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about 11 years ago

I'm hoping there's an error in our league, Masters Div 3. It's an 8 team league yet they have two teams down to have a bye every week meaning we're down for 4 byes in an 18 week league??????

Yeah there are Byes in there - weird.. unless its a pitch availability thing??

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about 11 years ago · edited about 11 years ago · History

VimFuego wrote:
Looks like 7 team league and 1 bye to me...

You do smoke some funny stuff down at Coastal tho.....

e.g. Round 1

Western v Papanui

Parklands v Waimak

FC 20 RSA v FC20 Rebels

Byes - Selwyn and HSOB

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win"

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about 11 years ago · edited about 11 years ago · History

Dragoon_nz wrote:

I'm hoping there's an error in our league, Masters Div 3. It's an 8 team league yet they have two teams down to have a bye every week meaning we're down for 4 byes in an 18 week league??????

Yeah there are Byes in there - weird.. unless its a pitch availability thing??

Na, plenty of  pitches round. Normally you'd just play a 14 week season then have a Cup comp to end, seems like they are doing away with the Cup comp i'd say. Doesn't represent great value for my $250 playing fees!

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win"

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about 11 years ago

VimFuego wrote:
Looks like 7 team league and 1 bye to me...

You do smoke some funny stuff down at Coastal tho.....

e.g. Round 1

Western v Papanui

Parklands v Waimak

FC 20 RSA v FC20 Rebels

Byes - Selwyn and HSOB

Hey what we smoke is of no concern

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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about 11 years ago

Sorry I was looking at Masters 45 Div 3

I let my guitar speak for me

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about 11 years ago

TomWasBlue wrote:

Ronaldoknow wrote:

foal30 wrote:

Nice team to watch, play some good football. 

Are we  doing the weekend tips comp this season guys? Season predictor?

From the Mainland Football website -

Croatian born, Davor Tavich, will be joining Ben Wright as co-coach at three time champions Nelson Suburbs. Suburbs had a poor finish to the end of last season, losing five of their last six games but still managed to finish in fourth place.

Suburbs welcomes back keeper Coey Turipa, after a season in the Central League and Mark Johnston, after a rugby hiatus which should strengthen the squad. Many young players from the Falcon’s side who played in the ASB National Youth League are representing Suburbs this winter. Coach Tavich knows plenty of these players after having coached the Falcons when they first competed in NYL.

As a player under Davor last year I would say that Suburbs will do well this year, certainly better than last year. He works his players hard and doesn't hold a grudge - see Guardiola situation. Encourages an attaking, possession based game. He took us (Nelson College 1st XI) pretty far in his first season in charge, as we won Div 1,  Price Charity (knockout) Cup in Nelson, and finished 7th at nationals (beating both AGs, and MAGs twice). Pretty big achievements considering how young our squad was. Suburbs have recruited well, and definitely a team to watch this year.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/sport/67459410/...

Just found this report, which confirms the college connection regards my previous post! Even more young blood than I expected in there this year, with Davor juggling Suburbs and college jobs. A lot of quality in that side. Atkin Kaua (2014 Solomon U20s) one to watch, really promising player!

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about 11 years ago

News from England

Lambs Bring In New Zealander
From The Football Conference

(English) Vanarama Conference North club Tamworth have signed New Zealander Dominic McGarr from Ebac Northern League First Division side Whitley Bay. Twenty-two-year-old McGarr had only joined Bay under new boss Paddy Atkinson in late February after finishing at the University of Albany in New York. 

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about 11 years ago

Can we do some better updates via twitter this year? Hashtag is #chchmpl and follow coastalspiritnz for our updates. Will even allow some div 1 results into our hash tag seeing as we are ao friendly.

I let my guitar speak for me

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about 11 years ago

I should look into this twitter thing

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about 11 years ago · edited about 11 years ago · History

In the 11am kick-off FC20 beat Hornby 1-0. In truth should have been about 8-0 but could also have easily ended 1-1. The evergreen Keith Grosvenor getting the first goal of the season around the 15 min mark. A combination of ordinary linesmen, very ordinary finishing and some inspired goalkeeping kept FC scoreless for the remainder of the game. Hornby in a very rare foray into FC territory with about 15 to go earned a penalty which the FC keeper saved to preserve the lead. 

On this evidence FC should press for honours, top 3 material once they find their shooting boots. Hornby genuine wooden spoon contenders.

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win"

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about 11 years ago

Uni 4-2 Suburbs

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about 11 years ago

currently 2-1 selwyn v bays

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about 11 years ago

3-1 dan ede hattrick from a foul

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about 11 years ago

5-3 selwyn v bays. A few mistakes from selwyn leading to bays pulling a couple back. 

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about 11 years ago

wasnt sure if the hastagging was working.

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about 11 years ago

Waimak v Nomads finished 2 all

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about 11 years ago

MPL Results

Christchurch United 0 Ferrymead Bays 3 HT 0 - 2

Halswell 0 Cashmere Technical 1 HT 0 - 0

Universities 4 Nelson Suburbs 2 HT 1 - 2

Western verses Coastal kicking off at 7pm

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about 11 years ago

Coastal score in the opening minute to lead Western 1 - 0

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about 11 years ago

Great result for Uni. Well done.

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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about 11 years ago

How old is Keith Grosvenor? He was or seemed to be an 'ageing striker' 15 years old when he was at Halswell!

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about 11 years ago

one_eyed_nik wrote:

How old is Keith Grosvenor? He was or seemed to be an 'ageing striker' 15 years old when he was at Halswell!

An ageless 43 :)

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win"

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about 11 years ago

Uni went 2-0 down early but came back to win it well.

Justice is served.

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about 11 years ago

Coastal 2 Western 0

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almost 11 years ago

Bays 2  Uni 1

Nelson 2 Coastal 2

western 2 Halswell 1

CTFC 5 Chch 0

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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almost 11 years ago

Pride head coach job up on the Mainland site.

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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almost 11 years ago

MP for Sat:          Ferrymead 5, 0 University,         Nelson 2, 3 Coastal,        Western 3,  3 Halswell,       Cash Tech 3,  1 ChCH Utd   

Division 1:  

                           Nomads 6,  2 Parklands,          Selwyn 7,  3  Waimak,.     & FC2011 to win by 3 goals

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almost 11 years ago

lots of goals Jamaica!

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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almost 11 years ago · edited almost 11 years ago · History

So far:

FT Nelson Suburbs (Atkin Kaua 31', Ben Wright 82') 2-2 (Gareth Turnbull 70', Joshua Lis 90+3') Coastal Spirit

FT Ferrymead Bays (31', Michael White 54') 2-1 (Simon Tither 87') Universities

Updated:

FT Western (Micky Willis 44') 1-0 Halswell

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almost 11 years ago

Joshua Lis scored with the final kick of the game against Nelson Suburbs.

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almost 11 years ago

Waimak beat Selwyn 3-1

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almost 11 years ago

FC20 beat the Turtles 1-0

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win"

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almost 11 years ago

MPL Results - Scorers

Cashmere Technical 2 (Stu Kelly, Liam Oxley) HT 0 - 0

Ferrymead Bays 2 (Ezequiel Xavier De Freitas Junior, Michael White) Universities 1 (Simon Tither) HT 1 - 0

Nelson Suburbs 2 (Atken Kaua, Ben Wright) Coastal Spirit 2 (Gareth Turnbull, Joshua Lis) HT 1 - 0

Western 1 (Micky Willis) Halswell United 0 H T 1 - 0

Points: Bays 6 Technical 6, Coastal 4, Western 3, Suburbs 1, Halswell 0, ChCh United 0 

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almost 11 years ago

Congratulations Waimak.

How did they beat Selwyn?

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almost 11 years ago

Some 'big' games coming up in the MPL over the double header Easter weekend.

On Friday:

ChCh United vs. Western

Coastal Spirit vs. Halswell

Universities vs. Cashmere Technical

and then Saturday:

Nelson Suburbs vs. Ferrymead Bays

All teams then backing up on Monday:

Cashmere Technical vs. Nelson Suburbs

Ferrymead Bays vs. Coastal Spirit

Halswell vs. ChCh United

Western vs. Universities

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almost 11 years ago

Jamaica Road wrote:

Congratulations Waimak.

How did they beat Selwyn?

Scored more goals??

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almost 11 years ago

Parked the bus 1st half going against the wind, cleverly wound the clock down, Selwyn had 4/5 shots on target 1st half, keeper was solid and up for the task he must of taken 30 goalkicks first 45. 10 before ht waimak scored from a penalty, after they broke clear, selwyns lb hacked down attacker 10 yards out and appeared to be last man but only got a yellow. Waimak pounced on 2 defensive errors in the 1st 15 of 2nd half, 3-0 up. Selwyn pulled 1 back 25 to go thru ede. Huffed and puffed but got snuffed out.

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almost 11 years ago

Parked the bus 1st half going against the wind, cleverly wound the clock down, Selwyn had 4/5 shots on target 1st half, keeper was solid and up for the task he must of taken 30 goalkicks first 45. 10 before ht waimak scored from a penalty, after they broke clear, selwyns lb hacked down attacker 10 yards out and appeared to be last man but only got a yellow. Waimak pounced on 2 defensive errors in the 1st 15 of 2nd half, 3-0 up. Selwyn pulled 1 back 25 to go thru ede. Huffed and puffed but got snuffed out.

Selwyn were missing 6 players who would all be 1st team picks this week, but we were confident of the guys coming into their places. We can't complain about our attitude as it was alright. We were punished for 3 mistakes, which we knew we couldn't afford against a good side like Waimak. We took one chance, missed a few others but overall no complaints about the result. The better team won. They slowed things down while ahead and did it very well. An interesting comment I heard was that the Waimak keeper would have done things quicker if there was a piece of cake on offer, but he did what anyone else in the same situation would have done. All in all a fair result, and for once a relatively clean game between the 2 teams. 

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How Selwyn could do with a decent keeper, even If they do like cake/pies/beers. They've always had a weak keeper. If your looking for Dan Ede, he's still in thea 16yr old right backs pocket!

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