Bay of Plenty Times
  • Bay of Plenty Times home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Sport
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Sport

Locations

  • Coromandel & Hauraki
  • Katikati
  • Tauranga
  • Mount Maunganui
  • Pāpāmoa
  • Te Puke
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Thames
  • Tauranga
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Bay of Plenty Times

Football: Tauranga City bounce back from defeat

Adyn Ogle
By Adyn Ogle
Sports writer·Bay of Plenty Times·
14 Apr, 2019 10:01 PM3 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Photo / Getty Images

Photo / Getty Images

Tauranga City have bounced back from defeat to claim their second win of the Northern League Football first division.

The 2-0 win over Waitemata on Saturday came after a scratchy start at Links Avenue Reserve and provided a solid response to a 3-0 shutout defeat at the hands of Mount Albert Ponsonby the week prior.

Tauranga's reserve side won the preceding game 4-0 on Saturday and first team coach Nic Millichip says the result helped lift his team.

"We all train together and it was great to see a result like that. We corrected a few things from last week and we won the right tackles. We really put the loss behind us and learned from it and we knew we could do better."

Tauranga travel to the North Shore on Good Friday for their week-four fixture against Forrest Hill-Milford United and Millichip says it will be another tough test.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"They will be pretty organised and for us it is about doing nothing silly. We have to stick to our game plan, be solid in our defensive setup transitions and maintain not getting scored against. If we do that, we know what we will have."

"We are getting sorted with injuries and we want to be consistent with what we can get out on the park. That is about depth and it really is a wider squad and bringing that whole way of thinking together. Every week we are evolving, the basics of our playing philosophy is not changing, but we are bringing in new bits of information."

Meanwhile, in the second division, McDonalds Ngongotahā Men's NRFL first team suffered a 1-0 loss for the second consecutive week.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Ngongotahā coach Andrew Gibbs says another frustrating defensive error led to the defeat to Onehunga-Mangere United on Saturday, after a similar defeat in Whangarei last week.

"In the first half we didn't play to our potential and we made a defensive error on what was a fairly innocuous long ball."

Compounding the one-goal deficit was Ngongotahā being reduced to 10 men following a red card.

"The boys responded well after a talk at halftime. It was simple for us, a goal down makes the coaches' job easy, but after the red card we changed formation with three at the back and sacrificed a striker to keep four in the midfield."

Discover more

Football: Bay teams primed for Northern League season

29 Mar 07:59 PM

Football: Tauranga City suffer loss in week two

08 Apr 02:09 AM
Rugby

Strong teams eye Baywide premier women's title

12 Apr 01:35 AM

Letters: Israel Folau's views should be ignored

14 Apr 10:00 PM

In spite of starting the season with three losses, Gibbs is confident his side will come right.

"Last year we were spoilt, we were arguably one of the best attacking sides in the competition. We would concede the odd goal but score more at the other end."

Gibbs says having players unavailable through injury has not helped his team and he believes the team have the ability to regain their scoring form.

"The attitude is there, and I am happy with how they are putting in the effort. We have some players to come back, but I had players that were capable of winning.

"I will make a structural change this week. We did a training session on Thursday and it was a good opportunity to not run too hard and focus on shooting. They were banging goals in left, right and centre. We have a really strong midfield that can keep the ball for long periods and I think the scoring will sort itself naturally."

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

Bay of Plenty Times

'He's just scared of me': Teen's Māori wards challenge to PM

06 Jul 03:55 AM
Bay of Plenty Times

Region's first learning hub for migrant parents a 'transformative step'

05 Jul 06:00 PM
Bay of Plenty Times

'God-given right': Family defends largely unconsented homestead on rural land

04 Jul 08:45 PM

There’s more to Hawai‘i than beaches and buffets – here’s how to see it differently

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

'He's just scared of me': Teen's Māori wards challenge to PM

'He's just scared of me': Teen's Māori wards challenge to PM

06 Jul 03:55 AM

Chris Hipkins agreed to meet him in Wellington after the Prime Minister said 'no'.

Region's first learning hub for migrant parents a 'transformative step'

Region's first learning hub for migrant parents a 'transformative step'

05 Jul 06:00 PM
'God-given right': Family defends largely unconsented homestead on rural land

'God-given right': Family defends largely unconsented homestead on rural land

04 Jul 08:45 PM
'I'm proud of you': Sister's final message before fatal crash

'I'm proud of you': Sister's final message before fatal crash

04 Jul 06:03 PM
From early mornings to easy living
sponsored

From early mornings to easy living

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Bay of Plenty Times e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Bay of Plenty Times
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP