Mainland Premier League

9 came from one of your players ?

I may need to pay more attention then. 

Either that or the player in question needs to pay more attention at school in Maths ?

Nomads 4 Western 0

Last evening's pre-season: ChCh United 0 Ferrymead Bays 0

Hear was Cashmere Technical 12 SAS 0

Final draw is out. With the disappointment of no Southern League looks like the big away trip will have to be Nelson. Unless we get a massive Chatham Cup draw against Waimak away. 

Or Mid Canterbury :)

If this was the Waimak Tournament game last night it certainly wasn't SAS's main team!

Likewise for Cashmere Technical

Anyone know of any friendlies on this weekend?

PRE-SEASON | The Toun are excited to welcome @skippyramos13 and his Nelson Suburbs side to Seatoun Park on Saturday 22nd February for a pre-season hit-out.

Kick off at 3pm. Clubbies open from noon.#TounArmy

— Seatoun AFC (@SeatounAFC) February 18, 2020

ODT (?!) story on Coastal's move to Linwood

Any pre season friendlies being played tomorrow ?

Coastal beat Bays 4-1 tonight, love Friday night football, needs to be more of it I reckon. 

predictions for this years MPL starting this weekend....... usual story for me. Tech to win, Western to go down. Nelson or Coastal for the 2nd southern league play off spot. 

No Chch Utd in there? Otherwise same for me. Don't forget it's a 21 game league so plenty of opportunities for points.

1: Tech

2: Coastal

3: Chch Utd

4: Nelson

5: Nomads

6: Bays

7: Selwyn

8: Western

It all depends on what dragons players Utd get. 

Also, what are the other clubs player movements this year??

It's quite hard to look at the draw when it's not even on the Mainland website yet!  I guess there's still 4 days before kickoff. 

? the draw is on mainlands website under seniors

The other day they had MPL, MPL reserves, CCL and CCL reserves, then last night was just the MPL

Ah, I guess it is. I've just been looking at the front page with the weeks old news, and then when I click on fixtures I get this: 

I didn't dig any deeper once I see an old fixture screen. 

Thanks for the heads up. 

See you Saturday.

Ok, boomer. :-)

Just saw this in the Star online today 

Round 1 results

Christchurch United 2 Nomads 2 HT 0 - 1

Coastal Spirit 8 Western 0 HT 4 - 0

Nelson Suburbs 1 Ferrymead Bays 2 HT 1 - 2

Selwyn 1 Cashmere Technical 2 HT 1 - 2

Round 2 fixtures

Staurday

Western vs. Suburbs Midday Midday (Note: Amended kick-off time)

Selwyn vs. ChCh United 2.45pm

Cashmere Technical vs. Bays 3pm

Sunday

Nomads vs. Coastal Midday

Got to watch 2 very different MPL games today. The first Coastals 8 nil win over Western. The score flattered Western probably because Coastal switched off once up 3 nil early and then again at the start of the second half. Western were tragically poor and with this side would probably be bottom 3 in CCL. Have to say Linfield looks good as a venue.

My second watch was Chch united vs Nomads. Two very different sides. Nomads technically better and deserved half time leaders. United obviously set out to dominate them physically in the second half and did so, but Nomads finished the better and were unlucky not to take all the points. In my opinion Nomds could do a lot better  if the players were allowed to make their own decisions. They were constantly berated from the bench for not playing it "every time " to their number 9 who in my view was quite average. Their creativity actually came from their young wide players. 

United were pretty similar to last years CCL side albeit a year older. Don't think they will threaten the top teams but then again it's early days.

Anyone try following the opening round on twitter?

#MPL20 

Well done @CoastalSpiritNZ and @StallionSUFC for some match commentary (Gavin, watch that Selwyn handle; they changed it last year)  

The other 6 clubs had ...nothing. Tell your clubs it’s time to get going with it or offer to give it a go yourself - they’ll probably appreciate it. 

Any other social media being used for match line ups or commentary? 

Yer was pretty shark, agreed. Only one I could see was AW82, made me think how much I relied on Bet365 updates and as there was no betting allowed this week, there was radio silence.

Cheers. I could only find five of the clubs had their line-up on social media, not all had shirt numbers and or christian names, which is not the best early in the season with new players making debuts

Round 2 Results

Cashmere Technical 3 Ferrymead Bays 0 HT 3 - 0

Western 2 Nelson Suburbs 5 HT 2 - 3

Selwyn 1 ChCh United 2 HT 1 - 2

Being played Sunday

Nomads vs. Coastal Spirit

Who watched some games today? Any reports? Silence is not always golden.

Deafening.

People put off by mass congregations? Oh wait.

I promise to do a report on the Coastal Nomads game today. It will be after Canterbury United and the Phoenix so it might be sh!thouse, but it will be something.

Saturday scorers:

Cashmere Technical 3 (Luke Blackie 2, Andy Tuckey) Ferrymead Bays 0 HT 3 - 0

Western 2 (Alex Doherty, Rogier Kerbus) Nelson Suburbs 5 (Ryan Stewart 2, Jonathan Gough, Ross McPhie, Alex Ridsdale) HT 2 - 3

Selwyn 1 (Josh Paul) ChCh United 2 (Jyrel Bojang, Michael White - pen) HT 1 - 2