United at Onepoto

Ain’t life strange, the Man United NZ team turned up at Onepoto on Sunday to find Northcote only had 6 players ! Rather than taking them on with our 9 !!!, we decided to wait another 5-10 minutes. Mistake, in the next few minutes three of their best players turned up.
The game was a pretty even affair and Northcote were lucky to go into halftime with a one nil lead. Jim was solid at the back for United and we welcomed backed Mark F (Finn), big Ritchie and with In Taek, Lee and Steve T connecting we had that confidence back. So in the second half we took it to the blues, with Gareth scoring an equalizer and then Jan finished off a wonderful passing move involving ½ dozen players. Then Martin, one of the better Northcote players stepped up and ran thru the United midfield and defence not once but twice and the usual chaos ensured with heaps of lip and not much action. In the midst of this the blues slipped another in, to be undeserved 2-4 winners. Once again the potential is there in our squad to play top quality football and we just need to iron out a few niggling issues to be the 2nd best team in Sunday football.
Speaking of the best, we now take on Brownsons this weekend at East Coast Bays Stadium.
Thanks to all the supporters who came out, Carrie, Anamaya, Jims missus and child, Wes’s friend and Gareths mate, who is a very handy player.

Sunday football

So two draws and one loss, ain't to bad a start to the season and if the Koreans can play more than a few, then this could get really good.

Sundays performance against last years Cup winners shows how well we can play if EVERYONE gets down to it. The fact that Norwest reverted to their old style of kick and hack shows how good some of our attack was. Wesley, In Taek and his mate Lee were repeatly hacked down and the way they just jumped up and got on with it showed their class. Jim made some wonderful saves and Mike, Steve M and Lance were closing the blue attack all thru the latter part of the game. Tho, we surely missed Colly (Steve T) in the midfield, Gareth gave his all and never stopped running. In fact it was a great effort from all the guys.
So if you feel like playing a game of footy on any Sunday, give Ken, Marc or Gareth a call.

RANUI

Manchester United NZ play Ranui at Starling Park this Sunday, 12pm kick off.

So get your boots out and come along for a great game of football.

Practice game

The Manchester United NZ Sunday soccer team kicked off the 2007 season with a practice game against some over 35 team.

The Korean contingent was to the fore and In Taek opened the scoring with a fine goal. Then KJ and his family set the place on fire and with Steve T (Colly) also up front there were heaps of chances, KJ s boy scored the second and Rob finished off the scoring with a great penalty.

Man oh man, In Taek can just turn defences on their head and hopefully he can play more than a few games this season and KJ, who must be in his 50s was equally skilful.

So a good workout and now onward to Ranui in two weeks, APRIL 15th.