Vs Birkenhead United LOTTO NRFL Premier 1 April 2017 3.00pm 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 Welcome to the first home game of the season at Memorial Park. The top two sides started last week with a loss to Bay Olympic for our Premier side—they now know what's needed. Well done to the Reserves for their first win. This week we welcome Birkenhead's two top sides and look forward to hosting them at the park today. Today we see the changes our club administration has been working on with the return to the club of our small whites who have been based at Pullman Park Papakura for the last few years as part of the whole of football plan. To Kieran and Todd thanks for your efforts in making this happen. It's now the clubs responsibility to make it work. On the other side we start the season with a club breakfast which is quite fitting as we welcome on board the Wiri Licencing Trust as the clubs first team sponsor for the 2017 season. Although they are long time supporters of the club, it is great to see them become sponsors again. We look forward to a long term arrangement which benefits both The Trust, Club and the community. Today with our Premier and Reserve team players here please take the time to have a chat and get to know them. Also coaches introduce them to your team members. This year the players have committed to getting to know you all from the youngest to you more senior players. See you at the games today. Kerry Bevan President Reserve Coaches Comments Welcome to Birkenhead today and all the best to both your reserves and prems. Last week was the start of an exciting year ahead for both our reserves squad. With a lot of new faces and younger players moving up from SAE academy, the start of the year has been all about setting our standards and getting to understand how and what is required from our young players. We had a good start to the season against Bay Olympic and happy to start off with a win and a good performance. Congrats to Benny for getting on the score sheet, well done to Jamie for being my man of the match, and also to all the players who played their first game for Manurewa. Our aim this year is to play an energetic and entertaining brand of football so that people want to come and watch us. You will also see some young players make their debuts into senior football, with 5 SAE 2002 born players already getting a taste of this during pre season. All the best to all other teams having their first game of the season and go Rewa! Cheers. Marty Birkenhead Utd Reserves Development GK Michael Bilton GK Brendan Hall Jack McQuoid (GK) 2 Kew Mcskimming Sam Stansfield 3 Jamie Birch Ryan Duthie Justin Dunnet 4 Rory Higgins James Barlow 5 Gurpreet Singh Tom Fisher 6 Harrison McDowell Matt Banks 7 Liam Brown Jack Kelly 8 Elijah Woods Simon Mudapakati 9 Ethan Adams View Rungpao 10 Troy Christophers Jordan Jayapuram 11 Brooke Robinson Josh Blackman Josh Ireland 12 Jaylen Rodwell Bronson Kelly 13 Benjamin Daniel Clarke Foulds 14 Aaron Dormer Oban Hawkins 15 Samuel Hart Dan Mitten 16 Sean Bright Joe Benbow 17 Luke Clissold Harrison Piper 18 Christopher Walden Dylan Hobson 20 Chadly Hurst Braidon Fletcher 21 Cole Holland Jarrod Smith Coach Glenn Barlow Manager Coach: Martin Rodwell First Team Coaches Comments After earning promotion to the premier league in the last game of the season last year, we now face as tough a challenge football-wise than most of out players will experience, staying up in the division this season. It is the clear goal of the club to not only remain in the premier league, but remain here for as long as possible. Having retained many of the key players from last year, we also welcome in some new ones. I hope all the supporters get behind them and show the support Manurewa has been known for in the past. We had a solid pre-season, with some good results, but more important- ly, some flashes of quality and potential from the boys that will need to last 90 minutes each week if we wsnt to be competitive. It is a big step up for most of the players, and we need to adjust as quickly as possible to be able to get results. Last week's result against Bay Olympic showed we were more than capable of matching it with the teams at this level, and would have been a different result had it not been for a couple of mistakes, mistakes that we were able to get away with last year, and unfortunately we wont have that luxury this season. Birkenhead arrive having established themselves as one of the top club sides in the country and an NRFL Premier League title contender year in year out. If we want to remain in this league, we need to prove ourselves against the best, and there's no better chance to do that this today. Nathan Christie Lotto Northern League Premier Sean Dowling 1 Ricky Lines 2 Pete Jones 3 Rudy Mozr 4 Robbie Garcia 5 Luke Bulay 6 Marvin Eakins 7 Keiran Nevey 8 Stephen Carmichael 9 Sander Waterland 10 Brad Rathbun 11 Brendan Hall 12 Matthew Francis 13 Liam Whiter 14 Christian Niyonsaba 16 Philip Paul 17 Pablo Yackson 18 Atiq Koike 19 Coach: Nathan Christie Manager: Bhupinder Singh Physiotherapist: Dean Trembath Match Officials: Cory Mills Hubert Bakx Rhys Kimber Ball Boys: 10th Falcons Birkenhead Utd Lotto Northern League Premier 1 Damian Hirst 2 Moses Akimana 3 Tom Davis 4 Rob Dymond 5 Gregory Nimmo 6 Dylan Windust 7 Alexandder Greive 8 Ryan Cain 9 Ethan Galbraith 10 Jacob Mechell 11 Sean Green 12 Daniel Morgan 13 Roussin Nkoy 14 David Parkinson 15 Daniel Edwards 16 Christian Gray 17 Emmanuel Darkwa 18 Godwin Darkwa 19 Jack McQuoid (GK) 20 Wade Malony 21 Sean Skeens 22 Mark Webber 23 Tawanda Marowa 24 Yuki Ohtsuka 25 Daniel Lough Paul Hobson Coach Andrew Parkinson Goalkeeping Coach Terry Taylor Manager Robbie Lee Physio Kim Classen Physio Date Opposition Home/ Result Goal Scorers Away 25 March Bay Olympic Away 2—4 Sander Waterland, Luke Bulay 1 April Birkenhead Utd Home 8 April Eastern Suburbs Away 14 April (Fri) Hamilton Wanderers Home 17 April (Mon) East Coast Bays Home 22 April Forrest Hill Milford Away 25 April (Tues) Onehunga Sport Home 30 April Central Utd Away 6 May Waitakere Utd Home 13 May Three Kings Away 20 May Glenfield Rovers Home 27 May Bay Olympic Home 3 June Birkenhead Utd Away 10 June Eastern Suburbs Home 17 June Hamilton Wanderers Away 1 July East Coast Bays Away 15 July Forrest Hill Milford Home 22 July Onehunga Sports Away 5 August Central Utd Home 12 August Waitakere City Away 26 August Three Kings Utd Home 2 September Glenfield Rovers Away PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3 1 East Coast Bays (NRFLP) 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3 2 Bay Olympic (NRFLP) 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3 3 Onehunga Sports (NRFLP) Hamilton Wanderers AFC 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 4 (NRFLP) 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 5 Waitakere City FC (NRFLP) 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 6 Central Utd (NRFLP) Glenfield Rovers AFC 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 7 (NRFLP) 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 8 Forrest Hill Milford (NRFLP) 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0 9 Three Kings Utd (NRFLP) 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 10 Birkenhead Utd (NRFLP) 1 0 0 1 2 4 -2 0 11 Manurewa AFC (NRFLP) 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0 12 Eastern Suburbs (NRFLP) Senior Report Welcome to our 1st game at home for 2017. Today we welcome Birkenhead who won the Chatham Cup last year. Last week the first team played Bay Olympic , going down 4-2, with goals coming from signing Luke and Sander. The reserves won 1-0 with a new look team and a lot of new faces. Coach Marty has done a great job getting these young boys ready for senior football. The rest of out senior teams KO their season today. Good luck to all teams and hope everyone has a wonderful season. {Strength & Honor} Kind Regards Bhupinder Singh Youth Report Welcome to another season here at Memorial Park. Special welcome to families new to the club. This season we have 17 youth teams in total, one being an all girls team. Our season starts today (weather permitting—at time of writing this the weather was not great!) We wish all teams good luck for the season ahead. Introducing your youth committee for 2017—returning members are Ang Shutkowski, Brenda Gadsdon, Megan Proffitt and myself. New members are Octavia Jacobs and Wayne Jensen. Thanks to you all for your on going support. All the best to all Manurewa teams today. Laurette Hummels Youth Chairperson The start of the season has, as always, been very busy time as teams are compiled, uniform issued, gear is sorted…. February registrations catch out a lot of parents, even the returning ones, as it seems too soon and “summer hasn’t finished” resulting in many to “do it later”.