Vs MT ALBERT PONSONBY Lotto Northern Premier Division 18April 2014 2.45pm Manurewa AFC Club Rooms P.O. Box 75 122 War Memorial Park Manurewa Gibbs Rd Auckland Manurewa Phone: (09) 267 1120 www.manurewaafc.org.nz Hello and welcome to everyone here today for our first home game of the 2014 season. Welcome to our Mt Albert/Ponsonby visitors, looking forward to two entertaining games this afternoon. I would encourage you all to partake in refreshments from our well stocked bar, food from our excellent kitchen menu and even a freshly made coffee from our new coffee machine to make your Good Friday football experience complete. I would also like our supporters to really embrace our two relatively young new teams, run by our new expert coaching squad, as Manurewa is reknowned for. Projects the Board have been working on and instilled for this year include two youth acadamies, a dedicated coaching coordinator, two specialised goalkeeping training sessions each week, school holiday programmes for the kids, all run by a mix of ex All Whites, experienced coaches and successful players. Finally, a huge thank you to all the people involved in setting up and getting the new season underway. It does take a lot of work to ensure players of all ages can enjoy their chosen sport and a fantastic, successful club. Looking forward to an enjoyable & successful season as always. Wayne Jensen [ M.A.F.C Vice Chairman ] Reserves vs Ellerslie The boys attempt a 3 man Wall!!! Photo by Ken Underwood 2014 Over 35’s With the team Mascot. Photo from Duncan White U16 team at the ACFC Youth Tournament at Seddon Fields 21 March . Photo by Shane Wenzlick—Phototek Annual Club Breakfast Duncan on eggs!! Karl and Dave on BBQ. Big thanks to everyone who made this another great success. Photo by Ang Shutkowski Photo by Ken Underwood Reserve Coaches Comments Hi and welcome once again to all supporters for the 2014 season. It seems a bit unusual that we are into our fourth game of the season and this is the first report I have had to do. Bonus! I would like to welcome Mt Albert/Ponsonby and their supporters to our first home game of the season. I have told our boys that this is an important weekend for us and that I will be disappointed if we don't pick up at least 3 points from our 2 games. We need to win at least 1 so we can stay in touch with the leaders. The positive side for us is that we have played 2 of the top sides already, losing 2-0 to Ellerslie and 1-0 to Eastern Suburbs respectively. Eastern Suburbs was by far our best performance to date , although they had the majority of the possession, we battled well against an experienced side which included a couple of ex Manurewa 1st team players. We again have a reasonably young squad and with the experience of a couple of old hands in Theara and Stevie, I believe that we will be quite competitive and should have done reasonably well come the end of the season. Good luck to the first team this weekend and may the Easter bunny bring us an early present in the form of 3 points. Steve and Anja MT ALBERT PONSONBY Reserves Reserves GK Dillan Patel GK Jared Karam 3 Callum MacKenzie Not Available 5 Logan Hart 7 Yashneel Singh 8 Steven Johnson 9 Toby Edwards 10 Brendan Larsen 11 Kyle Whapshott 12 Paul Edgar 13 Theara Thay 14 Yuanwen Zhao 15 Jason Daniels 16 Dylan Feldtman 17 Cole Devenport Coach: Steve Wood Manager: Anja Pannekoek Date Opposition Score Goal Scorer/s Player of the Day 29 March (A) Mangere United 2—0 Pablo Yackson 5 April (A) Ellerslie 4 - 2 Kieran Nevey (Pen) Kieran Nevey Brody Cleave 12 April (A) Eastern Suburbs 1—0 Pablo Yackson 18 April (H) Mt Albert Ponsonby 21 April (A) Hibiscus Coast 26 April (H) Metro 3 May (H) Papatoetoe AFC 18 May (A) North Shore 24 May (H) Western Springs 31 May (A) Melville 7 June (H) Takapuna 21 June (H) Ellerslie 28 June (H) Mangere United 5 July (H) Eastern Suburbs 12 July (A) Mt Albert Ponsonby 19 July (H) Hibiscus Coast 25 July (A) Metro 2 August (A) Papatoetoe AFC 9 August (H) North Shore 16 August (A) Western Springs 24 August (H) Melville 30 August (A) Takapuna First Team Coaches Comments Welcome to Mt Albert Ponsonby and all Manurewa supporters to what is our first home match of the season. Today's match is crucial in our bid to get our season back on track. After a solid pre-season build up we have had an indifferent start to the season both with results and performance. In our last outing we showed some positives and were unlucky not to get something from the match. With a little more quality, we will start to pick up the results that we are striving for and make this a Good Friday. Mick Steedon has got Mount Albert coming to Memorial Park on the back of two big wins against Papatoetoe and Metro and we will be out to stop that run today. They have some proven Northern League performers in Jared Colligan, Dim Hayhow and Robyn Graeme that will definitely be players to watch and ones to get the better of if we are to come away with the points today. Here's to another season for the mighty Manurewa. We look forward to seeing you all down here in the coming weeks and having a beer after. See you in the bar… Nathan Christie Lotto Northern League Division1 1 Mataias Contreas 2 Greg Crestanello 3 Robert Garcia 4 Anthony Cibilich 5 Justin Horan 6 Cole Devenport 7 Marvin Eakins 8 David Shin 9 Gurpreet Singh 10 Keiran Nevey 11 Mathew Thomas 12 Troy Cleave 13 Todd Herbert 14 Hoani Edwards 15 Eammon O’Brien 16 Brody Cleave 17 Stephen Carmichael 18 Pablo Yackson Res GK Jared Karam Coaches: Hoani Edwards Nathan Christie Mark Armstrong GK Coach: Craig Hastings Manager: Adrian Stewart Physiotherapist: Dawn Church (Physio Rehab) Match Officials: Tom Woo Frey Head Faiyaz Ali Ball Boys: 10th Giants MT ALBERT PONSONBY Lotto Northern League Division 1 1 Robbie Graham 2 Ned Chappell 3 Michael Paget 4 Zynal Shabib 5 Dylan Beckham 7 Craig Taylor 8 Ciaren Regan 9 Jared Colligan 10 Peter Wild 11 Tim Hayhow (C) 12 Pat Hayton 13 Dean Delaney 14 Ben McCafferty 15 Luke Sutton 16 Robbie Robinson 17 Vincent Paget Coach Nick Snedden Assistant Coach - Glenn Sheppard Physio Nathan De Mello Manager David Platt POS TEAM P W D L For Agst GD PTS 1 Mangere Utd (NRFL1) 3 2 1 0 10 3 7 7 2 Eastern Suburbs (NRFL1) 3 2 1 0 6 2 4 7 3 Western Springs (NRFL1) 3 2 1 0 8 5 3 7 Mt Albert Ponsonby 4 3 2 0 1 9 1 8 6 (NRFL1) 5 Hibiscus Coast (NRFL1) 3 2 0 1 8 4 4 6 6 Takapuna AFC (NRFL1) 3 2 0 1 10 9 1 6 7 Ellerslie AFC (NRFL1) 3 1 2 0 8 6 2 5 8 Metro FC (NRFL1) 3 0 2 1 2 6 -4 2 Melville United AFC 9 3 0 1 2 5 8 -3 1 (NRFL1) 10 North Shore Utd (NRFL1) 3 0 1 2 8 14 -6 1 11 Papatoetoe AFC (NRFL1) 3 0 1 2 2 13 -11 1 12 Manurewa AFC (NRFL1) 3 0 0 3 2 7 -5 0 Senior Report Hi everyone Welcome to the 2014 season, hope you all had a great summer break and are ready for a new season. This weekend see the First team and the Reserves have their first home game for the season. The season hasn’t started as we had planned with 3 away loses which have been close but not been able to score goals being the let-down. We welcome Steve Carmichael and Anthony Cibilch to the team and hope they can help score goals. The Reserves started the season with a win against Mangere but then unfortunately lost to Ellerslie and Eastern Suburbs by the narrowest of margins but I’m sure they can bounce back today against Mt Albert Ponsonby. The First team and Reserves are the only games this weekend so I am sure they would love to see you all at Stanmore Bay Park Hibiscus Coast on Monday for your support. The Div 4 side couldn’t have started the season any better being unbeaten in the first two games downing Western Springs then downing last year champs Unimount 2-1 last weekend. This is a new team this year and I’m sure they can only get better so well done guys may it continue for the rest of the season. The Div 6 team are yet to post their first win but considering they have only been together for 4-5 weeks things can only get better. I’m sure things will get better as the season progresses. They are still looking for a couple more players so if you know of anyone please let us know—thanks. The Over 30’s started off the season with a great 2-1 win over Western Springs then going down to Fencibles last week 3-0. Only a minor setback and I’m sure they can bounce back next week against Metro. The Over 35’s haven’t started as well as they had hoped going down 2 nil to Mangere and Beachlands.