t PAPATOETOE AFC vs. Mt ALBERT PONSONBY AFC Saturday 21st June 2014 – Murdoch Park, Papatoetoe Kick off 2.45pm 1 Papatoetoe Association Football Club Murdoch Park 27 Chestnut Road Papatoetoe (09) 278 8011 Club directory Sponsors President - David Owen Chris Webb Plumbing Vice President - Chris Webb Machine Part Welding Ltd Secretary - Pam Luhrs Scorpion Wine and Spirits Treasurer - Allan Edmondson South Auckland Electrical Men’s football coordinator - David Robertson Boston Digital Women’s football coordinator - Andrew Kirk Trophies Plus Senior club captain - Savuth Thay J&R Slecht Women’s club captain - Ave Stevens New Lucky Star Chinese Junior club captain - Adrian King Restaurant First team coach - Paul Margison N W Limited Reserve team coach - Mickey Paea Transcarr Bar manager - Jennifer Glassie Lovebyte Drilltech 1996 Ltd Patrons Auto One Bettanet Products Neville Culpitt & Nadene Ross Robertson, MP Ramsay Phil Greenbank, JP David & Carol Robertson Neville Culpitt Savuth Thay Pamela Luhrs Useful links Supporting Trusts Website www.papaptoetoeafc.org.nz Trillian Trust Twitter @PapatoetoeAFC Infinity Foundation Facebook www.facebook.com/papatoetoe.afc.1959 NZCT www.facebook.com/PapatoetoeAfcJuniors Pegasus Sports Foundation 2 PRESIDENT’S WORDS I welcome one and all for this afternoon’s fixture of the Northern Regional football league Division 1 -1st and reserve teams playing opponents Mt Albert Ponsonby. As this becomes the halfway mark in this competition, we wish both our teams a fruitful outcome but also give some time to reflect on how their season of football so far has played out, and what we all can do to better prepare for the next half of this competition. This will be a very important stage for PAPATOETOE A.F.C. to have the rights to be in this football league Division 1. I would like to give our overseas supporters a big Hello, I hope, you enjoy browsing our website, keeping you up to date with what is happening with our club. Drop us a line or send us an email to let us know what you’re up to and how life is going. We will put it in our programme for all to see. Our home based supporters of teams who week in week out come along to the games to cheer their teams on, your loyal support is hugely appreciated. HONEST is a huge word, and goes a long way in people’s belief – Honest in management Honest in training Honest in playing Honest in your team mate Honest in the changing room Honest in yourself (Break the honest and doubt sets in and strength weakens) To our sponsors, club patrons, life members, members and visitors, I hope you enjoy today’s match fixtures and hospitality that follows inside our clubrooms. We welcome Mt Albert Ponsonby coaching staff, players and supporters – enjoy your games and our after match hospitality. PS: A big Hello to our stalwart life member Bryn McCrystal, we miss your presence around our club and we know you keep a keen eye on how we are doing, hope we do it for you today! David Owen 3 COACHES COMMENTS Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to Murdoch Park for today’s clash against Mt Albert Ponsonby. A warm welcome to Mt Albert Ponsonby’s players, Coaching Staff and Supporters as well as the match officials. Since my last write up we have had one game which was at home to Western Springs a fortnight ago. This game was a going to be no different to the game against Eastern Suburbs. Western Springs were sitting up the top end of the table and were in a tussle with Suburbs for the number one spot on the ladder. To the game and it started out as a classic arm wrestle battle. With possession and territory being relatively even the game could have possibly gone either way. Western Springs however with some good play managed to score to go one up and take the lead towards the latter stages of the game. It was at this time I made some changes and one of those was bringing Ebuka on up front. With his strong potential and great pace he was able to get a great ball and run through to score and level the game. The lads thought hard right to the final whistle and we took a 1-1 draw which was a pleasing result. To today’s game, we will be will wanting to do all we can to pick up points on offer and get another win at home. We know that we have the potential to gain results from teams who sit at the upper end of the table. We also want to start the second half of the season on a good note. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Fadeel Khan and his partner on the birth of their child last week. I hope everything is going well. I would like to again thank you the supporters who come down week in week out to support the boys. Enjoy the game and see you all afterwards in the bar. Paul Margison (Margee) 4 RESERVE TEAM Greetings everyone and welcome to Mt Albert Ponsonby and their supporters to Murdoch Park. Today we start the second round of the season home to Mt Albert Ponsonby. We hope to make it a good start. Against Western Springs we were in for a good tussle. We had a squad that was capable to get a result required. Western Springs however showed they were going to be strong and if we wanted steal a result we would have to be on the ball and take our chances given. Unfortunately Western Springs played strong and effectively and as a result of this they took the result 3-0 Last week against Lynn-Avon in the plate we were determined to go out and beat a division 2 side. Early on in the game it looked to be relatively even however Lynn Avon took some impressive control of the game and scored 4 goals to win the game 4-0 seeing our cup run end. To today’s game and we take on Mt Albert Ponsonby. This team gave us a good tussle in the first half of the season and we are sure today will be no different. It will be great to see the lads pick up the points on offer today and pick up a win to start the second half of the season. The Reserve Back Room Mickey Paea / Roland Coysh 5 JUNIOR REPORT Papatoetoe AFC 8th Grade Football Festival June 2014 On Saturday the 7th June our 8th grade kids from Papatoetoe AFC who are involved in a cluster group with Papatoetoe United, Otahuhu, Manukau participated in a Football Festival which was hosted at Murdoch Park. The Football Festival was run like a mini tournament between the clubs with a total of 10 teams with Papatoetoe AFC having 4 teams involved. Luckily it was a fine morning and 70+ Children along with their parents, grandparents, aunty and uncles turned up at Murdoch Park. The Children played 5 games in total and the top 4 teams played off in a 6th game. Lots of fun was had by all and there was a bunch of tired but happy kids at the end of the morning. Our Papatoetoe AFC teams did well competing against the other clubs. Papatoetoe United Brazil came away with the winners trophy and a very large block of chocolate each, Papatoetoe AFC Storm did very well and finished 2nd after drawing 0-0 in the final but losing on corners conceded and they also receive a block of chocolate each, every child that participated received a certificate and there was a lolly scramble for everyone at the end. The 8th Grade Hurricanes would like to thank Maria, Leon and Wendy for running the football festival, and also to Ave, Shontelle and Ally for doing an excellent job at refereeing the games. Also a big thanks to the parents that helped coach our teams, David, Ross, John, Tariq and Anthony. Final result were: Papatoetoe United Brazil, Papatoetoe AFC Storm, Otahuhu/Manukau Dragons, Papatoetoe United Germany, Papatoetoe United Spain, Papatoetoe AFC Cyclones, Papatoetoe AFC Thunder, Papatoetoe AFC Lightning, Papatoetoe United England, Papatoetoe United Argentina. Adrian King (12th Grade lightning co-coach 6 WEEK 12 - PAPATOETOE AFC VS. MT ALBERT PONSONBY Kit colours PAPATOETOE AFC 1. Divikesh Deo 2. Savuth Thay 3. Kritik Dass 4. Stephen Money 6. Marc Taylor Gatt 8. Logan Clark 9. Scott Yearbury Papatoetoe AFC Mt Albert Ponsonby 10. Soheb Sheikh 11. Fadeel Khan Next home game 12. Daniel Frank 13. George Konusi Saturday 5th July 2014 14. Shane Yearbury 15. Ebuka Okpala Papatoetoe AFC vs. Hibiscus Coast 16. Jamie Clark 17. Matthaus Schreck 18. Alex Pratap Coach: Paul Margison Asst: Bevan McNabb Manager: Hans Anema Trainer: Steven Cuthill Physio: Alan Money Murdoch Park - Kick Off 2.45pm 7 MATCH DAY INFO 21st JUNE 2014 MURDOCH PARK MT ALBERT PONSONBY AFC Lotto NRFL Men's Division 1 Team Played Pts 1. Robbie George-Graham Eastern Suburbs 11 29 2. Ned Chappell Ellerslie 11 24 4. Zynal Shabib 5. Dylan Beckham Western Springs 11 24 6. Darren Hunt Hibiscus Coast 11 21 7. Craig David-Taylor Takapuna 11 18 8. Ciaren Regan Mangere United 11 16 9. Jared Colligan Melville United 11 14 10. Peter Wild 11. Tim Hayhow Metro 11 11 12. Astley Lee Mt Albert-Ponsonby 11 10 13. Malcolm McFly North Shore United 11 8 14. Ben McCafferty Manurewa 11 7 15. Luke Sutton Papatoetoe 11 5 16. Robbie Robinson 17. Paul Rhodes 18.