Northern Leagues

He didn't play for them against Melville in the weekend.

So why not bring one of your 4 or 5 other Sunday teams up as a Reserve team as well?

You going to do monthly updates Enzo? Auckland Council should be told.

Apply for Council Funding. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Your present dossier should be a clincher. BTW you read the fuss over Oratia's newlaid artificial pitch? Noise complaints from neighbours have restricted its use. No matches on Sundays! Is there hope for this country ever?

Onehunga Sports v Western Springs 2.45 Sunday 24th. @ Waikaraka Pk

Metro played Eastern Suburbs on Sunday, going down narrowly 2-1, not too bad considering Metro's coach was sacked taking several players away aswell.

Birkenhead playing the New Zealand U17s tonight (Wed 20th) ... 8:00pm, North Harbour #4

Good game 4-3 to nz...  U 17s dominated first 15 should have been up.. Then birkenhead were on top for most of the 1 st half went a goal up.. Nz scored staright after the break..... Then Birkenhead changed about 7 .... Lots of good attacking play from both teams....

Think the 17 s were bit fitter in the end ..sure the 17s are going to do very well some outstanding players....

Any games anywhere this week ?... 

Onehunga Sports (B Turner) v Western Springs (N Emblen) @ Waikaraka Pk. 2.45 Sunday 24th

Re Auckland Council edict on Oratia Utd's newly laid artificial pitch: NO PLAY ON SUNDAYS OWING TO NOISE COMPLAINTS FROM NEIGHBOURS :  my mother's reaction: 'Oh dear, does the rubber magnify the sound of the ball?'  Bless.  No Mother, the neighbours hate the SOUND OF YOUTHFUL ENJOYMENT.

Birko game off... Central v nz 17 s tonite

Went past Ellerlies ground on Monday night.. Field is nearly finished, looks a great asset, will there be a smaller training pitch on the side of the field?

thanks mate - yeah there will be an area which will roughly be a third which will be for warm-ups etc.

Not sure if this is the correct place to spam you with this but Northern League Women's Premier club Glenfield Rovers played a charity match for Cure Kids today vs a Football Ferns selection. Great game, finished 4-4. Write-up and photos here:

http://in-the-back-of-the.net/2013/03/24/exhibit-a/ 

Greetings all,

Herewith a more detailed wrap-up on the CureKids game:
http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Scoreboard/latest_match_report51.htm 

This page will be updated each week with the report from the NPWL game I've attended,
while the links at the top of the page will take you to the round review of that
weekend, and match pix relating to said match report.

You'll also find my Northern League men's review page here:
http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Scoreboard/round_review.htm

And a few other pages of interest via the front page:
http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Scoreboard/ 

Sportsweb Soccer is undergoing an overhaul at present, so the above pages are workaround solutions
while that is taking place.


Cheers,

JR

Watched sports v springs .. Sports miss lovermore a lot .. Could be a tough season for them.. Springs big chance in div2

Season starts Friday! Sure has come around quickly.

Any predictions for the first round of fixtures?

I will have a crack at Div2 first round results, not up with the play for Prems and Div1:

Tauranga - Mangere: draw
Lynn Avon - Western Springs: Springs win
Onehunga Mangere - Claudelands Rovers: OM win
Albany - Manukau City: Albany win
Oratia - Fencibles: draw
Warkworth - Waiuku: Warkworth win

What happened to a.f.f doing the team previews , then again they couldn't be bothered doing the end of season awards either...

Quick to take your money off you or cards etc

Your expecting some level of competancy ....how unique !!

A preview would have been good. Only takes an email ti each club for a piece from their coach/manager.

Basically, AFF are shite.

Are we surprised?

Will head down to Melville's opener tomorrow, be interesting to see how they rebuild from the Declan debacle, and then they play Ngarua in the new Waikato derby on Monday, so two Melville games in two four days is in store, hopefully they go alright.

I see chewins is back there.. They should go ok... 

Who's players in and out down there with the Waikato teams.?

Anybody got any more ins and outs

I guess I'll find out today but some rumours I've heard are:

Potential mass exodus at Ngaruawahia, or at least many unhappy players due to the new coach they've got in charge, apparently it's South American city up there, new coach can't speak too much English I'm told.

Melville getting in a few imports again, Steve Williams-style, might be some Welsh guys playing for them, obviously the squad will be almost entirely different from last year's.

No word on Wanderers as yet, not even sure if Cossey is still the coach, maybe somebody else here knows.

Some Melville moves: Josh Billman is now skipper, Ally Houston back in goal, Shaun Kipara and Tewi Te Pou are back too, and as you mentioned Chewins, but not for very long. Striker from the UK brought in - Jordan McCarthy - can't find much about him but I guess I'll see how he goes today.

Melville 2 Takapuna 0, goals to Tewi Te Pou (a cracker) and the new English guy, Melville look good, mid-table quality at this point with more players to come including a kid from Tranmere I'm told. Takapuna however look honking, they have only one or two guys who look threatening, Mark Pits hit the post a couple of times, apart from that they have quite a few big bulky guys, definitely more grunt than glamour.

Watched Glenfield v Suburbs.

Glenfield were up 2-0 at halftime thanks to 2 Grant Young goals after coming on after 10mins for Steven Holloway. Pretty typical Youngy goals, just in the right place in the box to finish. Finished 3-0 after Gwyther scored against the run of play, assist to Young.

Glenfield didnt look as flash as they've been talked up to be, especially 2nd half didnt string more than about 3 passes together, alot of long ball. But Suburbs were fairly poor, managed to command majority of possession 2nd half but not much threat up front.

Mayne was the standout player I thought.

yeah i thought Mayne was ok - although it's not hard against Prince and Alex Pratap - that to me looked like Suburbs problem was in the middle of the park.

Big George didn't offer much upfront but Suburbs were tidy wide but struggled to put anything away and when they made changes the guys off the bench for me looked ponderous.

Rovers seemed to play two defensive minded mids with Mayne and Aaron Root and didn't even look to play unless they gave it wide to Daniel Findlay.  Main attacking weapon?  corners and long throws - aim for Jordan Carter and the other big unit - It will be even more of a threat when Danny Parke plays (he was on the bench) and Dods gets on the end of the long throws.

Both sides played hoofball. Was a yawnfest.

Yeah point taken they attempted better football in the second half but still had nothing in the final third. Was the Rovers GK ever tested?

Suburbs will struggle unless George starts firing.

yeah big george was disappointing - first time i have seen him play and honestly wasn't that impressed.  

In regards to the keeper being tested - there was only one chance I can think of in the second half but George was flagged offside before a save had to be made.  One long distance one flashed just past the RH upright but yeah not much end product from burbs.

Glenfield played typical Danny Donegan style football - megadirect... 

Watched the game  today glenfield will get a lot better.... Every team has different ways.. Glenfield are a big club and need to get out of the league so whatever it takes.....

Not many team have the balls to play there way out...  They won't lose a game....

Facilties . Social teams .juniors and $ spent . Just saying along with bays there th big two on the shore..

ok i will play along - so with Glenfield as the test - Facilities are pretty good, with a quick bit of research i see about 15 senior men's teams, and 1 women's team (sure there are more).  Can't see any info on junior teams.

I don't agree about money spent as a yardstick - because if you were developing your own players through a development pathway you wouldn't need to spend so much money.

So can you confirm how many senior and junior teams the club have so i can get an accurate indication of the yardstick of a big club?