Mainland Premier League (Part 1)

Big few days of football ahead

Suburbs 2 Tech 2
Coastal 0 Halswell 2
ChCh Utd 0 Nomads 2
Western 2 Bays 2

Bays 3 Nelson 1
Halswell 3 ChCh Utd 0
Tech 2 Coastal 0
Nomads 1 Western 0

Nelson Suburbs 4 - Woolston Tech 3.

Woolston scored twice off penalties while Brandon Kay, 2, Gagame Feni and Erik Panzer scored the home side's goals.

Coastal 2 Halswell 2. Pretty sure someone called that. Heard Utd beat Nomads 2-0 too.

Both Cheeko and Ron picked a 2-2. Bastards!

 

Western 2-2 Bays

Wow. 4 outta 4! That's unheard of. Best you go get a lotto ticket.

6 points cover the top 7 sides after 6 rounds with Western and Tech having a game in hand against each other which wouldn't alter the points spread much (well by one point if Western won). Man that is super tight!

From the Mainland results website at 2:05 today
Round 7

TIME	HOME TEAM				AWAY TEAM			VENUE
2:00 PM Mon 25/Apr	0		Ferrymead Bays	vs	Nelson Suburbs		0	Barnett Park S1 (Map)	Email Match Reminder Detailed Results Enter Results
2:00 PM Mon 25/Apr	0		Nomads United	vs	Western		0	Tulett League Pitch (Map)	Email Match Reminder Detailed Results Enter Results
2:45 PM Mon 25/Apr	0		Halswell United	vs	Christchurch United		0	Halswell Domain S1 (Map)	Email Match Reminder Detailed Results Enter Results
2:45 PM Mon 25/Apr	1		Woolston Technical	vs	Coastal Spirit		5	South New Brighton Park S1 (Map)	Email Match Reminder Detailed Results Enter Results

Sure am looking forward to the Coastal - Tech game now!
Ronaldoknow2011-04-25 14:07:39

And the game is now at Linfield not South Brighton 'cause some plonker in a tractor drove across the pitch earlier today and f**ked it!

Coastal 1 Tech 1   Western 2 Nomads 0

Coastal Tech was an exciting game, 0 0 at half, Coastal get penalty with 15 to go, then Tech come storming back and score in the 89th and could have easily won in in injury time.

Wow Bays beat Nelson 6-2 and Utd beat Halswell 1-0. I wish the table would work on the Mainland site I can't work it all out altho it must be pretty close.

Table
                 PTS   GD
Bays        15     16
Western   13       4
Nelson     12       1
Halswell   11       2
ChCh U      9      -9
Coastal      8      -1
Tech           7      -2
Nomads     1      -12

Tech and Western still to play catch up game.

Nomads had two clear chances in both Sat and Todays game to score first all have been awful misses, Adam Nash being the worst an open goal from 4 metres in the first half against ChCh U blazed over the bar.

Next two games for Nomads vs Bays and Nelson.

quite disappointed to see a coach round on the referee immediately after the game  today. Unnecessary and inaccurate as well, the ref did an excellent job and was far and away the best ref I have seen this season. 

What game?

 

The ref for the Nomads v Western game also did well, he and his assistants got most things correct. he didn't go over board with the cards a couple of yellows and talked to players before reaching for his pocket, just like the old days. Sent Tom Sansom off with only a minute to play, you kick out at a player you get a red card and pleasing to see not a grumble from the Western bench afterwards.

Refs should stam out abuse from coaching personel as well as they are doing with players. I carry a pair of ear plugs in my short pocket have told one coach i'd put them in and warned him thay make my poor eyesite worse.

I guess my real problem is you bring the top juniors along to look at a proper game and the Head Coach is swearing and berating the officials. I don't want my sides behaving like this to the ref/line/opposition but kids pick up on what they see. It's disrespectful and ill-disciplined. I'm actually leaning towards FIFA bringing in a 10m talkback rule, ala NRL.

The ref quite rightly YC Coastal midfielder early on. (like first 10 mins). Then we had no more poor tackles for a whole hour.As a spectator this is good.  The penalty (disclaimer: Coastal fan) was clear as day from our vantage point. The opposition coach was poorly placed to view this or comment on it. The delayed reaction YC for the Tech midfielder was excellent reffing, it's those sort of late/impedance tackles/obstruction that stuff attacking football. And the Ref and Eastern side Lino got the late Tech attack offside call correct (not offside) despite the Coastal Fans yelps.

FWIW Tech (C)/(sh)ould of won, and were capable of some quality on the deck/side to side passing. The Ref did not cost them 2 points, the players option taking and execution did. But if the Coach is always at the ref why take responsibility for your own playing?

anyway the Ref was very good. but why will he want to carry on volunteering his time if this is the payback?

I forgot, what's this about mouthing off at the ref and hiding behind dug-out to prevent being sent off?
cop the Press this morning.

Was down there today and both pitches look great (esp considering the area of town they're in). Almost no sign of tractor damage now

I think the big question is what are you doing in South Brighton Park at 12:30 in the morning... Do I need to contact the residents association?

no! he has to be a Coastal Coach!

Keeping in the family - Alex Coles debuts for Suburbs


https://byphilliprollo.blogspot.com/2011/04/keeping-in-family.html

Look out Nelson, Coastal fans making the trip north this wknd so should be massive.

Better not go into any bars considering previous reports of fighting....

Gutted, I have to work so won't be able to make the game.

Its the best time to train, whole place to yourself (and nobody to see you cock up that corner you're practicing)
gings2011-04-28 16:10:45

Seeing as noone has done their picks this week have we had enough? I've had enough counting them unless someone else wants to take over. Considering I was ages behind and Cheeko got 4 out of 4 last week I am willing to concede that the game be called a draw.

 

Sorry Vim, I'm out if everyone else is.

Nelson Suburbs 5 - Coastal Spirit 1

Hope you enjoyed it none the less, Vim

richmond another big win 5-1 take notice!

Again duffy, we will take notice once you're in the MPL.

While I'm here, Western 0 - 1 Halswell. 2nd in MPL.
Get.
In!

Great result for Halswell. Could be their year!

 

Back from the big trip to Nelson and all in all was well worth it. Game was a goal fest unfortunately not Coastal's way. Nelson scored from almost every opportunity and after being 2-0 down after 5 min it looked like it was going to get ugly. Coastal did get back into the match and had a few chances but just didn't put them away. Nelson surely did and deserved the 5-1 win. Makes the league heaps interesting!

Looking at the draw, there are 21 rounds which works nicely with 8 team league playing the other 7 teams 3 times. Why then over the next month or so do we have byes?

Tis late and I'm tired and brain failing.

bye = the cup? CSFC & Tech given byes to the next round weren't they? 

EDIT: ok, just saw what ya mean...that is retarded as f**k. even number of teams should mean 2 teams with the bye. suspect someone has made a balls up of it
gings2011-05-02 02:03:37

 

Foal30 has come up with the suggestion that it has something to do with Utd not having a ground and them not knowing what field to play on as yet. Will be updated at a later time? Sort of makes sense in the crazy world of Mainland Football.