Central League

Whats up with Stop Out?, 12 goals against in 2 games, Gulley retiring can't have been that bad? Maybe leftfootonly has an idea........

Keeper!!!  Ball has to get there first I know. But.......Some very very basic mistakes from him, that teams would expect the most inexperienced keeper to handle.

I think some goals v LH looked like dodgy keeping?

Can watch here from 3mins in and see for yourself

There's definitely some poor keeping there for LH but he is not helped at all by his defensive line.

I'd say only the fourth goal is a definite keeper mistake. Could have done better on a couple of others (third and fifth I think) but one of those is a failure of the complete defensive unit, and the free kick seemed a decent strike too.

Has Gulley retired??

Justin has been playing, Steven hasn't.

Wow, only got through the first three so far, but if that's the standard of defending in front of him, i'm not surprised he has shipped a few.  Calamitous defending for the first, free header for the second, and WTF!? for the third with the passing in the box!

OK, watched the rest - the fourth he was maybe at fault, but only in so much as he could maybe have taken a better option in hindsight, but the striker was one on one with him at pace, he's being scored on more often than not.    Fifth, hard to tell on the angle, looked a good free kick though, maybe he could have saved it?  Can't say.  6th was shark defending at the top of the box, and the seventh another free header.

If I was scapegoating based just on this game, the keeper isn't the first place i'd be looking!

I do like that we are getting goal highlights each week. Here is week 4 goals

Individual match highlights now as well...

Thought those were just the goal highlights but just for that individual match?

Mainland Football started doing that before we went backwards. Now we're lucky to get results.

Oh, possibly. I just saw it was 2 minutes long, but it was the North Wellington-Lower Hutt game so I guess it did have seven goals to squeeze in.

Week 5 highlights

Lower Hutt 0 - 5 Wellington Olympic

Miramar Rangers 8 - 3 Wairarapa United

North Wellington 2 - 3 Napier City Rovers

Petone 3 - 0 Waterside Karori

Western Suburbs 1 - 0 Stop Out

Here are this weeks goals, I do note on the YouTube channel they do have slightly longer match highlights that include other bits of the games.

Week 6 highlights

Waterside Karori 0 - 4 Miramar Rangers

Napier City Rovers 4 - 5 Lower Hutt

Wellington Olympic 2 - 0 Western Suburbs

Wairarapa United 0 - 6 North Wellington 

Stop Out 3 - 1 Petone 

Lower Hutt City v Wests is being live streamed tonight and they have commentary from Jason Pine and Team Wellington boss Scott Hales!

The results this week have set up a tasty Olympic v Miramar Derby this week. Looking forward to the fireworks on Saturday!!!

both have maybe their strongest squads perhaps ever?

The Olympic coach should be fuming at his centre back...4-0 up at about 85mins? near halfway & he decides to wrestle someone to the ground with both arms around player & then he's surprised when he gets the most obvious 2nd yellow !

Ten man Miramar wash Olympic 4-1 

how was the match? sounds like one way traffic. JHS must have been getting a ribbing

Based on twitter, Mar went down to 10 men at 2-1. Olympic (jackson) also missed a penalty late when it was 3-1. 

Big match on Sunday with  Wests v Miramar this weekend, 2nd v 1st (by goal difference!)

Miramar were miles better. Olympic didn't threaten much although the saved pen might have made things interesting.

How good is Ollie White?!

Wharf led 1-0 at halftime in five of their nine games so far this season.

a 1-0 lead at half time is the worst possible score in football (or is it 2-0?)

So NW and Petone have both had coach sackings? CL is the new EPL?

They have?

Think Magno and Howe both down the road

Magno went went a couple of weeks ago, Jess Ibrom (ex Tasman) is now the coach of North Wellington

I hadn't heard about Howe though

thought the resident Newstalk ZB Central League expert would have been up on the play on these........

That's saying a lot greenie!  Prety sure the old Utting/Mike McGarry/Mal Dunford/Vaughn Coveney days would give these teams a hurry up

I wasn't thinking that far back anyways :)

Its back yard football at its best and coaches are getting the sack!!! Some of these clubs and official's think thy are in the EPL. Disgrace!! 

It definitely wasn't the board driving the Petone sacking, so give them some grace.

Who is the new coach at Petone?

Great result for Petone today

just watched all the game highlights on youtube from round 10.. whats with all the crowds well exceeding 100 people on the weekend? Alex Moore look likes like atleast 200-300 once you include players/staff. Capital football should be following other local sports encouraging no spectators or atleast not filming the games and plastering it all over social media with hundreds of people flouting the "rules"

A good question. This is a tricky situation, these are public parks - and limiting to 100 seems like a difficult (unlawful?) task for the clubs who play there.

College Sport 'banned' spectators at the weekend - but looking at emails from schools, parents still turned up.

Besim Balicevac