Mainland Premier League

Round 4 Results / Scorers

Cashmere Technical 3 (Andy Tuckey - pen, Aaron Clapham, Daniel Thoms) FC Twenty 11 1 (Ryan Nicholson) HT 1 - 1

Coastal Spirit 0 Ferrymead Bays 1 (Chris Anderson) HT 0 - 0

Selwyn 2 (Aiden Barbour-Ryan 2) Nelson Suburbs 2 (Sam Ayers, Jordan Yong) HT 2 - 0

Universities 0 Nomads 3 (Stephen Hoyle, Nishan Biswa, Cameron Barlett) HT 0 - 0

Updated Table

Round 5 has Nelson Suburbs hosting Cashmere Technical, FC at home to Coastal, Bays defending the Hurley Shield against Universities and Nomads entertaining Selwyn.

Excellent game today at foster park. Best match of the season with two teams playing some great football with plenty of passion. Very good refereeing too. 

Yes think it was his first MPL game in the middle.

Chalk and cheese Selwyn this weekend. There was more grit and desire put into the 1st 5 minutes of the game today against Nelson, than in 90 against FC on Friday. Up to the players to recognise what Selwyn side needs to turn up each week. 

Funny thing is, if/when we learn to get that 1st win, I think the players will know that they can do it and go from there. That 1st win hopefully doesn't come too late in the piece

When are the draws available for lower grades and Junior/Youth, can't seem to find them on MF site

Apparently from Wednesday

Well some were on their new app earlier today but now they’ve gone (could be down to a slight issue in a couple of the draws)

This was posted on Mainland's facebook page less than an hour ago:

Good evening to you all.
Sorry for the delay in getting the draws out. A technical issue has put us behind schedule.

The draws are now up and can be seen on our Website in the fixtures and results section or by checking out our new App!

All the best to Aaron Spain who will not be running out for Coastal Spirit this season as he has headed across the Tasman to play in Geelong.

Due to late arrival of flight from ChCh - Nelson Suburbs vs Cashmere Technical now kicking off at 12:15pm

Good luck to Aaron.

Geelong SC plays in one of the two regional State League 1 divisions, underneath the Victoria National Premier League. They are a club with ambition, hoping to make next year's new Victoria NPL2. They've recently signed Darren Davies, ex Melbourne Victory Assistant Coach in a Football Development role across the club. Bit of background here: Geelong Soccer Club story

Hard to follow #mainlandMPL on twitter. 

Only Bays seems to be regular tweeters (goal updates), occasionally Coastal, who used to be the standard with live tweeting. Don't think any other club has an active account. A long way behind other clubs around the country. Thank goodness for Gav.

Mainland/NZF website obviously built by non-football people. Top leagues not at the top of menus - all alphabetical nonsense.

Round 5 Results

FC Twenty11 0 Coastal Spirit 1

Ferrymead Bays 7 Universities 0

Nelson Suburbs 2 Cashmere Technical 2

Nomads 6 Selwyn 2

Updated Table:

Today's scorers:

FC Twenty11 0 Coastal Spirit 1 (Haris Zeb) HT 0 - 0

Ferrymead Bays 7 (J Chang 3 - incl pen, S Mathieson, M Peers, S Schacht, own goal) Universities 0 HT 2 - 0

Nelson Suburbs 2 (B Wright, J Yong) Cashmere Technical 2 (A Tuckey, L Matthysen) HT 0 - 1

Nomads 6 (N Biswa 3, S Hoyle 3) Selwyn 2 (A Barbour- Ryan, D Ede - pen) HT 2 - 2

When I have time will have to check my records as young Nishan Biswa - ex Burwood player, as has scored is all five rounds this season, currently tops the Golden Boot ladder with 7 goals

Yes agreed, pretty sh!thouse. 

I get my updates via the Bet365 app. You can turn on notifications and it sends you an alert when a goal is scored. Can be quite busy when Selwyn are playing. 

Any one know what is going on with the Selwyn defence? Seems like they are conceding an average of 5 goals a game, what’s going on?! 

Thanks for the heads up Vim, I'll do the same

Are all the twitterers now working for betting firm instead?

I retired. It's very interesting to watch Bet365's guy who does the Coastal and Canty games. He does yoga the whole time and before we knew who he was or what he did we used to call him naked yoga guy as he ended up losing a number of articles of clothing.  He is constantly on his phone updating where the ball is, if it's a dangerous attack etc. 

I did get two correct bets this weekend too! 

Russell Kamo in 2010 and Ben Wright 2013 both scored in 7 successive MPL games, with 4 players having scored in six rounds on the trot with Nishan Biswa the 9th player to have scored in five rounds on the bounce.

Any idea when the new MF app will show results? Last year results for most grades were on there from late Sat pm onwards

My assumption is that as they are not on the website, they won't be on the app. Maybe they aren't being entered until people arrive at work on the Monday?

Hey everyone needs some time off now and again. 

Not sure mate, any advice or help gratefully received ;-) 

Make that on the website as well and it's now Monday PM.

Not getting a lot of service for subs $ this year. 

Time to take up Bowls can get a hot shower after a game and a cold beer at cheap prices not at rip off prices like some football clubs.

Cheaper to drink at the local bar.

 Halswell FC club rooms have the best beer selection in town.

Are you trying to highlight some type of incompetence here?

Are all the twitterers now working for betting firm instead?

Problem we have is our twitter 'poster' is now having to video our games..still posting but not always on time and sometimes not the best quality posts

it is possible to have more than one person using the twitter account!

By the developer of the software that a big fat yes. Mainland will say they have a problem because it's linked to all Federations.

I know that the club was putting results into the Mainland database as soon as we got back to the clubrooms.

Still not showing for any grade except MPL., CCL& CCL Reserves.

I believe so.

Results all look to be showing now...hopefully they'll be up earlier for the next round of games...

Wellingtonian in town for the weekend in Chch. What's the fixture you'd recommend go watching? Cashmere v nomads? Something else?

Deffo come see Coastal vs Nelson at English Park at 12. Even shout you a double brown. 

2 of the top 4 play each other at English Park, midday kick off. v Coastal Spirit v Nelson Suburbs