The week
started with top v bottom, and the questions were being asked would
Auckland City put 10 past Southern United like they did in 2014? they
didn't it was only 4 that Auckland City managed as they won their 3rd
“minor” premiership in a row (their 7th overall) and
with it qualification to the 2017 O-League.
Saturday
saw WaiBOP United play their last ever home game, they played at Mt
Maunganui's Links Avenue and won 4-2. Click here for a good write up of the game
On Sunday Hawke's Bay United got a vital 2-0 away win against Team Wellington which puts them into 2nd place. 2nd place not only gets a home semi-final, but if Auckland win the Grand Final, 2nd place qualifies for the O-League.
Here are
the highlights
Goal of
the week – Sean Morris's opening goal for WaiBOP United (and it
wasn't influenced by the classic commentary – Booooom!)
Beer League
Southern
United – Emerson's 1812 Hoppy Pale Ale (5%) 2
Auckland
City – Epic Brooklyn IPA (6.4%) 2
Emerson's
again, not that I'm complaining its a great brewery but Regional
wines and spirits which is supposed to be the holy grail for
Wellington drinkers does have a limited range and supermarkets, even
New World in Thorndon seem to stay to the same breweries. Anyway the
1812 Hoppy Pale Ale is what it says on the label its a hoppy pale ale
and very drinkable. The Epic Brooklyn is a new strain of hops which
have been developed especially for the NZ/USA IPA style, they were
good but probably need to be put with others to get a really good
beer.
WaiBOP
United – Rocky Knob Hop Knob IPA (6%)
Wellington
Phoenix –
Baylands Brewery Woodrow's Veto IPA (7%) 3
As
WaiBOP United were playing in Mt Maunganui I thought I'd try a beer
that came from there. Hop Knob IPA from the Rocky Knob Brewery was
nice, it was the sort of beer that had it been in the 1990s people
would have been raving about it, but these days it's just OK.
Bayland's
Brewery, which started in a garage on Bayland's Drive in Newlands and
has now moved to Petone, make this full bodied malty IPA named
Woodrow's Veto. The name is in honour of US President Woodrow Wilson
who tried unsuccessfully to veto the prohibition bill.
Results
– Football
Team
Wellington 0 Hawke's Bay United 2
Waitakere
United 2 Canterbury United 2
Football
& Beer
Southern
United 0 Auckland City 4
Emerson's
1812 Hoppy Pale Ale 2 Epic Brooklyn IPA 2
WaiBOP
United 4 Wellington Phoenix 2
Rocky
Knob Hop Knob IPA 1 Baylands Woodrows Veto IPA 3
With one
week to go (and the Canterbury v Auckland catch up game)
the
tables look like this
ASB Premiership
1 Auckland
City 32
2 Hawke's
Bay United 27
3 Team
Wellington 24
4 Canterbury
United 23
5 WaiBOP
United 18
6 Waitakere
United 13
7 Wellington
Phoenix 7
8 Southern
United 3
Beer
1 Wellington
Phoenix 17
2 Southern
United 14
3 WaiBOP
United 10
4 Team
Wellington 9
5
Auckland City 9
6 Canterbury
United 8
7 Waitakere
United 3
8 Hawke's
Bay United 1
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