ISSUE 1 Ellerslie AFC vs Forrest Hill Milford
13.04.19
THE AVE
CONTENTS CONTENTS
PAGE #
NRFL Div 1 Lineups
4&5
Ellerslie vs Waitemata FC Match Report
6&7
NRFL Div 1 Reserves Lineups
8&9
Tables and Tweets
10 & 11
Welcome to The Ave – home of Ellerslie AFC for another packed evening of NRFL action. Firstly let us welcome Adam and his Forest Hill Milford teams to Michaels Ave for this round 3 clash in the Lotto NRFL. They come into this match on the back of two wins in the opening two rounds (a 1-0 win over Takapuna and a 3-1 win over Waiheke) and should prove to be a tough opponent for Fred and Terry’s young Ellerslie charges. Special mention to Seb and Marshy who are doing a great job with the young Reserves team with some promising players (young and slightly less young) showing they are ready to step up to First Team football when they are called on. Just a quick note about todays program which is a bit different from the normal format - we are trialling a couple of new concepts this season so keep your eye out for more changes. One of the major changes is previously the program would be focused on many teams across the club, which is very time consuming - instead over the next month we are going to trial doing a more focused program for NRFL and a separate program for Women’s Conference (when they play at home). The results should be interesting. Cheers Tim Adams - Chairman @ Ellerslie AFC
WELCOME TO THE AVE
ELLERSLIE FIRST TEAM Match Day Lineup Shirt # Player Name
Shirt # Player Name
1
Kyryl Bolharyn
18
Divikesh Deo
2
Alexei Davies-Campbell
20
Aalok Paudel
4
Jordan Bresler
23
Dylan Horgan
6
Olly Chiaroni
27
Tariro Mashonganyika
9
Jordan Oosterhof
33
Denny Twigg
10
Adam Barkley ©
39
Ben Shaw
12
Marius Weihrauch
COACH: Fred de Jong
13
Josh Torrens
ASST: Terry Torrens
14
Art Twigg
Manager: Isaac Jacobs
15
Seb Poelman
16
Rowan Corbett
Shirt # Player Name
Shirt # Player Name
1
Jacob Spoonley
15
Sean Crombie
2
Blair Whitlock
16
Louis Middeldorp
3
Luca Burney
17
Trent Mayes
4
Jack Caunter ©
18
Justin Dunnett
5
Dion Buckingham
19
Jack Anderson
8
Ben Roberts
20
David Featonby
9
Adam Dickinson
21
Gareth Lewis
10
David Brown
23
Josh Coe
11
Jaydyn Englefield
COACH: Adam Dickinson
12
Laith Al Kalisy
COACH: Nathan Cranney
13
Chris Riley
ASST: Ben Bate
14
James Barlow
Manager: Chip Holland
Match Day Lineup
FORREST HILL FIRST TEAM
ELLERSLIE VS WAITEMATA Match Report The second round of the Lotto NRFL saw Ellerslie visit Waitemata at McLeod Park – a venue that Ellerslie have struggled at in recent times. According to the Waitemata FC program these struggles go back to 1982 when we last won there – although due to Waitemata being in lower divisions in the years between then and 2017 the two teams had not met in that time span. After last weeks loss to an impressive Mt Albert Ponsonby side, but a performance from the Ellerslie side that was less than convincing, fans of the Ponies had hoped to see a little more attacking intent in this fixture and didn’t they deliver with 4 goals and some quality on show as well. Man of the Match Dylan Horgan who scored a powerful free kick and laid on an assist for Seb’s first goal was closely followed in performance by Seb who headed home two goals with perfect heading technique. Another encouraging sign was the debut of Olly Chiaroni who ran at the Waitemata backline often and when he found some space he exploited that well, particularly with his contribution to the winning goal when Dylan found him wide with some space to pick the ball up and run at the backpedalling fullback – after a couple of shimmies in and out Olly found the space to fire in a low, hard cross which was turned into the goal at the near post by a Waitemata FC player in the 96th (and final) minute of the game. Gutting for Waitemata as they had battled hard throughout the game and showed real moments of quality upfront when Kuyama Toma (KT) and Arnold Kochasira combined – the latter with extreme pace causing all sorts of issues. Their cause was not helped however when KT was given a yellow card in the 83rd minute for dissent of the referee which resulted in the first sin bin we have observed this season. It didn’t seem like Waitemata FC were even aware of the rule and that
caused some confusion, even to the point when in the 93rd minute they tried to put KT back into the game – but of course with added time not official time any sin bin from the 80th minute onwards results in that player not being able to return. For the neutral an exciting game to watch with a first half packed with goals (5) with most of them coming very late in the half and then a cagey second half with plenty of opportunities and of course late late drama . The Reserves game was quite similar to the First Team game in a lot of ways – Waitemata FC took the lead and Ellerslie came back with two quick goals but then it all changed and the Ellerslie side took the game by the scruff of the neck and made sure they didn’t let go. Waitemata’s opening (and what turned out to be only) goal came from a header and to be honest they should have scored a few more via this method as they looked genuinely dangerous throughout the game, but particularly early on. Kojo Norku in his first game of the season scored the equaliser after he found some space on the edge of the box and fired in a low shot that beat the keeper at the near post (the shot was partially missed on the video below). Ellerslie then got into stride and Monju won a penalty after being dragged down by a Waitemata defender just inside the box and he stepped up to calmly convert the spot kick. Our third goal came from a keeper error – which is a bit harsh as the young keeper was excellent throughout the game and while he made a mistake on this goal when he let the ball slip out of his control while sliding out to intercept a through ball – his performance for the match in it’s entirety was very good. Patrick was the beneficiary of the error after he had made an outside to inside run from the right flank and Caleb had spotted his run and played the ball through the centre back channel – the GK had spotted the opening and had done well to make the ground but couldn’t recover quick enough to stop Patrick sliding home the loose ball past a cover defender.
Match Report Kyryl kept the margin at two goals just before the halftime whistle with a sharp point blank save! Excellent work from the young custodian. That completed the action in the first half and Ellerslie re-focused at halftime as Marshy and Seb took the team through a few things that were not working. Second half was more of the same as Ellerslie continued to create chances and Waitemata continued to scramble well on defence and not give up easy chances – but they continued to make a few mistakes, one of which was when Monju blocked a pass in midfield that flew straight back past one centreback into some space for Patrick to run onto, leaving the covering centre back in his wake – there was so much space the keeper couldn’t come out to cover it and Patrick picked his spot and finished with a nice low shot from outside the box. The final goal of the game which was Patrick’s hatrick was easily the best goal of the game – the move started with Denny who drove inside from full back with the ball and played a nice channel ball to Dee who had made a nice run down the inside left – he picked up Denny’s pass and with a shimmy got past the cover defender and played a perfect cut back to the penalty spot for Patrick to slide it home. A great team move! This weekend both teams host Forrest Hill Milford which should be another tough challenge – see you all there!
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ELLERSLIE RESERVES Match Day Lineup Shirt # Player Name
Shirt # Player Name
1
Kyryl Bolharyn
35
Finn Rathbone
3
Shukrullah Rezaie
36
Hossain Kaio
5
Denish Chand
37
Caleb Pahina
8
Adam Scott
38
Patrick Fahey
11
Josh Marshall
40
Jacob Carroll
19
Ben Hughes
41
Minjoo Kim
25
Dirrenesh Thirukumar
43
Michael Glenny ©
26
Shohei Monju
44
Kojo Norku
28
Harry Stanbridge
COACH: Seb Bouvier
29
Callum McKenzie
ASST: Grant Marshall
31
Will Sargent
Manager: Isaac Jacobs
Shirt # Player Name
Shirt # Player Name
Gareth Lewis
Chip Holland
Jordan Olivier
Zack Wynia
Regan Diver
James Usher
Oskar Farwell
Ilia Zigheimat
Conor Jackson
Cooper Tyler
Reece Smith
Luke Woolmer
Bradley Cain
Carlos Holland
Zavier Anderson
COACH: Luca Vasori
Connor Murphy
Manager: Chip Holland
Luke Burmah Michael Velasco Amadeo Abrogena
Match Day Lineup
FORREST HILL RESERVES
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TABLES & CLUB APP POS
CLUB
PL
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
PTS
1
Ellerslie AFC Reserves
2
2
0
0
8
1
7
6
2
Tauranga City Reserves
2
2
0
0
9
2
7
6
3
Takapuna Reserves
2
2
0
0
7
3
4
6
4
Three Kings Reserves
2
2
0
0
7
3
4
6
5
Bay Olympic Reserves
2
1
0
1
6
7
-1
3
6
Forrest Hill Milford Reserves
2
1
0
1
4
6
-2
3
7
Waitemata FC Reserves
2
1
0
1
3
5
-2
3
8
Bucklands Beach Reserves
2
0
1
1
4
5
-1
1
9
Fencibles Reserves
2
0
1
1
3
4
-1
1
10
Waiheke Reserves
2
0
0
2
1
4
-3
0
11
Hibiscus Coast Reserves
2
0
0
2
1
7
-6
0
12
Mt Albert Ponsonby Reserves
2
0
0
2
1
7
-6
0
POS
CLUB
PL
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
PTS
1
Bay Olympic
2
2
0
0
6
1
5
6
2
Mt Albert Ponsonby
2
2
0
0
5
0
5
6
3
Forrest Hill Milford
2
2
0
0
4
1
3
6
4
Three Kings Utd
2
1
0
1
4
2
2
3
5
Takapuna AFC
2
1
0
1
3
3
0
3
6
Ellerslie AFC
2
1
0
1
4
5
-1
3
7
Bucklands Beach AFC
2
1
0
1
5
7
-2
3
8
Tauranga City
2
1
0
1
2
4
-2
3
9
Waitemata FC
2
0
1
1
3
4
-1
1
10
Waiheke Utd
2
0
1
1
1
3
-2
1
11
Fencibles Utd
2
0
0
2
5
7
-2
0
12
Hisbiscus Coast AFC
2
0
0
2
1
6
-5
0
TABLES & TWEETS
ELLERSLIE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB
facebook.com/EllerslieAFC
Michaels Avenue Reserve P.O. Box 11 328 Ellerslie, Auckland 1542 P: 09 579 8910 E: chairman@ellersliefootball.org.nz W: ellersliefootball.org.nz
twitter.com/EllerslieAFC
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