Chatham Cup 2013 - #90yearsofglory

double whammy for Chch

a great day

aside from the Sth'Easter which was freezing a most memorable days football

now to the bar.

Relatively easy win for Cashmere in the end. I was expecting a lot more from Waitak.
Stu Kelly played a blinder for Cashy, won a shitload of headers for a shorter bloke. Did well to hold it up.
Turner stood out for me for Waitak. Jake Butler scored an absolute belter but other than that I didn't really notice him.

Yes well done Cashmere Technical with Andy Pitman named Player of the Day Award, to go along with Coastal Spirit winning the Women's KO Cup and Laurna Merrin winning the Player of the Day Award.

Offical crowd was 2,600. Sold some more tickets after some left after the Women's Final.

Glad Waitak lost here after they stacked the team to beat Melville (kinda my team), well done the CHC teams!

Well done the Cantabs, good to see my home town doing the double over the Auks.

Not a sausage on TV 1. 

Story on Chatham Final from Stuff:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9167896/Cashmere-Technical-end-Canterburys-wait

From NZ Football:

New Zealand Football: Cashmere cap Canterbury celebrations with ASB Chatham Cup

September 15, 2013

AUCKLAND – Cashmere Technical capped a red-letter day for Canterbury Football with a 3-1 victory over Waitakere City in the 86th final of the ASB Chatham Cup at Christchurch’s ASB Football Park on Sunday.

The win eventually sealed by substitute Dan Ede who chipped a stranded Eamon Goodin after fellow substitute Jamie Smith unlocked a fast-finishing Waitakere with a raking pass on the counter attack in the fourth minute of injury time.

It rounds out a season of unprecedented success in which Cashmere won the Mainland League, South Island Championship and Hurley Challenge Shield and is their first Chatham Cup title, although the club has strong historical links with Technical Old Boys who contested six finals, winning in 1948.

It’s also the first ASB Chatham Cup victory for a Canterbury side since Christchurch United won the last of their six titles in 1991.

Canterbury veteran Andy Pitman, who ends his career with an ASB Chatham Cup winners medal around his neck and the Jack Batty trophy in one hand for his man of the match performance, was understandably emotional as the champagne flowed.

“They don’t come better than this to be honest,” he said after the match.

“What a huge crowd. We’ve got the win, the girls won before us, my partner’s pregnant. The world couldn’t be any better at the moment.”

Pitman credited a higher level of intensity at the start for setting up the win.

“We probably didn’t play as well as we could but it’s about winning.

“Our first half performance meant they really just didn’t know what to do with us because we were on to them from the very off. I think intensity of the occasion was a bit of a shock for a few of their boys and after that it was ours to lose.”

With local side Coastal Spirit upsetting Glenfield Rovers 1-0 in the ASB Women’s Knockout Cup final earlier on the day, a sold out crowd of 2600 were already on a high and emotions lifted when Danny Boys converted a fifth minute penalty to put Tech in front.

The lead lasted just over ten minutes before new All White Jake Butler thumped Waitakere level. His first effort from a 16th minute free kick flew back off the wall but Butler responded with an unstoppable volley.

Stu Kelly pounced on a loose ball in the 23rd minute and his cool finish restored the lead but only the crossbar prevented Waitakere levelling again as Rory Turner shook the woodwork two minutes before the break.

Turner was on the end of the move of the match within ten minute of the first half but missed a golden chance to grab his side’s second, trying to bend the ball inside the far post.

While Butler’s effort was the first Cashmere had conceded in their entire cup run, they weren’t about to surrender the lead again and threw numbers behind the ball denying Turner and a relatively quiet Roy Krishna time in attack and stifling the supply from midfield.

Waitakere ended the match with a flurry of free kicks but Cashmere defence stood firm to clinch the silverware in it’s 90th year.

ASB Chatham Cup FinalSunday 15 September
ASB Football Park, Christchurch

Cashmere Technical 3 (Danny BOYS pen 5’, Stu KELLY 23’, Dan EDE 90+4)
Waitakere City 1 (Jake BUTLER 16’)Halftime: 2-1

Jack Batty Trophy (man of the match): Andy PITMAN (Cashmere TECHNICAL).

Cashmere Technical: 22-Shaun ROBERTS (GK), 2-Daniel TERRIS, 3-Nick WORTELBOER, 5-Dan SCHWARZ, 6-Tom SCHWARZ, 7-Julyan COLLETT (12-Andrew BARTON 75’), 8-Stuart KELLY (11-Jamie SMITH 87’), 16-Cory MITCHELL, 18-Shawn O’BRIEN (10-Dan EDE 82’), 19-Andy PITMAN, 33-Danny BOYS.
Substitutes not used: 1-Danny KNIGHT (GK), 4-James PRICE.
Coach: John BROWN

Cautions: Julyan COLLETT 35’, Stu KELLY 41’, Tom SCHWARZ 57’, Andy PITMAN 66’

Waitakere City: 1-Eamon GOODIN (GK), 2-Matthew CHATTERTON, 3-Tim MYERS, 5-Sam REDWOOD, 7-Imraan SHAH (13-Meneua FAKASEGA 81’), 9-Rory TURNER, 10-Denver MACDONALD, 11-Roy KRISHNA, 14-Kodai HAYASHI, 17-Jake BUTLER, 18-Jack CAUNTER.
Substitutes not used: 4-John MUCHIRAHONDO, 12-Karlo PAVIC, 16-Joseph TURAGABECI, 22-Mike BISHOP (GK).
Coach: Colin TUAA

And from NZ Herald:

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11125047

Yes great day at ASB Park with 2 good wins to Coastal and Cashmere ending years of underachievement at club level from Christchurch teams. Contrasting games with Glenfield unlucky with several chances against a resolute Coastal hitting on the counter with the old adage if you don't take your chances you'll get punished proving true with Glenfield conceding a freak own goal in the last play of normal time. Chatham Cup more decisive with a passionate Cashmere firing on all cylinders against a pensive Waitakere, easy to see why they spent a lot of the season struggling. Was quite surprised at how poor they were, definitely expected more particularly up front with Krishna but they hardly fired a shot apart from the wonder goal from Butler to tie it up at 1-1 after about 15 minutes to match Cashmere's 4th minute Danny Bhoys penalty. Pretty much the rest of the half was Cashmere kicking lumps off Waitakere, conceding 5 yellows in the process, in the main for persistent infringing. 2nd half saw much of the same with the intense midfield battle continuing, with a late Cashmere goal capping a fine win. Well done to NZ Football for having the balls to bring the games to ChCh and Mainland Football for putting on a great show. Also the footy fans who made it a 2700 sell out and ended up celebrating with two of the best teams to come out of the Mainland in years.

Tech worthy winners in what was a pretty scrappy game. Ball seemed to spend plenty of time in the air with both sides wasting possession. Waitak couldn't get Krishna into any dangerous position. Could of chances fell to Turner. One hit the cross bar from distance, the other he butchered when they were 2-1 down.

Credit to tech. They were well drilled. Defended well. Got player behind the ball and took their chances.

Love the cup

Piney gives good commentary. 

NZF twitter was quite a bit slower.  Probably the VIP tweeter clogging it up.

Great stuff today, awesome atmosphere even with the cold, it was like the good old days of club footy. Well done Cashmere definetly best team on the day. 

From today's The Press:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/football/9168429/History-made-for-Cash-Tech

And the women's game from The Press:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/football/9168427/Coastal-shows-never-say-die-spirit

Any video of the final floating around?

Available on Youtube today at some stage.

Some good new Cup stories today in the Press: 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/opinion/9174215/Cash-Tech-win-better-than-Americas-Cup

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/football/9172407/Brown-Cowen-set-up-winning-base

John Brown, Bill Cowen, Terry Mann all mainstays and legends of the game here in Christchurch over many years - have had the privilege of chatting to all of them at matches over the years...top blokes with wicked senses of humour...

Terry Mann played for Chch club Western in the 1966 Final and was Terry Conley's assistant at Christchurch United in the 70's and 80's national league glory days. Instrumental with Bill Cowan in creating the Chch Technical club from a merger of Cashmere, Woolston and Technical clubs.

Conley and Mann were quite a duo - Conley the flamboyant old-style English manager with perennial cigar, Mann the teetotalling vegetarian.

John Brown came out here from Glasgow twenty years ago at the instigation of his uncle, former Chch United player from the '70's, Rab Brown. Broke his leg, never recovered enough to play again and took up coaching...

good to see cashmere win this one.  waitak looked a poor side and cashmere very solid all over the back of the park and stu kelly outstanding up front

braithewaite would do well to set canterbury united up along these lines of course with a couple of extra players

So was it the Cavvy curse that continued?

CTV have Chatham Cup final replay on now 12.30 to 2.30pm.