NUAFC 1968-2018

1998
her husband wasn't expected to make it through the night. He
did.
And he played again, six months later in a Golden
Oldies tournament after getting a clean bill of health.
When Coulshed decided he could play no
more, Ngaruawahia stalwart Geoff Tozer was first to hear.
Tozer had a new coach for his club.
The long grass was cut before last Saturday's home
match against league leaders Three Kings United. Cut
without a catcher. On a grey Saturday neither team worked
out how to thread the ball between the clumps. Not too many
people watched.
Coulshed's team lost.
It was just another match day at the Ngaruawahia
Soccer Club.
Tomorrow won't be.
16 AUG 1998 , Edition 1, Page 42.
Business end of Chatham Cup
By: CLEAVER Dylan
SENTIMENTALISTS are rooting
for Ngaruawahia while realists and southerners expect
Dunedin Technical to be far too strong.
In the second Chatham Cup semi-final, the all-
Auckland derby between neighbouring clubs Metro and
Central falls in the too-close-to-call category.
Central won the prized trophy last year and have
become one of the power clubs in New Zealand soccer, but
Metro has fashioned an impressive record in the northern
premier league in recent seasons.
Both games are played this afternoon with Dunedin
hosting Ngaruawahia and Central home to Metro at its
Kiwitea St ground.
Ngaruawahia was lobbying to have the game
changed to the Saturday to make travel and accommodation
plans easier, but Dunedin successfully argued it would attract
a much bigger crowd on the Sunday.
Ngaruawahia has struggled of late in division one of
the northern league and has found goals to be as rare as
diamonds in a coal mine.
Dunedin has had no such problems, rampaging
through the southern league with nary a problem.
However, Ngaruawahia captain Matthew Williams
was confident of a positive result.
"Yeah, we can win this one, no doubt about that," he
said.
The match will also serve as a useful guide
to the strength of soccer at either end of the country.
17 AUG 1998 , Edition 3, Page 19.
Giant-killers cut down
Rodney Fleming scored a superb 37th minute goal
to set up Dunedin Technical's 2-0 win over Ngaruawahia in
the Chatham Cup soccer semi-final in Dunedin yesterday.
In difficult, windy
conditions, Ngaruawahia justified its magnificent cup run by
relentless, hard running, and refused to let Technical settle.
However, eventually a well executed 75th minute
goal by Graham Marshall ended coach Geoff Coulshed
team's giant-killing run.
Technical is the first Otago team since 1981 to
reach the cup final.
It will meet Central in the final at North Harbour
Stadium in Auckland on September 19. Central beat Metro 3
-1 yesterday in the other semi-final.
The 80-odd Ngaruawahia fans in attendance won
early vocal exchanges as Aaron Kingi marshalled a tight
defence in front of Simon Eaddy, who had an excellent
game in goal, and the northern players charged forward with
the wind at their backs.
The visitors had three attempts go narrowly over
Technical's crossbar, but in the teeth of a strong southerly
Technical constructed a fine passing move that led to
Fleming scoring.
Marshall's 75th minute goal was a result of his
sustained pace, and the big striker hit a crisp shot to earn his
11th cup goal this season.
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