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Enterprising move from NZ Football to stream the Chatham Cup Final live online (and the women's final too):

Will stream live here for free from North Harbour stadium (now renamed QBE Stadium) Sunday September 7:

http://new.livestream.com/i-filmsport/ASBChathamCupFinal2014

Tonight's result:

Coastal Spirit 0 Cashmere Technical 1 - a Tom Schwarz penalty early in second half.

Good game of football tonight I thought. Both teams passed the ball round well and could have been any score I could bet on. 

Sad news: no more Premier League for 7 months. Shithouse.

Nelson College wins the nelson div 1 - guess we won't be seeing them playing united for promotion...

It was the Capital One Cup I believe you are trying to hassle me about. Fail.

Table below of the sequence of Win's Unbeaten, Draws, Winless and Losses for each club for the 2014 Season

Table below of the sequence of Win'sUnbeaten, Draws, Winless and Losses for each club all time records updated nowthat the MPL season has been completed. Where a figure is shown in ( ) is theold mark and the sequence has been increased during 2014 season, with the newmark shown alongside.

288 goals scored in the MPL this season for an average of 3.43 goals per game up from 3.35 in 2013 - 142 goals were scored by the home side and 146 by the away side. The best tally of goals in 8 team 21 round is 290 scoring in the 2007 season.

This seasion there were 88 difference scorers with 55 players scoring two goals or more with 15 players scorer their debut MPL

Technical had 15 difference scorers, Western and Coastal 13 each, Bays and Halswell 12, Suburbs and University 9 and Nomads 5.

Technical lead the way wirh clean sheets with 14, Bays 7, Western 6, Suburbs 5, Coastal, Nomads and Univerity 4 and Halswell 3.

South Island Football Championship Final:

Cashmere Technical 3 (T Schwarz, A Clapham, N Wortelboer) Caversham 0 HT 2 - 0

Was not at the game but hear that Caverham were disappointing.

Well done Cashmere Technical back to back SI Football champs.

Final catch-up game in the Women's Premier League.

FC Twenty11 0 Coastal Spirit 4 (M Cameron 2, A Longo, own goal)

Final points: Coastal 42, Cashmere Tech 34, University 31, FC Twenty11 11, Parklands 7, Western 4.

Golden Boot:

23 Aimee Phillips (University)

21 Mel Cameron (Coastal Spirit)

10 Arna Roberts (Coastal Spirit)

10  Hannah Wong (Cashmere Tech)

10 Monique Barker (Cashmere Tech)

Well done Coastal for winning three titles back to back to back.

Feel the Burn(ley).

On the last day of the 2015 MPL season, I hope the bottom 4 teams all have to win to avoid relegation and the top 4 teams all have to win, to win the title; wouldn't that make for an interesting last day?

Think Chch Utd will come straight back to Div1 with games to spare. Will need to heavily recruit to stay up as Universities as the '2nd worst team' in MPL are markedly better than them. Probably look outside the city rather than getting some from Nomads to come across. If the Nomads players were good enough they would have stayed up themselves.

Not yet they haven't. They will play Suburbs when Nelson College and Nayland College return from the school nationals in Napier. College on 43 points, Suburbs on 41.

ok, so either way there's not going to be a playoff?

Do not think there was ever going to be a play-off at the end of this season as no club indicated that if the won in either Blenheim or Nelson that they were going to seek promotion.

yeah don't think there's any club in Nelson aiming for MPL at this point.

Didn't even look like Suburbs were that interested in the second half of the season!

And a good few in Christchurch as well Vim in that case.

apologies there LG, thought the nelson comp was over.

I don't think anyone went off the rails more than Nelson in the second half of the season.

Vin, here is the break down of points Round 1 - 10 and then 11 - 21 so Nomads with worst, followed by Suburbs and University equal who were just shaded by Halswell, with Suburbs having the worst goal difference in the last half of the season - 21, Nomads - 14, Unversity -5 and Halswell - 2.

At least you could say that Nomads were consistent....

You could also say shipping a -21 goal difference in the second half of the season proves my point.

You could say that, but their form at the very start of the season was equally as bad. I think the additions of Erik Panzer, Alex Ridsdale and Davitt Walsh in the middle of the campaign, was probably the difference. As soon as they left the team stopped winning.

Tech also deteriorated I see in the second half of the season.... Dropping 6 points ;)

About time another Christchurch side went back to back in the Chatham Cup so all the best to Cashmere Technical on Sunday. Do not forgot Final is going to be lived streamed, sounds like the Woolston Club will have it set up and also live on Radio Sport, kick-off at 2:30pm.

Great story in the Press this morning on Ash Wellbourn, some interesting comments from him on his first season in Cashmere Technical colours, well worth a read.. Sorry cannot find a link to post. 

cheers for the support Aw82

We will give it our best shot 

The Press continue to never have online versions of football.  Here is a dodgy photo from my phone.

I (coincidentally) also spoke to Ash for The Star today, story here: https://medium.com/@andrewvoerman/ash-to-strike-for-tech-757e91230a4c

Nice one

Thanks for the clip.

I see the article above [Autosport Club Rally] the segment on Ash got a place on The Press online.

Compare the Very Poor Press Football online content to the ODT online here, www.odt.co.nz/sport/football

A couple of stories in The Pres today on the Chatham Cup - this time with links, one a great talk with one of Tech's greats - Billy Weir.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/10466623/Old-Chatham-Cup-hero-inspires-Tech-team

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/10465438/Al...

What a good story about Billy Weir. I like the fact that he coached a team at Aranui HS; a team that had Aaron Clapham..

Just made a derp move, Thought Chatham was today, computer giving me the wrong day :/

People, if you're in Christchurch get along to the Woolston Working Men's Club, 43 Hargood St. at 2.30 pm today for live streaming of the final.

If watching at home, note though that NZ Football sent out an incorrect link for the streaming that all the media have been repeating - there are some letters wrong in the address.

Here is the actual link:

http://new.livestream.com/i-filmsport/ASBChathamCu...

It's free of course.

Hope it's a good quality stream and we get some other domestic footie online in future such as ASB Premiership.