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Good luck to the gingers and skinny white boys, oh and the not so skinny [so we are told on here] left footer.

Go knock them out no matter how out of place you feel.

Uni's pre match singing and chanting rivals Tech's Disco. Lets see if they're singing at the end.

ht in nelson even half until last 15 then two quick goals put Halswell in control

any updates vim

0-0 after 60. Pretty poor all round, Nomads had a few chances

Nomads get penalty with two to go 1-0...

Game over 1-0 Nomads

Today's results: 

Men's

Nelson Suburbs 0 Halswell 2 (Dan Ede 2) Ht 0 - 2

University 0 Nomads 1 (Ryan Batty - pen) HT 0 - 0

Western 4 (Daniel Thoms, Abdul Khalifa, Geoff MacIntyre, Jayden Richards) Ferrymead Bays 0

Points: Cashmere Technical 47, Western 43, Bays 31, Suburbs 28, Coastal 24, Halswell 19 , Nomads 15, University 12.

Halswell are now safe with Technical played 18, Coastal and University 19 and the other 5 sides all 20. Technical play University on Tuesday evening as ASB Football Park.

Games next Saturday: Coastal vs. University, Halswell vs. Bays, Nomads vs. Suburbs and Western vs. Technical.

Coastal catch-up game with Technical set down for 26 August. 

Women's

Cashmere Technical 4 (Mikayla Wieblitz 2, Monique Barker, Megan Shea) University 1 (Bernadette Goulding) HT 2 - 0

Coastal Spirit 9 (Emma Procter 4, Mel Cameron 4, Chloe Jones) Parklands 0 HT 3 - 0

Points: Coastal (13) 36, Technical (14) 34, University (14) 28, FC Twenty11 (14) 11, Parklands (15) 7, Western  (14) 4

Games to play: Next Saturday - Coastal vs. Technical, University vs. Western and 30 Aug FC Twenty11 vs. Coastal

Pretty sure Coastal are on 24 points...

If you missed the result in the semifinal of the ASB Chatham Cup Onehunga 0 Cashmere Technical 4 (Ash Wellbourn 2, Danny Boys - pen, Andy Barton) HT 0 - 1

Correct Vim. have updated first post.

well done CTFC, Halswell, Nomads

Coastal Women  will not drop it from here.

Great result today Broonie, here's hoping you get the win in the final.

Christchurch United have regained promotion back to the Mainland Premier League after a two year absence, the club who have the greatest history and success in the region, have rebuilt and have plans for a strong future.

The Division 1 Senior Men’s Team and Player Development Team both won their respective leagues and boast dedicated personnel on and off the field.

With a home ground incorporating clubrooms, and plans for future developments, the future is bright.

Be a part of this successful Club …

In order for the club to continue its growth, we are asking for expressions of interest for the following:

• Senior 1st Team Coach and Manager
• Senior Reserve Team Coach and Manager
• Senior Players

If you feel you have the ability, drive and passion to offer the team and you want to make a difference on or off the field, then we are interested in making you a Blue.

Don’t delay - send in an expression of interest stating what role appeals to you along with a short description of previous experience and what you feel you can offer our club.

If you are interested please email us: info@christchurchunited.co.nz

Interesting game down at ASB Footy Park tonight with Cashmere Technical needing a draw to retain both the MPL title and the Hurley Shield with University needing points to help their relegation woe's. 

Tonight's result: Cashmere Technical 1 (J Collett) University 0 HT 0 - 0

So Technical are champions and University will need to defeat Coastal on Saturday and then hope Nomads either draw or lose  to Subiurds if University are to stay.up.

Understand that the Nomads vs. Suburbs game on Saturday now switched to ASB Football Park with the Western vs. Cashmere Technical moved back to 3pm at ASB.

According to latest draw  all games start at 1.15 except for Western v CT. 

Yup good idea. Leaves goal difference down to Twitter updates.

Rough year for Uni, promised much after all the drama and hype of last year, tough at the top as quite a few clubs have found in recent years. Interesting to see how the once mighty Rams go next year or will they continue the yo yo pattern we've seen in recent seasons?

Uni to beat Coastal on Satdy.  Only time I'll bet against them.

Chch Utd seem to have a bit of depth having won the PDL league, but in all honesty the level of it was pretty average at best. They will need to recruit well if they are to compete otherwise it will be a short lived MPL dream. Promoted teams seem to pick up a few players from the MPL team coming down, but if Uni do come down then Chch Utd may not be able to count on that. I would imagine most of the Uni players are at the University for studies, so why would they shift to a club across town, maybe impacting on studies etc. Will be interesting to see

Think fair few (if not all) Div1 2014 clubs would agree that ChChUnited was no where near Universitie's level of 2013. Think you are right Dinamo and for that reason Uni will be a tougher squad to contend with for those that fancy their chances of moving up next season.

A full 3-round competition in Div1 would be a step in the right direction and bring a better level of football and chances of staying up in MPL.     

I know myself that Selwyn's chance this season was aided by a disappointingly poor FC2011. The team that drops down at the end of this season won't lose 90% of their top 40 players I'm sure, so will make for a much tougher challenge for the remaining DIV1 teams.  Wholly agree that Universities last season were streets ahead of Chch Utd this season.

I disagree.

Although Chch utd may not have the attractive playing style that uni had in 2013, I would say both Selwyn and Chch Utd were stronger this year than the uni side of 2013. Both finished with more points than uni the year before.

Chch utd play a style of football that contains most attacks and you only had to see the games against Selwyn (who without doubt had an MPL front line) to realise what their game plan will be for next season.

What could be interesting is if Mr Hall sticks around at uni, he must be a big pull for players to stay at uni?

Half of Selwyn's MPL front line as you call it ditched on them at end of round 2. Still they managed to roll out wins each week after that. Would be good for them if their young but experienced coach stuck around, as that's where the difference will be. From smack bottom 2013 to 1 point away from winning the league in 2014 is quite an achievement.

Chch United conceded 18 goals. Uni conceded 3 in div 1. Says it all.

Massive Cash Tech tug-fest in this week's Mainland email: click here

talking about tug fest , I hear you have a massive semi in the bolam cup, vim

My semi will be absolutely bulging if I make the final.  It'll rival the Chatham Cup semi I reckon.

so they say , might come and have a we look

But good luck I hope you manage to get absolute bulging semi

bye the bye vim the lads have a new song about wings of sparrows and dirty big arses of crows, might need to swap the disco one for the new one next week  against Coastal

After only scraping past Uni we may finally beat you this time, so no need for the song.  I'll be expecting a beer too!

Match fixing in the MPL ;)

Your having a laugh right.. Uni were undefeated, both United and Selwyn lost or drew multiple times in a poor Div 1 this season, how does that reflect more points than Uni in 2013??

Can't see too many player's leaving next season, so could be a joke of a season for them next year in Div 1.. Although they may finish bottom ( which I think there is worse ), imo far too good to be playing Div 1. Will be an interesting Saturday, not sure whether to pop down to the Nomads game or the Uni game

Linfield Park

Chris was a good footy player in his youth. I am sure be played rep footy before cricket took over.