Heard on the sidelines 10

'Is your temperature gauge always stuck on hot?'

Mike asks a big question mere minutes before Nick's car breaks down on the motorway on the way to the game.

Today's results

Good effort today Stallions, but unfortunately all our 

opposition for top spots also had big wins. 

CAPITAL 7:
Nth Wgtn Varsity      5    Uni Raiders           0
University 4th XI     1    Wgtn United Elite     1
Lower Hutt City       1    Uni Stallions         5
SV Killer Bees        1    Marist Cobras         5

                       P  W  D  L  GF  GA  Pts
University 4th XI     11  7  2  2  25  21  23
Marist Cobras         11  5  3  3  30  24  18
Nth Wgtn Varsity      11  4  5  2  28  18  17
Uni Stallions         11  4  5  2  23  16  17
Lower Hutt City       11  5  2  4  35  30  17
Wgtn United Elite     11  3  3  5  22  26  12
Uni Raiders           11  3  0  8  17  37   9
SV Killer Bees        11  2  2  7  26  34   8

Itallion Stallion?

Available here.

Where's Wally? / Pick the Pony

We all know who the pony is that we should be picking, but spotting him (and her) in this crowd is the challenge. SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS!!!

Are you Jason in disguise?

Or maybe Goodall?

Capital Football cancellations 19th june 2010

Told you this game was never meant to happen

WE'RE CANCELLED...

CAPITAL FOOTBALL: Updated 6.55pm (Friday)
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Ground Transfers. Please use the correct field. Do not move to another field. Thank you:

CAPITAL FOOTBALL: Senior notice:

The following grades are cancelled:

Capital 7, 10, 11, 13 and 15

Stallions vs Uni 4ths

No match report, but a few things I remember:

- Classic Stallions, roll into the ground 12.15 to find the 4ths in their imposing black away strip (we got to wear that, just once) practicing drills and looking mean.  Stallions scramble around looking for nets etc, Spencer shows up with the strip about 7 minutes before kickoff, and then leaves until after kickoff. No sign of Panda, all our ringins meeting each other for the first time.

- We put up a much better account of ourselves than last time playing these guys. Led by Dan & Greg at the back who carved up. 0-0 at halftime, but gave away a soft goal about 10 mins into second half. Taking ball out of from the back, Nick fires a poor pass that is intercepted, giving a 3 on 1 which they finish. One of those annoying ones - a mistake anyone could make, gave a chance and they finished it.

- Other memorable moments: Nick finding himself free in the goalbox, fires off a rocket but well saved ... Mike B playing the beautiful game, dribbles, cuts inside his man ... Greg doing a Heskey-like run through the middle, must have beaten 4/5 guys, an array of pinpoint & dangerous freekicks/corners - step aside Paddy, we have  a new deadball specialist, and he wears No.5 ... Mike's moustache.

- Stallion for Dan, Pony for Nick, pub chat decides that there is no point awarding mvp points to star ringins, so they go 3 = Aaron, 2 = Lloyd, 1 = Joe.

- Another low scoring fantasy round, 2 for everybody, except: Paul 3 (+60 mins, 3 saves), Aaron, Lloyd & Joe.

- Special thanks to Logan for reffing the first half in exchange for a 20 minute blat (and escape from the tupperware party), Joe for reffing the second half (especially after playing a huge first half) & Corey for showing up but not getting a game.

That's about it - bring on the Raiders, I reckon we are still looking goos for 2nd and a cup victory!

Heard on the sidelines #9

"That was a shit celebration Rob. I would have been naked and dancing." - Lister giving Rob some stick about his celebration (or lack thereof) when scoring the equaliser against North Wellington. Maybe Aaron meant something like this:

Don't know about you...

But I want to see a match report on last night's game from StevieG!

Are you deaf from Vuvuzelas yet? How was the stadium?

CAPITAL FOOTBALL DRAW FOR 19 & 20 JUNE:

Bet we get cancelled This game is never meant to happen

CAPITAL 7:
University 4th XI V Nth Wgtn Varsity    Nairnville 1 (2.30);
Lower Hutt City   V Marist Cobras       Fraser 2 (12pm);
Uni Stallions V Uni Raiders Kelburn(12.30)
SV Killer Bees    V Wgtn United Elite Delaney 1 (12.30);

Capital Football cancellations GAME STILL ON...

Same time same place ...

SATURDAY 12th JUNE:

The following grades are CANCELLED:
Capital 1, 2, 9, 16, Masters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

CAPITAL 7:
Uni Stallions __ University 4th XI __ Kelburn (12.30);
SV Killer Bees __ Lower Hutt City __ Delaney 2 (12.30);
Wgtn United Elite __ Nth Wgtn Varsity __ MacAlister 1 (2.30) NOW Newtown;
Uni Raiders __ Marist Cobras __ Nairnville 1 (12.30) NOW Miramar 1;

University Stallions 1 Vs Nth Wellington Varsity 1

Friday night football and a capacity crowd witnessed two evenly matched teams battle for a draw at Te Whaea. It was standing room only with even Nick White having to jump over the fence to get in the ground before kickoff.

The Stallions took the field early to acclimatise to the surface and looked good in the warmups. Looking good in particular was Bob Hinkels who showed tremendous enthusiam (as per usual)to get shots off on goal. After the prematch handshakes, "Get on with the game.." nothing much happened in the first half. *insert your own recollections here*

0-0 at half time with both teams playing cautiously.

2nd half was a much more open affair and the Nth Wellington team opened the scoring after a shot from out side the box took a wicked bobble on the uneven surface and skipped past Kilford
in to the back of the net. *insert your own recollections here* 0-1 (70mins)

Once again the Stallions sparked in to life after going behind and won a succession of corner kicks. They flooded the box with 5mins to go and a delicious corner from Sawyer was met at the
far post by Bob Hinkels who soared above his marker and powered the ball home, top left corner. Hinkels celebrated his first goal of the season with a genuine look of surprise and a few 'jump for joys' ala '82 World Cup. 1-1 (85mins)

Hinkels had another chance a minute later, and White had a shot with the last kick of the game but couldn't convert. The Stallions nearly pulling off an unlikely win.

Attendance:38 (new club record)

This correspondent is off to South Africa following the All Whites, and covering the World Cup for the Kapi-Mana News. I will be back to play on the 10 July. Good luck Stallions!

Friday Night Fantasy Points

Pretty straightforward this week (bonus points courtesy of Lachlan):

Robin gets 10 points (+60, midfield goal, 3 bonus points)
Paddy gets 7 (+60, assist, 1 bp)
Butch gets a cool 3 (+60, 1 bp)

The rest of us losers get a stink 2.

Overall the leaderboard is:
Panda = 36
Lloyd = 27
Logan = 27
Paddy = 25

Photograph: Oh, that's Ralph Hinkley ...

Friday Night Lights

And so the countdown starts for the big game at Te Whaea under lights. It's a game that has brought a whole lot of people out of the woodwork. Former Stallions Ben Hodges and Nick Goodall have begged for a return to the mighty team, and team manager Rafa Walker even received the following email from the club:

"Graham Essel from the men's firsts just texted me - he is super-keen for a game on the turf and wonders if you need a spare player tomorrow night"

The mighty Stallions however do not just throw their sacred shirt on anyones back, so a swift "Thanks, but no thanks (i.e. Piss off!)" was issued, to which Essel replied

"All good mate, I will be there to watch so thought I'd put my hand up"

Looks like there might need to be some temporary seating installed, it looks like a sell out.

Rafa loses the pot, the plot and the 'pool

See here

You can bet there was an albatross involved

Pick the Pony

10 fantasy bonus points if you can pick who the current Stallion is in this bunch. The date on the board should give a few clues but I know who it is but still can't see the resemblance!

Stallions Fantasy Points vs Marist Cobras

Corey 3 (60+ min, 2 goals conceded, 2bp)
Tangihaere 1 (60+ min, 2 goals conceded)
Joe 1
Jason 1
Mike 1
Spencer 2 (60+ min)
Panda 2
Paddy 2 (unlucky not to get an assist for Tristin's first but there was other contact from the defenders first)
Lloyd 2
Logan 2
Graham 3 (60+ min, 1bp for how he combined with Corey and a puddle in the first half to deny what seemed a certain goal)
Tristin 13 (60+ min, 2 goals, 3bp)
Rauru 2

So no assists for either goal as they both came from defenders touches from memory. It was all the Tristin show as far as points go. Good to see his name back on the score card - should make the golden boot race interesting (massive fines if you hog it from now on though and pull a Drogba). A bit shameful that just over halfway through the season the top goal scorer has 4! But then maybe it says something for the all-round team effort (rather than the crap balls in to the lazy strikers ;) ).

Penalty taking Psychology

For Jason, Goodall & Lampard

Here

Apparently, 'A wiley disregard for the presence of the keeper' is the key.