Cashmere deserved their win today. I though that Ivan played a poor hand in most of the game and they had no midfield. Stu Kelly absolutely deserved his MOM award and if not him, I though Dan Terris did a good job shutting Tade down who looked like another whinging South American (along with a couple of others in yellow whom maybe thought they were Brazilian and not Central in nature)
The Cashmere keeper gets love for some very good saves and if he is not number 1 then Highfield must have improved a lot. Not a bad game and certainly one of the better ones I have seen live in Auckland for a CC final.
Agree with most of that. Didn't think the game was much of a spectacle for the neutral though.
Agree the Cashmere midfield won it for them.
Tade is a different level though, he's just come off a month long holiday or something and he still rips it up - just couldn't do it on his own.
Thought Central looked incapable of patiently drawing Cashmere out when Cashmere parked their bus. They just kept running into the Cashmere defence and nobody except Tade really looked like creating a good chance. In saying that, they forced two very good saves (at least) out of Cashmere's keeper.
Cashmere obviously had a plan. Go at them early and get ahead, then dominate the game and not over-commit forwards. It worked a treat and they looked pretty in control I thought despite Central having most of the late possession.
Did you read that before you posted?
How can a team have no possesion and park the bus but still dominate the game????
As for Kelly getting M o M what a joke!!
He nothing to do with either goal
And if not for his goalkeeper would of lost the game.
At least Clapham didnt get it though he was average as usual.
You make a good point, although you make it with the angry tone of a teenager whose had his phone taken off him. I should have said "control" the game rather than "dominate" the game.
Central were second best, comfortably. And it wasn't a very good game. Central try to play a style of football that is better to watch. Tech play a brand of football that is effective when done well, and they do it very well.
Control or dominate means same thing really if controlling the game means making virtually no attempt to score a goal 2nd half then yes you are probably right. But the point still stands about how Kelly got M o M? As for Clapham I think the person who overates him most is himself!!
Agreed they are effective at what they do though, Get a lead then park the bus and rely on keeper to deal with anything from long range which he did very well, Hence why he was clearly M o M