Coastal Spirit Lotto U19 Tournament - Labour Weekend

The draw and details are on the Coastal Website Looks to be a good spread from around the South Island plus a few from Wellington. Obviously hard to compete with the Napier tournament however we are trying to offer something to the rest. Interested to hear your thoughts on frontrunners to win. 

No Nelson team? Boo

Weather Forecast is presently good. 

Hopefully a good number of spectators.

Richmond from Nelson, are they not? 

is there a list of team home and away colours somewhere?

I'll flick you a copy

Putting a lazy tenner on Southland... Go Jnr Bigun

I think last year proved rankings aren't much to go by, but surely main teams will be likes of Tech (even if not their main 19's) Coastal always up there, Mosgiel (if any I their squad from last year still available)

Vim who is coaching Coastal's male side(s) as heard Xaxier coaching the young ladies.

Matt Jansen has development White

Black side is coached by Ekore

Women, Black yes Xavier

White development Steve Ager

Cheers

sooo racist!

easterly was killer.

Couple of cracking goals. Halswell v Uni freekick, Dante for CS Black v White

I met Feverish!

I see Waimak have already defaulted for tomorrow.  Was that planned or injuries strike or other?

Not sure but no good for  Mosgiel.

Waimak pulled out late, haven't played at all. 

Was Dante's the long range shot into top corner? That was a powerful strike!

White team could have had 3 goals in that first half. A shot hitting the post, another blocked on the line, and one that went narrowly wide. Second half was thoroughly dominated by Black though.

Waterside Karori top of Women's Pool B, with some matches still to be played in pool. Wharf have one pool match this morning. Coastal White have 2.

Stoppage time goal from Mikaela Boxall for Wharf stealing all 3 points in the last match yesterday against Cashmere Technical.

Coastal Black leading Pool A. They play also unbeaten Wellington United this morning.

Yes Dante's a genuine top corner bullet. Pretty remarkable effort from Taylor to get a hand to it I thought.

White , yeah Louis and Levi both hit the post, a goal would have been good reward for them. 

Girls, Coastal Black v Wellington 10:50 kick off Funal

Boys, Coastal Black v Nomads. Final

Best of luck to Nomads & Coastal Spirit Black for tomorrow's U19 Boys Final 

Coastal Spirit Black won both finals. Girls was 2-0 win over Wellington United. Boys was 0-0 with Coastal winning shootout 5-4 against Nomads.

Thanks to all the volunteers for their efforts to provide a top weekend.

Great tournament a weekend well spent. Awesome work by the organisers n volunteers. Some of the lads playing definitely caught my eye...a few Uni players, nomads had a few but thought young Zach n Dante had awesome tournies with Dante deserving his team MVP award Camel had a few gud spells as well as Shane de Freitas.

yes if Red Jnr can steer clear of injuries he will go real good.

Wellington Girls I liked #'s 10 and 15

Coastal Black Girls Lily and Holly

Dave (#11) Southland had some flair

Japanese Nomads boy whose name I cannot spell is good (Micuac?)

Good to see both the Meaclem boys in the same side John. There was a player for CTFC who played nice but was possibly only 4'3". It got me wondering about big kids being picked over more technically able kids.

I think the Japanese kid is the lad Michael

Is there a final standings table? Cannot find on CSFC website.

Was that 7 and 13 for coastal girls?

Fair enough coastal won given half Wgtn Utds squad should have been guests.

The number 6 for Chch tech was very good

Well done to all the organisers

I think most of the them have good technical ability , the smaller lads need to keep playing and challenging themselves against stronger lads. As the physical side (body strength and ball protection)of the game is a major part of being a top player . Look at all the top small player Messi , aguerro , silva etc the are so strong on the ball. 

Like the lad Dante he is small but strong and protects the ball well from the opposition. Unfortunately no easy answer for light lads just learn to get stronger on the ball.... By playing more games

Lily was #7. I can't remember what number Holly wore... Either 11 or 13 iirc

Pretty much eh.

I thought a number of smaller and younger players had good tournaments. 

Yes it is on there. 

Thought all the names you have mentioned did very well. Dante especially 

Though Coastal Black's long black hair centre back was good plus there number 10 finnis. Great player with a lot of flair. Also Nomads defender, number 5 I believe looked solid, nothing got past him. 

Rules have changed since then to be the club played for in the current season. Holding open trials doesn't give you much of a chance under that. It is tough with the Nwl overlap in the past few years - maybe clubs need the option of going as a composite team so girls don't miss out

100% agree Coastal cb Matt Spain was also awesome all tournie,  Finnis great talent but drifted in and out of games also tended to be lazy at times but definitely a talented young man. If the no5 from Nomads was the lad with a wee ponytail I agree he had a great tournies read the game well n strong as. One wonders what criteria was used in selecting players for Canty youth team trials because I'm sure any of these youngsters mentioned would have been in with a shout....Finnis I know is in the squad but Dante, Matt Spain n even the boy Liam from Nomads surely could have made the squad.

One of the tournament highlights for me was the battle between the two number 7's, Coastal's Aaron Spain & Universities Abdul Khalifa.