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EXTRA<br />
TIME<br />
EASTERN SUBURBS<br />
30:10:16 VERSUS<br />
WAITAKERE UNITED<br />
13:11:16
Contents<br />
Chairman’s Welcome 4<br />
Coaches Corner 7<br />
Match Previews 9<br />
Make sure you view<br />
the app or visit us<br />
online for the latest<br />
e - <strong>programme</strong>s<br />
and updates for all<br />
things ‘Suburbs’!<br />
The Originals 11<br />
Paul Recalls 12<br />
The goal that won Suburbs<br />
the National Title 15<br />
Eastern Suburbs<br />
National League Squad 16-17<br />
<strong>NL</strong> - Local Heroes 18<br />
Club News - Ellerslie 19<br />
Club News - Eastern Suburbs 21<br />
SSP Match Centre 22<br />
NYL - Local Heroes 24<br />
National Youth League 26<br />
<strong>NL</strong> - Coaching Heroes 28<br />
Enzo’s Rant 29<br />
Fixture Lists 31<br />
Team Lists 32<br />
Cover Pic: Billy DeGraaf celebrates after Suburbs<br />
win the National Title at Newmarket Park 1971<br />
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CHAIRMAN’S<br />
Welcome<br />
Good to<br />
be back!<br />
A warm welcome to you for<br />
todays’ game against our western<br />
neighbours from Waitakere. It is<br />
a particularly pleasing occasion<br />
for Eastern Suburbs AFC because<br />
the location of the fixture physically<br />
demonstrates our desire to<br />
involve our neighbouring clubs we<br />
have partnered with in this adventure<br />
(back) into the National<br />
League. My thanks to Paul Burns<br />
and Matt Sheehy and the rest of<br />
the Fencibles volunteers for hosting<br />
us today, which is the first of two<br />
Stirling Sports Premiership games<br />
to be played at this ground, the<br />
second being in late February.<br />
For those who not aware Eastern<br />
Suburbs has made a concerted<br />
effort to involve Ellerslie, UniMount<br />
and Fencibles in our National<br />
League set up.<br />
The purpose of this is twofold:<br />
1. To provide a strong and clear pathway<br />
for football players in the Eastern<br />
Region. The pathway afforded by the<br />
National League and National Youth<br />
League is a key tool in helping ‘hold’<br />
players in our area and clubs, with the<br />
ultimate prize being stronger clubs in<br />
our region<br />
2. The secondary objective is to engage<br />
a wider audience and garner support for<br />
the Eastern Suburbs <strong>NL</strong> team. Our club<br />
alone does not have the “whole package”<br />
with respect to the criteria required to<br />
play <strong>NL</strong> football so have leaned on the<br />
other clubs to counter our deficiencies.<br />
This has manifested itself in ground<br />
sharing for both playing and training,<br />
contribution of players for our NYL team,<br />
and a combined approach with the<br />
communications and game day team as<br />
some of the examples. Our hope is that<br />
the intellectual knowledge gained from<br />
this experience will filter through into all<br />
our clubs, in short a win:win for all the<br />
partner clubs involved.<br />
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This process would have been very difficult<br />
had long standing “rivalries” existed<br />
amongst our clubs. I’m sure historically<br />
there has been some tensions, but the<br />
beauty of the kiwi football experience is<br />
that although we can look to bruise each<br />
other on the playing field, we have an<br />
inbuilt brotherhood due to the underdog<br />
status football has had for so long in<br />
this country. The football community is a<br />
small and reasonably tight knit one. We<br />
all know people at other clubs we have<br />
shared battles, beer, stories and even<br />
the odd tragedy, and because of that we<br />
enjoy their successes and sympathise<br />
with their failures irrespective of how our<br />
own team is doing.<br />
Todays’ game is no different. For years<br />
I have been travelling to Fred Taylor to<br />
watch Waitakere, often because they<br />
have been the only game in town. I even<br />
sat on the Waitakere Board for a couple<br />
of years and enjoyed immensely the involvement<br />
of the players and admin staff<br />
who are all very dedicated “football mad”<br />
people. Likewise the respect garnered<br />
having watched Auckland City for so<br />
many years is immense. Their achievements<br />
for football in this country can’t<br />
be understated and many of the games<br />
I have watched at Kiwitea Street will live<br />
long in my memory. So now that we are<br />
in the same league as these teams, am<br />
I supposed to develop an instant dislike<br />
after so many years of enjoyment? Well<br />
it is just not going to happen. Of course<br />
I will want us to beat them on any given<br />
day, and if it is an advantage to us for<br />
them to lose against another team, I will<br />
want them to lose. But the reality is if a<br />
game is being played and the result has<br />
no impact on us, then I will want another<br />
Auckland team to be successful.<br />
That brings me to todays’ game. A warm<br />
welcome to Chris Milicich, Jake Butler<br />
and the rest of the team. I have known<br />
Chris for many years, he also coached<br />
Suburbs Winter Premier League team a<br />
few years back with his usual vigour and<br />
enthusiasm. I’m hopeful Tom Shaw will<br />
play today, a young man I have tremendous<br />
respect for who captained our<br />
Winter Premier League team the past<br />
two seasons. I am disappointed that Tom<br />
is not playing for us, but the restrictions<br />
we put on our coach with respect to the<br />
75%+ NZ citizens in our squad made<br />
that difficult. For those here who are<br />
watching their first <strong>NL</strong> game because of<br />
its location, I hope you enjoy it enough<br />
to continue watching our games and<br />
supporting us for the rest of the season.<br />
For those who have only ever supported<br />
teams playing against Eastern Suburbs,<br />
I am hopeful the energy and freshness<br />
we bring to the league and Auckland<br />
Football is received positively. If you are<br />
not necessarily for us, you don’t have to<br />
be against us!<br />
Chris<br />
Coaches Corner<br />
It’s a pleasure to welcome Chris Milicich and his Waitakere United<br />
team to William Green Domain.<br />
We are looking forward to playing one of the most successful Clubs in<br />
the League to see how we compare.<br />
Chris has assembled a strong squad, led by the Waitakere icon player:<br />
Jake Butler, so with the caliber of both teams on the field today we<br />
should be in for a fast game with plenty of skills on display today.<br />
Obviously our game in Hamilton last weekend was disappointing, but<br />
this is a League where the teams are separated by fine margins, and<br />
at this stage of the 2016/17 competition the results show this year to<br />
be potentially the most competitive to date.<br />
It is good to bring National League football to Fencibles home<br />
ground: William Green Domain, we hope to see a good crowd and an<br />
enthralling game.<br />
Malcom McPherson<br />
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Round 4 - 13th November<br />
Canterbury Utd vs Wellington Phoenix U20 #CUvWP<br />
English Park @ 2pm, Saturday<br />
The dragons are the only unbeaten side left after their scoreless game<br />
away against Auckland City last weekend - which is no mean feet<br />
holding last years finalists out for 90. Scoring goals is a wee bit of a<br />
problem for the Dragons though with skipper Clapham responsible for<br />
4 of their 5 goals (at least two from the spot) so far this season (and<br />
his midfield partner de Jong has the 5th). The Wee Nix have been<br />
defending well and sit in 4th place for goals conceded with only 4, but<br />
this will be a tough game for the Nix Reserves but if Max Mata plays with<br />
his goal a game record so far it could be an interesting battle.TIP: Going<br />
for Canterbury to nick it with a late Clapham..... penalty!<br />
Greenlane | North Shore | Pukekohe | Hamilton | Queenstown<br />
Southern Utd vs Auckland City #SUvAC<br />
Rugby Park @ 2pm, Sunday<br />
From what I have read Southern were good value for their point against<br />
Waitakere United last weekend - coach Paul O’Reilly rung the changes<br />
across the team, including handing a starting debut to youngster Chris<br />
Kessell in midfield. They now head back south for the first game of<br />
two in Invercargill - not a place some of the Spaniards in the Auckland<br />
City team will be to keen on I wouldn’t think. City with their own point<br />
to prove after being held scoreless at home for the second time already<br />
this season - but they have shown when they score they do it freely.<br />
TIP: Hard to know which City team will turn up, I think it will be to tough<br />
for the home team though - ACFC by 2.<br />
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Tasman Utd vs Hawkes Bay Utd #TUvHB<br />
Trafalgar Park @ 2pm, Sunday<br />
First home game for Tasman Utd and I would expect a massive crowd at<br />
Trafalgar Park, they were good value for their point against the Wee-Nix last<br />
weekend in the A-League curtain raiser, this will a different kind of challenge<br />
against a handy Hawkes Bay outfit who have impressed every time I have<br />
watched them, just not enough points to show for their efforts to date. It<br />
will be a shade more difficult for the bay as well without Coach Angell who<br />
was sent off for questioning a penalty call against his team somewhat too<br />
vigorously in their 4-2 loss to Team Wellington, making this game all the<br />
more important.<br />
TIP: Sorry HBU fans I feel the occasion of Tasman’s first home game will<br />
give them the edge - by 1.<br />
Eastern Suburbs vs Waitakere Utd #<strong>ES</strong>vWU<br />
William Green @ 2pm, Sunday<br />
The lilywhites have come back down to earth after a great start back in the<br />
National League, and they have a tricky Auckland derby game to try and<br />
make up for last week. Like Canterbury the lilywhites have a bit of a scoring<br />
issue with all of their goals coming from midfield, and one of those (Burfoot)<br />
will miss this game. Waitakere on the other hand with 6 goals are up there<br />
with the leading scorers, they have shared the goals around as well with<br />
only skipper Butler with 2, with 4 other players with one each.TIP: hard to<br />
pick this game - might be a draw?<br />
Team Wellington vs Hamilton Wanderers #TWvHW<br />
Newtown Park @ 4:35pm, Sunday (TV)<br />
Jose’s side kick started their season in style as they did a smash and grab<br />
job at Bluewater stadium - all the pundits were just saying it was a matter<br />
of time before TW hit form, and they sent a warning sign to the rest of the<br />
league by putting 4 past the competitive Hawkes Bay side. A bit of a spiteful<br />
game with 8 yellow cards issued and a coach sent to the stands. Last years<br />
champions will be happy to see new signings Zambrano and Howieson<br />
on the scoresheet, while Wanderers who also hit four goals last week<br />
against one of the league favourites will fancy a bit of an upset. Wanderers<br />
potentially with a bit of a GK issue after losing their keeper late in their last<br />
game to a red card, he sits on the sidline next to their other keeper who is<br />
injured - a bit of a problem there!<br />
TIP: Team Wellington have found their mojo and I think they will go on a bit<br />
of a run now.<br />
“the originals”<br />
Eastern Suburbs AFC was one of the<br />
eight original teams which kicked off<br />
the inaugural National League back in<br />
April 1970. Suburbs is the only club<br />
from the 1970 National League to be<br />
playing in the 2016-17 Premiership.<br />
<br />
GOOD TO BE BACK!<br />
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PAUL<br />
RECALLS<br />
‘Paul Recall’s’ are articles contributed by Paul Rennell who captained Eastern<br />
Suburbs in the inaugural National League season in 1970. The articles<br />
provide insights and stories from the 60’s era and 1970 National League.<br />
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The following are my ‘top line’ recollections of the Eastern<br />
Suburbs Rothmans National League 1970 Squad.<br />
I regard myself as lucky to have play football with the<br />
character and quality of the Suburbs squad, not only team<br />
mates…but mates!<br />
David Garrett – Manager<br />
Very hard working and a dedicated Suburbs<br />
man. As the Club had no money, Dubby (as<br />
he is best known) ran weekly tote tickets and<br />
raffles to help keep the team afloat.<br />
Tom McNab – Coach<br />
Very professional and ran good training sessions<br />
with plenty of fitness and strengthening<br />
exercises, one-on-one and plenty of ball work.<br />
Tom was not one to trifled with!<br />
Kevin Harlock – Goalkeeper<br />
Hard as nails and controlled the six yard box.<br />
God help you if you got in his way! The goal<br />
mouth enforcer.<br />
Colin Latimour – Right Back<br />
Colin joined Suburbs from Ponsonby and<br />
“the originals”<br />
was a good team member and settled into<br />
the squad very quickly. Fast and intelligent<br />
footballer.<br />
John Kroon – Centre Back<br />
The ‘Scottish Terrier’ from Dunedin. John<br />
turned up at training in 1968 and asked Manager,<br />
Dubby, could he come and play with Paul<br />
– old mates from Otago and Canterbury days.<br />
John Staines – Centre Back<br />
The Rock. Fast and dynamic defender and<br />
great header of the ball. Enjoyed overlapping<br />
and going up for corners.<br />
Jim Campbell – Left Back<br />
Joined us from Ponsonby. Good reliable<br />
defender. Did not overlap very often as it took<br />
half the day to get back!<br />
Phil Rainer – Midfield<br />
Excellent work rate and with Stan (aka Paul<br />
Rennell) formed a dynamic mid-field and supplied<br />
plenty of quality ball to the front runner.<br />
Paul Rennell – Captain and Midfield<br />
Good at the toss, social events organiser and<br />
good nose for sniffing out watering holes<br />
around the country on Sundays! Enjoyed the<br />
midfield battle with Phil and usually came out<br />
on top. Paul’s flat in St. Johns was the unofficial<br />
‘team club rooms’<br />
Ray Mears – Right Flank<br />
‘Mini” as he was called, dazzled many a crowd<br />
with his trickery and mesmeric ball control.<br />
One game at Newmarket Park the ball we used<br />
in the first half was like a lead weight. As we<br />
walked off at half time Ray said to me: “Stan,<br />
the ball is like a pudding so I’m gonna kick it<br />
down the gully to get rid of it”. I immediately<br />
responded: “Don’t…you’ll never know what<br />
Wally (referee: Wally Laing) will do…don’t<br />
tempt him”. Well it had to happen, with<br />
about five minutes to go, Ray lobbed the ball<br />
on to his knee and ‘wham’ away it went down<br />
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into the Newmarket gully. The Referee ran<br />
straight to Ray and gave him a red card. Ray<br />
screamed at me: “Stan, he can’t give me a red<br />
card…tell him Stan”. I just shook my head<br />
and turned away.<br />
John Wrathall – Striker (pictured left)<br />
The Club Legend! Had a great one for sniffing<br />
out goals, with lethal shot. He could turn any<br />
defender around and leave them stranded.<br />
Great team player, the other half of the Laurel<br />
and Hardy partnership. John Wrathall: the<br />
1,000 goal Suburbs legend.<br />
Billy de Graaf – Striker<br />
Joined the Club in 1968 as a 17 year old, from<br />
Papatoetoe. He cost the Club £150! Worth<br />
every penny. ‘Clog’ as he was called proved to<br />
be an enormous hit with his flair and showmanship.<br />
With his long flowing blonde hair,<br />
he worked well with John Wrathall.<br />
George York – Left Flank<br />
Joined us from Ponsonby with Colin and<br />
Jimmy. Another small player who had good<br />
speed and ball control. He finished with many<br />
a good goal.<br />
Ross Gisby – Fullback<br />
Fast and very reliable defender. Good team<br />
mate.<br />
Gerry McCormack – Fullback/Winger<br />
‘The Ghost’. Gerry would drift in and out<br />
as the mood suited. Great crosser of the ball<br />
with many goals headed home from them.<br />
John Higgs – Goalkeeper<br />
Reliable and good back-up to Kevin Harlock.<br />
Great social man.
Sadly Missed<br />
The Club asked me to assemble as many as possible of the originals<br />
for the first home game. I managed to locate ten players and Manager.<br />
These include David Garrett (Manager), Paul Rennell, Kevin Harlock,<br />
Junette Wrathall (John’s wife), Ray Mears, John Staines, Gerald<br />
McCormack, Jimmy Campbell, George York, Josephine King<br />
(Charlie Dempsey’s daughter) and Fred Duber.<br />
While working through the list it is very sad to say that unfortunately<br />
four of old players have sadly passed away over the years.<br />
The four concerned are held in very high esteem and greatly missed:<br />
John Wrathall, Tommy McNabb, John Kroon, Colin Latimour<br />
THE GOAL THAT<br />
WON EASTERN<br />
SUBURBS THE<br />
NATIONAL<br />
LEAGUE TITLE<br />
The following is an e mail recently written by<br />
Mal Bland (one of the great Eastern Suburbs<br />
strikers in the 1970’s), it provides Mal’s account<br />
of the dramatic goal scored by John<br />
Staines in the dying minutes of the game<br />
against Mt Wellington on 12 September 1971.<br />
John Staines goal is enshrined in Suburbs history<br />
as it resulted in 2 – 2 draw against old rivals<br />
‘The Mount’, but most importantly John’s late<br />
goal ensured Suburbs won the National<br />
League title in 1971. The goal is recorded in<br />
the ‘History of Eastern Suburbs 1934 – 2015’,<br />
as a 35 meter strike. Mal Bland account is at<br />
odds with that strike distance.<br />
“As they say, never let the truth get in the<br />
way of a good story, I can clearly remember<br />
the look on Johns (Staines) face as he was<br />
running towards the goal, a sort of “what<br />
do I do now”
1 Josh Dijsktra<br />
2 Hayden Johns<br />
3 Finn Cochran<br />
4 Ross Haviland<br />
5 Luke Adams<br />
6 Mario Ilich<br />
7 Tim Payne<br />
8 Moses Dyer<br />
9 Sean Lovemore<br />
10 Sam Burfoot<br />
11 Armin Pasagic<br />
12 Silvio Rodic<br />
13 Jordan Vale<br />
14 Andrew Blake<br />
15 Osita Chikere<br />
16 Anthony Hobbs<br />
18 Tristan Prattley<br />
20 Derek Tieku<br />
24 Calvin Opperman<br />
25 Zac Speedy<br />
29 Emmanuel Ekpo<br />
36 Fabien Kurimata<br />
Malcolm McPherson<br />
Head Coach<br />
Martin Bullock<br />
Asst. Coach<br />
Michael O’Keeffe<br />
Goal Keeping Coach<br />
Sunesh Singh<br />
Conditioning Coach<br />
Robb Lee<br />
Physio<br />
Mark Palmer<br />
Physio<br />
Gary Connell<br />
Analyst<br />
Carl Tinsley<br />
Manager<br />
2016/17 Eastern Suburbs<br />
National League Squad<br />
#lilywhites
National League<br />
LOCAL HERO<strong>ES</strong><br />
SUBURBS<br />
‘KEEPERS<br />
CLUB NEWS<br />
ELLERSLIE AFC<br />
Silvio Rodic:<br />
Country:<br />
Croatia<br />
Age: 29<br />
Date of birth:<br />
July 27 1987<br />
Height: 1.97 m<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
SILVIO’S FULL STORY<br />
Zac Speedy:<br />
Country:<br />
New Zealand<br />
Age: 19<br />
Date of birth:<br />
October 29 1996<br />
Height: 1.81 m<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
ZAC’S FULL STORY<br />
Josh Dijkstra:<br />
Country:<br />
New Zealand<br />
Age: 19<br />
Date of birth:<br />
Dec 17 1997<br />
Height: 1.82 m<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
JOSH’S FULL STORY<br />
Ellerslie AFC bowed out at the quarterfinals of the<br />
Napier U19’s National Tournament over labour<br />
weekend as they lost to a wonder goal in extra time<br />
to fellow Auckland side Glenfield Rovers.The young<br />
Ellerslie side who had 14 players who can play at<br />
least one more year in this tournament exceeded expectations<br />
by qualifying for the quarter-finals in what<br />
ended up being a very competitive group. Opening<br />
day draws with Upper Hut (0-0) and East Coast Bays<br />
(0-0) along with a narrow 1-0 victory over Hamilton<br />
Wanderers left us in a perilous position on day 2 with<br />
tough games against group leaders Miramar Rangers<br />
and tournament favourites Western Springs.<br />
Luckily we didn’t pick up any serious injuries during<br />
the first day and our ice bath recovery session did it’s<br />
job as we looked fresh and keen to get the points we<br />
needed on Sunday morning. First up was Miramar<br />
who fielded two ex-Ellerslie players in Tom Kirkland<br />
and Matt Bouzaid (who both played for Ellerslie the<br />
year we made the Semi-Finals). It was in this game<br />
when our attack clicked and we raced out to 3-0<br />
lead before conceeding our first goal of the tournament<br />
late in the game.That result left us on 8 points<br />
and Western Springs to come - a win would put us<br />
through to the Quarters for the 3rd year in a row, but<br />
either a draw or a loss could elminate us based on<br />
Miramar’s result against Hamilton Wanderers. We<br />
wanted to take all the permutations out of the equation<br />
by winning the game and we started well with a<br />
goal to Art Twigg.<br />
Springs were a quality side though and fought back<br />
hard and won a penalty to level the scores at halftime.<br />
A 2nd Springs goal early in the second half had us<br />
on the brink of being knocked out, we didn’t give up<br />
though as we chased hard to get an equaliser - it<br />
was only when news from our scouts come through<br />
that 10-man Hamilton Wanderers ha grabbed a late<br />
equalising goal against Miramar - the calculators got<br />
a quick working over and we deduced that with our<br />
superior goal difference we could afford to lose by 1<br />
to Springs if the Wanderers-Miramar game remained<br />
a draw. The games in Napier are all meant to start<br />
at the same time and finish at the same time but for<br />
some reason the game between Wanderers and<br />
Miramar finished 5 minutes before we did and<br />
Wanderers had held onto the draw - so all we<br />
needed to do was not concede again and we<br />
were through.<br />
Not quite the attacking exciting football outcome we<br />
had been working to so far, but needs must as we<br />
chucked another body into midfield for a striker to<br />
shore up the game - not all the boys realised that the<br />
current result was enough which played out with half<br />
the team calling for a goal and the other half calling<br />
for possesion to be retained - In the end we did<br />
enough and we qualified for the Quarters in second<br />
place behind Western Springs who were group winners.<br />
We ended up on the same amount of points as<br />
Miramar Rangers but with +1 in goal difference!<br />
In the Quarters we were one of 7 Auckland teams to<br />
qualify with Lower Hutt City the only out of Auckland<br />
side to reach this point. A scoreless first half<br />
between Ellerslie and Glenfield only built the tension<br />
- the game itself was a bit of a clash of styles as<br />
Ellerslie’s quick passing game clashed with Glenfields<br />
more direct approach. It was a slightly more direct<br />
peice of play that got Ellerslie the lead in the second<br />
half as Rowan was given the ball early down the<br />
right, he did well to round his defender and get into<br />
the box - his superb cut back ball was powered home<br />
by crowd favourite SHIGEMATSU! as we took a 1-0<br />
lead.<br />
Glenfield to their credit didn’t give up and they chased<br />
every loose ball and on one of these occasions<br />
they pressured us into a mistake at the back which<br />
resulted in conceeding a spot kick - as just reward for<br />
their hard work their penalty was converted and they<br />
held that score until the end of regular time. So into<br />
extra time we went, and we were the only quarterfinal<br />
to do so, so the crowd dramtically increased to<br />
three or four hundred while our lads prepared for 2 x<br />
7 min periods of extra time. The first period of extra<br />
time went without troubling the scorers, but very early<br />
in the second period Glenfield scored what was the<br />
winner with a wonder strike from some distance - the<br />
shot hit the inside of both the crossbar and right hand<br />
post, giving Sean in goal no chance of saving it. The<br />
Ellerslie lads pushed hard for an equaliser as the<br />
crowd screamed for penalties but we just couldn’t<br />
break down the resilent wall of Black and yellow.We<br />
were so proud of the lads efforts, in particualr our<br />
defence which was well lead by skipper Dan McLean<br />
and Ellerslie AFC player of the tournament<br />
Kelvin Kalua.<br />
I’m looking forward to next year already!<br />
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CLUB NEWS<br />
EASTERN SUBURBS AFC<br />
Eastern Suburbs<br />
head of coaching<br />
amongst the<br />
word elite:<br />
junior and youth teams that provide a<br />
structured system for players to help each<br />
player identify where they want to be as a<br />
player and then to help them achieve their<br />
goals.<br />
Eastern Suburbs AFC head of coaching,<br />
Juan Roman returned from Spain<br />
earlier this year where he successfully<br />
renewed his UEFA Professional License.<br />
This Pro License is acknowledged by FIFA<br />
as the worlds highest football coaching<br />
qualification, and is held by the world most<br />
elite coaches, including: Jose Murhino,<br />
Rafa Benitez (manager of Real Madrid),<br />
Luis Enrique (manager Barcelona) and<br />
Pep Guardiola (manager Bayer Munich).<br />
Juan is one of a very few New Zealanders<br />
to hold this coveted coaching qualification.<br />
Juan uses his coaching knowledge and<br />
skills to create <strong>programme</strong>s for Suburbs<br />
Chris Ruffell (<strong>ES</strong>AFC Chair<br />
man) noted “While the National League is<br />
enjoying the lime-light today…however our<br />
over-arching club focus is about providing<br />
the highest quality coaching resources<br />
possible for all of our 2,500 club members.<br />
We’ve coupled our coaching curriculum<br />
& courses with a strong player pathway<br />
strategy for all our members, so each of<br />
our valued 2.500 members has the opportunity<br />
to progress their football ambitions<br />
to whatever level of ability and motivation<br />
they have. We targeted National League<br />
status last year as it would deliver the pinnacle<br />
of club football in our player pathway<br />
strategy – we identified that as a key ‘prize’<br />
for Suburbs <strong>NL</strong> status.<br />
I look forward to the near future when<br />
we see Suburbs lads come through our<br />
coaching courses and pathway to pull on<br />
the Lilywhites’ shirt in the National League,<br />
or gain a coveted professional contract or<br />
an All White cap!<br />
We invest heavily in our Club’s coaching<br />
resources, and will continue to do so as<br />
our number 1 priority”<br />
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STIRLING SPORTS PREMIERSHIP<br />
MATCH CENTRE<br />
The title defence of reigning champions<br />
Team Wellington is finally on track<br />
while newcomers Eastern Suburbs<br />
have tasted defeat for the first time<br />
after the completion of third round<br />
action in the Stirling Sports Premiership<br />
this afternoon.<br />
Pointless after two games, Wellington<br />
badly needed to get on the board as<br />
they made the short trip north to face<br />
Hawke’s Bay United and managed to<br />
secure a win to relieve the pressure on<br />
new coach Jose Figueira.<br />
There were plenty of goals and drama<br />
elsewhere as Southern United picked<br />
up their first point of the campaign<br />
in a 2-2 draw with Waitakere United<br />
before Hamilton Wanderers became<br />
the first side to get the better of<br />
fellow competition debutants Eastern<br />
Suburbs.<br />
In Hamilton, both teams finished the<br />
match with 10 players but Suburbs had<br />
to make do with diminished numbers<br />
for much longer after the 35th-minute<br />
dismissal of Sam Burfoot for a late<br />
challenge on Mark Jones.<br />
There were also four goals in<br />
Whenuapai but these were shared<br />
between the teams, Waitakere captain<br />
Jake Butler giving his side an early<br />
lead before Danny Ledwith equalised<br />
from the spot for Southern on the half<br />
hour. Southern then got their noses<br />
in front when an Andy Mulligan cross<br />
was headed home by the unfortunate<br />
David Parkinson for an own goal and<br />
a memorable victory looked possible<br />
as the fulltime whistle drew near. But<br />
Scott Hilliar popped up in the 87th<br />
minute to spare Waitakere’s blushes<br />
and leave Southern coach Paul<br />
O’Reilly still searching for his first win,<br />
albeit pleased to have finally gotten<br />
off the mark.The day’s late game was<br />
far less dramatic as Auckland City<br />
and Canterbury United played out a<br />
scoreless draw at Kiwitea Street. The<br />
best chance of the match arrived in the<br />
75th minute but Canterbury goalkeeper<br />
Danny Knight pulled off a great save to<br />
deny Ryan De Vries.<br />
The only other match of the round<br />
was played on Saturday and resulted<br />
in a 1-1 draw between<br />
the Wellington Phoenix<br />
U-20s and Tasman United<br />
at Westpac Stadium. In<br />
a curtain raiser to the<br />
Phoenix’s A-League win<br />
over Newcastle Jets, Alex<br />
Ridsdale put Tasman<br />
ahead just past the half<br />
hour before Max Mata<br />
headed in an equaliser in<br />
the 66th minute.<br />
Stirling Sports Premiership – Round One<br />
Wellington Phoenix U-20 1 (Max Mata 66’)Tasman United 1 (Alex Ridsdale 33’)<br />
HT: 0-1<br />
Hawke’s Bay United 2 (Saul Halpin 70’, 83’)Team Wellington 4 (Ben Harris 16’,<br />
Tom Jackson pen 79’, Nicolas Zambrano 88’, Cameron Howieson 89’) HT: 1-0<br />
Waitakere United 2 (Jake Butler 18’, Scott Hilliar 87’)Southern United 2 (Danny<br />
Ledwith pen 30’, own goal 71’) HT: 1-1<br />
Hamilton Wanderers 4 (Godwin Darkwa 14’, Raymond Gunemba 45’, Rossi<br />
Nkoy 53’, Jack Salter 54’) Eastern Suburbs 0 HT: 2-0<br />
Auckland City 0 Canterbury United 0 HT: 0-0<br />
Table<br />
P W D L GF GA GD P<br />
Auckland City FC 4 2 1 1 8 1 7 7<br />
Waitakere United 4 2 1 1 6 5 1 7<br />
Hamilton Wanderers 3 2 0 1 5 2 3 6<br />
Eastern Suburbs 3 2 0 1 3 5 -2 6<br />
CantUtd Dragons 3 1 2 0 5 3 2 5<br />
Wgtn Phoenix U-20 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4<br />
Hawkes Bay United 3 1 0 2 5 6 -1 3<br />
Team Wellington 3 1 0 2 5 8 -3 3<br />
Tasman United 3 0 2 1 3 7 -4 2<br />
Southern United FC 3 0 1 2 3 6 -3 1<br />
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National YOUTH League<br />
LOCAL HERO<strong>ES</strong><br />
Dylan Horgan:<br />
My love for football began at the<br />
age of 5. Football was always<br />
going to be my choice of sport<br />
considering every member of my<br />
family played it.....<br />
EASTERN SUBURBS<br />
PARTNERS<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
DYLAN’S FULL STORY<br />
George Andrew:<br />
I come from a town on the east<br />
coast of the north island called Gisborne.<br />
I was brought up by my dad<br />
to be a rugby player but I always<br />
preferred football.....<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
GEORGE’S FULL STORY<br />
Calvin Lee:<br />
I started playing football at a young<br />
age after my father passed away to<br />
cancer when I was five. He was a<br />
professional goalkeeper himself in<br />
what is now known as......<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
CALVIN’S FULL STORY<br />
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Corey walters:<br />
Starting off as a youngster i spent<br />
my early playing days at Fencibles<br />
United AFC under the wing of goal<br />
keeper coach Dave Priestley who<br />
developed my initial skill set....<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
COREY’S FULL STORY<br />
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for their valuable support
NATIONAL YOUTH LEAGUE<br />
Hamilton Wanderers have taken over from fellow<br />
debutants Eastern Suburbs at the top of the<br />
National Youth League but it’s a tight fit below<br />
that with second-placed Auckland City just one<br />
point ahead of Waitakere United, Wellington<br />
Phoenix and Suburbs, who are all tied for third<br />
with just goal difference separating them.<br />
The third round of action took place over the<br />
weekend and brought a pair of eyebrow-raising<br />
results with Wanderers sticking six strikes past<br />
the previously unbeaten Suburbs while Team<br />
Wellington also went on the goal rampage, nearly<br />
hitting double figure in defeating Hawke’s Bay<br />
United 9-0.<br />
It was Ihaia Delaney who did most of the damage<br />
for the capital men, finding the net four times<br />
before the half-time whistle in a remarkable<br />
display of lethal finishing. Aaron McDonald was<br />
also on target as the hosts went into the sheds<br />
five goals to the good and the outlook didn’t get<br />
much better for the Bay in the second half. Elijah<br />
Just helped himself to a brace while Ben Ratahi<br />
also got on the scoresheet before Cameron<br />
Wardlaw completed the rout in stoppage time.<br />
Wanderers didn’t quite reach those heights but<br />
will be delighted with their efforts nonetheless<br />
after bringing Suburbs back down to earth in<br />
some style. Hamilton had the assistance of<br />
first-team player Marc Evans – each club is<br />
allowed to field two members of its Stirling Sports<br />
Premiership squad – and he made a significant<br />
impact after captain Liam Hayes had opened<br />
the scoring from the spot. Evans struck mid-way<br />
through the first half and added his second in the<br />
last minute of regulation time at the end of the<br />
game.<br />
By that stage, the match was well out of Suburbs’<br />
reach as goals from Stafford Dowling, Sean<br />
Skeens and Raheem Hunter-Ali had blown<br />
the scoreline out. Suburbs managed a late<br />
consolation through Frank Clark to make it 6-1 on<br />
what was a disappointing weekend for the club<br />
with the seniors also giving up their unbeaten<br />
record in the Stirling Sports Premiership.<br />
“We’re disappointed but we said to the boys<br />
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that we have to take some learnings out of<br />
today’s performance,” Suburbs coach Hoani<br />
Edwards said. “They were set up to hurt us on<br />
the counter and we felt they were just a little bit<br />
more desperate on defence than we were. We<br />
switched off at the wrong times and it seemed<br />
like every time they attacked they scored.”<br />
There were also plenty of goals down in Nelson,<br />
where Tasman United scored twice but couldn’t<br />
prevent a 3-2 loss to the Wellington Phoenix.<br />
Late goals were a feature there too after the<br />
Phoenix took a slender 1-0 lead into the break<br />
courtesy of Matt Conroy.<br />
The home side found an equaliser soon after the<br />
restart through Tinashe Marowa but Conroy took<br />
control of proceedings in the final 10 minutes,<br />
adding two further goals to earn a hat-trick<br />
and give the Phoenix a 3-1 lead that proved<br />
unassailable, although Tasman did manage to hit<br />
back via Labu Pan in stoppage time.<br />
It was the third consecutive one-goal defeat<br />
that Tasman have suffered in the competition<br />
after losing 6-5 to Canterbury United and 2-1 to<br />
Auckland City.<br />
“We rued a number of missed chances,” Tasman<br />
co-coach Andy Morris said. “We need to learn to<br />
be more clinical in front of goal, it’s as simple as<br />
that.”<br />
Waitakere were the other side able to celebrate<br />
an away win after toppling Southern United 2-1,<br />
Mitchell Nash and Drew Farnsworth turning<br />
things around for the west Aucklanders after Ben<br />
Wade had put the hosts in front.<br />
There were no goals in Christchurch as<br />
Canterbury United and Auckland City fought<br />
out a scoreless draw, just as their first-team<br />
counterparts did later at Kiwitea Street.<br />
Despite dropping points for the first time this<br />
season, Auckland coach Andy Peat was relatively<br />
happy with the result.<br />
“The team is definitely improving week-by-week<br />
and executing what we’ve been working on in<br />
training,” he said. “Overall, the performance was<br />
positive and we’ll keep growing as we head into<br />
our next match.”<br />
National Youth League Round Three<br />
Team Wellington 9 (Ihaia Delaney 7’, 16’, 36’, 44’, Aaron McDonald 25’, Elijah Just<br />
51’, 85’, Ben Ratahi 61’, Cameron Wardlaw 90 + 1’)Hawke’s Bay United 0 HT: 5-0<br />
Southern United 1 (Ben Wade 25’)Waitakere United 2 (Mitchell Nash 43’, Drew<br />
Farnsworth 60’) HT: 1-1<br />
Canterbury United 0Auckland City 0 HT: 0-0<br />
Eastern Suburbs 1 (Frank Clark 93’)Hamilton Wanderers 6 (Liam Hayes pen 14’,<br />
Marc Evans 20’, 90’, Stafford Dowling 25’, Sean Skeens 64’, Raheem Hunter-Ali 70’)<br />
HT: 0-2<br />
Tasman United 2 (Tinashe Marowa 50’, Labu Pan 90’ + 5’)Wellington Phoenix 3<br />
(Matt Conroy 36’, 85’, 89’) HT: 0-1<br />
Table<br />
P W D L GF GA GD P<br />
Hamilton Wanderers Y 3 3 0 0 13 5 8 9<br />
Auckland City FC Y 3 2 1 0 4 2 2 7<br />
Waitakere United Y 3 2 0 1 11 5 6 6<br />
Wellington Phoenix Y 3 2 0 1 9 5 4 6<br />
Eastern Suburbs Y 3 2 0 1 7 8 -1 6<br />
Cant Utd Dragons Y 3 1 1 1 7 7 0 4<br />
Team Wellington Y 3 1 0 2 11 7 4 3<br />
Southern United FC Y 3 1 0 2 4 6 -2 3<br />
Tasman United Y 3 0 0 3 8 11 -3 0<br />
Hawke’s Bay United Y 3 0 0 3 1 19 -18 0<br />
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National League<br />
COACHING HERO<strong>ES</strong><br />
Malcolm McPherson:<br />
Head Coach:<br />
“The gaffer”<br />
Like many coaches<br />
Malcolm started his<br />
football life as a player.<br />
He enjoyed a professional<br />
football....<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
MALCOLM’S STORY<br />
Martin Bullock:<br />
Assistant coach<br />
Martin enjoyed playing<br />
to a high standard<br />
of football in the<br />
UK. As a midfielder,<br />
Martin made 452<br />
league....<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
MARTIN;S STORY<br />
Micheal O’Keeffe:<br />
Goal Keeping coach<br />
Michael comes to<br />
Suburbs coaching<br />
staff with an outstanding<br />
footballing<br />
and ‘keeping pedigree....<br />
CLICK HERE FOR<br />
MICHAEL’STORY<br />
ARTICLE #2<br />
Enzo’s Rant<br />
Another team for Auckland – nay!<br />
You greedy sods! You already have three of them,<br />
what makes you think you deserve a fourth team<br />
in the Stirling Sports Premiership?<br />
I know what you’re thinking – “Auckland<br />
is where it’s all at. If you can’t<br />
even get a decent latte between<br />
Ellerslie and Petone, how on earth<br />
are you going to find any half decent<br />
footballers in that vast cultural desert?<br />
And that’s before we even start<br />
talking about the South Island.”<br />
But hold on to your gluten free<br />
bagels Aucklanders, there might be<br />
one or two things you need to consider<br />
before taking your divine right<br />
to more teams as absolute gospel.<br />
First of all, do the maths. When you<br />
have under a third of the population,<br />
shouldn’t you have a third of<br />
the teams at the most? Currently at<br />
three out of ten, Auckland is roughly<br />
on quota. If the league was to expand<br />
again to twelve teams at some<br />
stage in the future we would then<br />
have a strong case for one more –<br />
but the recent competitions review<br />
made it clear that another round<br />
robin is a much higher priority than<br />
more teams.<br />
If you base a ten team competition<br />
solely on population in this country,<br />
there should be roughly one team<br />
for every 450,000 people. So Auckland<br />
deserves roughly three. Wellington<br />
gets no more than one even<br />
though they currently have two. The<br />
South Island are lucky to have three<br />
when they only have the population<br />
for two and a bit - and that leaves<br />
a lot of the rest of the North Island<br />
pretty solidly short changed.<br />
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As things stand, if for some reason a<br />
current team like Southern or Hamilton<br />
dropped out – to replace them with a<br />
team from South Auckland or the North<br />
Shore would rightly cause rioting in the<br />
provinces. So the only path for representation<br />
for those two currently neglected<br />
areas of Auckland looks to be the<br />
demise of a current Auckland team. In<br />
other words we’ve got to rob Peter if we<br />
want to pay Paul.<br />
And growing the game in the provinces<br />
is important! No, really, it is. Are you<br />
really happy that in the last 12 years the<br />
trophy has only been out of Auckland<br />
once? Doesn’t it get boring for you? It<br />
certainly does for me and a lot of other<br />
fans too. How many Wynton Rufers<br />
of the future from the two thirds of the<br />
population with no access to good lattes<br />
are off playing some other mass participation<br />
sport in their region, like gumboot<br />
tossing, because there was no winning<br />
football team nearby to inspire them?<br />
The hardships endured by kids in South<br />
Auckland or the North Shore who don’t<br />
have a so-called “pathway” to a National<br />
League franchise because mummy<br />
or daddy have to drive them to West,<br />
Central or East Auckland are nothing<br />
compared to the distances kids from<br />
Gisborne, New Plymouth or Palmerston<br />
North have to cover as things stand.<br />
But if you think that argument is just a<br />
load of inclusive pinko PC dairy farmer<br />
loving nonsense, consider the flip side.<br />
Don’t we want to keep the gravy train<br />
going? During Auckland’s period of<br />
dominance the two big city clubs we’ve<br />
had until now have gone to a long succession<br />
of Club World Cups and brought<br />
home in excess of ten million dollars<br />
in prize money. Why would we want to<br />
dilute Auckland talent any further in light<br />
of that?<br />
No! Too many good things come in<br />
threes like hat-tricks, wise men, little piggies,<br />
and examples in a sentence. Keep<br />
it at three I say!<br />
And while you’re at it, let the Waikato<br />
team win every now and again...<br />
Eastern Suburbs<br />
National League draw<br />
Sat 22 Oct, 2:00pm Away<br />
v Wellington Phoenix U-20, David Farrington Park<br />
Sun 30 Oct, 2:00pm HOME<br />
v Hawkes Bay United, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sun 6 Nov, 2:00pm AWAY<br />
v Hamilton Wanderers, Porritt Stadium<br />
Sun 13 Nov, Time: TBA HOME<br />
v Waitakere United, William Green Domain<br />
Sun 20 Nov, 4:35pm HOME<br />
v Southern United, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sat 26 Nov, 2:00pm AWAY<br />
v Team Wellington, David Farrington Park<br />
Sun 4 Dec, 4:35pm HOME<br />
v Tasman United, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sun 11 Dec, 2:00pm AWAY<br />
v Canterbury United, English Park<br />
Sun 18 Dec, 2:00pm HOME<br />
v Auckland City, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sunday 16 October,1:00pm HOME<br />
v Wellington Phoenix, Michaels Avenue Reserve<br />
Sunday 30 October, 1:00pm AWAY<br />
v Hawkes Bay United, Petane War Memorial Domain<br />
Sunday 6 November, 1:00pm HOME<br />
v Hamilton Wanderers, Michaels Avenue Reserve<br />
Sunday 13 November, 1:00pm AWAY<br />
v Waitakere United, Fred Taylor Park<br />
Saturday 19 November, 1:00pm AWAY<br />
v Southern United, Peter Johnstone Park<br />
Sun 8 Jan, 2:00pm HOME<br />
v Wellington Phoenix U-20, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sun 15 Jan, 2:00pm AWAY<br />
v Hawkes Bay United, Bluewater Stadium<br />
Sun 22 Jan, 2:00pm HOME<br />
v Hamilton Wanderers, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sun 29 Jan, 4:35pm AWAY<br />
v Waitakere United, The Trusts Arena<br />
Sun 5 Feb, 2:00pm HOME<br />
v Team Wellington, Bill McKinlay Park<br />
Sat 11 Feb, 1:00pm AWAY<br />
v Southern United, TBC<br />
Sun 19 Feb, 2:00pm AWAY<br />
v Tasman United, Trafalgar Park<br />
Sun 26 Feb, 2:00pm HOME<br />
v Canterbury United, William Green Domain<br />
Sun 5 Mar, 3:00pm AWAY<br />
v Auckland City, Kiwitea Street<br />
National YOUTH League draw<br />
Sunday 27 November, 1:00pm HOME<br />
v Team Wellington, Michaels Avenue Reserve<br />
Saturday 3 December, 12:00pm AWAY<br />
v Tasman United,Trafalgar Park<br />
Sunday 11 December, 1:00pm HOME<br />
v Canterbury United, William Green Domain<br />
Sunday 18 December, 1:00pm AWAY<br />
v Auckland City, St Peters College, Epsom<br />
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EASTERN SUBURBS AFC<br />
Eastern Suburbs Team List<br />
1. Joshua Dijkstra<br />
2. Hayden Johns<br />
3. Finn Cochran<br />
4. Ross Haviland<br />
5. Luke Adams<br />
6. Mario Ilich<br />
7. Timothy Payne<br />
8. Moses Dyer<br />
9. Sean Lovemore<br />
10. Sam Burfoot<br />
11. Armin Pasagic<br />
12. Silvio Rodic<br />
13. Jordan Vale<br />
14. Andrew Blake<br />
15. Osita Chikere<br />
16. Anthony Hobbs<br />
18. Tristan Prattley<br />
20. Derek Tieku<br />
24. Calvin Opperman<br />
25. Zac Speedy<br />
29. Emmanuel Ekpo<br />
36. Fabien Kurimata<br />
<strong>ES</strong> Team coaches:<br />
Malcolm McPherson<br />
(Head Coach)<br />
Martin Bull (Asst Coach)<br />
Michael O’Keeffe<br />
(GK Coach)<br />
WAITAKERE UNITED<br />
1.Pirmin Strasser<br />
2.Scott Hilliar<br />
3.Stewart MacKay<br />
4.<br />
5.Julyan Collett<br />
6.Harrison Nash<br />
7.Stefan Thelen<br />
8.Ryan Tinsley<br />
9.Dylan Stansfield<br />
10.Eder Franchini Pasten<br />
11.Ian Hogg<br />
12.Dan Morgan<br />
13.Ryan Cain<br />
14.David Parkinson<br />
15.David Icardo Hernandez<br />
16.Dylan Manickum<br />
17.Jake Butler<br />
18.<br />
19.Tom Shaw<br />
20.Keegan Linderboom<br />
21.Abdulla Al-Kalisy<br />
22.Lewis Caunter<br />
23.Jake Porter<br />
28. Liam Anderson<br />
Team coaches:<br />
Chris Milicich (Head Coach)<br />
Carl Jorgensen (Asst Coach)<br />
Ross Nicholson (GK Coach)