Northern Leagues

If I stood on em Id still be the same height ....GFY

So a club on the Shore can organise themselves a "star-studded" line up which they throw $5k a week at in an effort to win what? But all those egos and idealistic English attitudes can't band together to organise a decent attempt at getting into the ASB Premiership. Talk about focussing on completely the wrong thing

Seriously the local hates on the shore make choppah look like a " well balanced  " individual ...

at least spell my name right when your stirring the pot.

Some intriguing fixtures this weekend;

Bay O vs ECB

Waitak vs Ngaruawahia

Three Kings vs Glenfield

Hamilton vs Central

Birkenhead vs Onehunga

Bays will be looking to get their season back on track after experiencing the rare situation of two losses on the trot.

Waitak and Ngara will both want to climb clear of bottom of the table.

Three Kings keen to extend their good start whereas Rovers will be desperate to justify their hefty wage bill after only picking up 1 point in their last two fixtures.

Rumours of some rifts at Wanderers won't help against a Central side out to prove a point despite missing their ACFC players.

Birkenhead will look to extend great start against against an Onehunga side that have also started well.  

My pick of the games would have to be Birkenhead vs Onehunga with some excellent young talent on display from both sides.

I might go to Bay Olympic

Hope TKU stuff Glenfield.

If you have seen bays play this year I think you will agree that they will struggle.

As soon as I say that bays beat bay o 6 nil

Waitakere City's victory over Ngaruawahia today:

http://in-the-back-of-the.net/2014/04/25/its-not-easy-being-green/

I never got there damn it. 6-0?!? That's an ass raping and then some

Went along to Wanderers v Central today, 3-1 to Wanderers, two goals to Gurjeet Singh and one to Jarrod Young from the spot, Zambrano for Central. A bit of scrappy game, the pitch at Porritt is just awful so that's the main reason why, Wanderers played decently in spite of that - Singh was his usual self, created some great chances with his pace before wasting them, and then scoring an absolute ripper from outside the box, a laser into the top-left corner.

Central were a bunch of youngsters (Sail, Mitchell, Cochran, Lausev etc) and then Adam McGeorge who wandered around a bit in the midfield, while Wanderers are a very young side at the moment - their backline is all under 23 I believe including a couple of promoted faces in Pratt and Rogers, while Young and Molony continue to show promise. Broderson went off injured with a calf injury, but their Argentinian replacement - Hassan - went well in his place. Game was well controlled too despite a whole lot of niggly challenges (pushes in the back, trips from behind etc).

Wanderers will be around and about 3rd or 4th again this year I think, Central obviously we shall wait and see after their likely reinforcements arrive.

N Bomb, you say the pitch at Porritt is awful. What do you base that on

The Birkenhead contingent are a tad quieter today.....

Where is Buffy? what happened mate 3-0 ? give us the details

Thanks for the photos and write up Enzo - you made the game sound better than what it was. The scoring in the first 20 was entertaining, the rest of the game was pretty dour. Waitak had 3 good chances in the second half and all of them were directed straight at the keeper.

Ngara will struggle unless they play a lot better than they did yesterday, and Waitak will be counting down the days until their O League players return - they'll need them if they want to trouble any of the top 6 sides IMO.

Rovers 4 games 5 points 20k down the pan. All clubs should aspire to be like them.

Why are 2 of the NRFL games showing as postponed on the website, Central v Waitak and Glenfield v ECB?

I'll hazard a guess it's because u20 player call ups. 

my question is how many players have to be involved for you to be able to request a postponement - 3?

Central have 3 - East Coast Bays have 4.

Have Miramar had their game postponed as well?

i'm torn about this - great to have clubs getting their young players picked up but kinda thinking ECB should just lump it since they recruited from that team so must have known this would be an issue.

I have no vested interest in it though - so who really cares...

At least Glenfield won't drop points this week. They won't be used to that.

Move into 2014!

Birko 4 Narra 4. Disappointing.

Yeah last i heard it was 3-1. Didn't go so no idea how we played. Hopefully we sort it before Central.

Birko played the second half with 10 with Jack H-M getting sent off soon after half time, and Ngara played the whole game with 12! As well as the send off Ngara were awarded a pen that no one knew what it was awarded for and then in the first half a Ngara defender palmed a Smith header around the post which all the players immediately appealed for and everyone saw - other than the 3 blind officials!

Dan Morgan hat trick and he missed his fourth - deflected shot from his side of half way that landed on top of the cross bar!

Ngara's first and last goals were stunners to be fair.