YELLOW FEVER'S FINGER ON LOCAL FOOTBALL'S PULSE

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Thumbs up & thumbs down
Lower Hutt City: for your excellent social media
work. Lower Hutt City (Official) is on Facebook
with regular updates, match reports, cancellations
updates and photos of Taylor taken by his mum
Jan Hall-Jones. So cute.

Capital Football: A big upper cut, for

sending out an email about clamping down
on conduct one week, and reducing the
sentence imposed on a female player for
king-hitting another player during after-
match handshakes, to just 5 weeks. Double
standard much?
Four Kings
St Pat’s (Town): A big slap on the backside (they Saturday June 11th
like that we hear) for buying your 1st XI football
team the worst football kit ever seen. AFL shorts 7.30pm kick off
and hockey tops. It’s something special. Made
worse by the fact that this is the best first XI SPC
have put out for quite a while, and deserve to play
in something respectable!
On Easter weekend Dave Capstick, $25 per head gives you a pint,
football lover and self employed some snacks and the funny money
Wellington United: Big thanks to Wellington builder, suffered a fractured skull for the casino.
United for collecting on behalf of Dave in a horrific head clash with his
Capstick and family at their Chatham Great prizes to win and a
Karori team mate. stack of raffles.
Cup upset victory over Olympic last
weekend. Almost $200 raised at the gate. Join us in this fundraiser event to 200 tickets only.
Fantastic stuff! help make Cappy’s road to recovery
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 Back in the Big (Travel) League
After a weekend of pretty much expected results in Big Cup
we’re back into a round of Big Travel League.

When we last left you, dear reader, the table looked like this:

This week’s fixtures look like this:

Round 8
SATURDAY 21 MAY
Petone vs Maycenvale
Tawa vs Western Suburbs
(Petone Memorial, 2.30pm)
(Redwood Park, 2.30pm)
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SUNDAY 22 MAY
Olympic vs PN Marist (Newtown Park, 2pm)
Napier City Roversvs vs Lower Hutt City (Park Island, 2pm) Support Park Life!
Wairarapa Utd vs Miramar Rangers (QE II Oval, 2pm)

Petone are starting to get themselves into a sticky position, dropping

Ring Smithy to find out how
yet another lead at David Farrington Park and turning a 2-0 lead into a and how much - 021 280 4393
5-3 loss. Meanwhile Napier and Marist both had wins, lifting them to

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 just one point behind Petone, and Tawa upset Wairarapa to push
themselves three points clear of Petone into 6th.

Petone host Maycenvale in a game which, at the end of the year, could
look like a significant turning point for one of them.

The two teams have similar records, with just one draw the difference.
Both teams have scored 12 goals, but Maycenvale have shipped
a whopping 22. At home, Petone coach Mark Foster will fancy his
chances in this one, but can his team keep hold of a lead, or will
Golden Boot race leader Joachim Rande put Maycenvale two points
clear of Petone.

Mathematically, Petone could drop all the way to 10th with a loss to
Maycenvale, but the chances of Napier turning over Lower Hutt and
Marist beating Olympic are slim, to none.

Olympic will be without red-card regular Barry Lewis after he took

one for the team in the Cup against United at the weekend. They’ll be
used to that though.

At the other end of the table, Miramar (1st) travel over the hill to play
The Rapper (2nd). Miramar are yet to lose this year, but a trip to The
Rapper is never easy. Wairarapa have not lost at home this year, with
their only dropped points coming away at Tawa and Palmerston North
(two places with a lot in common). The key for Miramar will be striker
Dominic Rowe. Rowe has scored in three of Miramar’s four wins this
season, and when he fires, the Mar win.

The Rapper’s class is all wrapped around Adam Cowan. On his day
Cowan is one of the best in the league. He can play all over the park,
and pops up and score goals for fun. Cowan has, this year, taken on an
assistant coaching job alongside part-time money man Phil Keinzley.
If Cowan has a good day, and feeds joint Golden Boot leader Campbell
Banks, Wairarapa are a big danger.

The winner, if there is one, will go three points clear at the top, while a
draw will edge both teams further clear of third placed Wests.

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 Game of the Week the biggest applause of his career ten minutes later. Some quick
The game of the week in Big Travel League is definitely Tawa vs Wests. jinks at the left post beat his man before smashing the ball in to
If the rain holds off it will be at the horrendous Redwood Park, a place the right hand corner. “It was big experience for me being named
nobody likes to visit, not even Tawa. in the team and then coming on as well. Just before I came on I
was really nervous but then you kind of just get in to it and it’s
Tawa have a habit of upsetting Wests in Big Travel League, and there is alright.” Ross says. “But to put away the goal was pretty good.”
a lot of history to the Wests-Tawa relationship, not much of it friendly.
Even at his tender age, John says there is “no doubt” Ross is the
If you fancy this one, keep an eye on the cancellations. Tawa’s alternate next star to come out of Nelson football, comparing him to former
home ground is usually Wests’ Endeavour Park. Ironic. Barring any All White Keith Mackay, due to his stature. “He’s very small but
cancellations, head to DressMart and turn left. technically he’s very good. He’s going to be a very good footballer.
I think he showed, the way he put away his goal, that he certainly
Parky’s Pick: Tawa have proven they can roll the big boys at home, so has the ability.”
if this isnt’ tranferred then we reckon Tawa are worth a shout. A tight
affair though. Tawa 2-1. Jared Putt winner. Ross is “lightyears” ahead of footballers his own age according
to his coach, but the Nelson College year ten student says it has
14-year old scores on Nelson been a “tough challenge” stepping up to first division and then
Chatham Cup in the same year. “But it feels pretty amazing. The
Suburbs debut guys are really supportive and help you along.”
BY PHILLIP ROLLO/NELSON WEEKLY
(check out more from Phillip at http://byphilliprollo.blogspot.com/) Ross is an obvious choice for
Dave Shaw’s Nelson College
He may be a small boy, but Ross McPhie’s goal-scoring debut first XI when national
shows he certainly has a big future ahead. qualifying begins later in the
month, although he played
The creative midfielder continues his rapid rise in local football as down his cards of selection.
he netted for AMI Nelson Suburbs in its 4-1 Chatham Cup victory
over FC Nelson, a special moment for the 14 year-old debutant His next target will be
who continues to prove size is no barrier in football. making his Mainland
Premier League debut. “I’m
With four players unavailable, Nelson Suburbs coach, John trying hard but I’m having
Slotemaker, put his faith in the youngest members of the club, fun.”
meaning the Nelson Pine Industries first division standout
received his first call up alongside the Mainland Premier Nelson Suburbs will face
League squad. rivals Richmond Athletic,
who beat Marlborough
Ross was substituted on in the 70th minute and showed his class Mariners 5-2, on Monday
from the get-go, linking well with fellow debutant Cory Brown, 15. June 6 in the next round of
He receives applause nearly every time he plays, but Ross received the Chatham Cup.

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 Parky on Pantelis Happy Birthday Greenie:
So the A League team owned by a Greek Founder of the Yellow Fever, and the heart and liver of Waterside
has finally signed one, with Aussie Bubble Karori Football Club.
Lucas Pantelis confirming his move to
Wellington from the start of June.

Pantelis is a veteran of the Aussie U17s

that lost the World Cup final to Brazil in
Auckland in 1999. He won the A-League
with Adelaide in 2005-6 and has been a
regular for them since then, although he
missed the whole 2006-7 season, and part
of last season, with injury, earning him the
nickname “Dicky Knee”.

In total, he played 101 games for Adelaide, scoring 14 goals. So he

doesn’t score much.

In his first interview on the move he said he could not only fill the boots
left empty by the departed midget Marco Rojas, but that he was better,
and would bring more to the team. Big call.

The connection to the Phoenix seems to have come through Captain

Fantastic, Andrew Durante. Dura and Pantyless played together at
Parammatta Power in the old NSL. Ahmed Elrich also played there.
Nasty.

Reaction from Adelaide fans has been telling. While they wish
Pantyless all the best, they seem to think he’s past his best and
lost his pace when he had a knee reconstruction. They aren’t
gutted.

Will this be another Ricki Herbert career-rescue like the one he

pulled with Eugene Dadi? Or have we just signed another team’s
castoff?
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