Manurewa AFC Club Rooms P.O. Box 122 Memorial Park Gibbs Rd Manurewa Manurewa Auckland Phone: 09 2671120

www.manurewaafc.org.nz

AFF NRFL Reserves- 12.30pm

Lotto Northern League Premier Division- 2.45pm

18th April 2009

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Presidents Report

At last we have points on the board, a great win against Papatoetoe last week. Well done fella’s, sorry I wasn't able to be there to see it. The Reserves went down again but only by one goal. I understand that they played well but didn’t take all their chances. Keep it up boys, the goals will come. This week we host the players, officials and supporters of the Bay Olympic club. We extend them a warm welcome and hope they enjoy the hospitality of our clubrooms after the game. A reminder to all our supporters, don’t forget the 50th Jubilee celebrations on Queens birthday weekend. Tickets to the various functions over the weekend are limited and going fast, so get your order in soon or you will miss out. Catch you next programme.

Alex Ogilvy

Jaylen Rodwell enjoying himself as one of the ball boys at last Saturdays home

game against Lynn Avon. Jaylen is from the 7th Grade Lightening

squad, coached by his father Martin Rodwell, a name you will recognise

from the first team.

If you have any photos you would like put into the programme please email to tonzie_11@hotmail.com with a name and brief description.

50th Jubilee - Manurewa AFC’s 50th Jubilee! Queens Birth-

day Weekend. Come along for a fun filled weekend. Look out for posters around the club, your coaches will keep you informed as more information comes their way! Tickets to Jubilee Dinner $50 each, contact Yvonne White at tywhite@xtra.co.nz.

Trivial Pursuit Fundraiser - Friday May 15th. Keep this

free, find some friends, costumes and come along. Teams of 10 (max) and tickets $10 each. Look out for posters around the club!

Licence Plate Fundraiser - Club Plate raffle is still

running and don’t be surprised if you’re tapped on the shoulder. The tickets are going well at $5 a ticket and we need to ensure that all are sold by the Jubilee date. If you’re interested and haven’t yet been approached, or just want another, please see anyone on the Control Board.

Reserve Coaches Comments

After 3 games and 3 losses it might look like we are not performing to our potential, but that is far from the truth. Myself and Gareth are pleased the way we are playing we just need stop the simple mistakes & start the game at the kick off not 15 mins into the game.

After the 2 games at easter when we played Lynn Avon and Papatoetoe I thought we should have come away with at least 4 points because there were long periods in both games when we controlled the game & played some nice football.

We as a team are working hard to address the issues in our game to get on top of sides & score some goals so we can get our first win of the sea-son & I know that is isn't that far away.

To Alex Mcdonald we as a team hope you make a quick recovery from your broken cheek bone/fractured eye socket.

To the supporters that turn up for our game thank you for your support it is much appreciated.

Mark Rodwell

Jason Clowes defending against Papatoetoe last weekend.

AFF NRFL Reserves

(Blue & Gold)

Coach: Mark Rodwell

Assistant Coach: Gareth Jenkins

G K Derrick Morby

2 Brody Thomson

3 Jamie Bevan

4 Matt Willowghby

5 Reece Lamb

6 Brendon Coe (Captain)

7 Yash Singh

8 Martin Aprim

9 Wayne Newsome

10 Jason Clowes

11 Chris Mudgeway

12 Evashal Moodley(VCaptain)

14 Yanwen Zhao

AFF NRFL Reserves

(Green & White)

Coach: Neil Heron

Manager: Keith Claiden

G K Anton van de Weele

G K Will Fletcher

16 Stu Dye

17 Sammy Ho

19 Ashkan Khosravi

20 Brenton Lovelace

21 Steve Crockett

23 Hamish MacKay

24 Rasam Moghimi

25 Mike Smith

26 Andrew Smith

27 Luke Sherwood

28 Hugh Sorby

29 Adam Turner

Premier League Coaches Comments

A warm welcome to Kim Beale and his Bay Olympic team and supporters. Bay Olympic is a very strong club and over the years has been in the top group of premier league teams.

A mixed bag of results for us over the Easter weekend. Saturday’s game against a very strong and talented Lynn-Avon side was disappointing not for lack of quality football and application but to have a 1-0 lead turned into a 2-1 loss with 15 minutes remaining was tough to take. Once again the quality and commitment matched our first performance against Suburbs but just lacked the finishing touch. The good thing about two game weekends is that a grumpy coach has a limited time to sulk and get planning to meet Papatoetoe on the Monday.

Well the win we hoped was coming has finally arrived. A typical local derby that at times lacked in quality but not in passion saw us get through 2-1.

We spoke before the game about the importance of three points to kick start our season and strangely although our first win to date was probably our poorest performance. Graham Kay was welcomed back to the starting line up after six weeks out with injury and was part of a first half that we dominated in all areas of the park but failed to score. Nathan Coe got us off to a great start with an early second half goal but instead of igniting us it was Papatoetoe who grained control and equalised. James Davison got us out of a hole with a great half volley from the edge of the box and that was enough to see us through.

Ash and I are demanding more from the players each week and we know that nothing but our best will be good enough to get a result today.

On a sad note Alex McDonald was injured while playing for the Reserves on Monday with a broken cheekbone and fractured eye socket. We wish Alex all the best for a speedy recovery.

Thank you to our supporters especially away to Papatoetoe on Monday, once again it felt like a home game, the lift you gave to the team.

Good luck to all Rewa teams this weekend.

Enjoy the game

Mark Armstrong

Brad Armstrong Nick Name/s: B-RAD, Army Shirt Number and Position: 10, Striker Date and place of Birth: 04/08/1985 Ethnicity: Single Occupation: Advertising Account Manager Hobbies: Tennis, Swimming, Movies Favourite Food: Pad Thai Favourite Movie: Scarface Favourite Song: Live your life - Rihanna/T.I. Favourite holiday destination: Gold Coast/San Diego Favourite football player: Filippo Inzaghi Favourite football team: AC Milan Most memorable match: 2005 Champions league Final Milan V Liverpool Proudest Moment on the field: Winning promotion 2008/selection for NRFL ‘All star’ squad

Most embarrassing moment on the field: Losing 14 - 0 in an Under 14 match.

Stuart Roberts Nick Name/s: Robbo Shirt Number and Position: 14, Striker Date and place of Birth: 03/12/1974, Auckland Ethnicity: Pakeha Status/Family: Married to a beautiful wife, and 2

beautiful daughters. Occupation: Teacher Hobbies: Playstation, Nintendo Wii, reading to my

kids. Favourite Food: Wife’s home cooking. Favourite Movie: All superhero movies! Favourite Song: Anything my 5 year old puts on the stereo. Favourite holiday destination: Up north! Favourite football player: Van Nistleroy. Favourite football team: Manchester United Most memorable match: Chatham cup final 2001, 3-3 draw followed by penalties! Proudest Moment on the field: Chatham cup winners 2001

Most embarrassing moment on the field: Coming on as a sub for the last 30

seconds of a game.

Lotto Northern League Premier Division (Blue & Gold)

Coach: Mark Armstrong

Assistant Coach: Craig Ashton

Goalkeeping Coach: Craig Hastings

Manager: Richard Coe

Physiotherapist: Kathryn Tregidga

1 Albon Houston (GK)

1 Clayton Chappell (GK)

2 Justin Horan

3 Dave Allan

4 Mark Atkinson

5 Kuyama Toma

6 James Davison

7 Martin Rodwell

8 Simon Moore (Captain)

9 Nathan Coe

10 Brad Armstrong

11 Graham Kay

12 Diego Rinquest

13 Jono Payne

14 Stu Roberts

15 Eammon O’Brien

16 Aaron Lawrence

17 Marvin Eakins

Lotto Northern League Premier Division (Green & White)

Coach: Kim Beale

Manager: Keith Chappell

Physiotherapist: Leighton Wills

GK John Gwin GK Anton van de Weele 3 Elliott Dye 5 Leighton Wills 6 Van Lindsay 7 Malcolm Macrae 8 Simachew Asseffa 9 Graham Green 10 Simon Day 11 Sammy Negash 12 Selwyn Hodges 13 Ned Chappell 14 Jack Burden 15 Lautaro Reinoso 17 Arash Sadeghi 20 Julyan Collett 21 Netsanet Tayachew 23 Jared Colligan

Date Team Played Result Goal

Scorers Player of the Day

4 April Eastern Suburbs 0 - 1 —— Jono Payne

11 April Lynn Avon 1 - 2 Dave Allen Dave Allen

13 April Papatoetoe 2 - 1 Nathan Coe

James Davison Mark Atkinson

Team Played Wins Draws Losses Goals For

Goals Against GD Points

Lynn Avon Utd 3 3 0 0 8 2 6 9

Eastern Suburbs 3 3 0 0 4 0 4 9

Hamilton Wanderers 3 1 1 1 7 6 1 4

Papatoetoe AFC 3 1 1 1 5 5 0 4

Melville Utd 3 1 1 1 6 7 -1 4

Central Utd 3 1 0 2 11 9 2 3

Metro AFC 3 1 0 2 4 5 -1 3

Manurewa AFC 3 1 0 2 3 4 -1 3

Bay Olympic 3 1 0 2 7 12 -5 3

Onehunga Sports 3 0 1 2 3 8 -5 1

Photographs from last weeks Premier Division games against Lynn Avon (yellow) and Papatoetoe (red).

Firstly the woman's first team have their second game of the season after a win and a bye in the second round. Best of luck for the first home game of the year and it would be great to see some outstanding support for this team. It was great to see the blue of Manurewa flood the club rooms of Papatoetoe and it was obviously made easier with a win. Well done to the Prems and to our Reserves, from what I saw a very aggressive and tightly contested game that unfortunately didn't result in a win but not through a lack of trying. Well done Reserves. Two byes unfortunately due to lack of players and one cannot knock the commitment of Graham Wickman who travelled back from Cooks for the game only to find it was defaulted by the opposition. Stevie, Goal Keeping may not be your cho-sen position on the pitch and maybe we now know why. I'm sure they ap-preciated you putting your hand up before the game, 6a going down 3 - 2 I think. 6b defaulted. What's that about? Its Easter you have 2 games normally. At that age you'd think the families would know not to book holi-days or make plans for the long weekend. Fees guys and hope your en-joying the season to date.

Remember Thursday Club Night. Lets see a few more there in the weeks to come.

Senior Men's Division 6/G1 against Three Kings last weekend.

Duncan White

Division Three We got off to a shaky start this year. The players for the team weren't finalised until the last moment and the lack of preparation showed in a 6-0 loss to last year's Division 4 winners, Waiheke. It was a home game for Manurewa and the ladies' class did show through after the fi-nal whistle when another top notch feed was put on for the players and supporters. The team bounced back quickly and put in a very credible perform-ance the next week against Onehunga-Mangere. The skill level and team work was far superior and we had several very good opportuni-ties at scoring. The opposition scored first and we responded not long after with Shontelle Stevens being rewarded for another outstanding performance. I thought we would pinch the game with the girls putting on a lot of pressure, however the opposition midfielder who had been troubling us all day found herself with a clear shot on goal late in the game and she finished clinically to give Onehunga Mangare the win 2-1. The team work started from a determined performance from our back line, and centre back and recent import Danielle deservedly got player of the day. The spectators all agreed it was an entertaining watch, so come on down on Sundays and support!

Wayne Newsome

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