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Southern League 2026

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24 days ago

AllWhites82 wrote:
With a third of the season* gone a few 'take outs' (18 game season*)

Northern now sitting on 10 points from just 6 games which means that they have more points than FC Twenty 11 - 7pts, secured from 36 SL games and Mosgiel - 9pts, from 18 SL games. No team has been relegated that have reached double digits

Cashmere Technical now match their best start to the season with 18 points, but goals wise best yet with 35 For - 2 Against - compared to 29 - 3

Ferrymead Bays continue on with their best start to a season with 15 points, previous best - 10

Christchurch United now with their worst start to a season with 8 points, previous worst - 15 - for the first time ever United have not featured in the 'top 3' on the table so far this season

Nelson Suburbs now with their worst start to a season with 6 points, previous worst - 7

Dunedin City Royals now with their worst start to a season with 5 points, previous worst - 7

15 Clean sheets - Technical leading the way on 4, Bays 3, Northern 2, United, Coastal, Royals, Suburbs, Nomads and Selwyn all on 1, Wanaka 0

Games scored - Technical and Coastal 6, Bays and Selwyn 5, United, Suburbs Nomads, Northern and Wanaka 5, Royals 3

You forgot to mention that Selwyn has already gathered more points than last season. 4 points currently and only 3 last season. They also have more wins, 1 win so far and none last year.

I was talking about this with my mates on the drive back to Dunners but it sorta feels like Selwyn didn't necessarily improve, more so the competition got worse. That said for Selwyn supporters it probably makes little difference.

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24 days ago · edited 24 days ago · History

A major milestone stat I somehow missed was Cashmere Technical becoming the 1st club to notch up 300 goals since the Southern League commenced with an eighteen-game season in 2022. Their 300th was achieved in the 2nd round of the season against Nomads when Garbhan Coughlan scored the opening goal for Tech, with Tech's tally now 329- from 78 game, averaging 4.22 goals per game

Christchurch United currently on 285 goals so closing in to be the next to join the '300' club.

Who will be the next to join the '200' club, with Nelson Suburbs (77 games) currently on 194 and Coastal Spirit (78 games) on 192.

Selwyn joined the '100' club in the opening round when Blake Lang scored against Technical.

Points wise, Technical five points away from the first club to reach 200 points, United currently on 187. Nomads just a point away from reaching triple figures.

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24 days ago

Round 7
Saturday 2 May
Midday
Northan vs. Coastal Spirit - Caledonian Ground
2:00pm
Wanaka vs. Dunedin City Royals - Recreation Centre
2:45pm
Ferrymead Bays vs. Selwyn - Ferrymead Park
Sunday
2:00pm
Cashmere Technical vs. Christchurch United - Garrick Memorial Park
Nelson Suburbs vs. Nomads - Saxon Fields

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21 days ago

Coatal Spirit flight to Dunedin was cancled so Coastal vs Northern is postponed

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21 days ago

HT Wanaka 1 Dunedin City Royals 1

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21 days ago

HT Ferrymead Bays 2 Selwyn 0

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21 days ago

FT Wanaka 2 DC Royals 1

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21 days ago

Today's results / scorers:
Ferrymead Bays 3 (Liam Staton, Omar Cameron, Jacob Killick) Selwyn 0 HT 2 - 0

Wanaka 2 (Zach Adama-Briggs, own goal) Dunedin City Royals 1 (Cato Williams) HT 1 - 1

Northern vs. Coastal Spirit - postponed

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20 days ago

Ferrymead vs Selwyn ends mostly how you expect but Wanaka vs Royals is quite surprising. A few of Wanaka's better players went to Royals but both have been poor this season. Heard Wanaka missed a penalty?

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20 days ago

FT Cashmere Technical 2 Christchurch United 0 HT 1 - 0

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20 days ago

FT Nelson Suburbs 1 Nomads 4 HT 0 - 1

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20 days ago

Today's scorers:
Cashmere Technical 2 (Garbhan Coughlan 2 - incl pen) Christchurch United 0 HT 1 - 0

Nelson Suburbs 1 (Clancey Skea) Nomads 4 (Guy Reeves, Angus McIntyre, Flynn Holdem, Will Turner) HT 0 - 1

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20 days ago

Several club records in the Southern League after this round.

First time Cashmere Technical have won 7 games on the bounce at the start of the season.
First time Nomads have won four games on the bounce - first win in Nelson to maintain their unbeaten run at Saxton Fields.

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20 days ago

Current Table

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20 days ago

Bad game by Cashmere standards, which says a lot about their season so far lmao

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20 days ago

League takes a break next weekend for the Chatham Cup.

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19 days ago · edited 19 days ago · History

Dunedin Derby this weekend! North vs South!

Personally I'm tipping Northern to win this one, partly because I play social for them but mainly because I think the squad is genuinely just better (Which is represented on the table so far)

Northern have struggled with goal scoring since Rory Herbert left for Cashmere but it's also been pretty tragic for the Royals.

Give me a 3-1 win for Northern

Edit: Correction it's next weekend, got too excited there

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18 days ago

Noah4thenix wrote:
Dunedin Derby this weekend! North vs South!

Personally I'm tipping Northern to win this one, partly because I play social for them but mainly because I think the squad is genuinely just better (Which is represented on the table so far)

Northern have struggled with goal scoring since Rory Herbert left for Cashmere but it's also been pretty tragic for the Royals.

Give me a 3-1 win for Northern

Edit: Correction it's next weekend, got too excited there

In previous six Dunedin derby games, (in the ten team SL - 18 games) the Royals are unbeaten, three wins and a draw against Green Island and two wins against Mosgiel. Back in 2021 when it was an eight team - 7 games SL and playing under the name of South City Royals they defeated Green Island but lost to Otago University 2 - 1, with Aiden Barbour-Ryan (now at Cashmere Technical) scoring the winner in the 88th minute.

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13 days ago · edited 13 days ago · History

Back into league action over the coming weekend after a break for the Chatham Cup.

Round 7 fixtures see some vital 'six pointer' matchups: Position on table / points shown in brackets.

Saturday - 16 May
Midday
Christchurch United (6th / 8) vs. Nelson Suburbs (7th / 8)- United Sports Centre
2:45pm
Dunedin City Royals (9th / 4) vs. Northern (5th / 10)- Tuhuna Park
Nomads (3rd / 12) vs. Ferrymead Bays (2nd / 18) - Tulett Park
3:00pm
Selwyn (10th / 4) vs. Wanaka (8th / 6) - Foster Park

Sunday - 17 May
Coastal Spirit (4th / 10) vs. Cashmere Technical (1st / 21) - Tane Norton Park

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12 days ago

Re Dunedin Derby excitement

Been waiting for this since the season started! The guys at Northern actually talked to City about moving the game to a 5pm timeslot to allow as many people to turn up as possible but City said no which is a bummer. Either way this is gonna be the biggest game in Dunedin! (so far)

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11 days ago · edited 10 days ago · History

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11 days ago

Noah4thenix wrote:
So uh, little update. Northern is now being watched for "Anti-Social behaviour". Southern Football is sending a representitive to keep an eye on us at the derby and the referee is being instructed to halt the game in case of innapropriate chants and is permitted to call off the game if bad behaviour persists.

Now obviously I'm pretty biased here since I play for Northern but I feel like we haven't been bad enough to warrant such scrutiny. I wouldn't say we've been saints but we've done a decent job at keeping each other in line, immediately shutting down anything that crossed a line and what not. If people from other clubs want to chip in with their own perspective feel free but I really don't think we've been so bad we need to be kept under a microscope.

Idk, I find it somewhat frustrating since we've been self-regulating and going above and beyond with the Christchurch trip for example (I feel tired just thinking of that road trip). Not gonna stop us from having a fun derby though, even if we have to hold back.

Again if others think Northern have been out of control let me know, I might be unable to see it since I'm with the club.

I know you haven't been in Dunedin long, but this has happened a few times over the years so they're probably just trying to be proactive here. People crossing a line too far and can result in things getting a bit nasty. I can recall being at a Royals-Northern game on the turf in the SPL and reminding the Northern lads a few to step back from the pitch, they were almost on it!

On the flipside I've mostly found the banter from Northern to be funny or at worst within limits, but all it takes is one individual to cross the line and a couple others to follow them. I guess they're just trying to be wary of that and for nothing to happen that might be a bad look for the clubs/federation/league.

Hopefully it's not taken poorly because 99% of what Northern are bringing to this comp is good. Probably that representative will have nothing to do!

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10 days ago · edited 10 days ago · History

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10 days ago

Fraser Angus has transferred to Coastal Spirit from Cashmere Technical. Fraser had made two appearances in the SL this season, both coming off the bench, scoring once against Nomads.

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8 days ago

Four games on FIFA+ this weekend.
Satuday
Christchurch United vs. Nelson Suburbs
Nomads vs. Ferrymead Bays
Selwyn vs. Wanaka

Sunday
Coastal Spirit vs. Cashmere Technical

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7 days ago

I've been blessed today. Dunedin Derby at 2:45, phoenix GF at 6:15, if all goes well today could be one for the history books

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7 days ago

HT Christchurch United 1 Nelson Suburbs 1

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7 days ago

FT Christchurch United 1 Nelson Suburbs 3 HT 1 -1

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7 days ago

HT Nomads 1 Ferrymead Bays 1

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7 days ago

HT Selwyn 1 Wanaka 1

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7 days ago

FT
Nomads 1 Ferrymead Bays 1 HT 1 - 1
Selwyn 2 Wanaka 1 HT 1 - 1

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7 days ago

FT Dunedin City Royal 1 Northern 0

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7 days ago · edited 7 days ago · History

Today's scorers:
Christchurch United 1 (Takumi Hiruma) Nelson Suburbs 3 (Ben Polak, Lennon Whewell, Tino Mupemhena) HT 1 - 1

Dunedin City Royals 1 (Connor Neil - pen) Northern 0 HT 1 - 0

Nomads 1 (Caleb Cotton - pen) Ferrymead Bays 1 (Jacob Killick) HT 1 - 1

Selwyn 2 (Liam Colman, Harry Brinley) Wanaka 1 (Wynn Skinner) HT 1 - 1

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7 days ago

Another transfer this round with Noa Prestel now at Bays after being at Coastal earlier in the season.

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6 days ago

Yesterday was one to forget for me

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6 days ago

HT Coastal Spirit 1 Cashmere Technical 1

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6 days ago

FT Coastal Spirit 1 Cashmere Technical 5

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6 days ago

Today's scorers:
Coastal Spirit 1 (Khalil Vanderpool-Nurse) Cashmere Technical 5 (Garbhan Coughlan x 3, Roby Hibbert, Tom Schwarz) HT 1 - 1

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6 days ago

Updated Table:

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6 days ago

You gotta feel for Ferrymead because they're genuinely having a great season. Unbeaten against every other team, 6-points clear of 3rd place etc. It just so happens however that this strong season is overrlapping with Cashmere having the most dominent run in this national league era

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