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8 Papatoetoe AFC Ladies Matchday Programme vs THREE KINGS UNITED NRFL Women's Premier Division 13:00 Sunday 06.08.16. @ Murdoch Park Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem | 1 2 | Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem 4 COMMITTEE WELCOME 6 COACH'S COMMENTS 8 MATCH REPORT 10 GAMEDAY PICS 12 PLAYER PROFILE 14 NRFLW PREVIEW 16 OPPOSITION PROFILE 18 MEET THE REDS 20 CLUB NEWS 22 PREMIER RESERVES 24 LAUGHS OR LITERATURE 26 JUNIORS AND YOUTH 27 AFF DIVISION 3 28 MEN'S UPDATE 30 FIVE FAVES 32 QUICK QUIZ QUESTIONS Papatoetoe Association Football Club Murdoch Park, 27 Chestnut Road, Papatoetoe Phone 09 278 8011 Postal Address Papatoetoe AFC, PO Box 23369, Papatoetoe 2155 www.papatoetoeafc.org.nz Club President Club Secretary Pamela Luhrs [email protected] 09 300 9112 Coordinator of Junior Football Adrian King [email protected] Coordinator of Men’s Football Dave Robertson [email protected] Coordinator of Women’s Football Andrew Kirk [email protected] 021 840 766 Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem | 3 A warm welcome to be looking to improve Good luck to all teams Murdoch Park and big upon their 5-1 loss at today! congratulations to Keith Hay Park earlier in newly crowned Ladies the season. Congratu- Premier Champions lations to Three Kings Adrian King Three Kings United, for again, and good luck to Executive Committee their round 16 xture both teams. against home team Papatoetoe. The Ladies Premier Reserves game before- A big ask for Papatoe- hand should be a good toe today, There Kings test for both teams with haven’t dropped any 7th playing 8th. A win points at all this sea- for Papatoetoe would son (which is quite an close the gap on Three achievement) but I'm Kings to just 3 points. sure Coach Andrew Kirk will have the ladies ‘ red up’ to compete Thanks must go to and perform against the our sponsors for their best the NRFL Women's generous contribution Premier Division has to to the club. It is getting o er. increasingly di cult make ends meet, and as an amateur organisation Comparing the rst we rely heavily on grant half of the season to funding, donations and the second, Papatoe- sponsorship. We are toe have improved on very grateful for all con- their results against tributions. opponents in the top four and will certainly 4 | Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem | 5 spot on the table this year, against the best players integrating 21 new play- in the league will help our ers has taken time and as individual and collective a coaching sta, we are development. turning one eye towards next season so we can hit I would like to thank our the ground running. We parents and spectators for managed to add some real their continued support. quality to our side at the We are a small club pretty start of the year and hope much 'Punching Above Our I would like to welcome all to build on that moving Weight' and most people our Reds supporters and forwards as a club. connected with Papatoe- the Three Kings United toe understand this. The team to Murdoch Park for Our form has been fairly family-oriented culture we Round 16 of the 2016 NRFL good over the last eight or try to foster, and the 'In It Women’s Premier Division. nine games. Except one or Together' attitude seems two lapses of concentra- to strike a chord with the First of all, I would like to tion, we have been much majority of our families and congratulate the Three more dicult to break this has seen their daugh- Kings players and coaching down whilst also looking ters thrive. Buying into this sta for a fantastic achieve- increasingly dangerous on clulture will continue to be ment - not only winning the counter-attack. We are paramount to our success. the title with three games still trying to get the right to spare, but doing so with balance, but slowly but Thanks also to our commit- a 100% record. It doesn't surely we are getting there. tee and sponsors. Without matter what level you the nancial backing we play at, to win every single It doesn't get much tough- would not be able to aord game you play is incredibly er than hosting the newly to enter our teams in the impressive. crowned Champions, and NRFL League. as Three Kings have scored With four games to go, 81 goals in only 15 games, I hope everyone enjoys the we are working hard on we know what we are up game. developing a structure and against today. However, solid platform to take in to this is a challenge that Thanks, the 2017 season. Although we are looking forward Andrew. we are still chasing 7th to as testing ourselves 6 | Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem | 7 Three Goal Salvo Sets ing out Vegas McCarroll, who Nicole Cooper’s delivery was thundered a drive through the a gem, arcing just beyond the Up Solid Norwest crowded goalmouth and just far post to Waru, who lobbed past the far post. it back into the danger zone. Win Pretty somehow headed over ‘Toe’s response took four By Jeremy Ruane from virtually directly under the minutes to materialise this crossbar. time, and it was led by Britney Cunningham-Lee. She out- It mattered not, for in the paced Boobyer on United’s left nineteenth minute, Norwest - no mean feat in itself - before doubled their advantage. And picking out Charne Van der how! What was a super goal Walt up in support. began with Maddie Snell’s ball forward to Barnett on half-way. The mid elder’s e ort was blocked by Lucy Hall, but Shon- She promptly released Cooper telle Stevens swooped on the down the right, from where she rebound and thrashed a thirty picked out Waru with a rst- yarder goalwards, an e ort time cross. The rst goalscorer Nadia Olla grabbed greedily. steered the ball back into the stride of Pretty, whose fulminat- Three goals in nine rst half Within seconds, Norwest were ing twenty yarder crashed into minutes inspired Norwest on attack, and this time, they the back of the net beyond the United to a comprehensive made it count. Cat Pretty - she diving gure of Bradley, who 4-0 victory over Papatoetoe on dominated mid eld - led the was rendered helpless by the the QBE Stadium turf on July charge, picking out Barnett, pace of this sweetly struck shot. 21, leaving them well placed whose delightful chipped pass to secure a mid-table nish in over the defence invited Sam ‘Toe were reeling, and had the Lotto Northern Premier Waru to burst through the to score next else the game Women’s League. inside left channel. would start getting beyond them. Savarna Asafo-Tavita and United applied the early pres- From fteen yards out, she deft- Cunningham-Lee looked to sure, with Jane Barnett heading ly lobbed the advancing gure respond in the 21st minute, the narrowly across the face of goal of Danielle Bradley, the ball duo combining well to reward following Courtney Noble’s taking one bounce en route to David’s run. But Olla was o her third minute cross. But ‘Toe’s re- the top far corner of the net to line in an instant to save at the sponse was near instantaneous, give Norwest the lead. nuggety front-runner’s feet on Hannah Kraakman’s through the edge of the area. ball releasing Jax David, who They swiftly sought a second struck her volley on the run goal. Pretty this time sent United weren’t done with on early but wide of the target. Barnett buccaneering down the the scoring front, however, and right, from where she looked to in the 24th minute made it 3-0. The tit-for-tat nature of pro- pick out Waru with a cross. The Waru rampaged down the left ceedings continued in the covering gure of Ally Toailoa before ring in a cross which tenth minute, Libby Boobyer’s intervened on this occasion, al- the ‘Toe rearguard failed to deeply delivered corner pick- beit at the expense of a corner. 8 | Papatoetoe AFC Womens Prem adequately deal with, much to home Cooper’s delicious 43rd the contest. The enterprising the delight of McCarroll, who minute cross to the far post, figure of Boobyer intercepted strode onto the sphere and after the winger had been a pass and weaved her way steered it deftly beyond Brad- released by Waru. past two opponents before re- ley’s diving figure to bulge the leasing Cooper down the right. net once more. Two minutes later, Bradley pro- She cut inside before firing a duced a splendid reflex save to shot beyond the advancing 3-0 down, ‘Toe weren’t aiding her right to deny the opening figure of Bradley and into the their cause by making silly goalscorer, after she had got net via the far post. errors of judgement when in the better of Toailoa following possession, players’ mistakes another raid inspired by the After substitute Cara Loner- all too often allowing their im- combination play of Pretty and gan had gone close to scoring mediate opponent to relieve Barnett, two of Central Foot- with her first touch, ‘Toe sub- them of the ball and instigate ball’s leading lights in recent stitute Amber Whitley looked further Norwest pressure. seasons. to pick out David with a cross seven minutes from time. Hall An example of this came in the Papatoetoe rung the changes intervened, but sliced her 29th minute, when Kraakman, at half-time, both position- clearance goalwards, the ball of all people, was pounced on ally and personnel-wise.

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