From the very funny Canterbury Transfers page:
A new decade brings about change and many retirement announcements, and here’s one that should’ve been announced several years ago. One of the greatest to ever do it in Canterbury, according to himself and his self edited Wikipedia page, Stuart Kelly will finally leave his shin pads at home and stop subbing himself on as Halswell inevitably go behind early. Playing in many continents, for many different teams and in many different positions, the one constant in Kelly’s career was that every stay was short. One of his many career highlights included scoring a hat-trick in a 2-2 National League Final penalty shootout defeat, obviously penalties are included in hat-tricks, because he’s Stu fooken Kelly. The transition into the next stage of his football career began at the nest with Halswell as he took over when they looked promotion bound, and since then he has enjoyed about as much success as a sleeping drunk at the wheel, spiralling the club to depths of the league table they’ve never seen before. Despite all of this Kelly has been a magnificent servant of the game and had organised his own testimonial to take place at Halswell Domain tomorrow afternoon, unfortunately at the last minute Frontrunner surprisingly pulled all of their sponsorship for the event so at the moment it is just Stu and 10 Stu Kelly training dummies meeting at the Nest at 2pm, if anyone would like to attend please bring a gold coin and several strands of your hair.
It’s easy to bag Stu, lol, but when I saw his first game for CHCH or Woolston Tech at Ensors, in 2009 from memory, I had no idea he would hang around so long, so credit where it’s due. Whether you agree with the philosophy or not, Messrs Cowen, Nicholls and co. have bought in a few who’ve made a life in NZ. Mick Curry is another one that springs to mind in that vein.
Who else is on the move in the MPL?