Mainland Premier League

Full Time: Burwood 0 Cashmere Technical 2

Burwood 0 Cashmere Technical 2 (Joe Barendrecht, Sam Lapslie) HT 0 - 1

Tonight's Blackwells Holden English Cup

Universities 2 Parklands 1 HT 2 - 0

What's the pick of the games tomorrow seeing as the most interesting one is on Sunday? What am I supposed to do tomorrow? 

How is you Sunday League team going to get on without you?

Did anyone else pick Nomads to come second? I know I did, Andy would have to be the best coach in the league surely?

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Today's results

Cashmere Technical 4 Nomads 1

Christchurch United 1 Ferrymead Bays 1

Selwyn 1 Western 2

Nelson Suburbs vs. Coastal Spirit being played Sunday

Today's results

Cashmere Technical 4 Nomads 1

Christchurch United 1 Ferrymead Bays 1

Selwyn 1 Western 2

Nelson Suburbs vs. Coastal Spirit being played Sunday

Today's results

Cashmere Technical 4 Nomads 1

Christchurch United 1 Ferrymead Bays 1

Selwyn 1 Western 2

Nelson Suburbs vs. Coastal Spirit being played Sunday

Updated table:

Updated table:

Today's scorers

Cashmere Technical 4 (Tom Schwarz 2, Garbhan Coughlan, George King) Nomads 1 (Nathan Dix) HT 1 - 0

Christchurch United 1 (Harrison Bowman) Ferrymead Bays 1 (Kosei Oikawa) HT 1 - 1

Selwyn 1 (Dorian Grault) Western 2 (Rogier Kerbus, own goal) HT 1 - 2

Today's result / scorers

Nelson Suburbs 1 (Ed Sillars) Coastal Spirit 1 (Ash Wellbourn) HT 1 - 0

Today's result / scorers

Nelson Suburbs 1 (Ed Stillars) Coastal Spirit 1 (Ash Wellbourn) HT 1 - 0

Updated table with Cashmere Technical gaining points on everyone apart from Western.

Games for the next round, all on Saturday: 

Miidday

Technical vs. Suburbs

2:45pm

Bays vs. Coastal

Nomads vs. Selwyn

Western vs. ChCh United 

Fantastic venue at Saxton Fields, love a good trip away. Being able to have a bank, seats, decent crowd and beers certainly makes a football event. 

Game of two halves, was tough to watch in the first half, with Coastal being run over, they hit the crossbar and eventually scored. We did fight back in the second half but I guess it was a fair result??? Didn't do either club any favours and the season appears done. 

Maybe we'll win the English Cup starting this Thursday.

Tonight's English Cup results .

Selwyn 0 Nomads 3 

Western 0 St Albans Shirley 1 - a penalty in the 89th

Waimak 4 Halswell 1

Hearing Halswell fielded their reserves team as their main focus is promotion

from the English cup rules

6 ELIGIBILITY OF PLAYERS

6.1 Unless a satisfactory reason is given, the team entered by a club must represent their full playing strength.

Stu Kelly full of good decisions yet again.

Pay an excessive amount of money (funded by junior footballers at the club) to enter your reserve team in a cup knockout competition...

Tonight's English Cup result

Coastal Spirit 2 Ferrymead Bays 1

They do have a big top of table clash against Burwood this weekend. If the season was to be frozen after this weekend it could be a vital game

Parklands did a similar thing last week vs Uni not playing their strongest team, left a few club legends watching from the stands that would've made a difference :)

Poor form and a lack of respect for a time honoured competition. Don't enter it if you treat it like that. 

Poor form and a lack of respect for the competition. If you can be bothered with it don't enter. Given it is the only cup competition going this year and the way the draw has worked out why wouldn't you have a crack. 

Quarter Final Draw for the Blackwells Holden English Cup conducted earlier this afternoon by Mainland, all games to be played at English Park

25 Aug: Nomads vs.FC Twenty11

1 Sept: Waimak vs. ChCh United

8 Sept: Cashmere Technical vs. St Albans Shirley.

15 Sept: Universities vs. Coastal Spirit

Now there's an oxymoron.

Today's results

Cashmere Technical 7 Nelson Suburbs 0

Ferrymead Bays 0 Coastal Spirit 0

Nomads 4 Selwyn 0

Western 4 ChCh United 4

Updated table:

Today's scorers

Cashmere Technical 7 (Yuya Taguchi 3 - incl pen, Sam Lapslie, Lyle Matthysen. Cory Mitchell, Andy Tuckey - pen) Nelson Suburbs 0 HT 3 - 0

Ferrymead Bays 0 Coastal Spirit 0

Nomads 4 (Jacob Anderson 2, Dan Ede, own goal) Selwyn 0 HT 2 - 0

Western 4 (Rogier Kerbus, Calum Ross, Avery Addei, Tom Noonan) ChCh United 4 (Michael White 2, Treye Bulter, Harrison Bowman) HT 1 - 3 

Fixtures by 22 August - similar match-up from two rounds ago with 1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th, 5th v 6th and 7th v 8th 

Cashmere Technical vs. Nomads - Hurley Shield challenge - big game for both sides 

Coastal vs. Nelson Suburbs (Midday kick-off)

ChCh United vs. Ferrymead Bays

Selwyn vs. Western - massive games for both sides, must win for Selwyn after Western came from 4 - 1 down to share the points with United today

Another big round on Saturday, with a top of the table clash and a huge relegation match, so plenty to play for.

Cashmere Tech vs. Nomads - also a Hurley Shield Challenge

Selwyn vs. Western - Selwyn chasing their first win of the season to draw level on points with Western and a win for Western would open up a six point gap at the bottom.

Coastal Spirit vs. Nelson Suburbs - a battle for third spot. NOTE Game now being played at English Park - still at Midday

Christchurch United vs. Bays - Bays also vying for third place with United go to claim their first win in seven games

After Saturdays round all teams will have played every other team twice.

A few milestones can be achieved by several clubs in the coming rounds - more about those later as do not wish to put the kiss of death on them.

One milestone that I can mention is that Cashmere Technicial's keeper, Danny Knight will run out for his 200th game for the club on Saturday, believe Danny has 104 clean sheets.

Men's

Cashmere Technical 2 Nomads 1 - Technical set a new record of 27 games unbeaten in the MPL

Christchurch United 1 Ferrymead Bays 3

Coastal Spirit 4 Nelson Suburbs 2

Selwyn 5 Western 0

Updated table:

Updated table:

Updated table:

Next weekends fixtures:

Saturday:

Ferrymead Bays vs. Coastal Spirit

Nomads vs. Selwyn

Western vs. ChCh United

Sunday

Nelson Suburbs vs. Cashmere Technical