MATCH DAY PROGRAM 3Rd / 5Th June 2017

MATCH DAY PROGRAM 3rd / 5th June 2017

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UPPER HUTT CITY VS PETONE SATURDAY 3:00 UPPER HUTT CITY VS TAWA MONDAY 2:00

A message from Mark . . .

Crikey – where do I start, last week we played Western Suburbs reserves in what turned out to be a game for the spectators. Plenty of goals, some great attacking play and some sloppy defending from both sides and to top it all off a bit of feisty ness towards the end. Our defence has been one of our strongest parts of our game this year and for one reason or another it let us down and we conceded a whopping 5 goals. This is no means a criticism of the back 4 alone as I have always said we start defending from the front and work our way back from there. Hopefully this was just a blip on the radar and we can get back to our miserly best over the weekend. In saying that though there were plenty of positives as well, we scored 4 great goals and it could have been more. The spirit the team showed to come back 3 times and nearly a 4th when we hit the cross bar in the 97th minute. This weekend will certainly test the squad as today we welcome Paul, and the undefeated (on the field) Petone side and their supporters. Paul has certainly got a talented squad and has got them playing very well. Having spent ten years at Petone, I know how hard they work at getting things right both on and off the field and know they will be hurting from last year’s performance. A wounded team is always very tough to beat but I’m sure we won’t be lying down for them as there is nothing better than winning against your former club.

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A message from Mark . . . Then on Monday, thanks to the Queen for letting us have the day off work, we welcome Richard, Lance and the Tawa team for a Chatham Cup match, in hope to continue the dream. We only played Tawa two weeks ago at Redwood Park in which turned out to be a very tight affair, ending 1 apiece. Let’s hope it doesn’t end that way today otherwise we will have to play another 30 minutes and then possibly penalty’s, which I’m sure the spectators will enjoy. What I’m sure of though is that we have learnt a lot from that encounter and will hopefully put this into practise and put the game to bed in 90 minutes. To add to the difficulty of these games, Petone & Tawa are tighter than Sam Rausch and have the best defences in the league, only conceding 8 goals in 9 games, we will have to be at our very best to break them down to get the rewards that we want. Both games stack up to be crackers for their own reasons, let’s hope we end up on the right side of the ledger and keep up with the leaders and keep the cup dream alive! Look forward to catching up with you in the club after the games, remember to shout for the orange, it certainly does spur the team on! Foz

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Introducing your teams . . . GK Logan Van Der Vegt 2 Brandon Postlethwaite 3 Josh Hinton 4 Peter Czerwonka 5 Luke Bradshaw 6 David Lane 7 Sam Patterson 8 Matt Fong 9 Jeremy Fong 10 Dan Close 11 Cameron McLachlan 12 Joe Sambrooke 13 Sam Rausch 14 Bryce Tamahaga 15 Nathan Woods 17 Benn Dawson 18 Ben Wood 19 Connor McIndoe 20 Donal Gahan 21 Simon Rippon

COACHES/ MANAGEMENT Mark Foster John Milroy Hamish McLachlan Dianne Shirer

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Introducing your teams (Saturday) . . .

GK Shea Stapleton 2 James Nash 3 Jimmy Sheppard 4 Morgan Blair 5 Hayden Stuthridge 6 Jordan Pickering 7 Shaun de Roo 8 Ta Eh Doe 9 Zach Watson 10 Michael Pickering 11 Tavonga Mahowa 12 Mitchell Blair 13 Karl Whalen 14 Mohammad Hekmatzadah 15 Ben Feld 16 Alex Shepherd-Reynolds 17 Taban Dier 18 Sefa Mamea-Hind 19 Hami Paranihi- Nuku 20 Ali Nazari 21 Sam Pickering

Coaches/Management Paul Whitmarsh Phil Pickering

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Introducing your teams (Sunday) . . .

GK Lance Ramaekers 2 Lewis Mackay 3 Nick Johnston 4 Ricky Stevenson 5 Paul Willis 6 Andrew Tang 7 Jake Shugg 8 Sam Lawrence 9 Soe Reh La 10 Ollie Story 11 Mike Ramaekers 12 Tom Hinder 13 Jamie Nicholas 14 Ben Edusei 15 Aaron Magill 16 Cameron Sanderson 17 Luke Martin 18 Nick Mcfadyen

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The results so far . . .

Petone 01-Apr-17 A L 0 - 2 Waterside Karori 08-Apr-17 H D 2 - 2 D Close, J Fong

Island Bay 13-Apr-17 A L 0 - 4 Lower Hutt 16-Apr-17 H W D Lane, J Fong, B 3 - 0 Dawson North Wellington 22-Apr-17 H W 2 - 0 J Fong (2) Wellington Olympic 29-Apr-17 A W 3 - 0 B Dawson, C McLachlan, J Fong BNU 06-May-17 H W 4 - 1 J Fong (2), J Hinton, M Fong

Kapiti Coast United 13-May-17 H W 1 – 0 J Hinton (CUP) Tawa 20-May-17 A D 1 – 1 Sam Patterson Western Suburbs 27-May-17 H L 4 - 5 B Dawson (2), J Fong, S Rausch Petone 03-Jun-17 H Waterside Karori 10-Jun-17 A Island Bay 17-Jun-17 H Wellington Olympic 01-Jul-17 H Lower Hutt 09-Jul-17 A North Wellington 22-Jul-17 A BNU 29-Jul-17 A Tawa 05-Aug-17 H Western Suburbs 12-Aug-17 A

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Fixtures and table . . . This Weeks Fixtures – Venue Home Team Away Time 1:30 PM Wellington Island Bay United vs

Wakefield 2 Olympic AFC 2:30 PM

North Wellington vs Waterside Karori Alex Moore Artificial 2:30 PM

Tawa AFC vs Western Suburbs Redwood Park 3:00 PM Parapine ITM

vs Petone

Maidstone Park (Turf) Upper Hutt City 3:30 PM Brooklyn Northern

vs Lower Hutt AFC

Wakefield 1 United

Next Week’s Fixture: Waterside Karori vs Parapine ITM Upper Hutt City 2.30 Karori Park

Table: Premier League TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS

Petone 9 8 1 0 26 8 18 25

Integration Works Waterside Karori 9 6 1 2 26 17 9 19

Western Suburbs 9 5 1 3 23 22 1 16

Ngatiawa Russell Lodge NW 9 4 2 3 23 17 6 14

Parapine ITM Upper Hutt City 9 4 2 3 19 15 4 14

Island Bay United AFC 9 4 1 4 21 18 3 13

Tawa AFC 9 3 3 3 12 8 4 12

Lower Hutt AFC 9 2 1 6 9 17 -8 7

Wellington Olympic 9 2 0 7 6 24 -18 6

Brooklyn Northern United 9 1 0 8 6 25 -19 3

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Appearances . . .

Wests Wests -

12/08

Tawa Tawa -

05/08

BNU BNU -

29/07

Nth Wgtn Wgtn Nth -

22/07

CUP CUP -

16/07

Lower

Hutt Hutt -

09/07

Olympic Olympic -

01/07

CUP CUP -

24/06

Island Bay Bay Island -

17/06

Karori Karori -

10/06

CUP CUP -

05/06

Petone Petone -

03/06

Wests Wests -

27/05

1 , 1 , 1

Tawa Tawa -

20/05

1 , 0 , 1

CUP CUP -

KCU KCU -

13/05

snu

4 , 1 , 4

BNU BNU -

06/05

x x

3 , 0 0 , 3

Olympic Olympic -

30/04

x x

2 , 0 0 , 2

Nth Wgtn Wgtn Nth -

22/04

x x

3 , 0 0 , 3

Lower Hutt Hutt Lower -

16/04

snu

snu snu

0 , 4 4 , 0

Island Bay Bay Island - 13/04

x x

2 , 2 2 , 2

Karori Karori -

08/04

x x

0 , 2 , 0

Petone Petone -

01/4

x x

Kieran Duncalf Kieran

Pedro Garcia Pedro

Simon Rippon Simon

Donal Gahan Donal

Connor McIndoe Connor

Ben Wood

Benn Dawson Benn

James Bennett James

Nathan Woods Nathan

Bryce Tamahaga Bryce

Sam Rausch

Joe Sambrooke

Cameron McLachlan Cameron

Dan Close

Jeremy Fong Jeremy

Matt Fong Matt

Sam Patterson Sam

David Lane David

Luke Bradshaw

Peter Czerwonka Peter

Josh Hinton

Brandon Postlethwaite Brandon

Logan Van Der Vegt Der Logan Van Name

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Sam Rausch – celebrating 100 games

Today marks a very special day for Sam who is playing his 100th 1st team game for the club Sam made his debut in 2009, with 1 start and 3 sub appearances with 0 goals scored. Sam was part of the successful team that got promoted to Central league from the 2012 season, playing in all 18 games and play off matches, and scoring his second goal for the club. Sam had a couple of years away from the game due to a serious knee injury and was unavailable for the 2013 / 14 seasons. Sam re-joined the club in 2015 and has been a constant member of the team since and has added to his scoring prowess as recent as last week taking his tally to 4!

SAM R Starts Sub Cup Goals Total

2009 1 3 4

2010 7 2 1 9

2011 12 4 16

2012 18 3 1 21

2013 0

2014 0

2015 18 1 19

2016 17 3 1 20

2017 9 1 1 10

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Things you would like to know about Sam . . . #13 Sam Rausch Born: England Age: 26

Q: Favourite Player? A: Henrick Larsson

Q: Favourite Game? A: Anytime Celtic beat Rangers

Q: Favourite Football Moment? A: Winning promotion to Central League

Q: Best Goal You’ve Scored? – Can’t be too hard, you have only have scored 4? A: Last week when I rose like a salmon and powered home a header from the edge of the box!

Q: How many seasons at Upper Hutt? A: 7

Q: If you could meet a footballer? A: David Beckham

Q: Biggest Influence on Career? A: Old man Q: If you could invite 4 people to dinner, who would you invite? A; Mila Kunis, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez Q: Will you finally shout the bar? A: YES

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Confeds Cup: Senior pros raise standards . . .

Two of the All Whites senior pros Chris Wood and Tommy Smith were in action today for the first time on the team’s tour of Ireland and there was a noticeable shift in intensity.

Wood, the Golden Boot winner with Leeds United this year in the England Championship, and Smith, a key man in the All Whites defence in the absence of skipper Winston Reid, are both players who naturally lead by example.

Kosta Barbarouses, who has made a return to the All Whites after missing the March international window with the World Cup qualifiers against Fiji, said the experience Wood and Smith offer is invaluable.

“They both bring a load of experience,” said Barbarouses, who has played 37 internationals for New Zealand. “Woodsy is coming off a great campaign where he just missed playoff contention [with Leeds United in the Championship] and he scored a load of goals.

“Tommy has been involved in the set up for a number of years now and I have known Tommy since he was 13 or 14 years old. They are both really great players and the more [players like that] we can have in the squad the better. They definitely add quality to the squad.” Deklan Wynne, who was recently promoted to the first team of the Vancouver Whitecaps in the MLS, echoed those comments and said the standards lifted a notch today.

“Everyone knows they are quality players so when they get here everyone goes up a gear,” said the 22-year-old South African-born Kiwi. “Most of all everyone is training hard because they want to get into the staring XI for Friday.” Barbarouses is looking forward to the prospect of pairing up with Wood up front and adding to his three goals in internationals for New Zealand.

“Playing off a guy like Woodsy is great because even when the ball isn’t perfect in the air, or even along the ground, he does a great job of getting it under control. Running off him makes my job that little bit easier, having someone like that as a focal point.”

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