Mainland Premier League (Part 1)

Yes excellent night of footy for spirited supporters of Coastal. 2 - 0 up in the first 10 minutes but yet again they leaked goals by ball watching and lacking an effective mid field screen at the top of the box. Heaps of opportunities for both sides in an open entertaining game played in near freezing conditions on the slippery plastic. Could have been 8 all, steady Eddie made a couple of great 2nd half saves while Nomads squandered a couple of great opportunities. Ash opened his account for the season and finished with a double, tap it in Turnbull finished off the move of the night, Danny Palfreyman scored with a classy finish and Chris O'Neil fired in a 20 yard screamer. Scrappy last 25 as both teams rang the changes but well worth the entry fee. Bring on the Chatham Cup.

Yes excellent night of footy for spirited supporters of Coastal. 2 - 0 up in the first 10 minutes but yet again they leaked goals by ball watching and lacking an effective mid field screen at the top of the box. Heaps of opportunities for both sides in an open entertaining game played in near freezing conditions on the slippery plastic. Could have been 8 all, steady Eddie made a couple of great 2nd half saves while Nomads squandered a couple of great opportunities. Ash opened his account for the season and finished with a double, tap it in Turnbull finished off the move of the night, Danny Palfreyman scored with a classy finish and Chris O'Neil fired in a 20 yard screamer. Scrappy last 25 as both teams rang the changes but well worth the entry fee. Bring on the Chatham Cup.

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Yes Chatham Cup ties on Saturday

Coastal vs. Western, Nomads vs. Halswell, University vs FC Twenty11, Waimak vs. Selwyn, Richmond Atheletic vs. Nelson College and Pirates vs FC Nelson.

University and Waimak on top of Div 1 both unbeaten so Waimak should defeat Selwyn and FC Twenty11 could be tested by the students, the other ChCh games maybe to close to call.   

Bays and Technical both drawn byes.

Have to agree well worth the night out in the cold but I did miss the Tuesday night at the pub following the oldies kick around which last night was in the gym.

Not a lot for the ref to do for most of the game just a bit more in the last 15 mins to earn his match fee .  

Eddie did come to Coastal aid and defenders clearing the Coastal line when needed late on.

 Duncan fluffed a couple at the Nomads end that should have been saved, not his best game but better on Saturday will be just fine.

Nomads coach kept DH happy by giving JH a full game don't expaect to see him getting on v Halswell unless tha score blows out one way or the other. 

Ferguson retires

What the Scot that plays for the Western MPL side?

Sad news posted the the Coastal Spirit that Jim Hawkey passed away this morning. A great supporter and stats keeper for Rangers and Coastal Spirit..

RIP Jim

yes Jim was a great club man

RIP

 Very sad news - always disappointing when a club lose such a supportive figure. RIP.

Hope it fires up coastal this week as a sign of respect

Bromley Park = no games schedulded there

do not remember there ever being Football posts on that park. Progress? 

Pages Road / Buckleys Road

reffed a cracking 12th Grade Game today, hooray for junior football etc. 

good sh*t foal - Blue skies, green grass (the turf kind), millions of juniors loving it Nelson today too....

Todays results 

Chatham Cup

Coastal Spirit 0 Western 3 HT 0 - 1

Nomads 0 Halswell 2  HT 0-1

Waimakariri 3 Selwyn 0 HT 2 – 0

Canterbury University 4 FC Twenty11 1 HT 1 – 1

Richmond 0 Nelson College 1 HT 0 – 1

Marlborough Pirates 2 FC Nelson 1 HT 2 – 1

Cashmere Tech and Bays byes

Women's Mainland Premier League

Coastal Spirit 1 University 0 HT 1 - 0

FC Twenty11 1 Halswell 1 HT 1 - 1

Western 4 Cashmere Technical 4  HT 0 - 2

Officials out to pasture at Tulett Park.

Ha;swell better on the full 90 but comes back to a couple of calls going against Nomads.

Yellow card for ball being blasted close range into Nomads players arm just away from body and near the half way line.

Calls the other way Halswell player handles in tha area above his head then no penalty, What you got to be ##g.

Nomads have ball in the goal a metre or more over the line, no goal as ass ref is still nearer to half way than the goal line and doesn't have a monkies about what has happenend but gives offside for player putting in third shot after the goal should have been given.

Thats the breaks and giving the MPL main focus not the cups for this year.

FC20 should play the div 5 boys in the MPL. 

NZ Football have announced draw for the National Women's OK Cup

Southern Region (Mainland) | May 26

Coastal Spirit v Western AFC
FC Nelson v Universities
Halswell United v Cashmere Technical

Forgot to add that the University ground at Ilam Field was great and they bring out couches for the fans to sit, nothing like watching footy in comfort, also as their local FM station providing a little music pre match.

MP League action this Saturday:

Coastal Spirit vs. Nelson Suburbs

FC Twenty11 vs. Ferrymead Bays

Halswell vs. Western

Nomads vs. Cashmere Technica

Chatham Cup Draw

Southern Region

Central Pirates v Nelson College
Halswell United v Cashmere Technical
Western v Ferrymead Bays
Waimak United v Universities

Interesting next round in the Chatham Cup with both remaining Div 1 teams Waimak and Uni drawing each other and dodging the Premier League sides. Western get Bays and Halswell get Tech. 

In other random cup draw news, I notice in the English Cup Tech have a big match against Div 4 Amberley. Altho looking at the Chatham Cup draw on the Mainland site I can't work out what is happeneing. The real draw is here  

Yes it one of the faults with the result section on the Mainland Fed wedsite, does not allow for the 'open draw' format for Cups. 

And the BIG transfer news Allan Carville from Burnside to Coastal Spirit, not bad a couple of ex All Whites in the over 45's. I wonder if they will pull out the old 1 - 2 - long punt from Stroudy to Carvy to score.

Other transfer news Jerry Dongo International Clearence completed to Nelson Suburbs.

Stroudy's knees are buggered, he'll have to throw it :)

And Gagame Feni is back as well.

Just in time for the Coastal clash??

Carvy's knees always looked to be buggered. 

No problems, CS will need more than that having played them and won already this season, would be good to catch up with Allan and mark him out of the game. 

A good bunch of guys to play against competitive in a 50/60 year olds way without being grizzle guts. No prize for guessing which club is the worst at this. 

Transfer still pending.

Process on tonight's English Cup game.

Western 1 University 1 at half time with Western scoring again early in the 2nd half to lead 2 - 1. Very foggy at ASB Football Park.  

Keep the updates coming, come on Uni!

FT score 3 - 2 in favour of Western

Well Uni score two more goals than Coastal did against Western in 3 matches.

A big clash in Div 1 this Saturday with Waimak taking on University at Kendal Park, both side unbeaten at this stage.

 Some of the FC 90210 lads at the game tonight reckoned that varsity had a completely different set of players out .... so either their reserve team beat FC at the weekend, or their reserve team was in fact on the pitch tonight. Either way, holy hell that's some depth.

Rumour Alert: A MPL coach given the old Archer last evening.

Surprised the FC players would know which University players are which as they were chasing shadows on Saturday.