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Today we welcome Cashmere Technical to Gower Park (albeit to Gower No 6).

Cashmere Technical was formed in early 2012 from the merger of Cashmere Wanderers and Woolston Technical, and while this is the first time they have visited under their existing name, one of their heritage clubs from quite a convoluted football family tree – Canterbury Woolston - holds a very special place in Melville United history. In Melville’s debut season in the national league, in 1996-97, we didn’t win a single home game (though did win five away from home) and it was not until the following summer, on November 9, 1997 at Porritt Stadium, that we beat a Woolston team coached by Keith Braithwaite and Martin Stewart 2-1 with goals from Darren Fellowes and Rod Cooper to notch our first ever victory at this level. And in the process we even surged to the top of the table in the National Soccer League, as it was then known, for a week. That’s a high water mark we have yet to revisit.

With renovation work continuing at Gower Park, this is a very tricky time for the club to be hosting national league. The discovery of asbestos in the changing rooms which are under renovation, has only added an extra layer of complication. We ask for your patience as we work through tricky hosting. This weekend our U19s are playing at the Napier Tournament, though our title prospects are of course severely diminished by having so many of our U19s active in the national league this summer. Meanwhile, it was tough luck for our U17 Academy team, which missed out on qualifying for their national league finals by a goal difference of 1, after having gone unbeaten in a tough qualifying group, where one of their opponents, Tauranga City were the national runners up. Meanwhile, congratulations are due to the U14 Girls Academy, who won the Auckland United tournament a fortnight ago, going unbeaten throughout. Congratulations also to under 17 defender Manaia Elliott, who was selected to captain New Zealand at the recently completed FIFA U-17 World Cup in India. By now most of you will have caught up with the news that our 1-1 away draw with the Phoenix was our first draw at men’s first team level in 35 matches. However I was chatting with club statistician Ron Anorak the other day and he informed me a dearth of draws was something that seems to occur every 15-16 years for Melville. In 1991 we did not draw any matches at all, and nor did we in 2007, while we were of course again without draws in the northern league part of the season this year.