Mainland Premier League (Part 2)

Yup.

Yup.

Same friendly faces with beer?

Always.

Mainland Premier League

Men’s

Coastal Spirit 0 Cashmere Technical 1

Nelson Suburbs 3 Halswell 0

Universities 3 Christchurch United 0

Nelson Suburbs were leading Halswell 3-0 with 5 minutes to play after leading 1-0 at half time. Not a very inspiring game played in blustery conditions. Halswell were poor and for most of the game Nelson were not much better.

Men’s - Round 13 of 21

Coastal Spirit 0 Cashmere Technical 1 (Shawn O’Brien) HT 0 - 0

Nelson Suburbs 3 (Atkin Kaua 2, Omar Guardiola) Halswell 0 HT 1 - 0

Universities 3 (Hamish Foy, Tim Hall, Sam Howes) Christchurch United 0 HT 2 - 0

Ferrymead Bays 5 (Michael White 3, Renta Yamamoto, own goal) Western 0 HT 3 - 0

Points: Technical 32, Suburbs 25, Bays 21, Coastal 18, Universities 15, Western 14, Halswell 10, ChCh United 7 with Suburbs and Univ. having a game in hand.

Women’s Round 7 of 12

FC Twenty11 0 Cashmere Technical 8 (Monique Barker 3, Megan Shea 2, Mikayla Wieblitz 2, Emma Kench) HT 0 - 5

Parklands 0 Coastal Spirit 5 (Mel Cameron, Lauren Dabner, Whitney Hepburn, Britneylee Nicholson, Ashleigh Ward) HT 0 - 3

Western 0 Selwyn 0

Universities the bye

Points:Technical 16, Coastal 16, Universities 13, Selwyn 7, Parkland 4, Western 3, FC 0. Coastal played 7, Universities 5, with the other five sides 6.

Nomads now on top in Div 1 with 29, FC Twenty11 on 28, Selwyn 27 and Waimak 22.

Very tight now...

Where any rabbits harmed during this game?

Nomads on top???? thats a joke and a half! how many more transfers can they make?

A Mark in the ground

Great wee watch showing the rebuild of football and how it helps our city.  (Except for the Coastal advert - you can skip that) ;p :)

Like all clubs they can make as many transfers as they like up to the transfer window closes at the end of June, so long as the met the transfer regulations.

Yes, very interesting Coastal propaganda section. Certainly a lofty goal to produce an international superstar in the next 10 years when they can still only provide 3rd rate facilities for their players and sat on the sidelines while the U20 organizers provided funding for Linwood rugby  to improve their facilities just over the road.   

Righto I've watched it now. 

What a sad sad comment that all you could take out of a heartwarming story about our broken city is a snide dig at Coastal. Surely there was something in there for you or are you that cold? 

Pretty embarrassing and says more about you than us.

Or am I just feeding the troll?

I watched it the other night,superb doco . Sad when you look at what happened to bexley and Garrick both football areas I loved playing at and having a beer at , a testament to both clubs that they are still going strong and looking to the future .as well as bays and other clubs who suffered 

Western into the next round of the Stadium Cars English Cup after defeating Universities 3 - 1 in extra time after 1 - 1 at FT.

New coaching team at Chch Utd - Alan Kelly and Guiceppi Vassalini. Both ex Malborough.

You know I was just kidding aye :)   (Not bitter about that Chatham Cup game at all)

Wow, don't know this Kelly guy. The other however, wow.. Complete thug as a player at every club was involved at, and there was a few. Guess he will fit in with the mentality that seems to be present and I'm sure will get on well with their Captain no brains who lacks any kind of skill, but certainly makes up for it in the thuggery category.. Let's hope some results will come United's way, but I'm certainly not holding my breath. 2 horse race between United and Halswell, Halswell look more likely to stay up considering their experience in this situation in previous years

Wwill there be any upsets over the weekend? 

Mainland PL

Men's

Coastal Spirit vs. Universities

Halswell vs. Ferrymeads Bays

Western vs.  Cashmere Technical

Sunday

Nelson Suburbs vs. ChCh United

Women's

Cashmere Tech vs. Western

Coastal vs. FC Twenty11

Universities vs. Parklands - Hawkey Shield Challenge

Selwyn the Bye

Div. 1 

Cashmere Tech vs Nomads

Parklands vs. Bays

Selwyn vs. Hornby

Waimak vs. FC Twenty11

O/T - From the Mainland Website:

The Pride are the current Champions of the NZF National Women’s League & shall commence their defence of the title in October under the new guidance of Mike de Bono.

Mike has had two previous seasons coaching the Pride & together with his personable approach he shall compliment the culture created by the highly successful group of players.

His past experience coaching in the National Women’s League, along with his knowledge of the players provided the perfect fit for him to take on the challenge.

Mike shall take up the position with immediate effect as he commences to get the squad together & confirm availability of the players from across the Federation who want to continue to work within a successful structure & organisation. With a small number of players heading away, Mike shall seek to develop the next crop of aspirational players to be part of a winning culture.

When asked about his appointment to the role, Mike responded;

“I am excited to be taking charge of the Mainland Pride team once again. Working in the women’s space has always been a passion of mine and when this opportunity presented itself I jumped at it.”

“I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the great work that Gareth and his management team have done over the last few seasons and I am looking forward to the challenge of carrying that work on and keeping the Mainland Pride at the head of the table.”

“My motivation has always been to bring the best out of players and see them reach their full potential, so I am excited to have the opportunity to be able to do this with the best players that Mainland has to offer.”

Out of interest - how is it that for the Womens in a 7 team comp - Coastal are yet to have a bye?  Without the distruptions doesn't that favour teams a little more having more regular games than others? (Not that it may change the results - but seems slightly odd)

Also Div 1 - Nomads to beat Tech 4-1, Parklands beat Bays 3-0 Selwyn Beat Hornby 6-1 FC v Waimak - Draw. :)

I understand that this is due to the National Women's KO Cup round, rather that put the reminder rounds all back a week that round will now be played at the end of the season, so at the moment some clubs have yet to play one another so will face each other twice in the final three weeks of the league. In Coastal's case they have their two bye's in the final three rounds.

Most of the transfers would be junior aged.

Nomads having trouble getting Reserves, PDL and 18th grade team players. Their PDL team have defaulted the last three weeks due to lack of numbers and 18s playing some weeks with ten.

That's better than the 2 games per weekend at end of season that Coastal have played due to Cup runs in the past.

That last happened in 2012, only 12 games this season.

Mainland Premier League

Men’s

Coastal Spirit 3 Universities 1

Halswell 0 Ferrymead Bays 5

Western 0 Cashmere Technical 2

Nelson Suburbs vs. ChCh United - played Sunday

Women’s

Cashmere Technical 13 Western 0

Big upset with Parklands knocking over Uni.

Indeed. Happier with the Div 1 upset though, go the Turtles! FC back on top :)

As long as Turtles not been playing illegal players again 

Yes a great result for Parklands. FC now have a challenge for the shield on 4th July and if Parklands repelled FC then Selwyn will challenge on 25th July.

I believe they're all good nowadays, Sunday players back playing Sundays....

Mainland Premier League Scorers

Men’s - round 14 of 21

Coastal Spirit 3 (Mike Willoughby, Joshua Lis, Tim Dunn) Universities 1 (Aaron Health) HT 3 - 1

Halswell 0 Ferrymead Bays 5 (Chris Anderson 2, Michael Forshaw, Mark Peers, Xavier De Freitas Junior) HT 0 - 3

Western 0 Cashmere Technical 2 (Stu Kelly, Shawn O'Brien) HT 0 - 1

Nelson Suburbs vs. ChCh United - played Sunday

Points: Technical 35, Suburbs 25, Bays 24, Coastal 21, Univ. 15, Western 14, Halswell 10, United 7. Nelson have played 12, United and Univ. 13 with all others 14.  

Women’s - Round 8 of 12

Cashmere Technical 13 (Mikayla Wieblitz 4, Monique Barker 4, Beth Elliott 2, Emma Kench, Sammy Williams, Leigh Alexander) Western 0 HT 5 - 0

Coastal Spirit 6 (Mel Cameron 2, Whitney Hepburn 2, Olivia Smith, Ash Ward) FC Twenty11 0 HT 3 - 0

Universities 2 (Gabrielle Brodie, own goal) Parklands 3 (Makenzie Haberfield, Prisca Pieters, Rebecca Gillett)HT 1 - 1

Selwyn the Bye

Points games played shown in ( ): Technical (7) 19, Coastal (8) 19 Univ. (6) 13, Parklands (7) 7, Selwyn (6) 7, Western (7) 3, FC (7) 0

2 games in a row now vs Uni, beat them 1-0 in Reta Cup too

Coastal seem to be heading in the right direction development wise, with two great performances in there last two games. We were really impressed with the youngsters that have stepped up IE. Brady, Alley, de Freitas, Meysum particularly in yesterdays game. Thought they totalled outplayed uni n should have won 10 nil if it wasn't for some awful finishing upfront. Maybe add a good finisher upfront...hopefully Macca makes a comeback soon. Xavier has them playing an attractive brand of football n should they hold onto these young players I reckon in a year or two they will be challenging for honors. Thought I should add not just poor finishing up front but Pieter Taco pulled off a few outstanding saves.

No score between Nelson Suburbs and ChCh United midway 1st half.

Ryan Stewart puts Suburbs 1 up in the 43th just after Atkin Kaua was sent off for the home side, currently half time.