Hamilton Wanderers News

Our prizegiving was held on the evening of Saturday 6 October. Here are all the winners on the night.

The 17th Metro and Under 15A's went all season without losing a game.

A slightly changed Wanderers side faced relegation haunted Suburbs at the House of Porritt. Gone were Matt Gibbons, Jason Walker and Michael Built and in came the old warhorse Che Bunce for his first start of the season.

Once sentence tells the tale here, lots of possession, little reward to show for it.

This was a game that we were supposed to be playing in Whangarei but North Force agreed to meet us at North Harbour Stadium, and many thanks go to them for that.

We travelled to Birkenhead who were just above us in the league, and started off much as we had against Hibiscus Coast except that we couldn't score. James, Ewan and Elliot all had shots saved or off target.

The way the team started in this game it looked like a rout was on the cards as Ali scored within 1m 40s of the kick-off.

With both Jarrod and Gavin on duty for the reserves we took a somewhat depleted squad up to Western Springs. Peter Davies accompanied us and we played on the best Auckland surface we had encountered so far.

Home today we played the current league leaders, who had just come off a 5-0 victory the week before. The lads were really pleased with finally getting to play on Porritt's main ground.

This game was expected to be harder than that of the previous week. The lads started off looking really very sharp, with crisp passing and movement cutting into and penetrating the opposition defensive lines.