PULLING A SWIFT ONE Official Matamata AFC match day magazine July 17, 2021
COMAG MATAMATA SWIFTS v Taupo
WaiBOP Premiership - 2.45pm (Saturday)
WAHAROA TRANSPORT SWIFTS RESERVES v Melville United Waikato Division 1 - 12.30am (Saturday)
FEZ KEBAB SWIFTS 3RDS v Waihi
Waikato Division 4 - 1.00pm (Saturday)
A Few Kind Words
2021 Management Committee Patron TBD President Dwayne Barlow Vice-President Pete Challis Treasurer Michael Candy Secretary April Donnelly Club Captain Kyle van Waveren Committee Hayri Cihan Rob Cox Bob Ricketts Mike Smith Junior Convenor Dwayne Barlow PICTURED Front Cover Ellis Breadmore leans in during the recent Premiership match against Tauranga City. Page 3 Flying Finn Challis...almost made it on to the cover.
Hello everyone and welcome along to the Domain for a full afternoon of football. For the first time this season we have all three senior mens’ teams at home on Saturday, so the place is likely to be heaving. It’s been a long time coming football has, indeed, come home. Welcome to Taupo, Melville United and Waihi. All three matches will be tough ones for our teams. In the Premiership, we always seem to battle against Taupo. We’ve had our moments at times this season and, with a more consistent line-up of late, hopefully we can give our visitors a good run. Melville Nobs sit top of Waikato Division 1, so will be a massive test for our ressies, while Waihi had a big win in the reverse fixture against the 3rds. So we’re looking at three really decent games of football today. Given all the youngsters playing for the club this year we have decided to enter the Napier U19 tournament. This is the first time since 2016 we’ve entered this tournament - it’s great we currently have the depth to offer this as an option for our players. The U19s is always a great way to end the season and is a special experience for the players and coaching staff who take part. At the international level, we’ll be moving quickly on from the Euros as New Zealand’s teams are set to attack the Olympics. Given the nature of the competition, both our men’s and women’s teams should have a good chance of doing well. Fingers crossed for some success at this level. The Euros were a good watch, regardless of who you were supporting. Plenty of plot twists and hard luck stories and good, all round entertainment...especially if you managed to stay away from all the social media rubbish that surrounds any event of scale these days. Thankfully there isn’t too much social media rubbish associated with local football. Hopefully everyone enjoys today’s games. I’ll see you on the sidelines. Dwayne Barlow, Club Mouthpiece
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SWIFTS COMMERCIAL PARTNERS THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF FOOTBALL IN MATAMATA COMAG is a premium club sponsor. They hold naming rights for the Swifts 1st team. J. Swap Contractors Ltd is a Premium club sponsor. Waharoa Transport hold naming rights for the Swifts Reserve team. Challenge Matamata hold naming rights for the Swifts Ladies team. Mitre 10 Matamata is a Gold club sponsor.
Grants from the Lion Foundation have enabled us to purchase playing and training equipment for our junior and senior teams.
The Soccer Shop is the club’s apparel supplier. Buy your gear from The Soccer Shop either in store or via the SHOP link on our website.
Don Griffiths Ltd
Thanks also to Nu-Age Plaster Limited, Matamata Physio, Bin Hire, Chili Balm.
Junior Opportunity - Shirt Sponsorship Investment: $500 + GST. We have full sets of shirts, in the club’s new Nike style, on order now for ALL our junior 8th to 12th grade teams. We expect them to be available and in use by mid-June. With this comes a unique opportunity to get the logo of your business, or the business you work for, placed on the front of the shirts of your child’s team. This is a one-off investment that lasts for the life of the shirts (usually 3-4 seasons). All funds raised through this scheme will be re-invested in the club’s junior programme. Contact Dwayne Barlow at dwayne@ dbmm.co.nz or 021 993 832 for more information.
TABLE TALK WaiBOP Premiership (as at July 10, 2021) P W Taupo 15 11 Ngaruawahia United 12 9 Otorohanga 15 10 Waikato Unicol 13 11 Otumoetai 15 7 Papamoa 14 5 West Hamilton United 13 6 Huntly Thistle 15 5 Matamata Swifts 14 5 Tauranga City 15 3 Ngongotaha 14 1 Claudelands Rovers 15 2
D 2 2 2 1 1 4 0 3 1 0 4 0
L 2 1 3 1 7 5 7 7 8 12 9 13
F 47 51 39 47 31 26 24 36 24 19 20 13
A 23 10 23 8 29 27 27 46 41 50 48 45
Pts 35 29 32 34 22 19 18 18 16 9 7 6
Waikato Ladies Division 1 (as at July 11, 2021) P W D Tokoroa 9 7 1 West Hamilton United 9 6 1 Matamata Swifts 9 6 0 Northern United 9 5 0 Waikato Unicol 10 5 0 Claudelands Rovers 10 1 0 Otorohanga 8 1 0
L 1 2 3 4 5 9 7
F 37 23 19 28 16 10 3
A 10 10 8 16 28 34 30
Pts 22 19 18 15 15 3 3
Waikato Division 1 (as at July 10, 2021) P W Melville Nobs 10 9 Claudelands Wallys 10 8 Melville Mighty As 11 8 Matamata Swifts 10 4 Wanderers Classics 7 3 St Paul’s Corinthians 10 3 Cambridge 11 2 West Hamilton United 9 2 Claudelands Squatters 10 1
D 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 1
L 0 2 3 4 3 7 7 6 8
F 36 26 27 14 17 17 17 14 14
A 12 9 13 21 20 29 30 19 29
Pts 28 24 24 14 10 9 8 7 4
Waikato Division 4 (as at July 10, 2021) P W West Hamilton United 11 10 Cambridge 12 10 Tokoroa Reserves 12 7 Huntly Thistle Reserves 12 6 Waikato Unicol 12 4 Waihi Reserves 10 4 Putaruru Sting 11 4 Matamata Swifts 11 2 Claudelands Cuckoos 11 1 Morrinsville Reserves 12 1
D 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 2 1
L 0 1 4 4 5 4 6 7 8 10
F 60 41 47 48 25 29 29 21 13 21
A 18 12 36 31 32 36 35 40 30 64
Pts 31 31 22 20 15 14 13 8 5 4
SWIFTS MATCH SCHEDULE WAIBOP PREMIERSHIP UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
MARCH 2021 A 27
14:45 Ngaruawahia United
2-7
C Walker, P Shannon.
APRIL 2021 A 4 A 9 A 16 H 26
14:45 14:45 14:45 14:00
2-0 0-8 1-0 2-1
T Rosser, R Avergonzado.
MAY 2021 A 1 H 8 A 15 H 22 A 29
14:45 Taupo 14:45 Huntly Thistle 14:45 West Hamilton (Cup) 14:45 Otorohanga 14:45 West Hamilton United
1-1 2-3 0-2 2-6 1-3
J Baxter.
JUNE 2021 H 5 H 12 H 19 H 26
14:45 14:45 14:45 14:45
5-3 0-2 1-0 1-2
C Walker 3, R Avergonzado, J Baxter.
JULY 2021 H 3 A 10 H 17 A 24 H 31
14:45 Tauranga City 14:45 Papamoa 14:45 Taupo 14:45 Huntly Thistle 14:45 Otumoetai
4-1 2-5
C Walker 3, B Griffiths.
AUGUST 2021 A 7 H 14 A 21 H 28
14:45 Otorohanga 14:45 West Hamilton Unied 14:45 Ngongotaha 14:45 Papamoa
Claudelands Rovers Waikato Unicol Tauranga City HNK Auckland (Cup)
Ngongotaha Ngaruawahia United Claudelands Rovers Waikato Unicol
SEPTEMBER 2021 A 4 14:45 Otumoetai
P Shannon. R Avergonzado, C Walker.
J Baxter, A Harris. C Walker, P Shannon. R Powell.
C Walker H Singh
E Breadmore, R Avergonzado.
SWIFTS LADIES MATCH SCHEDULE WAIKATO LADIES DIVISION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
APRIL 2021 A 11 H 25
11:00 West Hamilton United 13:00 Kawerau (Cup)
1-0 1-0
S McFarlane.
MAY 2021 H 2
11:00 Otorohanga
6-0
S McFarlane, L Fisher, L Balzer, K Cox, N Gaskell 2.
2-0 2-0 2-3
M Ontiveros 2.
H 9 11:00 Northern United A 16 11:00 Claudelands Rovers H 23 11:00 Tokoroa 30 BYE JUNE 2021 H 13 H 20 A 27
11:00 West Hamilton United 11:00 Waikato Unicol 11:00 Otorohanga
JULY 2021 H 4 11:00 Northern United H 11 11:00 Claudelands Rovers A 18 11:00 Tokoroa 25 BYE AUGUST 2021 A 1 11:00 Waikato Unicol A 29 11:00 Otorohanga
0-1 3-1 P-P 2-3 1-0
N Gaskell.
M Stewart, M Ontiveros. K Cox, M Ontiveros.
G Watson, K Cox, L Balzer.
K Cox, J Waterhouse. K Cox.
SWIFTS RESERVES MATCH SCHEDULE WAIKATO MEN’S DIVISION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
APRIL 2021 A 10 A 17 A 24 MAY 2021
14:45 St Paul’s Corinthians 3-1 12:30 Melville Mighty As 0-3 14:45 Melville Mighty As (Cup) 1-2
H A H A H
12:30 Wanderers Classics 19:00 Melville Nobs 12:30 Claudelands Wallys 14:45 Claudelands Squatters 12:30 Cambridge
1 7 15 22 29
JUNE 2021 H 5 12:30 Unicol Veterans (Plate) A 12 14:45 West Hamilton United 19 BYE H 26 12:30 St Paul’s Corinthians JULY 2021 H 3 A 10 H 17 A 24 H 31
12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30
Melville Mighty As Wanderers Classics Melville Nobs Claudelands Wallys Claudelands Squatters
H Conner, B Johnson, F Catucci. C Lander.
3-3 E Davis, A Sagan 2. 1-1 E Davis. 0-3 1-6 F Catucci. 1-0 C Lander. 1-1 3-1
J Fouhy.
2-0
E Davis 2.
*Lost on pens
B Johnson 2, M Smith.
0-2 P-P
AUGUST 2021 A 7 12:30 Cambridge H 14 12:30 West Hamilton United 21 BYE A 28 12:30 Wanderers Classics
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SWIFTS 3RDS MATCH SCHEDULE WAIKATO MEN’S DIVISION 4 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
APRIL 2021 A 10 13:30 Morrinsville Reserves A 17 12:30 Huntly Reserves 24 BYE (Cup) MAY 2021
3-3 1-3
J Cox, P Weymouth, M Hill. J Cox.
14:45 West Hamilton United 13:00 Waihi Reserves 13:00 Cambridge 12:30 Tokoroa Reserves 13:00 Claudelands Cuckoos
P-P 2-7 F Challis 2. 0-6 2-3 J Cox, M Hill. 2-2 J Cox, P Weymouth.
JUNE 2021 A 5 A 12 H 19 H 26
15:00 12:30 13:00 13:00
3-2 1-4 2-3 2-1
J Cox, S Hudson, OG.
JULY 2021 H 3 A 10 H 17 A 24 H 31
13:00 Huntly Reserves 12:30 West Hamilton United 13:00 Waihi Reserves 12:30 Cambridge 13:00 Tokoroa Reserves
4-3 2-5
F Challis 2, J Cox, S Hudson.
AUGUST 2021 A 7 H 14 A 21 H 28
12:30 13:00 12:30 13:00
H A H A H
1 8 15 22 29
Nothern Utd Gaffers Putaruru Sting Waikato Unicol Morrinsvlle Reserves
Claudelands Cuckoos Putaruru Sting Waikato Unicol West Hamilton United
F Challis. F Challis 2. M Hill 2.
J Couchman 2.
WaiBOP Premiership - Round 17
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COMAG MATAMATA SWIFTS Black & White shirts, Black shorts, Black socks
COMAG Matamata Swifts v Taupo | Kick-off: 2.45pm
GK 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Andrew Gibbs Reagen Powell Adam Harris Jamie Baxter Harry Connor Chris Lee Radge Avergonzado Scott Parsonage Chris Walker Anton Ganas Ellis Breadmore Mike Smith Hayri Cihan RETIRED (Eric van Waveren) Blair Griffiths Peter Shannon Ben Johnson Sam Masterson Bjorn Vossen Hardeep Singh Finn Challis Troy Rosser Ethan Davis Jordan Griffiths Matt Potts
Head Coach Duncan Lowry Assistant Coach Gary Darkes Manager Bob Ricketts
OFFICIALS Referee TBC Assistant 1 TBC Assistant 2 TBC Assessor/coach TBC
OTHER GAMES THIS WEEKEND Waharoa Transport Swifts Reserves v Melville United (h), 12.30pm (Saturday) Fez Kebab Swifts 3rds v Waihi Reserves (h), 1.00pm (Saturday) Challenge Matamata Swifts Ladies v Tokoroa (a), 11.00am (Sunday)
For results, tables, Swifts news and more visit www.matamataswifts.co.nz