Where the bloody hell are they?

Posted By admin on Mar 1, 2014

Answer me this: how does a club that has won this country’s national league four years in a row – basically the Manchester United of our league – have virtually no fans? That question has been bugging me since I was at Fred Taylor Park earlier in the season with WaiBOP United and the ASB Premiership semi-final, a ‘Super City Derby’ no less, had me asking it again. There were less than 200 there for the...

Click, click, click…brrrrrmmmmmm

Posted By admin on Feb 28, 2014

Now that WaiBOP United’s involvement in the ASB Premiership is at an end I’ve got a little more time on my hands so I reckon I should get the Bus back on the road and kick this blog back into life. As the Bus has been pretty well parked up for the longest time it’ll take a bit to get it back to roadworthiness. But after a thorough servicing, a warrant (which, I’m sure, will be passed with ease) and a quick zap...

My Club

Posted By admin on Feb 11, 2014

Matamata Swifts AFC is my club because Matamata is where I’m from. Simple really. I played my junior football at the club. I played football there as a callow youth. I played most of my senior football there. And I’ve held just about every committee position known to man there. It’s fair to say I’ve done my time and I’ve done it willingly. Matamata Swifts is a small country club that has occasionally punched above its weight. Often...

One Minute At… Bluewater Stadium

Posted By admin on Jan 30, 2014

Every time I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at Bluewater Stadium in Napier. We were there for the ASB Premiership between Hawke’s Bay United and WaiBOP United, played on Saturday January 25, 2014. The game finished 3-2 to Hawke’s Bay United.

Oh, what a lovely evening

Posted By admin on Jan 27, 2014

Sometimes, even if you’re quite heavily involved with a team, it’s nice to be able to sit back and analyse a game of football as objectively as you can and appreciate it for what it was – a decent game of football. As annoying as WaiBOP United’s 3-2 loss at Hawke’s Bay United was I thought it had pretty much everything you could hope for in a match of ASB Premiership standard – goals (and some...