Mainland Premier League (Part 2)

I realise that but only added to the situation about the penalty :)

Selwyn and Waimak drew 2-2. Waimak set pieces were outstanding. 

Ouch. In saying that, I much prefer my #topofthetable posts.

Suburbs drew 3-3 with Cashmere Tech. Half time 1-1. Even game and fair result but referee did not have one of his better games

Mainland Premier League

Men’s - Round 11 of 21

Christchurch United 0 Halswell 2 (Leon Vannoort 2) HT 2 - 0

Coastal Spirit 0 Ferrymead Bays 3 (Pablo Mayo, Michael Forshaw, Chris Murphy) HT 0 - 1

Nelson Suburbs 3 (Ben Wright 2, Ross McPhie) Cashmere Technical 3 (Oscar Evans 2, Liam Oxley) HT 1 - 1

Universities 2 (Simon Tither 2 - pens) Western 3 Michael Willis, Abdul Khalifa, Calum Ross) HT 1 - 1

Points: Technical 28, Suburbs 19, Bays 17, Coastal 15, Western 14, Universites 11, Halswell 9, ChCh United 7 both both Suburbs and Univ a game in hand.

Women's - Round 5 of 14

Coastal Spirit 1 (Chloe Jones) Cashmere Technical 9Monique Barker) HT 0 - 1

Parklands 0 Western 0

Universities 10 (Bernadette Goulding 4, Aynsley Martin 2, Margo Kilkenny-Brown, Holly Pascoe,Brittany Hodgman, Kat Mason) Selwyn 0 HT 3 - 0

FC Twenty11 the bye

Points: Coastal 13, Technical and Universities 10, Parklands 4, Selwyn 3, Western 2, FC Twenty11 0. Both Coastal and FC have played 5 games with the other 5 sides 4.

In Div 1

Waimak 2 Selwyn 2

FC Twenty11 1 Cashmere Tech 0

Parklands 1 Nomads 3

Hornby ?? Ferrymead Bays ??

Western 3-2 winners over University at Ilam fields. Ref awarded Uni 2 pens, the second of which was dubious to say the least. Western dominated the first half and were leading  1-0 until conceding a penalty(tripped in the area). The second half threatened to go pear shaped for Western as another penalty was awarded(gifted?) by the referee. He penalised Western's goalie for fouling a Uni attacker at a corner, which was a laughable decision. However, the Western boys dug deep and scored too late goals, which was fair on the run of the play. The final 10 minutes was good stuff as Uni poured it on and Western scrapped til the end. Very enjoyable...

Waimak were excellent against Selwyn today and probably should have taken all 3 points. I think there is a few ego's at Selwyn that need sorting!

They are now off the pace of Nomads and FC Twenty. Dan Ede popped up with a couple of goals again though!

Selwyn play pretty football but get outdone when the going gets tough.

On a brighter note, the referees were excellent!

I don't know if I'd say Waimak were excellent - However I will concede, set pieces especially from the corner were VERY dangerous and deserved a goal, nearly with the winner right at the end.  Selwyn's defence today wasn't exactly stellar and Waimak wanted the ball more.  Waimak are probably more aggressive than Selwyn - which seems to be an area Selwyn don't do well in.  

The Officials were good I agree.  I hope the keeper is also ok after taking a knock late in the 2nd half and apologise for the young fellas who didn't quite understand the etiquette of the game.  Banter good - person going down bad.

I still think 2-2 was probably a fair result

t think we need to change this thread to div 1

Heh - fair call.  Tho MPL have been very quiet, maybe due to Cashmere dominating everyone?

Chatham cup this week so both prem and div 1 should get a mention. Div 1 has a more interesting table as there are now 3 teams looking for promotion.The standard of football is pretty good this year and if Selwyn or Fc get promoted they should both do well.

Good game at Waimak yesterday I am sure the old Ifanz coaches Lee, Nick and Chris will be proud to see so many of their boys doing well.

And us continuing to lose. #singwhenyourewinning

Yes Vim, things started to go down hill for Coastal not long after recording their record win 6 - 0 over Halswell - I can recall a few Coastal supporters saying "we are going to win the league" after that win.

Have not scored in their last four league games with just one goal in their last six PL fixtures.

13 points out of 15 after the first five round but just 2 points from their next six.

Does not help having Ant Jones out but missing one good player account for such a turn around?

It's ok you could have lost whilst playing today....

Interested to know what you've based the standard of football on? I don't think the standard is as good as two and three years ago.

Chatham and English Cup will give some indication for chances of promotion contenders ability to stay up once in the MPL.

I haven't seen FC20 this season, so based only on the fact that I don't see Nomads as being good enough to stay up if promoted neither will the other two. A big recruiting period pre season will be needed by the promoted club.

From today's Nelson Mail:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/sport/68808941/...

Is the Press report on the WPL right, or the Mainland page? 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/68808188/tw...

#hopefullystilltoppingonetable

Yes, first in WPL but have played 1 more game than CTFC.

Also Coastal Spirit are the team with the "superior goals differential". 

It would be impossible for Cashmere to have 12 points from 4 games, given the match being reported on was a draw.

After 60 minutes currently scoreless between Halswell and ChCh United in tonight's English Cup game.

Still scoreless between the Hawks and the Rams into the final five minutes.

ChCh United score in added time to win 1 - nil over Halswell

12:00 Saturday CTFC v  Coastal Women's KO Cup. Beckengham park

SHOULD BE A SCORCHER 

2:00  Coastal v Selwyn  at Cuthbert's

I have 16th grade game at 12:30! Like inconvenient this week...

Yer it's sharkhouse, however plans are afoot.

only 9 months for the floodlights so maybe another 2 years for the field

#easternrebuildinfulleffect

From the Press:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/68889312/stateoftheart-artificial-football-fields-open-in-Christchurch

Massive Football Day Saturday for sure. 

May need a coffee flask to get through. 

Lauren Dabner heading to Texas to play football:

https://www.texastech.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/052815aaa.html

Yes will be a great day and maybe the odd upset or two.

Women's 

CTFC 3 Coastal 4 AET

Chat Cup

Coastal 3 Selwyn 2.

Heard Bays, CTFC and Nomads won.

Selwyn are a good side. 

Nomads 4-2 over Parkland all Nomads goals second half. 

ASB Chatham Cup

Cashmere Technical 6 (Sean O’Brien, Oscar Evans 2, Stu Kelly, Julyan Collett, Andy Barton) Halswell 1 (Boon Ozawa) HT 2 - 0 - Halswell had a player sent off with three of Tech's goal coming in last 5 minutes

Coastal Spirit 3 (Zac Gordan, Mason Safahi, Jos Lis) Selwyn 2 (Dan Ede 2) HT 2 - 1

Ferrymead Bays 3 (Chris Anderson, Mark Peers, own goal) Richmond Athletic 1 (Ben Harris) HT 1 - 0

Nomads 4 (Michael McColgan, Liam Thompson 3) Parklands 2 (Anthony McMann 2) Ht 0 - 1

Women’s

ASB National Women’s Knock Out Cup

Cashmere Technical 3 (Mikayla Wieblitz, Monique Barker 2) Coastal Spirit 4 (Mel Cameron 3, Emma Proctor) HT 1 - 0 FT 2 - 2

Reta Fitzpatrick Cup

Universities 0 Parklands 1 (Makenzie Haberfield - pen) HT 0 - 0

Interesting spectator at ASB Football Park with the new Canterbury United coach - Willy Gerdsen watching on.

Disappointing result coastal probably just deserved victory. Good to see Selwyn giving young boys a taste of cup action 15 yr old Luke fowler played 90 and Luke Mackay had a good game from bench. 

yes the Selwyn # 3 and #9 both play in the schools First XI I hear. Another player in the side looked 16/17 at most. Jason Donovan got stuck in at Right Back

Back to league next weekend:

Men's

Cashmere Technical vs. Ferrymead Bays - also a Hurley Shield Challenge

ChCh United vs. Coastal Spirit

Western vs. Nelson Suburbs

Halswell vs. Universities

Women's

FC Twenty11 vs. Selwyn

Parklands vs. Cashmere Technical

Universities vs. Coastal Spirit - also a Hawkey Shield Challenge

Western the bye

On Tuesday evening English Cup - Nomads vs. Papanui Redwood