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One minute he was the hero, the next minute player/coach Chris McIvor became a villain.
Well, figuratively speaking that is, as Your Solutions Taradale stumbled 2-1 at home against Sunshine Brewery Team Gisborne.
The striker found the equaliser in the 61st minute after Josh Bates put the visitors up 1-0 in just the 11th minute.
Six minutes after McIvor's goal Kieran Venema stepped up to push the ball past Taradale goalkeeper Graham Healey from the penalty spot for a 2-1 lead and, ultimately, victory.
"I just made a clumsy challenge.
"I pulled down a guy who went around three of our players and was going to take a shot at goal," McIvor said.
He declared Gissy would win the ComputerCare Pacific Premiership title this winter.
"I should say they will win although we haven't played Napier City Rovers yet," he declared after the Promotem-sponsored team match was postponed because Dale had a Chatham Cup clash against the Blues' Central League outfit last month. For the record, Rovers have pipped Gissy 1-0 at Childers Road Reserve.
"It was a pretty competitive game but we're not really hitting our straps this year," he said as Gissy led the competition but have played one more game than the Rovers.
Rovers 5 Hastings 0
Rovers coach Mark Henderson said despite the one-sided scoreline at Park Island, Napier, Hastings Old Boys' schoolboys "played in the right way and tried to play football [passing game]".
"We changed the system to see how we could go.
"We certainly played with a lot more cohesion than we have," Henderson said after switching from 4-4-2 to 4-2-3-1.
Harry Fautley (two), Mickey Nixon, Jonathan Love and Daniel Ball got on the scorecard.
Like most other premiership sides, Rovers will play in the Fed Cup (knockout) competition in Palmy North today.
Vale 1 Rangers 1
They played to a derby stalemate and today Maycenvale United and Western Rangers will reload in the Fed Cup at St Leonard's Park, Hastings.
Cory Janssen scored first for the Rangers on Saturday at Akina Park, exploiting the left flank before squeezing a low shot past Vale keeper Shaun Peta who got his hand to the ball but couldn't stop it going into the net.
The hosts hit back in the 58th minute through Jacob Rosandich in almost similar fashion to find the far corner past keeper Rory Cook.
Rangers coach Ritchie Howard said his men should have been up 2-3 goals in the first half but lauded Vale for countering after their tails were up scoring.
Marist 0 Port Hill 1
It was mind games at Park Island, but eventually Appmed House Port Hill prevailed 1-0 against Hotshot Napier Marist.
The visitors struck in just the ninth minute through golden boot prospect Magnus Hansson who is up against teammate Matt Single for the honours.
On Saturday Hansson latched on to a through ball from Patrick Piltz before chipping it over Marist keeper Ryan Todd.
"They cried offside but no way because they had three-point control," Port Hill coach Tim Claudatos said.
The hosts tried swapping wingers.
However, defenders Dan Thorby and Gavin Andrews switched flanks too.