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NZ Herald
23-06-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Big win to Gisborne Thistle but students make them work
Gisborne Thistle's David Salmon, pictured in a game against Havelock North Wanderers, was his team's player of the day in their Eastern Premiership 8-1 defeat of HSOB-Gisborne Boys' High School on Saturday. Salmon was among the goalscorers. Photo / Paul Rickard Somerton v Somerton. Cramer v Cramer. The Eastern Premiership local derby between HSOB Gisborne Boys' High School First XI and Electrinet Gisborne Thistle was taken to another level at Childers Rd Reserve on Saturday. Thistle's Jimmy Somerton was up against younger brother River while Thistle coach Tam Cramer faced a
NZ Herald
09-06-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Consecutive losses for title-contending Gisborne teams in Eastern Premiership football
Gisborne Thistle's Carlos Guerra put in a good shift when he came on in the second half of the Jags' Eastern Premiership football match against Taradale Reserves on Saturday. Thistle lost 5-3 to drop to third on the table. Photo / Paul Rickard You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. That's the prospect Gisborne teams Thistle and United face after both lost on Saturday. They were sitting in second and third places respectively until second-bottom Taradale Reserves (now third-bottom) beat Thistle 5-3 and Western Rangers (seventh in the 10-team Eastern Premiership) beat
NZ Herald
30-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Hawke's Bay football teams eyeing upsets over Gisborne big guns
They will try all sorts of ways to stop Gisborne Thistle goalscoring machine Jimmy Somerton, including fouls, which earned this Port Hill player a yellow card in their recent Eastern Premiership match. Photo / Paul Rickard Gisborne teams Thistle and United face opponents who would like nothing better than to put a spanner in their works in Eastern Premiership football this weekend. Port Hill and Maycenvale are mid-table teams who can struggle against the ordinary and trouble the best. As such, they bear watching closely.
