Rich’s round up – Week 7

In theory, Sunday represented the half way mark in the 2017 ASFA Season, and a chance for each team to reflect upon having now played every other team in their league. From next week onwards, teams who felt like they “shoulda”, “coulda” or “woulda’ beaten their opponents get the chance to right the wrongs of…

Rich’s Weekly Round up – Cup Special!

Random fact to start this week. 12 of the 17 ASFA cup games that took place last Sunday were won by the away team, with the home teams conceding a total of 53 goals in the process. I wonder if these teams will be hoping for an away game in the plate? In both cup…

Rich’s Weekly Round Up – Mothers Day 2017

Firstly, i’ll start with an acknowledgement to all our mothers, especially those who drove us to football as kids and continue to enquire as to whether we won, lost, scored or played well at the weekend. Clearly, going by the number of postponements recorded at the weekend, some of our ASFA players opted to spend this…

Rich’s round up – Week 5

Another week, and another 87 goals to add to the goals scored columns on our 5 ASFA leagues, 10 of which came in one match alone (and, for the first time this season, it didn’t involve Viti FC). In the Premiership, the Volcanoes upset the defending champions The Patriots with a 3-1 away win that…

Cup Draws – ASFA & Chatham Cup Round 1

The draw for the first round of ASFA’s two knockout cup competitions was conducted last night, and can be found on our ASFA Facebook page. Four teams from the Championship, including the unbeaten league leaders AUT FC, will get the opportunity to test themselves against teams from the Premiership, with City Fringe (bottom of the…

Rich’s round up – Week 4

Sorry for delay… here’s my weekly summary of last Sunday’s ASFA action (78 goals scored in the 18 games played). In the Premiership, a bout of food poisoning forced the postponement of The Patriot’s game against Boh’s Celtic, whilst the top versus bottom clash saw Auckland Wanderers continued their impressive start to the season with…