Guest Post by Grant Stantiall I read a good article regarding electronic media and how it fits in with NZ football through a bloggers viewpoint. Enzo Giordani’s In The Back Of The Net website/blog is now one of my first reference points on NZ football. He mentions others that I also look at, and these sites are rapidly pushing mainstream media coverage off my radar. Take for example todays Sunday Star-Times football article by...
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Everytime I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at North Shore United’s Allen Hill Stadium for their NRFL Division 1 match against Mt Albert Ponsonby played on April 14, 2013. The game finished 3-3 but we really should have seen twice that many goals. Here’s a match report of the game.
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North Shore United fans are in for an exciting season. Going on the evidence provided by their 3-3 draw at home against Mt Albert Ponsonby, Shore fans will see goals the season. Lots and lots of goals. And they’ll be at both ends. With the likes of Jaryd Gray, Chris Bryson, Hector the Spaniard, the big Irish lad and an attack-minded midfield they won’t be found wanting in the Goals For column. Some of their football is...
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Everytime I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at Ellerslie AFC’s Michaels Ave ground for their NRFL Premier Division match against Manurewa played on April 13, 2013. This was the first NRFL match played on the new all weather surface at Michaels Ave. The match finished 2-0 to Ellerslie. Here’s a match report of the...
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Everytime I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at Forrest Hill Milford’s Becroft Park for their NRFL Division 1 match against Ngaruawahia on April 13, 2013. The half of the game I saw was a bit messy with the game clearly well over. The match finished 5-1 to Ngaruawahia. Here’s a match report of the...
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One of the bonuses about being a blogger is that you’re not beholden to those pesky deadline thingies that are the curse of a journo’s life. That means I can post this article now and I’m still relevant… (hopefully). Excuses out of the way, I’m glad I made it across to Michaels Ave for Ellerslie’s match against Manurewa. This was a competitive game, even though Ellerslie scored inside the first 90...
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Everytime I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at East Coast Bays’ Bay City Park for their NRFL Premier Division match against Birkenhead United on April 13, 2013. It was a cracking derby between to motivated sides. The match finished 2-1 to Birkenhead. Here’s a match report of the game.
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To a country boy like me there’s one thing about Auckland football that stands out, maybe more than anything else: how many football clubs there are and how close most of them are to each other. Ridiculously, fantastically close to each other, particularly on the Shore. Okay, there’s the population base to cater for, but you can literally kick a football from one ground to the next. This proximity clearly gives rise to any...
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Mt Albert Ponsonby got smacked 6-0 at home by Melville United on Saturday April 6. I wasn’t there but Grant Stantiall was. Here are some of his pics from the day’s action. You can follow Grant on Twitter at @thekiwicanary. You can view more pics from this match...
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In the latest of our One Minute At… series we’re at Hamilton Wanderers’ Porritt Stadium for their NRFL Premier division match against Waitakere City on April 6, 2013. The match finished 8-0 to Wanderers. It was a lovely sunny afternoon. This week we have not one but two separate minutes of footage. It’s an added bonus we wouldn’t do for just anyone. Why? Each of these one minute movies includes a goal and we thought...
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