Northern Leagues banter 2012

From what I heard, two were last man, 1 for stomping, and may have been one more

First was last man professional foul, second was back chat and a second yellow, third was a stomp and headbutt.

haha nice!!

Good result for glenfield on the weekend. How did the new birko signings play, did they fit in to hobbos system. Heard Mauri played well and Keegan scored

Callum and Ash the two new defenders did very well, hardly put a foot wrong all game. Mauri was strong in the midfield and Keegan was class all over the pitch. Sheldon unlucky up front inches away from a couple of goals himself.

Having Jack Hobbo, John Fletcher, Alex Risdale and Arnie on the bench shows the depth at Birko this year. Like i said a few pages back, unparalleled depth.

Sounds like birko could win the league quite easily with a team like that. Be interesting to see how the other teams match up or more importantly if birko can be arsed playing against the lower teams. Birko vs glenfield would be a good game

Fletcher is on the bench?

Who is your 1st team keeper

Mentioned earlier in the thread - very young bloke who acquitted himself very well I thought. Was surprised too when I recognised Fletcher on the bench, but, as Buffy says, just some great depth.

Adam Mac.

think fletcher been injured along with hobson...

Glenfield 3-1 Albany
Ellerslie 2-2 FHM
Birko 4-0 North Force
Takapuna 3-0 Ngaruawahia
Papatoetoe 1-1 Metro
Lynn Avon 1-2 Mt Albert

Jst getting around to the div 2 scores

Glenfield 3 - 1 Albany
Ellerslie 2 - 0 FHM
Birko 3 - 2 North Force
Taka 2 - 1 Ngara
Papatoe 2 - 4 Metro
Lynn Avon 4 - 2 MAP

Glenfield to win overall will to a tight race this season

i remember glenfield won there 1st game last year and were being talked up. they defo got better in the 2nd half of the season but i dont see who they have added to make them favourites all of a sudden, yep the guy got 3 last week but he aint prem srandard!

Agree, although I do think glenfield vs birko would be a cracker of a game but only because of the rivalry. Ellerslie and birko to go up this year

Birko 6-2 North Force. Didn't play brilliantly but good enough finishing to get 6. North Force are battlers and will stay up.

who are North Force?

Northland franchise team.

Didnt think birko played well either but deserved the win. What was up with the bench? Sheldon Pillay, Keegan Linderboom, Ash Crawford

When you have a squad of that quality you can afford those players on the bench.

Watched Bays beat Waitakere 2nil. Pretty easy win for them. Waitak are going to struggle this year i think

Did Well div 1  on predictions just got scores' wrong! Watched Birko game funny they didnt get going and could and should of been  20! 

Found out it was some rotation and they were given a break for the double header this weekend

Really good win for Taka, they're going well, although I hear Ngara had Chewins sent off after only 20mins or so which didn't help their cause.

yeah Taka are making me nervous, i mean we have learnt the hard way not to underestimate anyone but word was Taka were poor pre-season (lost to Fencibles i believe) and in the first round beat FHM by 1 goal (FHM had 3 sent off) but to put 6 past Ngaruawahia is impressive (even with 1 extra man for the majority of the time). 

 yea watched them once pre-season would have said mid-table at the best!

Footy bonanza this weekend.

Games on Fri afternoon, Fri night, Sat afternoon and Mon afternoon.

Can't be bothered picking scores for all matches, been through the fixtures though this is what i think the tables will look like come Monday evening.

Prem

TKU 9
BO 7
ECB 6
HAM 4
CU 4
OS 3
WAI 2
MEL 1
ES 1
MAN 1

Div 1

BU 12
GR 12
TAK 10
PAP 7
ELS 7
FHM 6
MAP 5
MET 4
LA 1
NU 1
NF 0
ALB 0

Div 2

HC 10
NSU 10
MU 10
WAR 7
TCU 7
WAI 6
WS 4
MAT 4
OMU 3
FEN 3
MC 3
PAP 1

Loads of games...

Will try get along to watch Glenfield v Lynn Avon or FHM v Albany on Friday arvo, not sure which as yet.

Watched half of glenfield v lynn avon left at half time boring! glenfield will be up there bit like manurewa last season..

Big T I did exactly the same as you, 1st half at Glenfield then went up to the Albany game.

MAP 4 - 1 Metro in the Mt Albert derby. 

Went to go watch Wanderers today, game had everything, quality goals, a bald git getting sent off for dissent, keeper injury, some great saves and goals.

went to watch papatoetoe v birko . pitch was a disgrace! Worst game ever papa just whacked it and got away with numerous tackles..

Waitak I think are missing a few players to become back from the NZFC

Bays beat sports 4nil

heard it was a good win to the MAP and Gage got a couple of handy goals.

I went and watched the first half of the Albany vs FHM game and since we played FHM last weekend and Albany on Easter monday this game was of interest, have to say having seen Albany play previous and having seen FHM first hand last week i was sure this was going to be a win to the Beecroft Park lads - but that's football and as someone said Albany worked hard and ground out the win, although neither team were flash. Caught the 2nd half at McFetridge and ok the score indicates Glenfield were all over them but at 1-0 at halftime Lynn Avon had a really good 25mins of possesion and just couldn't carve out a clear chance and then went two down to a soft Hagan goal (a header i think) and then La chased the game and took off a midfielder for an extra attacker. The score was inflated by another Hagan goal (that Zane should have probably stopped) but for mine it wasn't a 3-0 game - but again that's football.

N Bomb, that was former All White Carl Jorgenson who was sent off early doors.

Birko game today was quality. Dominating and then Mt Albert got a player sent. Birko had about 80% possession. 8-0 and I dont think fletch even had a shot to save. Hat trick to Keegan, Jack got 2, Sheldon Bill Arnie all got 1

Bad day for the Waikato teams, may be attending a fair few relegation battles I fear