Southern League 2024

Interesting the talk around the U20 minutes and with ChCh United dropping six points in the Canterbury Premier League due to fielding ineligible player(s). 

Likewise in the North Island this season a team in the Chatham Cup going out after winning for doing the same thing, this happens every year in the Cup and in either the Northern or Central League a club fielded too many non- NZ players and the game result ended in a forfeit. 

Cannot understand how or why clubs and others, do appear to know or understand the regulations for the various competitions that they play in. All the regs are available online and the higher the level of the competition the bigger the consequences of a beech, i.e. not gaining promotion, ending a cup round with the final just in sight.

Goes to show that what you do 'off the field' is just as (if not more) important than what happens on the field.

AllWhites82

Interesting the talk around the U20 minutes and with ChCh United dropping six points in the Canterbury Premier League due to fielding ineligible player(s). 

Likewise in the North Island this season a team in the Chatham Cup going out after winning for doing the same thing, this happens every year in the Cup and in either the Northern or Central League a club fielded too many non- NZ players and the game result ended in a forfeit. 

Cannot understand how or why clubs and others, do appear to know or understand the regulations for the various competitions that they play in. All the regs are available online and the higher the level of the competition the bigger the consequences of a beech, i.e. not gaining promotion, ending a cup round with the final just in sight.

Goes to show that what you do 'off the field' is just as (if not more) important than what happens on the field.

Which Chatham Cup result was overturned this year?

HT Dunedin City Royals 0 Christchurch United 1

My fault, has not this happened in the Cup this season, first time since the 2019 

Doloras

AllWhites82

Interesting the talk around the U20 minutes and with ChCh United dropping six points in the Canterbury Premier League due to fielding ineligible player(s). 

Likewise in the North Island this season a team in the Chatham Cup going out after winning for doing the same thing, this happens every year in the Cup and in either the Northern or Central League a club fielded too many non- NZ players and the game result ended in a forfeit. 

Cannot understand how or why clubs and others, do appear to know or understand the regulations for the various competitions that they play in. All the regs are available online and the higher the level of the competition the bigger the consequences of a beech, i.e. not gaining promotion, ending a cup round with the final just in sight.

Goes to show that what you do 'off the field' is just as (if not more) important than what happens on the field.

Which Chatham Cup result was overturned this year?

FT Dunedin City Royals 1 Christchurch United 3

HT FC Twenty 11 1 Ferrymead Bays 0

HT Selwyn 0 Cashmere Technical 1

FT FC Twenty11 1 Ferrymead Bays 4

FT Selwyn 0 Cashmere Technical 8

Today's scorers:
Dunedin City Royals 1 (Cato Williams) Christchurch United 3 (Joel Stevens, Kaleb DeGroot-Green, Thomas Chao) HT 0 - 1 

FC Twenty 11 1 (Alexious Rodriguez) Ferrymead Bays 4 (Cameron Rean 2, Joaquin Julve, Nikolas Fairley) HT 1 - 0

Selwyn 0 Cashmere Technical 8 (Yuya Taguuchi 2 - incl pen, Jack Hallahan 2, Gabriel Gallaway 2, Lachie McIsaac, Jordan Spain)   HT 0 - 1

FT Nelson Suburbs 5 Universities of Canterbury 1

FT Coastal Spirit 2 Nomads 0 HT 1 - 0

Today's scorers:
Coastal Spirit 2 (Alej Steinwascher - pen, Liam Cotter) Nomads 0 HT 1 - 0

Nelson Suburbs 5 (Lennon Whewell 2, Trevis Myers 2, own goal) Universities of Canterbury 1 (Todd Vermuir) HT 3 - 1

Updated Table:

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The SL takes a break for the Chatham Cup next weekend - all the best to Coastal vs. Hibiscus Coast, with Round 14 played on the 2nd and 3rd of August:
Friday 2nd
7pm
Christchurch United vs. FC Twenty 11- United Sports Centre
7:15pm
Ferrymead Bays vs. Coastal Spirit
Saturday 3rd
2pm 
Cashmere Technical vs. Nelson Suburbs - Garrick Memorial Park
Universities of Canterbury vs. Dunedin City Royals - English Park
2:45pm
Nomads vs. Selwyn - Tulett Park  
  

Great to see so many u20s get on the pitch for Coastal today.  Good that at least one team is showing you can integrate young talent and still get results.  

Football > Sh!tty Math

Oops, I just did math.

After Round 13 games have completed mathematically both Nomads and Royals can no longer finish in the top three, joining Selwyn, UC and FC in this stat.

FC have now conceded more goals in the 10 team SL, surpassing Mosgiel's 72 goals in 2022.  

In the coming round Cashmere Technical, Coastal Spirit, Christchurch United, Dunedin City Royals, Ferrymead Bays, Nelson Suburbs Nomads and Selwyn will all bring up their 50th SL game under the 10 team 18 game format.     

Christchurch United have picked up Solomon Islands international, 20yo Alden Suri for the rest of the season.

Friday evenings game between Ferrymead Bays and Coastal Spirit now being played at English Park, still a 7:15pm Kick-off

HT Christchurch United 5 FC Twenty 11 0

SamCoughlan

Christchurch United have picked up Solomon Islands international, 20yo Alden Suri for the rest of the season.

Already posted that information in the feed 4 weeks agp

HT Ferrymead Bays 0 Coastal Spirit 2

FT Christchurch United 11 FC Twenty 11 0

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I had to...

FT Ferrymead Bays 0 Coastal Spirit 3

AllWhites82

FT Ferrymead Bays 0 Coastal Spirit 3

Very good result for Coastal, were in cruise control most of the game too

Tonight's scorers:
Christchurch United 11 (Joel Stevens 3 - incl pen, Daniel Meyn 2, Rico Pradhan, Daniel Yoo, Joel Peterson, Kaleb de Groot-Green, Waisea Henry, own goal) FC Twenty 11 0 HT 5 - 0 

Ferrymead Bays 0 Coastal Spirit 3 (Kenshin Hayashi, Liam Cotter, Alej SteinwascherHT 0 - 2

Due to fog and ice at Dunedin Airport today's some later flights have been cancelled meaning game between Universities of Canterbury and Dunedin City Royals has been postponed.

HT Cashmere Technical 3 Nelson Suburbs 0

FT Cashmere Technical 6 Nelson Suburbs 2

FT Nomads 4 Selwyn 1

Today's scorers:
Cashmere Technical 6 (Yuya Taguchi 2, Gabriel Gallaway 2, Aidan Barbour-Ryan, Yusuf Van Dam) Nelson Suburbs 2 (Alex Risdale, Lennon Whewell) HT 3 - 0

Nomads 4 (Angus McIntyre 2, Niko Bruce, Harry Bushell) Selwyn 1 (Darius Van Wyk) HT 2 - 1  
Universities of Canterbury vs. Dunedin City Royals - postponed

Updated Table:

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Round 15 fixtures:
Saturday 
2pm
FC Twenty 11 vs. Dunedin City Royals
2:45pm
Cashmere Technical vs. Universities of Canterbury
3:00pm
Selwyn vs. Ferrymead Bays
Sunday
12:30pm
Nelson Suburbs vs. Nomads
1:00pm
Coastal Spirit vs. Christchurch United

Looking forward to Coastal Spirit vs Chch Utd this weekend - I feel like this and Cashmere Tech's match against Chch Utd in round 18 are potentially where the league could be decided - Chch Utd should be be the hardest remaining match for each of them and if Coastal or Cashmere Tech drop points in those fixtures it'll likely tell us who will be the champ this year

Easy to forget as well that Utd are actually only 3 points behind Coastal, and will overtake them with a win. If they do that and beat Tech in round 18 and win their other 2 games against Selwyn and Nelson, they just need Tech to drop points against one of Uni, Nomads, or Ferrymead in the next three weeks, for Utd to come through and win the league.

SamCoughlan

Easy to forget as well that Utd are actually only 3 points behind Coastal, and will overtake them with a win. If they do that and beat Tech in round 18 and win their other 2 games against Selwyn and Nelson, they just need Tech to drop points against one of Uni, Nomads, or Ferrymead in the next three weeks, for Utd to come through and win the league.

Yeah good call, didn't think about that scenario. Potential for an exciting finish to the season!

SamCoughlan

Easy to forget as well that Utd are actually only 3 points behind Coastal, and will overtake them with a win. If they do that and beat Tech in round 18 and win their other 2 games against Selwyn and Nelson, they just need Tech to drop points against one of Uni, Nomads, or Ferrymead in the next three weeks, for Utd to come through and win the league.

It would be very close and potentially come down to goal difference - remember Coastal still have a game against FC2011 (Utd already played them twice)

Lucky we saved that Tech vs Utd game as the last one of the season.