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Football Whanganui still fighting for the cause in Federation League

By Jared Smith
Sports Editor·Whanganui Chronicle·
25 Jun, 2018 10:00 AM2 mins to read

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Emma Todd looks to keep the ball away from Airini Ross-Spooner at Wembley Park on Sunday afternoon.

Emma Todd looks to keep the ball away from Airini Ross-Spooner at Wembley Park on Sunday afternoon.

An understrength Football Whanganui is feeling the strain of their five-team GR Engineering Women's Federation League season after they ended the second round with a 9-1 thumping from second-placed Moturoa AFC at Wembley Park on Sunday.

Winless after eight matches and likely to struggle to even match the one victory and draw from their inaugural 2017 campaign, as they are facing four heavyweight squads, coach Matthew Calvert is still backing his side for showing heart, with only one regular squad member having left permanently.

It is the last four games that have been really tough with Whanganui conceeding 27 goals, compared to eight in the first four matches.

"We're just killing ourselves in the first halves, with the game basically over," Calvert said.

"Bit disappointing for everyone involved, but to be fair, what was encouraging [on Sunday] was some of our play in the first half.

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"We just made individual errors that cost us the goals.

"We're just not good enough off the ball at the moment."

Vanya Hodgkinson got a sole score for the home side, while Dana McCelland deserved better for some enterprising play on the wing.

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With six regulars away, Calvert said the squad was able to take in three newcomers, one of them 15, who had the guts to come up from Saturday's local league to take part.

It has been a bugbear for the coach in 2018 where some who come down to watch on Sunday's will criticise or give opinions about how certain players should perform, but they won't "fight for the cause" themselves by joining the team.

"They pick themselves back up," he said of his squad.

"It would be easy to say, "I'm not winning, I'm not going to play', but they've got the best attitudes in Whanganui."

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