Mainland Premier League

What happened to Coastal v Burwood in the English Cup on Anzac Day? We were told games had to be played that day!

Coastal playing catch up MPL game against Nelson on that day (up in Nelson). Above Burwood v Coastal English Cup moved to Weds 1 May 7.00 pm at English Park.

For those interested here is the current Football South Premier Table - thanks to NZ Soccer Scoreboard site

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Mosgiel	5	5	0	0	13	3	10	15
Queenstown Rovers	5	4	0	1	13	8	5	12
Otago University	5	3	1	1	12	6	6	10
Caversham	5	2	1	2	9	6	3	7
Roslyn Wakari	5	2	1	2	12	10	2	7
Southland United	5	2	0	3	12	11	1	6
Dunedin Technical	5	2	0	3	8	10	-2	6
Wanaka	5	2	0	3	7	14	-7	6
Green Island	5	1	1	3	11	13	-2	4
Northern	5	0	0	5	4	20	-16	0

Golden Boot Ladder

6 Dan Ede (Selwyn), Cameron Gordon (Suburbs)

5 Garbhan Coughlan (Cashmere Tech), 5 Ryan Stanley (Western)

4 Finbar Gallaway (Cashmere Tech)

3 Andy Tuckey (Cashmere Tech), Arian Asghari (Western), Declan Hickford (Selwyn), Eddie Sillars (Suburbs), James Deehan (Bays), Jordon Yong (Suburbs), Liam Thompson (Nomads), Lyle Matthysen (Cashmere Tech)

Today's locals Chatham Cup Results:

Christchurch United 1 (Michael White) Universites 0 after extra time

St Albans Shirley 6 (Luuk van Den Berg 2, Josh Van Der Meulen, Louis Morris, Juan Chang, Geert, de Brauwer) Parklands 2 (Ben Robson 2) HT 3 - 1

Thats Juans Canterbury contract sorted for another season then :) 

HT in Nelson and Coastal leading Suburbs 1  - 0 in their catch-up game.

English Cup FT Result - Selwyn 2 - Western 0

Goals to Dan Ede and Declan Hickford.

Absolute cracking game. Western looked to have the better of Selwyn in the opening 20 mins having 3 shots denied by an inform Keeper.  

Selwyn then lost a man to a red card (Sorry don't know why I couldn't see it).  Western continued to put pressure on but couldn't finish.

HT 0-0

Second Half - Western for the most part looked like they were playing with 10 men as selwyn soaked up the pressure and countered very well - using the wind in some cases.  It took till the 85ish min before Ede managed to slide one past the keeper to go 1-0 up only for Selwyn to again put a ball out right who found Hickford - and after some poor defence hickford pushes it through defender and keeper ending the game.

Interesting that this is the complete opposite to what happened in the Selwyn/Western MPL game a couple of weeks ago.

FT in English Cup Selwyn 2 Western 0 other games kicked off at 2pm

FT Nelson Suburbs 0 Coastal Spirit 1

English Cup Round 1 with some scores to come

Halswell 1 ChCh United 2

Hornby 0 FC Twenty11 2

Parklands 0 Cashmere Technical 9

Selwyn 2 Western 0

Waimak vs Ferrymead Bays currently into extra time with Bays leading 2 - 1

SAS vs Universities ???

Nomads the bye

Coastal Spirit vs Burwood deferred

English Cup SAS defeated Universities 2 - 1

Waimak 1 Bays 3 AET

English Cup Waimak 1 Bays 3 after extra time.

Updated Table after yesterday's catch-up game:

Do not forget games are being played on Sunday this weekend after teams played on ANZAC Day:

Games are:

Midday

Coastal Spirit vs. Nelson Suburbs - English Park

2:45pm

Cashmere Technical vs. Western - Garrick Memorial Park

FC Twenty11 vs. Nomads - Avonhead Park

Selwyn vs. Ferrymead Bays - Foster Park

Copied off Selwyn facebook page:

Selwyn United are proud to announce that Matt Sheridan, Jonny Sims and Finn Surman have all been signed by the Phoenix.

Matt Sheridan made the move up to Wellington in early January, and following a successful trial last month, Finn and Jonny have done the same.

Both Jonny (16) and Finn (15) have played for Selwyn through their respective age groups. They have been loyal members to the club who both recently made their senior MPL debuts against FC 2011 and Western. Having also represented SUFC at South Island tournaments and going on to represent Mainland at National Age Group tournaments, it was inevitable these boys had a bright future.

As a club we are immensely proud of how hard all three boys have worked to get to the Phoenix at such a young age. We wish the boys the best of luck as they make the move to Wellington, away from their families and friends.

To have three players signed by the Phoenix in the first four months of 2019 is testament to the hard work, planning and implementation of our very own Selwyn Talent Centre. STC looks to provide players with an environment that can prepare them for future professional endeavours. Hence it is great to see three of our very own players signed by New Zealand’s only professional club!

Blackwells Holden English Cup Quarter Finals Draw and dates to be played

14 May: Selwyn vs. St Albans Shirley

28 May: Cashmere Tech vs. Nomads United

18 June: FC Twenty11 vs. Chch United

2 July: Ferrymead Bays vs. Burwood or Coastal Spirit

Today's Results / Scorers

Cashmere Technical 2 (Seth Clark, Lyle Matthysen) Western 0

Coastal Spirit 1 (Ash Wellbourn) Nelson Suburbs 3 (Cameron Gordon 2 - incl pen, Jordan Yong)

FC Twenty11 1 (Cal Botterill) Nomads 6 (Jacob Anderson, Milan Clarke, Mika Rabuka, Anton Smith, Liam Thompson, own goal)

Sewyn 1 (Declan Hickford) Ferrymead Bays 3 (Chris Anderson, Michael Forshaw, Nathan Townsend)

Dissapointing performance and result at foster today. Bays played some good football and looked after the ball better.

Updated table:

Here is to a speedy recovery for Louie Bush who was unlucky to break a leg in today's round

Tonight's Blackwells Holden English Cup: Coastal Spirit 2 Burwood 1 - Coastal met Ferrymead Bays in quarters now.

Round 8

Cashmere Technical 6 Selwyn 3

Coastal Spirit 4 Western 2

Ferrymead Bays 2 FC Twenty11 2

Nomads 5 Nelson Suburbs 4

Scorers:

Cashmere Technical 6 (Andy Tuckey 3 - incl 2 pens, Tom Cairns, Finbar Galloway, Lyle Matthysen) Selwyn 3 (Dan Ede 2, Declan Hickford) HT 2 - 2

Coastal Spirit 4 (Brett Gifford, Jacob Richards, Aaron Spain, Haris Zeb) Western 2 (Ryan Stanley, Daniel Thoms) HT 2 -2

Ferrymead Bays 2 (James Deehan - pen, Oliver Scholz) FC Twenty11 2 (Cal Botterill, Sam Jefferies) HT 2 - 1

Nomads 5 (Nishan Biswa 2, Caleb Cottom 2, Jacob Anderson) Nelson Suburbs 4 (Cameron Gordon 2 - incl pen, Sam Ayers, Mark Johnston) HT 3 - 1

Updated table:

Nishan Got 2, Mika Didn't score.

Did the MPL teams forget to play defenders this round?

Also whoever was doing the Bays tweets may want to ensure who they’re playing as apparently Selwyn pulled a goal back against them! ?

Cheers have altered originial posting.

I felt the referees control of the game was pretty poor, and the assistant in front of us was not doing so well at keeping up with play, missing two offsides that were pretty clear if he had been in the right place. 

Yes the 28 goals scored was the highest of any round this season

Not sure where you got your facts from Ronaldoknow. The western player was sin binned and didn’t just walk from the field. 

Great to see in the Chatham Cup next weekend that Selwyn have elected to play their tie against ChCh United under lights at on  Saturday evening at 6pm, should ensure a good crowd.

I think he is referring to a player walking off after we scored our third (or maybe fourth). This was in addition to the sin binned player so they had 9 on the field for a brief period. He may have been injured perhaps. 

That player was also sin binned. Western had 2 players sin binned from that awful referee display