NUAFC 1968-2018

1977
produced two wins, three draws and
seven losses for a 21-37 aggregate.
Results:- Northern League 1 v
Central 3, 1st Division 1 v Fraser 1,
2nd Division 1 v Fraser 11, 3rd
Division 1 v Unicol 3, 4th Division 4 v
Hillcrest 4, Ladies 1 v Wanderers 4.
7th Grade lost 2-3, 8th Grade won 9-0,
9th Grade lost 0-7, 10th Grade lost 0-1,
11th Grade won 1-0, 13th Grade drew
0-0
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Barklay McGhie to debut
Waikato Times
Friday April 23rd 1977
Ngaruawahia-Affco United is
again hoping for an improved
performance in tomorrow's game
against Unicol, which won 3-0
against Kelston West last week.
United coach Les Vuletich
has br ought bi g B arkl ay
McGhie, a former New Zea­land
junior squad member, into the
centre of the defence after a threeyear
absence from the Affco
team. But United's goalkeeper
Ian Innes is still in hospital with
eye problems.
Top Soccer XIs Fresh
From Wins
Waikato Times
April 29th, 1977
Another Waikato side had a
remarkable recovery last weekend was
Ngaruawahia-Affco United, which
meets Tokoroa in another derby
tomorrow in the fourth division of
the Northern League.
United hopes once again to
be fielding its big ex-New
Zealand junior rep Barclay
McGhie in the defence, but Jeff
Tozer who scored twice in United's
3-1 win over Unicol is not available
tomorrow.
Better news this week also
about United's goalkeeper Ian lnnes,
who is out of hospital where he
was treated for double vision, and
has started light training with the
squad.
Tokoroa which has won both
its league matches this sea­son, will
be no pushover despite the fact it
will probably be missing keeper Bob
Croxon and winger Stephen Hughes
tomorrow.
Both were injured in the
Thistle game last weekend. Tokoroa
was leading 2-1 until Croxon was
kicked in the head and had to be
taken to hospital.
With both its substitutes on,
Tokoroa went down 6-3 to
Huntly, but Tokoroa is relying on its
reserve strength to pull it through
tomorrow.
Ngaruawahia
Thoroughly Beaten
The Huntly Press
Wednesday May 4th, 1977
Tokoroa equalled their top
score against another Northern League
team when they handed out a
footballing lesson to Ngaruawahia-
Affco to the tune of nine goals to nil.
Four goals in the first half were
steadily increased by a further five in
the second. Ngaruawahia-Affco had a
total of about five shots all day.
The United keeper did not
handle the ball much apart from
retrieving from the net at periodic
intervals. Tokoroa carved the United
defence apart at will and, despite the
odds, United still tried to string
together three consecutive passes.
Player of the day went to
striker Mike Liddle whose efforts
failed through lack of support up front,
and after the match he was presented
with the Lilian Rose Player of the Day
trophy. Barclay McGhie and Ken
Murray seemed to lack in match
fitness with Alan Cotter, transferred
from Cameron, being unable to
penetrate the Tokoroa defence. Sandy
MacDonald could do little to stem the
flood of well-driven goals, two of
which were well-angled drives from 20
metres out. Nothing that United tried
worked against a Tokoroa team that
clicked in all departments.
Ngaruawahia soccer results:-
1st Divsion lost 0-3 to
Cambridge, 2nd Division won 4-3
against Matamata, 3rd Division lost 0-4
to Hillcrest, 4th Division drew 1-1 with
Fraser, Ladies lost 0-4 to Claudelands
(1).
Juniors:- 7th Grade lost 1-3 to
Fairfield B, 8th Grade won 2-1 against
Gordonton, 9th Grade lost 0-2 to
Hillcrest B, 10th Grade drew 2-2 with
Hamilton East, 11th grade lost 1-5 to
Claudelands, 13th Grade won 6-0
against Knighton.
Scottish midfielder
to debut
Waikato Times
Friday May 6th 1977
In the fourth division
Ngaruawahia AFFC0 United has
imported another player to try to keep
it from the re­legation zone.
He is Scottish midfielder
John Brown, who will be making his
debut for United against Kelston West
at Centennial Park tomorrow.
United could not believe
its luck in Saturday’s
game
Waikato Times
Monday May 9th 1977
Ngaruawahia AFFCO United
just could not believe its luck against
Kelston West in their Northern League
fourth division clash at Centennial
Park, Ngaruawahia, on Saturday.
With only eight minutes of the
match remaining, United was 2-0 up.
But by the time the referee had
blown the 'inal whistle, somehow
United had lost 3-2.
A frustrated United coach, Les
Vuletich, exclaimed two or three
times, "I just don't. .believe it," before
the reality dawned, and his team were
propping up the rest of the
Northern League at the bottom of
the fourth division.
Kelston had done the "impossible"
but was not as big a freak as it
appears. The. Aucklanders
showed good; team-work through
most of; the game, and man for man,
they possessed more control and
fitness.
United had two or three outstanding
individuals, but too often the team's
linking up was poor.
Up front United's four-man attack
lacked the killer instinct which
comes from more confident players
and easy chances went begging in
the second half.
But having scored two goals,
however safe the result looked,
United paid the mistake of resting on
its laurels.
In midfield United had two players
— Jeff Tozer and John Brown —
who showed, class.
Club skipper and a Waikato
representative Tozer returned after
his absence the previous week to
contribute with some powerful
running and hard work around the
park.
Brown, a new signing making his
debut for the team, showed the,
signs of skill that once made him a
first division player in Sydney. But
it was his first game for eight
months and be admits he is far from fit.
It took him only three minutes to
make his presence felt, when he
opened the scoring for United with a
low shot from a corner. But for
the rest of the first half he did not
see as much of the ball as a player
of his calibre would like to.
Twenty minutes into the second, half
United .could count itself, unlucky
when two shots by Charlie Gorman
and Mike Liddle hit the bar, one
straight after.the other.
United's second coal came -after