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a full round for the last games of the year before the Christmas
break. Waitakere picked up a 2-1 on Thursday night at QBE Stadium,
thanks to 2 (possibly dubious) penalties.
Sunday
was derby day, with Team Wellington beating the Weenix 3-2 at Dave
Farrington Park and in Invercargill, hosts Southern United took the
lead but couldn't hold Canterbury United out who went on to win 3-1.
The TV
game was WaiBOP United v Auckland City, which Auckland won 2-0.
Here are
the highlights of this weeks games
Goal of
the week
Couple of good ones in there this week, I reckon Cole
Peverley's strike for Team Wellington's 2nd just edges out
Andre De Jong's free kick for his 2nd and Canterbury
United's 3rd
Other
football
The
youth league wrapped up in what was an incredibly close league with
only 5 points separating the top 7 teams. Team Wellington were the Champions, their first title coming 10 years after the last time the league was won by a team from the Capital (Capital Football in 2006).
The format will change
again next year when only ASB Premiership teams will be able to field
teams in the youth league, which means Nelson Falcons will become
Tasman United, while Auckland United, Manawatu United & Heartland
Wairarapa will disappear from the league. Given that the youth league
is a development league, you would have thought that NZF would be
encouraging the regions where there is no National League football to develop and strengthen the code there but this latest decision seems
not to have been thought through that well.
The Beer League
In the
beer league, as Southern United were playing at Invercargill, I
thought I'd go for something from the Invercargill brewery. I'm not
sure what has happened but they are beers that seem to be
increasingly hard to find in Wellington and when I did locate them at
Regional Wines and Spirits there was only the Pitch Black Stout
(4.5%). However this wasn't a bad thing as it has that lovely roasted
coffee aroma and taste with a hint of chocolate a very smooth beer
that left me disappointed that I had only bought one bottle of it.
Both pretty nice beers and I couldn't choose between them so its a 2-2 draw
I have
been trying to use different breweries but have found when trying to
get beers from out of Wellington, the suppliers seem to be
restricted to certain breweries (Hence using Three Boys Hoppy porter
rather than Cashel's Milk Stout) the supermarkets and bottle stores
here understandably focusing on Wellington beers. Luckily there are
lots and so for the Wellington derby I selected 2 I hadn't tried
before.
Team
Wellington
Funk Estate Oh Lordy NZ Pale Ale (5.5%).
The challenge on
the label is to drink this and not scream out....Oh Lordy!
Unfortunately it wasn't that hard of a challenge, it felt like this
beer really wanted to be a Pale Ale, it has the funky name and the cool art work but it just doesn't quite make it.
For the
Phoenix I chose Upper Hutt brewery Kereru Hop to it Pale Ale (5.9%)
this was a full bodied dry Pale Ale with a nice nutty taste and
easily won the derby 3-1
Results - Just
Football
Waitakere
United 2 Hawke's Bay United 1
WaiBOP
United 0 Auckland City 2
Beer &
Football
Team
Wellington 3 Wellington Phoenix 2
Funk
Estate Oh Lordy NZ Pale Ale (5.5%) 1 Kereru Hop to it Pale Ale
(5.9%) 3
Southern
United 1 Canterbury United 3
Invercargill
Brewery Pitch Black Stout (4.5%) 2 Three Boys Hoppy Porter (5.2%) 2
So we
are at the Christmas break and the next games are on January 10th
The football table is headed by Auckland City with 13 points, 1 ahead of Team Wellington & Canterbury United on 12. Hawke's Bay United are in the 4th position on 11 points, 5 ahead of WaiBOP United & Waitakere United, with the Weenix on 4 points, 1 ahead of bottom place Southern United.
In the
Beer league its a different story, Southern United are top of the
league with 10 points, followed by WaiBOP United, Auckland City &
Team Wellington on 7. Weenix and Canterbury United on 5 each, while
Waitakere United and Hawke's Bay United yet to score a point
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