We're Forever Causing Trouble
Quite a few years ago now, the club sold the gym to the league club that is there now. They also got the main pitch in front of the changing rooms. Stop Out still uses one field there for senior games and the junior teams have a number of fields there. Te Whiti is nowhere near as good as it used to be, it floods and turns into a bog in winter and doesnt recover to well.
If you drive past the Raceway you will notice alot of developement going on. New pitches are being made plus new changing rooms. It will take roughly around a year to finish the grounds but when its done the club will have the facilities like it used to have in the old days.
The wind is still going to be a problem though
We're Forever Causing Trouble
So much good stuff in here. Who knew that a ten year old thread could be such a gold mine?
Lotsy Polyanszky joined Moturoa in 1959/60 being recruited by Hans Halder the Moturoa president. He played rep football for Taranaki, won the Taranaki Championship with Moturoa, The Brown Shield and played in the North Island Chatham Cup final between Moturoa and North Shore United, moving to North Shore United in 1961 and, I believe he then moved to a club in New Caledonia before Sydney Olympic.
Atilla Varga played for Moturoa and Taranaki for four years from 1959 to 1963, until heading to Hungaria. He would win the Taranaki championship 4 times, the Brown Shield and play in the Chatham Cup.
Much forgotten is Lotsy Varga who played for Moturoa for 5 years from 1959 to 1964 before leaving for Hungaria in 1965. He was said to be due a New Zealand call up after tearing a Wellington team to pieces at New Plymouth in 1964. He won 5 Tatanaki championship, The Brown Shield, and Moturoa's big Chatham Cup matches. After the move to Hungaria he was, in 1966, banned for life for allegedly striking a ref, it wasn't the case, and he was shafted by the FA through the politics surrounding football in Wellington. From the old chaps I've yarned to he was an genius player who inspired many in Taranaki.
Comments about a couple of players mentioned in this thread.
Lotsy Polyansky - took some of the best penalties I've ever seen . Had a zig zag run up that probably resulted in most goalkeepers being dizzy by the time he casually stroked the ball past him. Most memorable one i can recall was in the first season of National League for Hungaria in 1970 that was the winning goal against the eventual champions Blockhouse Bay . That was the first win of any Wellington side against an Auckland side in the inaugural season (2-1 and was one of only two losses for BB that season). Real pity that none of the Tv footage of those days still exist - don't know if that game was televised but in the early days of television WNTV1 used to televise Wellington Div 1 and Central League games - in those days Rugby viewed TV as the devil incarnate !
Geoff Brand - played two seasons for Miramar 1968-69 before transferring to Sop Out for the first National League season, Scored 40 odd goals in about the same number of games . He and Steve Bruce (5 or so games for NZ in 1968/9) were a formidable pair. Brand was incredibly bandy hence the comment in a previous post. From memory he was posted to Taumaranui in later police life and became famous as the "Sherrif of Taumaranui" as he took on the local gangs.
