Mainland Premier League (Part 2)

Definitely not that!

What is this 'seems' bit? 

I am intrigued now so are you going to tell us or not.

Contrary to popular opinion I have no idea. Or is that the popular opinion?

Parklands utd would be my guess. Got heaps of uk tradies in div1. Uni got caught playing an ineligible player after chatham cup 1st round a few years back, as did fc twenty, maybe authorities check team cards after chatham cup ties?

Selwyn unfortunately went down to Nomads today.  Can't comment further as I was busy winning my own game :)  Any other results?

Halswell 0 Coastal 0

Tech 2 Uni 0

Bays 1 Nelson 1

Chch Utd 1 Western 0

Getting cosy up top with FC losing against Parklands. 

Yes - I'm going to send Parklands a Thank you card I think

Ive heard this big old man up front for tech is alright.

Rumours going around Ryan Stanley moving to coastal..?

Why would he be doing that ...... ?

That's good for the old darts brigade. 

The not so old bloke at centre back for Nomads again leading their scoring chart including five in the last four games scoring in each. 

Mainland Premier League

Men's

Ferrymead Bays 1 (Chris Murphy) Nelson Bays 1 (Atkin Kaua) HT 0 - 0

Halswell 0 Coastal Spirit 0

Universities 0 Cashmere Technical 2 (Liam Oxley x 2) HT 0 2

Western 0 Christchurch United 1 (Michael O’Conner) HT 0 - 1

Points: Technical 27, Suburbs 18, Coastal 15, Bays 14, Universities 11, Western 11, ChCh Utd 7, Halswell 6 with Suburbs and Univ still having a catch-up game to play.

Big games in the next round with 1 v 2, 3 v 4, 5 v 6 and 7 v 8. At either end of the table Tech away to Suburbs and Chch Utd at home to Halswell , other games Coastal vs. Bays and Universities hosting Western.

Women's

FC Twenty11 0 Parklands 1 (Jess Dyer)

Selwyn 1 (Livi Brand) Coastal Spirit 4 (Britneylee Nicholson 2, Lily Bray, Mel Cameron)

Western 0 Universities 0

Cashmere Technical - the bye

Points: Coastal 12, Tech 9, Universities 7, Parklands 3, Selwyn 3, Western 1, FC Twenty11 0. Coastal, Western and FC all played 4 games with the other 4 sides 3.

Coastal play Technical in the next round.

Parklands hacked or kicked [your choice] shins, ankles and sometimes the ball on the way to a win over FC20 on Saturday.

Maybe FC20 had too many softies on the park.

Now they can both go at it again on Tuesday night in the English Cup.

Bigger shin pads anyone.  

Sounds very much like the game I watched at Nomads.

Nomads far too physical for the young Selwyn side and they couldn't handle it. It was fair to say the Selwyn coaching team felt the team weren't protected to the full extent of the law.

Both FC and Selwyn need to learn to deal with it as the message is out on how to beat them - kick them!

Great 3 horse race starting to happen!

Did u not know the first few bad tackles are free this year. Not condoning it, but why not kick the crap out of ya opposition when the refs are being told to keep their cards in their pocket. Some games ive seen this year I wonder if they've left them in the sheds.

Watching the first hour of the selwyn nomads game yesterday, not only was it interesting to see a (known) nomads member to be reffing the game, but also found it amusing how for the 60 minutes nomads were throwing late tackles, tackles from behind, tackles with no intent to win the ball on the selwyn players and as soon as a selwyn player talked back after giving away a free kick, he was booked. Would love officials to have a think and be a little realistic as to why these comments are made by individuals after watching team mates get kicked all game. Not for one second am i suggesting nomads won the game because the ref was one of their own but mainland should really be looking into their appointments for these important games. 

On another note good to hear comments about the AR on one side, who was more interested in telling spectators to F-off rather than keep an eye on the game in case he could help the referee and give his insight into some of the "fair" tackles going on in the game as it is his job to. Im sure he would have been able to help had he heard a selwyn player make a remark about their performance. 

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I wish I was there to watch that game now.

Physical ? I would of said dirty ! in reply to Sparepart 

Not really the right message to send, or advocate though is it? I thought the Officials were supposed to enforce positive play and all that?

I think a lot of accusations are being thrown around in regards to refs with very little backing.

Please tell me where you get your info that refs are being told to keep their cards in their pocket? Yes there are man management styles, that don't just require a card out straight away, but that's what it is - man management. Cards just get people angry if they are brought out with no explanations.

Also remember there are 44 eyes on the field of players, god knows how many people on the sideline. All refs need is one person in the way and what is obvious to you is blind to them. Hopefully they were being observed so the assessor can talk to them about it.

Finally if an official was abusing people on the side, then go through the appropriate measures, contact Mainland Football and The refs association. Despite what you may think, they won't close ranks. They want the refs to get better, and will talk to them.

No issues with hard, physical play. Yes Nomads were very physical, but to leave feet and go in sprigs 1st, or slide in from behind to take the player rather than the ball isn't on. This happened on numerous occasions with sometimes a card from the referee or sometimes not. As Betty said earlier, seems like the 1st several tackles are freebies. All I want to see is consistency. It seems that it is common knowledge that several teams play in a physical style, and some like to move the ball around and let Football be the winner. You can still be physical in tackles and win the 50/50 ones, you can still be stronger than your opposite player and muscle them off the ball, and I have no problem with mindgames and trying to get inside someone's head. Don't be blatantly violent!

It may be that the teams that move the ball around have to include a physical element to their play, and I am sure that both the referees faced with 2 physical teams, and the teams that are used to giving rather than receiving the physical play could have no qualms about it. I would be interested to see how quickly a referee clamps down on physical play when both teams are up to it.

On the point of teams who give out fouls rather than receiving foul play, one of the Selwyn central defenders was correctly carded for a deliberate handball on a through ball at halfway. Correct call, correct decision. Anyone would think that the Nomads coaches, supporters, bench had seen the same player come up and punch their striker in the head, then stomped on his face as he lay on the ground. Screaming and moaning like little ........  Yes it will be interesting to see how the teams that give it out feel if and when they receive it.........

The way new refs are going there won't be any left soon.... Women's Div 1 game this morning, a refs assessor turns up, would of been good for the ref to turn up too!!!

I heard stu was a top class ref???????

stu is good though

While I agree with fact that both sides need to deal with that but why should the Selwyn have to put up with hearing the opponents shouting f**king hit them or take them out its been 4 of the last 5 games. if we hear it on sidelines how can ref not hear it?? if that's not intent then I don't know what is

Nomads won for 2 reasons; one their goalie and their 4 defenders all had great games restricting Dan Ede to just 1 goal., Two the Nomads wide players had the Selwyn defenders beaten for pace and skill, supplying any number of crosses, forcing corners each one creating havoc.Nomads first goal was a well placed header from a well placed cross. Nomads 2nd goal was an unstoppable free kick,which the Selwyn keeper never.saw Nomads 3rd goal came from another cross.Nomads were unlucky not to get a 4th goal crashing the ball against the crossbar, again the keeper beaten.

Dan Ede scored a well taken goal early on and he went close several times.but he was forced to shoot from long range                                    If a Nomads player was lucky not to get a 2nd card for a clumsy tackle then a Selwyn player, who had earlier been booked was equally lucky when, beaten for pace once again he held back a goal bound Nomads player. The same Nomads player was kicked from behind well after he had taken a shot, again free kick given but no card.    

I like the way Selwyn play and I expected them to win .

Selwyn looked like scoring right up until the end but it just wasn't their day

selwyn make me go to sleep watching them play! no style its just hit the small fella dan and run boy!

Fc is going to be big chance this year , have a o of young talent and old man up front!!

will be a tight top 3 i believe! 

Is the meeting about the reviews of the league - ASB Prem down, on this evening. If so what time. Cheers  

I thought tonight was the discussion about National League 6-9pm

I think that's abit harsh on a team that wins 4-2 vs the top team & is probably viewed by some as one of the biggest upsets in div 1 so far this year.

By scoring 4 goals it doubled the amount conceded by FC2011 this year so more than just hacking or kicking is needed to do that, I thought that for the most part both teams played some really good football & it was one of the best games to watch so far this year in div 1.

At times FC gave as good as they got & there weren't too many complaints coming from them throughout the game, both teams just got on with trying to play football & not hoofball as some other teams that sometimes 'hack' or 'kick' their way through games in this league.

A shame a negative view is the only thing you picked up out of a game that had 6 goals in it which doesn't usually happen it its just a kickfest.

Maybe some sour grapes after little ol Parklands did the double over the mighty FC2011 in both WPL & div 1 :)

Seemed find to use that quote [maybe a bit over the top on my part] to me as that was a Parklands player view of how they got the win.

Don't give a toss about either team or club but more than pleased for Parklands to get the win and also getting up over Waimak in the Chatham Cup.

Doesn't stop JT and Chelsea from winning things by kicking a way around a park when needed..

Ht English cup parklands beating fc 1-0. Fairly even game best chances created by parklands no hacking or kicking. 

Selwyn put you to sleep? Of all the teams in the top 2 leagues they have scored the most and conceded a fair few. Predictable... Maybe. A little soft... Maybe. But in terms of pure excitement they are one of, if not the best team to watch.

Padmore has the team playing with real flair and allows his boys to express themselves in all areas of the pitch. Not cut out to win every game as it has proven and maybe he needs to change that way of thinking if he wants to see Selwyn get promoted but they are definitely an exciting team to watch.

Opinions are opinions though at the end of the day.

How did the game end up?

FC Twenty11 scored a late penalty to win 2 - 1 in extra time

Anyone go to the meeting on to the proposed changes to the ASB Premiership and give us details. Thanks

Yep abit of dramarama as Vim would say, penalty had to be retaken after a Parklands player entered the area too early, didn't help things that the first attempt missed

Well it wouldn't have to be retaken if it went in. #thanksforthinkingofme #iknoweverything #5dollarrefereecourse