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27 minutes when striker Bullivant
was tackled in the Kelston penalty
area.
Liddle latched on to the loose
ball and crossed it to substitute
Steve Williams who was left to
sidefoot into an e m p t y g o a l .
United's fall started in the
82nd minute when Danny
McCabe shot beyond keeper Sandy
MacDonald's reach into the top
corner of the net for Kelston’s first
goal.
Kelston advanced with a penalty
scored by Willy Fulton after the other
United substitute Doug Sturm
brought down an opponent.
The winning goal was a
stunning 25m shot by Jim Carter,
.which whistled under the crossbar
with just a couple of minutes to
go.
Northern League Soccer
Huntly Press
May 11th 1977
Ngaruawahia-AffcoUnited
looked set for their second win
of the season when they headed
Kelston of Auckl and 2-0 wi th 8
minutes to go.
John Brown, Unit ed’s n ew
signing opened th e 'scoring
from a corner in the opening
minutes and United came close on
several other occasions in the first
spell but held at 1-0 at the turn.
Kelston never looked dangerous
in their shooting and wer e hel d
well by Bowers, Coyne, McGee
and Sowerby in the backs.
Charlie Gorman opened up the
second goal when he pushed a
shot across the face of Kelstons
goal for "Stevi e Wonde r " t o
push gen t l y h om e. T h e Kelston
woodwork was hit on three other
occasions but it looked all
United.
With time running out Kel st on
seem ed t o fe el that they had
nothing to lose. A high dropping
ball out of the sun was taken by
MacDonald in United's goal who
was bundled into the back of the
net by a charging forward. With
the goal disallowed Kelston
came back with a scorching shot
into the top left c or n er fr om a
ba l l la i d back from the
forwards.
Within 3 minutes United
conceded a penalty to have Kelston
draw level at 2.2. With about 90
seconds remaining Kelston won
the m a t ch wi t h a l e ft -foot
drive from the left wing into the
top left corner.
Un i t e d l e ft t h e fi e l d
wondering how they had lost
after making much of the football
and creating the majority of
chances, but credit goes to
Kelston wh o tried for th e goal s
and got them. Pla yer of the
Da y for United went t o
M alc ol m Sower by in defence.
Reunion Soccer
for Ngaruawahia High
School
The Huntly Press
Wednesday May 11th, 1977
The third annual soccer match
between ex-pupils and the
Ngaruawahia High School 1st 11 was
played last Friday afternoon before
school dismissed for the May holidays.
With the kick-off time at 2.30
it was difficult for many of the expupils
to get time off work and, as a
result, only 9 past pupils were able to
be at the High School to play.
With the exception of Gary
Smith, all ex-pupils had been, or are,
playing Waikato 1st division soccer,
and the skills of Michael Rooney,
Tony Janssen, Mark Snowden, Taffy
Tengu, Phillip Jerry, Kerry Barakat,
Jeff McLaughlin, Neil Gorman and
Gary Smith were there to put the 1st
11 to the test.
Within the past week the
school lost the services of keeper
Grant Prendergast when he left for a
job and his place was taken by the
dimuative David White, previously the
2nd 11 and 4th division keeper. The expupils
were well served in goal by
Michael Rooney whose deftness
would provide a stumbling block for
the 1st 11 strikers.
Danny Rooney and Greg
Bradshaw, two promising juniors,
joined the ex-pupils to fill out the team
and both acquitted themselves well in
striking roles. Rooney, Jerry and
Barakat had been in the 1st 11 the
previous year and many of the boys
knew their style and countered it, for
the most part, effectively.
Glen Solomon scored the
only goal of the match (NHS) when a
misread back pass was coolly collected
and pushed home. The schoolboys
scored again through Solomon and
McIntosh but had it disallowed.
Andy Bell (NHS) caused
Rooney a few aches in goal with his
well-driven shots but Rooney’s
experience in top football served him
well.
Very little passed Jason
Cargo in the 1st 11 backs and Kani Te
Wiata teamed well with Dean Haggie
in midfield, and were the nucleus of a
hard-working school team that is
showing promise.
1st 11: White, Anderson,
Cargo, Dooley, Harding, Harrop, Te
Wiata, Haggie, Bell, McIntosh,
Solomon and Brown.
1977
Returning Tozer Out With
Shoulder Injury
Waikato Times
May 13th, 1977
Transfer of struggling
Ngaruawahia - AFFC0 United's star
player and captain, Jeff Tozer, to
Claudelands Rovers struck a sour note
this week.
Tozer, apparently unhappy
about the way United has plummeted to
the bottom of Northern League soccer's
fourth division, went along to train
with Rovers on Tuesday night and
dislocated his shoulder in a tackle.
He's now off work for three
weeks and misses tomorrow's Chatham
Cup game when he would have been
playing for third division Rovers
against the club he has just left.
Rovers manager, Alan
Cornish, said: "It's very disappointing.
He was the player We were looking
for, we got him and then he's out
straight away.
'Next week we're away to
University. They are top of the league
and we want as strong a side as we can
get'
Ironically Tozer — a Waikato
representative — played for Rovers
about seven years ago but left with
some other players, dissatisfied with
the way things were going at the club.
This group, including the
present United coach Les Vuletich,
then formed the AFFCO Rangers team
which joined forces this year with
Ngaruawahia.
Vuletich said about Tozer's
departure: "I thought he was enjoying
his football and I couldn't see any
problems.
"But if he wants to go it's
entirely up to him."
Vuletich said his main aim at
the moment is to avoid relegation this
season, so the club's up and coming
youngsters could break through to
Northern League football next year.
He said he would be moving
Malcolm Sowerby, who played well in
defence last week, to fill in the midfield
vacancy left by Tozer and he was
considering, playing himself in the
United defence tomorrow.
Last week United, like,
Rovers, lost due to a last minute goal,
but with United it was a drastic
collapse after being 2-0 up eight
minutes from time.
Taking over as captain for
United tomorrow will be the team's
skilful new Scottish player John
Brown.
At 26, Brown has had a
wealth of experience in top Australian
soccer, but lack of training and recent
match practice is holding him back.
Although it will be a shock if
United beats Rovers, the result of the
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