Mainland Premier League (Part 2)

OMG, I just signed Jordan Ball in football manager. Absolute rubbish!!!!!

Postponements are for when players are on international duty and only if three, or more playersc from the one club.

Sad news. RIP Steve Sumner! Legend!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/nz-teams/89178970/former-all-whites-captain-steve-sumner-has-died

Seeing as someone mentioned Sunday league players playing in the MPL.

Is this the same Messiah from Coastal that has been trying to pay [or is it Stroudy money] an ex Avonhead Sunday League player to go and play for CS?

Is it actually true that Messiah went to UK for a week to talk to scouts and an agent? Seems like overkill for a measly MPL coach.... Expect to see a few international transfers for Coastal over the next few weeks... apperently

I take it you aren't on the Messiah snapchat. That didn't look like the UK to me. 

Geez I've read some sh!t in the last week. 

#alternativefacts

makes a change from writing it 

John Brown to Coastal FDM 

6 weeks out and already plenty of Coastal chat.

Yes correct Messiah is in talks with some Europeans. Contacts he got introduced to when in UK  2015 and also has a contact here in Chch that is searching for specific kinds of players.

I guess the plan this year is to be 12 points better. In Messiah we trust!!

Well supported, top coach and top players. Hopefully with a little luck and not get ahead of ourselves, it will be happy days.

Good luck have fun.

AND no, they aint getting paid :( jog on

Pretty sure looking back on my calls, then others denials, and then truth be told, I've been pretty spot on.

Shoulda put some bets on! 

Bring on the MPL tipping comp.

Yes Tony Jones!! Im so excited to see what this centre forward will be like. Im sure you cant wait to see him play? Hopefully he will bring more bums on seats on the train. Who has your club signed? Anyone exciting? 

Well if more players of his calibre come over, maybe it wont be such a Mickey Mouse league? Im all for that.

Got told today we have two away trips to Nelson this year!!! Frothing for them.

Cant watch any friendlies until cricket season is over but im already thinking about the train!!!

Its ok to be envious. But to be envious with terrible banter in a public forum is clearly not a good combination. 

If you had a clue you will know Nelson are miles ahead of old 27 point season Bay$ 

Disrespecting the league then disrespecting the club that is obviously attracting lots of attention and doing some really cool things.

Envious or jealous, one of the two.

From here on in I know your not worth replying to. 

Next?

when will you coastal lot learn? For past 2 seasons you have talked your team up only for them to fail. Just let the football on the pitch do the talking! Will admit your team has 10% (that's all) increased chance of winning this year only due to the legend JB standing down.

I believe it's called passion, and heart and all that. Having a few new players and talking it up is all part of the deal. 

And like it or not, YOU are still talking about us, so it's working. This would be a pretty boring forum if it was all just statistics from AW82 and links to the stuff sports page. 

train

Where have you been, not heard from u since August

John Brown to Coastal FDM 

Never got an interview

Watched Coastal play a pre-season against Selwyn today.  Pretty solid effort from both sides I thought.  I actually quite liked the way Coastal played and the movement on and off the ball.  Looks like they may have some newish players (But I have only ever seen Coastal play couple times so who knows)  Certainly a different style to that of Cashmere (under Mr Browns successful days). 

Will be interesting to see how Cashmere change this year.

I think they'll still use the sheds ?

New to forum but not new to Chch football.

As name suggests I don't hold any allegiances with any one specific club, I'm (for now) neutral!

After an exciting term last year hoping for more to follow this 2017. Has there been much talk of favourites to do well/badly yet?

I'll be making my own predictions after week 5 so look out for that!

Dragoon, do Coastal look good or just entertaining? Which players shone for them?

Has anyone seen Cash Tech or Bays play friendlies yet? I guess the MPL title will be between them?

If anyone knows of upcoming friendly fixture dates/times please post so I can enjoy Saturdays as they're supposed to be! 

Hard lines mate, think Fred went ok. 

Enought former CashTech players now at Coastal so does make sense to chase there coaches / management as well.

Waimak pre season tournament starts next Saturday, looks like a few of the mpl sides have teams (whether they use their reserve players you never know).

Waimak, Selwyn, Chch Utd and Parklands from CCL involved too

POOLS:

Pool A: Waimak United, CashmereTech Gold, Coastal Spirit, Nomads

Pool B: Selwyn, CashmereTech Blue, Parklands, Christchurch United

DRAW:

18th February

1pmTurfWaimak United v CashmereTech Gold

1pm S2Coastal Spirit v Nomads

1pmS3Selwyn v CashmereTech Blue

1pmS4Parklands v Christchurch United

25th February

1pmTurfWaimak United v Coastal Spirit

1pmS2CashmereTech Gold v Nomads

1pm S3Selwyn v Parklands

1pm S4CashmereTech Blue v Christchurch United

4th March

1pm TurfNomads v Waimak United

1pmS2CashmereTech Gold v Coastal Spirit

1pmS3Christchurch United v Selwyn

1pmS4CashmereTech Blue v Parklands

11th March

1pmTurfFinal1st in Pool A v 1st in Pool B

1pmS23rd/4th2nd in Pool B v 2nd in Pool A

1pmS35th/6th3rd in Pool A v 3rd in Pool B

1pm S47th/8th4th in Pool B v 4th in Pool A

I've seen Bays play a Friendly vs Selwyn the week before :) Also looked pretty good.  I couldn't really tell you from Coastal who looked not sure of their names I'm afraid.  Lad in the back line (Number 3) dark hair - looked to be a controlling figure in the backline and controlled it well.  Mid field looked fairly sharp.  But I'm not much use after that.

Thanks for the info on fixtures etc, that tournament could be interesting! Some big clubs going head to head there, can't imagine coaches selecting main players though, recipe for disaster with potential injuries from dangerous tackles occurring with rivals (Coastal & Tech).

Cheers Dragoon for the scout report, Coastal have some good defenders and the talk of new Brazilians sounds exciting for the MPL!

With Canterbury getting 3 points, both Coastal and Bays will be hoping the Dragons secure playoffs so they can lead the title charge over a depleted Tech team! 

A game  was abandoned at the waimak tournament today after a Coastal spectator went on the pitch and threatened the ref.

Not needed, good young ref as well

I watched a bit of the game , I think Waimak do a great job of the tournament.

Great football venue 

Agree- Waimak do very well to host the tournament every year. 

Yer deffo not acceptable however there is a little more to the story, I had front row seats for the incident. 

Coastal 16 year old gets pole axed by a player who had joked before the game about smashing some schoolkids. It happened right in front of his dad who was pretty pissed off as it was super late and dirty. It woulda been a red if the ref had ended up dealing with it. Dad  yells at player and takes two steps onto pitch as that's where his son was lying. Ref tells him to get off his pitch to which he was told to F off. Game immediately called off by ref with 20 mins to go.

Coastal told result stands and that the ref had been spat on at previous Waimak tournament and he wasn't going to put up with anything.

Our supporter was out of order I completely agree, but as you can see there was a little behind it.

Anyone news on the other results out at Waimak?

Parklands beat Chch Utd 2-0

cash tech 5-2 selwyn 

Some gossip. Andrew 'puppeteer' barton is back pulling all the strings. 

1 game got postponed due to a spectator threatening a ref or something. God knows what team was in that game tho 

NSo what your saying is it justifies threatening a ref then Vim

Very good game

On the Turf Tech 17s v Waimak 3-2

speaking to the ref he said he was threatened but you say he was only told to F off 

Deffo no threat. 

PS it wasn't me!