Mainland Premier League

Agree - very poor game. Saw 100 minutes of it after driving past (arrived late) - I'll never get that back.

I think having played each other 4 days ago doesn’t help as both teams cancelled each other’s threats out a lot

Round 9

Coastal Spirit 1 Cashmere Technical 2

FC Twenty11 3 Nomads 6

Ferrymead Bays 3 Selwyn 2

Nelson Suburbs vs. Universities - playing on Sunday

ISPS Handi Chatham Cup - Round 1

Burnham 1 Waimakariri 8 HT 1 - 4

Updated Table:

Progress Suburbs leading Universities 1 - 0.

2nd half underway with Suburbs still 1 up over Universities

Suburbs now 2 - 0 up thanks to Ben Wright and Universities down a player after a 2nd yellow.

FT Nelson Suburbs 2 Universities 1 with Universities having a pen saved in dying seconds to be denied any points. Was Suburbs 100th MPL home win and moves them into third place above Coastal.

Updated table:

Round 10 match ups

Midday

Nomads vs. Nelson Suburbs

2:45pm

Cashmere Technical vs. Ferrymead Bays

Selwyn vs. FC Twenty11

Universities vs. Coastal Spririt

Coastal Played really well in the first half against Cash Tech and scored a great goal from a ball sent into the box. In fact for long periods of the first half Coastal were putting a lot of pressure on Tech's goal and could have scored more. 

But once Tech got their first goal it seemed to suck all the confidence out of Coastal and their game plan collapsed. Tech then went on to boss the second half and win the game comfortably.

3 points shelved.

Yes great game considering the weather was not that flash. Coastal ceretainly had the best of the opening action, great set piece goal to opening the scoring from Dominic McGarr with both Tech goals, one just before the break by young Lyle Matthysen great goals as well.

As you say Coastal started well but only scoring once when incontrol was not enough against Technical with their younger players, Meacleam, Inwood, Chretien, Jordan Spain etc  making the most of their chances while some of the senior players, Clapham, Terris, Mitchell, Dan Schwarz etc are still on the sidelines.    

Round 9 - Scorers

Coastal Spirit 1 (Dominic McGarr) Cashmere Technical 2 (Lyle Matthysen 2)

FC Twenty11 3 (Conor Clarke, Ryan Nicholson, Callum Smith) Nomads 6 (Stephen Hoyle 3 - incl pen, Luke Petrie 2, Byron Heath)

Ferrymead Bays 3 (Michael White 2, Mark Peers) Selwyn 2 (Mitchell Cockburn, Dan Ede)

Nelson Suburbs 2 (Jordan Yong, Ben Wright) Universities 1 (Angus McCarthy) HT 1 - 0

With Selwyn's Dan Ede scoring his 7th goal of the season now on 77 and closing on Keith Grosvenor who is third on the all time MPL scoring list with 79.

Ben Wright (Suburbs) has scored 6 times this season and now 5th equal with Russell Kamo on 72 goals on the all time list.

Stephen Hoyle (Nomads) now joint leader in the Golden Boot along with team-mate Nishan Biswa both on 9 followed by Anthony Jones (Coastal) and Ede on 7, with Wright on 6.

With Suburbs the first to win 100 MPL games at home today, from 164 games - 26 draws 38 losses, they now are just 3 points away from becomig the first club to reach the milestone of 600 points. 

With Nomads beating FC2011 it looks as if they will take the 5th place spot. 6th place position looks sh!thouse as they will more than likely be far enough ahead as they get to keep all the points they have got so far. With Uni and Selwyn on 3 and 2 points, might be tough to get near the 6th place team. 

Will be terrible playing off against those 2 every week too. 

Have they said how many rounds it's going to be? 

Tough draw for Coastal during Queens Birthday weekend. Nelson on Satday, Chatham Cup on Monday and then English Cup on Tuesday!  Might need to draft in some gun Sunday League players to bolster the ranks. 

Sounds like 3 Rounds for the bottom three.

Don't forget that there is another Round of the Chatty Cup before Queens Birthday Monday - on the weekend of 12/13 May so hopefully not a case of counting fixtures before they happen. NZ Footy must be getting ready for an error free draw this Tuesday 

English Cup gets underway this Tuesday evening with Ferymead Bays facing FC Twenty11at English Park at 7:30pm.

What time is the Chatham Cup draw inn Tuesday?

Rematch from 2016.... This time at Parklands would be nice with Fuego Junior to score the winner for Parklands ;)

Officially over a month since we got to see updated transfers... 

And in other news, Coastal get Waimak in the Chatham Cup. Better bring some gloves. 

Other interesting matches will be Selwyn vs Parklands (second time with the English Cup) and Tech vs Nomads.

Selwyn signed keeper, Pieter-Taco Bierema the other week. 

Full Mainland Fed draw is (games to be played weekend of 12/13 May):

Rangers (Blenheim) vs. Tahuna

Nelson Suburbs vs. FC Nelson

Coastal Spirit vs. Waimakariri

FC Twenty11vs. Burwood

Ferrymead Bays vs.Universities

Nomads vs. Cashmere Technical

Parklands vs.Selwyn

Western vs. Halswell

Coastal about to sign Ash Wellbourn

ht bays 0-2 Fc

Have heard there may be a big move from chch united to halswell also

FT in English Cup - FC Twenty11 3 Ferrymead Bays 1

Well John Stark went from Selwyn to Chch Utd and I know Halswell approached one of Utd’s forwards who is having a tough time, but it’s probably not this one!

no, think played forward few years back. now in midfield if that helps

Gotta be Stu Kelley surely. Or Macintyre. They're the only ones of interest aren't they? 

from what im hearing the first is correct

And Utd’s main 2 players

I would have thought Stu would have stuck with his club. Oh, wait.

all is not well at united surprisingly

Mr Kelly won’t leave the mighty rams. Ridiculous rumours. 

no rumour is ridiculous.... we shall see, heard its pretty much done

must be lots to add!

Maybe not as many as some think.

So cash converter must have a good week to be able to afford stu

I remember when Christchurch United v Mt Wellington at QE2 back in the early/mid 80's used to be a big game and draw a big crowd. Weird how things have changed.