennon Whewell) HT 3 - 1

 

FT  Green Island 3 (Stefan Milidrag 2 - incl pen, Weston Bell) Christchurch United 15 (Sam Philip 8, Eoghan Stokes 3, Matt Todd-Smith 2, Aaron O'Driscoll 2) HT 0 - 8      

Updated table:

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AllWhites82

FT  Green Island 3 (Stefan Milidrag 2 - incl pen, Cameron Brewitt) Christchurch United 15 (Sam Philip 8, Eoghan Stokes 3, Matt Todd-Smith 2, Aaron O'Driscoll 2) HT 0 - 8      

It was quite the game....

Would love a review. 2 sets of goals were a minute apart, did they give it away from the kickoff? I was at an 11-1 Coastal win over Queenstown a few years ago which was mental, I can't imagine what today was like. Were there no goalkeepers?

VimFuego

Would love a review. 2 sets of goals were a minute apart, did they give it away from the kickoff? I was at an 11-1 Coastal win over Queenstown a few years ago which was mental, I can't imagine what today was like. Were there no goalkeepers?

First 25 minutes was just one big Christchurch United goal glut. Game was a bit topsy-turvy after that, it felt like GI had settled them down but then another big goal glut around the hour mark and pushed the score to double digits, then was a bit more back and forth after that. 

Funnily enough GI were actually pretty decent going forward and forced some good saves, they definitely deserved some goals. Defensively... I think the scoreline illustrates that. 

FC Twenty11 vs. Christchurch United tonight at Avonhead Park at 7pm, a must win game for FC if they want to avoid the drop. United have a handful of players out after they reached five cards on Sunday.

20 mins gone and scoreless between FC and United.

HT FC Twenty11 0 Christchurch United 0

United opening scoring in the 56th minute.

United 3 - 0 after 65 mins.

FT FC Twenty11 0 Christchurch United 5

Tonight's scorers:
 FC Twenty11 0 Christchurch United 5 (Jackson Cole, Sam Philip, Haris Zeb, Jago Godden, Paul Ifill) HT 0 - 0 

Updated Table - with tonight's result mean FC Twenty11 will finish at the foot of the table an automatic relegation.

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