CAPITAL FOOTBALL PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR 2020
Liquid IT Petone vs Waterside Karori Central League 2021 | 3pm, Saturday April 24 | Memorial Park Proudly supporting Petone FC liquidit.nz Chairman’s Corner
elcome Waterside Karori to Petone FC and welcome to all of our loyal Wsupporters and opposition supporters. Our top three men’s teams are all playing Waterside Karori today, so a great club battle day :-) All of our teams need results for sure, notably our Third Team who after two wins are sitting on top of the Capital 3 ladder. Our Powerex Petone Women’s First Team have still only played one game with a tight loss against Palmerston North Marist two weeks ago, then had a bye last week and another this week. So I’m sure they will be looking forward to some competitive football again next week. Our Women’s Reserve Team are in full swing and play Island Bay tomorrow. Our four masters teams don’t have games this weekend due to school holidays, which I am sure frustrates them after just starting the season – though, a good chance to get the bodies rested for the long season ahead. Thank you to Graham Hickling for sorting out our temporary scoreboard on the balcony just in time before our first home game, a requirement for the Central League this year. Also thanks to Nadine Bowen and others for offering to help with gameday announcements, another requirement for Central League. Please support Henry in the kitchen, he has some nice food on offer from 2.30pm every Saturday, we are lucky to have him doing the catering for us – remember his Cookie’s Café in Regent Street Petone. I am looking forward to seeing how this weekend unfolds for us – good luck to everybody – COYB. Matt Bliss Chairman [email protected]
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Junior Club Update
i all. The season got under way with only a little Hrain in the air. This fortunately didn’t dampen the spirits and all of the players had smiles, energy and enthusiasm in chasing that round ball which never goes where it is supposed to! Still, next weekend it will improve. I did have a great time walking around Sladden and the main turf watching the new generation of Petone FC First Teamers. Some very serious talent was seen, not only players but the coaches on the side too. I hope that these generous folk can maintain their desire to keep giving. Their contribution is something that should be rewarded every weekend – parents please don’t be frightened to give them a pat on the back, they feel the ups and downs as much as the players, be assured of that. What I would like to mention is those “X Factor” players. In my day it was George Best (Manchester United), Charlie Cooke (Chelsea), slightly later came Rodney Marsh (QPR) and then along came Ryan Giggs (Manchester United) during the 1990s, getting close to the here-and-now with both Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) and Lionel Messi (Barcelona) fighting it out for long years. The modern generation has come to pass including Neymar (PSG), Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) and England hopeful in Jack Grealish (Aston Villa). All of these players have one thing in common – they can go past players at will – enough to bring a stadium to their feet, bring the oohs and ahhs out of many throats and that lone voice of “Why didn’t he pass?”. We all love it when it comes off and then groan when it doesn’t. Can we really expect a ten-year-old to suddenly make the right decision to dribble or pass if we don’t give him/her the chance? Now is the time for the younger players to have that opportunity – yes they will make mistakes about the right and wrong time, but let them give it a go first. Those discussions can come a little later in their footballing life. I think it’s brave to take those players on. Yes, we should encourage them to try their skills in the right areas of the pitch – the lone defender taking on three of his opponents in his own half is not great – but what did he/she see? Perhaps we are passing the life out of our dribblers. Just some food for thought. After all we do call it “Little Dribblers” at some clubs. In football (soccer), the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There’s something greater than the result, more lasting – a legacy. – Xavi, Spain international (2000-2014) Happy football everybody. Gary Jenkins Petone FC Junior Club director of football Shirt Sponsorship
s part of our club’s supporters’ package, sponsors have the Aopportunity to advertise on the back of player shirts in both the Petone FC Liquid IT Men’s First Team and Powerex Women’s First Team. These much-appreciated financial supporters are also named a matchday sponsor for one game per year, in which their business and the players proudly wearing their shirts will be profiled in the following pages of this programme. Hospitality will be provided to the sponsor at that game and, additionally, framed pictures will feature in the club stairwell throughout the season. Any businesses who may be interested in this opportunity – or any club members who may have potential contacts – please advise club chairman Matt Bliss
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Why choose us? we are friendly and organised – Powerex staff are friendly, approachable and well organised we’re reliable and are always on time – we will turn up when we say we will and we will do what we say we will do! we care about health and safety – health and safety is not to be taken lightly! Our team are handpicked and then trained to become the best at their game we’re your “one stop shop” – we’re highly trained and have the skillset to tackle any electrical, data, security or heating task because we’re different, because we’re good – “excellent service to satisfied customers” is our vision You can read more about who we are and what we do on our website
Blue Star Wellington 33 Jackson Street Petone PO Box 38 190 Wellington New Zealand 5045 Tel: +64 4 569 3519 Fax: +64 4 568 6356 www.bluestar.co.nz Jake Harris If you had to choose a sport other than football, what would it be and why? Golf. A long career and a relaxing way to spend an afternoon. Most memorable match you have played in? Winning our conference final with my university in the United States. Most memorable match you have watched? World Cup Qualifier, New Zealand vs Bahrain. Who is your favourite team in any other league? Blackburn Rovers. What do you love about Petone FC? The people that work with the team in and around the club. What instrument do you or would you like to play? Would love to be able to play the piano. Favourite food? Peanut butter, but it has to be crunchy. Messi or Ronaldo? Messi. Do you have any non-sport-related hobbies? Art, painting and drawing. When travel restrictions are lifted, what country would you most like to visit and why? Morocco. It looks incredible and was the next place planned before traveling became more difficult.
Libby Boobyer If you had to choose a sport other than football, what would it be and why? Probably Futsal just enjoy it and like the pace of the game Most memorable match you have played in? No idea. Most memorable match you have watched? No idea. Don’t watch much football to be honest. Who is your favourite team in any other league? Dont have one. don’t really support any. What do you love about Petone FC? Playing footy with my mates. What instrument do you or would you like to play? Don’t play any but maybe drums. Favourite food? Lucky burger. Messi or Ronaldo? Ronaldo. Do you have any non-sport-related hobbies? A bit of all sorts, like a bit of skating with my dog. When travel restrictions are lifted, what country would you most like to visit and why? Probably one of the islands to catch some sun and relax.
Oroqi With the current trend of industrial-style concrete interior spaces, the way sound reverberates and echoes can be a distraction or even make it a nightmare to be heard – especially in a café and restaurant setting, but also in offices, classrooms, venues and studios. This is where Oroqi steps in. Oroqi designs, manufactures and installs acoustic products to enhance the natural beauty of sound in spaces where you live and work, as well as providing a stylish and contemporary design solution. We take used plastic milk, Coke and Sprite bottles – giving them a second life – and create bespoke 3D tiles, murals, flat sheets, privacy partition screens and much, much more. Your imagination is our limit. We work with architects and directly with clients to customise acoustic treatments to suit any size and budget. You’ll see our Chevron tiles on the walls of the Lower Hutt Town Hall, look up in Mojo on the ground floor of 1 Willis Street to see bespoke tiles hanging from the ceiling, if you’ve been in Christchurch Airport’s Koru Lounge you’d have seen our handmade tiles on the ceiling designed to mimic the Southern Alps, you’ll see a colourwall of Fractile in the Ricoh Building at 1 Victoria Street, and we’ve also created Farewell Spit and Wellington Harbour for partition panels for the New Zealand Transport Agency. From your office, school, kindergarten, café, restaurant, home theatre to your back yard jamming studio or garage for the teenagers to hang out in with their mates, we have a solution and a price point for you. Walls, ceilings and hanging things – Oroqi. Created in 2015, Oroqi is based at 18 Cornish Street, Petone. As a locally-owned business, Oroqi is proud to support Petone FC. You can contact Daryll Pickering via 027 563 7879 or
Ollie Pickering If you had to choose a sport other than football, what would it be and why? Golf because it’s about technique and I’m all for it. Most memorable match you have played in? Would have to be Team Wellington Youth vs Eastern Suburbs Youth, I scored twice and we won to round off the last-ever National Youth League season. Most memorable match you have watched? Real Madrid vs PSG in Göteborg, Sweden. We just happened to be there at the time so we managed to get tickets to watch Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimović face off. Who is your favourite team in any other league? Liverpool Football Club ... YNWA! What do you love about Petone FC? Everywhere I go there is a family member of mine.
What instrument do you or would you like to play? I can play the guitar but I’d like to learn how to play piano.
Favourite food? I love Asian cuisine and anything pasta based ... to be fair I just love eating really.
Messi or Ronaldo? Messi for sure, but you have to appreciate Ronaldo’s talent. Do you have any non-sport-related hobbies? My family just got a new puppy so she’s keeping me busy outside of footy. When travel restrictions are lifted, what country would you most like to visit and why? I want to go everywhere but I’d most like to visit Italy to eat some pizza and pasta.
Tallulah Nemet-Sargent If you had to choose a sport other than football, what would it be and why? Underwater hockey. I already play this sport so it’s not very hard to choose. It is so intense, fun and random all at the same time. Most memorable match you have played in? National Age Group Tournament 2018 Capital vs Central. Plus beating Wellington United in the Kelly Cup last year. Most memorable match you have watched? White Ferns vs Japan. Was cool to see such high-calibre football in Welly. Who is your favourite team in any other league? Barcelona in Spanish La Liga/Champions League and Chelsea in the Women’s Super League.
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etone FC featured well at the 2020 Capital Football Awards evening, held at Pthe Petone Workingmen’s Club in October last year. Honours bestowed entailed:
Match Programme of the Year
Social Media Account of the Year
Club Administrator of the Year – Barry Pickering
Club Volunteer of the Year – Graham Hickling
W League Player of the Year Finalist – Ellen Fibbes
Cap 1-4 Player of the Year Finalist – Shaun de Roo
Petone FC Programme Info editor/designer – Iain MacIntyre (MacIntyre Public Relations Ltd)
Liquid IT Petone Waterside Karori GK (1) Ethan Claridge GK (1) Henry Gray GK (22) Cameron Irving RGK (20) Gabe Cooper 2 James Nash RGK (21) James Stuart 3 Seth Loughran 2 Dom McCann 4 Oliver Whitehead 3 Tom Kirkland 5 Lucas Richardson 4 Conor Butler 6 Jake Harris 5 Josh Murphy 7 Jaga Scott-Greenfield 6 Lewis Miller 7 Stefan Cordwell 8 Hami Paranihi-Nuku 8 Ben Lack 9 Kieran McMinn 9 Merlin Luke-Miny 10 Max Winterton 10 Jarrod Stant 11 Cody Brook 11 Jack Parker 12 Ollie Pickering 12 Jack Carter 13 Isaac Snell 13 Andrew Riley 14 Josh Zatorski 14 Luke Agalawatta 15 Brendan McMullen 15 Christian Johnson 16 Alex Shepherd-Reynolds 16 Blake Driehuis 17 Sefa Mamea-Hind 17 Harry Fautley (c) 18 Stanton Renwicks 18 Cai Maclean 19 Matt Jones 19 James Knott 20 Will Grantham Coach Sam Smith 21 Sam Pickering (c) Asst coaches Curtis Jones Coach Besim Balicevac Sam Morrissey Asst coach Jeremy Field Manager Mike Hornsby Manager Phil Pickering 007 Gary Fisher Asst manager Barry Pickering GK coach Gavin Kelner Physio TBI Health Physio Raphael Villareal W-League 2021 Saturday May 1, 12pm | Wgtn Utd | Newtown Park (a)
Powerex Petone North Wellington GK (1) Aoife Gallagher-Forbes 12GK (1) TallulahCushla Lichtwark Nemet-Sargent
2 Molly McFarlane 132 CaelinNicola InghamPatterson (c)
3 Charlotte Smith 143 AlexEva Bloomfield McIntosh
4 Katie McKenzie 155 CaitlinMaddie Hendry Porteous
5 Tessa McFarlane 166 GabrielleZenia Kupidura Claridge
6 Libby Boobyer 177 ChristineBria Sargent Hosie
7 Eleanor Humphrey 218 EllenEve Bayliss Fibbes (c)
8 Olivia Gibbs Coach9 ElliotAshleigh Taylor Mason
9 Devyn Crawford Asst10 coach AlexOlivia Austen Ingham
10 Kate Marra Manager13 JuliaJade HarrisonHeather
11 Emily Yates Asst15 manager JineceHaleigh Bakhos Wardlaw
16 Hayley Gotlieb
17 Nicola Ross
Coach Mark Oates
Manager Simon Bayliss Men’s First Team Matches
March 28 | Wairarapa Utd | away – 2-4 S Pickering, K McMinn
April 2 | Lower Hutt City | home – 1-5 K McMinn
April 10 | Wellington Olympic | home – 1-3 K McMinn
April 18 | Napier City Rovers | away – 0-7
April 24 | Waterside Karori | home –
May 2 | Western Suburbs | away –
May 8 | Miramar Rangers | home –
May 22 | North Wellington | home –
May 29 | Wainuiomata | away –
June 5 | Lower Hutt City | away –
June 12 | Wairarapa Utd | home –
June 26 | Waterside Karori | away –
July 3 | Napier City Rovers | home –
July 17 | Western Suburbs | home –
July 24 | Wellington Olympic | away –
August 7 | Miramar Rangers | away –
August 14 | Wainuiomata | home –
August 28 | North Wellington | away – Women’s First Team Matches
April 10 | PN Marist | away – 1-2 Libby Boobyer
TBC | Waterside Karori | away –
April 24 | Bye | –
May 1 | Wellington Utd | away –
May 8 | Seatoun | home –
May 22 | Wairarapa Utd | away –
May 29 | Victoria University | home –
June 12 | PN Marist | home –
June 26 | Seatoun | away –
July 3 | Wellington Utd | home –
July 17 | Waterside Karori | home –
July 24 | Bye | –
July 31 | Victoria University | away –
August 7 | Wairarapa Utd | home – Central League and W-League Tables
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Miramar Rangers 4 4 0 0 13 2 11 12 Wellington Olympic 4 3 1 0 9 5 4 10 Napier City Rovers 4 3 0 1 17 10 7 9 Wairarapa United 4 2 1 1 11 5 6 7 Western Suburbs 4 2 1 1 10 6 4 7 Waterside Karori 4 2 1 1 8 7 1 7 Lower Hutt City 4 1 1 2 7 5 2 4 North Wellington 4 0 1 3 9 15 -6 1 Wainuiomata 4 0 0 4 3 17 -14 0 Liquid IT Petone 4 0 0 4 4 19 -15 0
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Palmerston North Marist 2 2 0 0 8 1 7 6 Wairarapa United 2 2 0 0 8 3 5 6 Wellington Utd Diamonds 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 Waterside Karori 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0 Powerex Petone 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0 Victoria University 1 0 0 1 2 6 -4 0 Seatoun 1 0 0 1 0 6 -6 0
Volunteering and Events
etone FC relies on the support of our community to maintain our Pfamily-friendly club and we are always in need of both volunteers and funding.
We would love to see you attend this season’s functions, as listed in our events calendar, and would welcome any offers of a little time to help out.
This could be helping run gamedays, manning the bar or you may have a particular skill the club could use on one of our committees.
If interested please contact Matt Bliss
t its annual general meeting on March 29, Capital Football elected AMaureen Jacobson as a Life Member. She was nominated by Petone FC. Maureen played for Petone from 1993-1999, scoring 144 goals in 88 games, at a rate of 1.65 per game. In reaching that tally she scored 24 hatricks.
In Maureen’s time at Petone, the club’s Women’s Team was very successful, winning the Women’s Central League every year from 1994 to 1998 and finishing runners-up in the national women’s knockout tournament (then the SWANZ Cup) every year from 1995 to 1998. Maureen was a key member of the team and a major contributor to that success.
The club awarded her Women’s Player of the Year three times and Women’s Best and Fairest once.
In 1993 Maureen was awarded both Wellington Women’s Player of the Year and New Zealand Women’s Footballer of the Year.
Before joining Petone, Maureen had played overseas, in England and Finland. She became the first female New Zealander to sign a professional football contract, with HHK of Helsinki in 1988.
Maureen played 53 full internationals for New Zealand from 1980 to 1997, scoring 17 goals. She also played six other games for New Zealand, scoring another three goals. She captained New Zealand from 1994 to 1996.
In addition to all of her on-field achievements, Maureen also managed to find the time to be treasurer of our Women’s Committee from 1994 to 1998.
In 2020 the Jackson Street Programme unveiled a bronze plaque on its Walk of Champions, honouring Maureen’s record as an international player while at the Petone FC.
Maureen Jacobson, pictured left in 2015 when the club presented her, belatedly, with a Golden Boot Award for scoring over 100 goals
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fter 17 seasons proudly representing the blue of Petone, Old Father Time Aeventually caught up and indicated it was time to bring the Armani legacy to an end. Playing five seasons in the Masters 1 division, the team found itself in the last couple of seasons fighting to retain its spot in the competition rather than competing for the title. Having had a total of 11 centurions and three double centurions in appearances, there were only two remaining original squad members left playing – the gaffer and Armani-in-chief Paul Cant and Marty Baker the ever-young. Somewhat neatly, the team finished having scored exactly 900 goals, with every match having been meticulously recorded by the gaffer. A significant recruitment effort over the off season has drawn together a quality squad of past Petone players, some of whom could rightly claim status of club legends of the not-too-distant past. And so we have the Argh Me Knees – the name partly a homage to the Armani history and also a significant reality of playing a high level of football at an advanced age. The mission statement for the new team was “bring together a squad of genuine quality players who could contend for the Masters 1 title”. The squad began to assemble in late January, having kick-around sessions before joining the club’s ThirdTeam for preseason training – something not generally associated with masters football, but reflecting the desire of the new team to take things a bit more seriously and succeed in what is a very tough competition. A couple of preseason games and a couple of wins against fellow newcomers Eastbourne and the Petone Third Team saw us enter the season with confidence. There was genuine excitement to be drawn against perennial masters heavyweights the Karori Dreamers in the first game of the season. Were we going to be as competitive as we thought? Could the new team gel and actually play the quality of football we thought we were capable of? After the first 20 minutes the answer to both those questions appeared to be “no”. Lucky to only be down by one and chasing shadows around the park, Karori had come out firing and put us firmly on the back foot. After the initial shock, we slowly got into the game and managed to start to look threatening as the first half drew to a close. With probably close to 1000 central league caps of experience to call upon it was suggested a change of formation was needed and we needed to press them more. Nobody watching at the ground would have predicted the change of fortune that was about to unfold. Five unanswered goals for the Argh Me Knees left Karori silent and shell shocked. Never in their storied history in Masters 1 had they conceded so many. Mission one achieved – make a statement to the competition and have them fear facing us. But also a quick schooling in the realities of masters football. Having thought three subs would be plenty, we picked up a few injury concerns as players had to return to the field after thinking their job had been done for the day. Come the second game of the season and we are already in the situation of making calls to the wider squad for fill ins. All of a sudden, a 17-game competition seemed very long. Facing a North Wellington team apparently in a similar situation numbers-wise, confidence was sky high and pre-game talk was all about getting on top early so we could relax into the second half. 45 minutes, three posts and one crossbar struck later it was still very much game on as the goal we clearly deserved just wouldn’t come. Losing Stick 15 minutes in – to supposedly his first-ever hamstring tear – certainly didn’t help matters. Still no need to panic, we would just repeat the second half from last week and they would surely tire from chasing us around the park as they hadn’t yet had a single shot. Another 40 minutes later, several more posts and another crossbar hit, it was getting close to desperation time. Cometh the moment, cometh the man as they say. Having answered the emergency call for players much earlier in the season than he had expected it, who should find himself in the six yard box to calmly slot one home but none other than the original Armani himself, the gaffer Paul Cant. A thoroughly-deserved but hard-fought three points in the bag. It was also a very timely reminder about what it is going to take to achieve the goal of winning Masters 1. While there will be a core group of players forming the base of the squad, the ultimate success of the team will depend on the ability to call on other players in those weeks when numbers are tight who can step up and keep the team strong. Another to answer that call and unexpectedly find himself on the pitch for 75 minutes was Blair Easthope. Not having played any football for over three years, from the first touch it was like he had never stopped. Again, very fitting as other goals of the Argh Me Knees are to try to reconnect with past heroes with the club, provide a pathway back into competitive football for players who have retired too early and offer a standard of football that will encourage those nearing the end of their time in the top open leagues to carry on with the game we all love. Article kindly provided by Mike Deane and Chris Spayes For all of your communications writing and graphic design needs, including:
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Wellington, New Zealand A Brief History Formed in 1898, Petone FC is one of the oldest football clubs in New Zealand and is the longest-surviving in our original form – non-amalgamated – in Wellington. Major on-field achievements have included: Chatham Cup winners – 1928, 1930 and 1949 Chatham Cup semifinalists – 1994 Chatham Cup quarterfinalists – 1995 Junior National Cup (New Zealand U18) winners – 1979 National Youth Championship (New Zealand U19) winners – 2008 annual Wellington preseason tournament (progressively known as the Hilton-Petone Cup) winners – 1956, 1985, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 Central League Premier Division winners – 1990 Capital Federation Premier League winners – 2006, 2007 and 2019 Women’s Central League winners – 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 Petone FC also finished runners-up in the Central League Premier Division in 1992, 1996 and 2008 as well as the Capital Federation Premier League in 2005, 2017 and 2018. The club organises the annual preseason Hilton-Petone Cup tournament which, since 1955, has attracted an almost maximum number of entries from clubs in the Wellington region and which is an established part of the local football scene. CAPITAL FOOTBALL PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR 2020