The NZ Team had a late start today with and we went to watch the Euro cup at 10am after the two games we then played some touch rugby and went swimming. The forwards completly smoked the backs in the touch match. We had lunch in town and then went back to the Hotel to rest for Saturdays match. Later we went to an English Bar called Cross Roads where we had a meal and then went and watched the night matches of the Euro Cup.

All the guys are still tired and are hoping to shake the Jet lag by Saturday. We are travelling to Austria tomorrow at 10am on the train not totally sure how long but estimate around 4-41/2 hours. We will be arriving in Linduer and then travelling by coach for around a hour to Dornbirn where we will be staying at the Sheraton Hotel. Most or all of the other teams will already be there.

Day 3

Started the day with training then played the Darmstadt Old Boys in the evening. The Old boys average age is 41 and the NZ team's average age is 35. Not a lot in it really, a few of the old boys team have been in the Germany National team so they were very skillfull. The game was a freindly match and was a great fun game. The NZ team really appreciated the game and the beers after the match in the club rooms, thanks guys!!!

Above the NZ Team and the Darmstadt Old Boys

Day 4

Rest Day

Decided to go to Heidelberg for the day to do some sight seeing, it was a good decision as the castle was amasing. We had lunch and walked around some more and then caught the train back. This trip took up the whole day and then we went to the opening of the European U20 Womens Championships held in Darmstadt.

This was great and we got to see Spain play France and Germany play England. Spain won 8-0 and Germany won 4-2.

The girls showed great skill and this looks to be a great tournament.

The Spanish U20 Womens Team

Good Blow out for Team

The team played two games back to back today against Darmstadt and another local team, battling some jet lag and jitters the team played well with some diferent combinations and playing against a european style game, NZ had a very good blow out.

The team is in high spirit and with no injuries are looking to step it up again for tonights game against another local team tonight.

Game one 3-1

Game two 4-4

Day three

Training starts at 10am then game at 9pm

Thanks to both teams for the chance play and get some game time. Most appreciated.

The team landed in Frankfurt at 6am Sunday morning and got to visit the local Team RSC- Darmstadt who were playing a 1st division match against HSV-Karfeld. The match ended with RSC winning 3-2. This was interesting to watch as both teams were playing using the new rules that come into effect from Jan 2011.

The NZ team are set to play Darmstadt on Monday night along with there second Division team, therefore two games will be played only minutes apart. So for Monday The NZ Team shedule will be Breakfast 6.30am, training 10am -1pm, lunch, rest,  light meal, game one vs RSC (T1) 7.30pm, game Two vs RSC (T2) 9.00pm.

NEW ZEALAND Set to play AUSTRIA in opening game for World Champs

NZ in Pool Group A                               

NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRIA

HOLLAND

URUGUAY

AUSTRALIA

ISRAEL

Pool Group B

MACAU

USA

EGYPT

JAPAN

SOUTH AFRICA

INDIA

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NZ Champs Presented great quality exciting finals in all sections

Papatoetoe take two from three titles winning youth and 1st division while falling short in the final of the premier division. Wellington take final of the premier division with a huge come back from 5-0 down to win 6-5.

Premier Division game reports

The comp started with papatoetoe starting strong beating New Plymouth with a huge win 13-0. Wanganui the last tournament winners looking strong also beat New Plymouth but losing to wellington needed to improve to make play off for final. Wellington started with a good structure beating Papatoetoe on Friday 6-2. Papatoetoe came out fired up taking a strong win over Wanganui with a huge score while New Plymouth showed some form against Wellington causing a 5-5 all draw.

New Plymouth then played Wanganui in the play off to get the chance to play Papatoetoe in the final play off, while Wellington was already confirmed in the first final spot.

Wanganui won the eliminator game causing New plymouth to be out of the finals. Wanganui then came out with a different game plan against Papatoetoe, looking to shake the defending champs.

What a game as Wanganui had it in the bag until 12 seconds to go before game end John Bardo scored for Papatoetoe causing the game to go into extra time. Wanganui the scored first and once again Pap scored in the dying seconds, then sudden death was on the cards. With both teams completely exhuasted it was done to someone special to take there team to the final, and that came to Mike langridge shooting in the 6th minute and getting a deflection of Blair lockets stick and scoring the winning goal to take Pap into the final vs Wellington.

Final Game

Papatoetoe came out blasting goals in from all angles with mike langridge playing a blinder along with the team having good defence. It looked like Pap was going to take this final with an easy win as they made it 5-0 after 18 min. Well that all changed when Wellington scored two quick goals before half time making the half time score 5-2. Pap stayed at the high pace and started to look tired as Wellington started to get into gear slowly chipping away the lead until finally getting the score level in the last 5 minutes. Pap had hit the post on many breakaways and the team were getting frustrated, and then the final blow from Wellington with three minutes remaining happened with them scoring taking the lead 6-5. Pap struggled to equalize and Wellington took the NZ title after Pap had held it for four years.

Well done to all teams as the games were action packed and left the spectators wanting more. Congratulations to Wellington on taking the title and a great come back.

NZ Champs held at Papatopetoe Roller Sports Stadium (Auck)

Papatoetoe Premier team looks to make it 5 years in a row !!!

Papatoetoe also are looking to take out the Youth section- but I am sure they will have to knock off Wellington before getting close to that dream.

Wangaui Premiers must feel confident going into the chanps with taking out the last tournament in Wellington.

One thing is true it will be an exciting and action packed championships with the NZ national team the (Roller Blacks) playing 2 games against Wellington on Thursday and Wanganui on Friday night.

Lets get it on!!!

Wanganui takes Premier Title in Wellington

Wanganui won the final of the premier division after an action packedtournament, with Papatoetoe taking the 1st Division and Youth andLadies division.

Premier:

Papatoetoefailed to hold out a fully oiled Wanganui team this weekend. Wanganuistarted the tournament in hot form betting Wellington by two goals onFriday night, although losing to Papatoetoe in the earlier round theywere looking to be the team to beat. The goal keeper Manu was playingthe best he has ever played keeping out some incredible shots from allteams. With all the players from Wanganui linking well and working onteam goals it was going to take something special to beat them.

Papatoetoewas the other finalist and with a couple of players out throughinjuries they were most definately the underdogs. Papatoetoe startedwell with getting the first two goals, with wanganui coming back tomake a 2-2 half time score. After half time Wanganui stepped it upgetting three quick goals making it 5-2. Papatotoe called a time outwith 10 mins remaining. After the time out Pap came back with avengencescoring three goals leveling the score with four minutes remaining.Wanganui scored with 1 min remaining leaving no time for Pap to comeback and taking a well deserved final. Final score 6-5 to Wanganui

Final Results:

1st   Wanganui

2nd  Papatoetoe

3rd   Wellington

4th   New Plymouth

1st Division:

Papatoetoewon the final against Wellington with the young guns playing a verystructured game. With Steve Tonkin in goal (Tonkinator) playing after a18 a month absence it looked like he had never left. Other stand outswere K Signal, K Murray and D Thomas (Pap) and T Mackie and A Tilley(Wellington).

Final Results:

1st  Papatoetoe

2nd Wellington

3rd  Wanganui

4th New Plymouth

Youth

Papatoetoetook the final that went into extra time. Great action packed game thathad the crowd yelling for both sides. Wellington looked strong andlooked to have it all sowen up until Nathon Clark scored with 9 secondsto go causing the game to go into extra time.

The playerswere throwing everything at it and both teams looked shattered, at theend of this nail biter. Stand out players Nathon Clark, Kierin Signal,Troy Signal (Papatoetoe) and with Allan Tilley and Trevor  Moore fromWellington. Although all players deserved a mention as all playersplayed extremly well.

Final Results:

1st Papatoetoe

2nd Wellington

3rd Wanganui

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Austria

Australia

USA

New Zealand

South Africa

India

Egypt

Holland

Uruguay

Israel

Macau

Japan

Test Series    New Zealand vs Australia 

New Zealand Wins Final

Update on games

GAME ONE After the Aussie team starting strong it looked to be in the bag as NZ struggled with defence and getting the ball past an on fire goal keeper Cory Luff. It became exciting when NZ started to fight back in the last 10 min, bringing the game with in reach. Glenn Cox lead the Aussie team and played extremly well scoring 6 of the 7 goals, another veteran of the team Dion Steven showed he has still got the goods scoring the other goal.

NZ had Rob Vazey and Mark Turner scoring the goals for NZ, Mark scored 4 and had some fantastic shots getting the kiwis back within winning reach, but unfortunately Aus played a strong defence and kept the kiwis at bay. This was the game for both teams to get to see what each other had, the skill was there and some niggle along with some hard hits. The only cards handed out were to the Aus team, alot of off the ball action was also seen.

What a start to a great encounter, the next games look to be very exciting, with looking at sold out final I hope NZ can win the next game!!!

GAME TWO Looking to improve on the previous game the kiwis come out fighting with Rob Vazey and Mark Turner turning up the speed with Rob scoring the first 3 goals for the Kiwis, the Aus team looked as good as the 1st test match and were looking very sharp. The key game maker Glenn Cox certainly made the difference while on the feild, also picking up a yellow and a blue card. Other players that looked strong from The Aus team were Jason Shar, Dion Steven and Sean Tucket. The coach Chris Shar played both Keepers in this match and both played well, as the Kiwis were firing from all angles.

The stand outs in the kiwi team were Rob Vazey leading the goal scoring and Mark Turner with a consistantly strong game, picking up a goal also. Other scorers Alley Langridge and Dean Fitness also played a strong game. Tony Deller also was very strong on defence with his speed and determination. Damion Wilson the keeper keeped the Aussies out to let NZ take the second test.

It is hard to pick a winner for the Final as both teams are looking strong, not sure who has the edge but what ever happens it will be exciting...

GO The Kiwis !!!!!

NZ Wins 2010 CarterHolt Harvey Cup in a nail biter Final..

Final

The game started in a sold out stadium with NZ and Aus looking to make there mark on the new trophy. NZ started strong with Rob Vazey scoring first and then a reply from Glenn Cox leveling 5 minutes later. With it 1-1 at half time the crowed was in for an exciting 2nd half. The game was played at a huge pace with nearly all the players recieving cards.

John Bardo (Capt) from NZ kept his team focussed on defence and this seamed to rattle the Australian team, Glenn Cox (capt) had his team play a more open style game with some fanastic displays of skills and speed. Rob Vazey scored the second goal for NZ in the second half bringing presure back on the Aussies. The Australian team came back hard with outstanding speed and scored not long after leveling the match 2-2. The crowd were becoming extremly vocal and enjoying every minute as players were getting agressive and the battle was on for one team to score in the dying minutes. It was up to someone special to bring there team to victory and this went to the player of the series Mark Turner with an out standing goal with 3 minutes to go. The Australian team then went all out on attack but the kiwis held the ball and defended hard and took the game.

Players from both teams were outstanding, with Richard Haywood and Damian Wilson (GK) from NZ playing blinders, Cory Luff also played like a keeper posessed. Weldone to both teams and I cant wait to see the next Trans Tasman Test..

Referees Peter Braddock and Bill Turner had there hands full during the test with this hard and fast test. They also contributed to the selection of the player of the series along with the two coaches. Mark Turner from NZ won this trophy with a close second the Australian Goal Keeper Cory Luff. I would like to thank Peter and Bill for some consistant and fair decisions, and for keeping the game flow.

Please see the Trans Tasman Page for all results, and player information.

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