Chatham Cup 2013 - #90yearsofglory

I can assure you it was not me but I am not surprised in what you are saying

Haha! N-Bomb...... a Waitakere hater. Yes!!!!!!!! Hope you get your ticket to the final early. Apparently some of those Melville players have signed for WaiBopFlop. Good luck, you guys are going to need it. Even Aaron Scott wasn't that great. Thought Tim Myers was player of the day. As for Rory T.... set up Roy's second goal by taking it on the chest and playing a perfect through ball to him. Turner's shot on goal was going in anyway so deserved  the pen and didn't do too bad for someone that was out last week with injury (wen waitak lost by the way) and wasn't expected to play. Wonder what happened to all the great youngsters at Wellington Olympic, Didn't expect that result!

I don't hate Waitakere, I just would prefer a club with a few more fans to win it ,also it'd be nice for a non-Auckland club to do so. It also sounds like you didn't watch too many Melville games this season Hawk....

Myers was fairly strong at the back, he gets derided when playing for the likes of NZA but he's a class above at this level, much like Krishna, without him they would have lacked their biggest advantage they had over Melville, and would have found it much harder going against the strong-but-slow Melville defence. Butler was strong too I thought. 

So who did you think did well for Melville and who of them signed for WaiBopFlop?

The players who have signed from Melville so far are only Aaron Scott and Scott Hilliar. Everyone knows that Aaron Scott is excellent at ASB Premiership level, and is a great signing, and Hilliar has been excellent for them all year, a real workhorse in a defensive midfield role who also is a tidy passer and has developed a pretty decent shot on him too. He did a fairly good job at stopping Shah in the midfield today, but it wasn't his best performance by a long way. Doesn't mean he's not worth the signing though.

Well if Glenfield win then there are two Auckland teams in the final, and the organisers do enjoy hosting it at North Harbour Stadium.... 

Would rather it be in Chch though, they're deserving and also something new.

They won't pay to fly all the gear to CHR

Yes, Krisha was the difference for Waitakere, but Rory Turner is a good player.

Jama Boss had a poor game for Melville and that cost them. Hilliar was not at his peak but his work rate was very high. I think he will do well over the summer. Krishna's second goal was real class. Mind you Melville's goal was pretty good too.

Must say it was the biggest crowd for a football match I can recall seeing in Hamilton for years. Gower Park is a nice ground for matches like this, good atmosphere.

Boss was played out of position, I think Steve Williams might have regretted not playing him in the offensive midfield role rather than the wing, Josh Billman didn't provide too much.

Agree it was a good crowd, usually there's very few people down the end of the ground away from the clubhouse, but yesterday there were hundreds of them, good crowd for a good event.

Gear would be cheap compared to all the NZ Footy staffers that would come south, needed or not.

Agree with above. As a neutral, having driven down from Auckland, it was a bloody good occasion even if by the second half a slightly one-sided game. Busy bar, enthusiastic support, compact enclosed ground ringed with maybe 1000 locals ... about as good as one can hope for these days at this level out in the sticks. Hope WaiBop get similar support in the ASB. Maybe even better if they do well. Enjoyed your program notes too, Bruce.

NB From the Melville v Waitakerie cup semi-final programme, B Holloway quoting a past Meville coach (Paul Nixon): "We just need the X factor to start winning. Unfortunately I don't know what the X factor is."

Cheers Bruce. Hopefully we won't be hearing similar from any (e.g two) prominent coaches in the upcoming season.

He looked kind of uncertain & overwhelmed to me - maybe by the occasion/expectation as much as by the close-pressing opposition. Shame.

Auckland v ChCh in both games, bound to be in Auckland then.

Hope so.

Do what's best for football, play them in ChCh.

I agree with you. I think you would get more of a crowd for the CHR game. They don't host it often and would be a good PR move for NZF and showing faith in a post earthquake CHR

Sounds like a win to me

Play it in Auckland so I can go watch :P

Wasn't televised last year was it?

Wasn't in Auckland last year.

Sweet. Christchurch it is!

should be Chch, due reward to Coastal Spirit FC for having the #1 Women's sides for ages. 

would they play men's final on turf (English Pk)?

They play National League on it why would that be an issue?

band practice tomorrow?

Chatham Cup final is more important though

Double header in ChCh but not the weekend the Nix are in RotoVagas!

I thought I saw it as the 14th of Sept but now I see on NZF it's down as the 15th. Any idea which is right?

Aaaah, on different dates, now I see, how strange. Why didn't they just say 14th/15th September considering they have had a penchant for double headers in the past and couldn't be sure of who would qualify until this weekend anyway?