Flying Kiwis – November 25
Clearly Vic Esson is a machine because less than a week after she saved that late penalty for the Football Ferns against South Korea she was lining up in goal for the biggest game of Rangers’ SWPL campaign so far
2022 Men’s National League – Week 8 Review
One more week of Men’s National League to go (plus a grand final). Like a summer holiday, it’s almost over when it feels like it’d only just begun.
2022 Women’s National League – Week 10 Review
Friday night as Seddon Fields, definitely the best time to be at Seddon Fields. Under the lights and out on the turf. Listen closely and you can sometimes hear the animals from the zoo down the road
Notes From The Wellington Phoenix’s 4-1 Defeat (At Home!) vs Melbourne City
Ideally the Wellington Phoenix would have celebrated their first ever (proper) home game with a memorable win. Realistically they were always up against it facing a Melbourne City team that finished second on the ladder last term
Football Ferns vs South Korea: Back Home, Still Building
We didn’t get the wins that we were hoping for. Instead we got a 1-0 loss followed by a 1-1 draw in the two-game series against South Korea in Christchurch. But you know what? That’s a pretty decent outcome.
2022 Women’s National League – Week 9 Review
This will not have been a game that the Central girls were circling on the calendar. First versus last on the ladder, with Eastern Suburbs having beaten them 8-0 in the reverse fixture. At least they were at home this time
The Wellington Phoenix Are Ready To Roll For Season Two in the ALW
With twenty-two players all locked and loaded, the Wellington Phoenix are ready for their second season in the A-League Women’s. Some of those players are new to the team, many are returning from year one
2022 Men’s National League – Week 7 Review
How about Melville United? Bit of a slog over the first month of the National League but they’ve figured out their groove these past two weeks with wins over Christchurch United and Birkenhead. Scoring goals in the process
Flying Kiwis – November 9
The Woodsman giving it a knee slide on a rainy afternoon on England’s south coast, that’s what we wanna see. Prior to the weekend’s game away against Southampton, Chris Wood had only scored once all season
2022 Men’s National League – Week 6 Review
We began this week in Christchurch, English Park to be more specific, as Cashmere Technical sought to apply their litmus test to Napier City Rovers. The litmus test being that…
2022 Women’s National League – Week 8 Review
The eighth week of this competition delivered the reverse fixtures of the first week of this competition. Safe to say that plenty has happened since then
Football Ferns vs South Korea: Squad Yarns & Preview
The last time the Footy Ferns played was only a few weeks ago. October 9 in Nagano, they lost 2-0 to Japan. That result was about as expected and we didn’t really learn anything new, although the team did at least get…
2022 Men’s National League – Week 5 Review
Saturday arvo in sunny Napier, never a bad way to start a game week… particularly in a round that also saw torrential rain and thunderstorms elsewhere in the motu
Flying Kiwis – November 2
Sometimes you’ve gotta take a step back in order to take two forward, right? When Ryan Thomas left PEC Zwolle for PSV Eindhoven back in 2018, it was on glowing terms with the club that had given him his big chances as a professional footballer
2022 Women’s National League – Week 7 Review
Here it was, finally. Into the last matchweek before every team had played each other at least once and that meant this fixture could wait no longer. The two runaway leaders atop the table
Flying Kiwis – October 26
The task was simple for Marco Rojas and Colo-Colo: avoid defeat against Coquimbo Unido in their third-to-last match of the Primera División season and they’d be champions of Chile
2022 Women’s National League – Week Six Review (Part 2: The Federations)
The ol’ Southern Derby. Canterbury United Pride have been below their usual standards this season, stretched for depth by a few injuries and unavailabilities and also probably without the margin for error they’d otherwise be used to with these brutal Auckland sides around
2022 Women’s National League – Week Six Review (Part 1: Auckland)
It was a double-banger long weekend in the Women’s National League, gotta squeeze in the games in order to get through two full rounds. Therefore week six began with a couple of Friday night games under Auckland lights…
2022 Men’s National League – Week Four Review
David Farrington Park always looks a treat and particularly so on a sunny afternoon. Miramar Rangers were hoping to take the momentum from their late two-goal comeback last week in Napier to get their first win of the campaign
Flying Kiwis – October 19
Yeah you see that? A first team debut for Matt Garbett at Torino is what that is. He’s had to wait patiently for this moment but manager Ivan Jurić finally found a situation that suited