Walker holds lead

Press, 29 May 1985, Page 44

Walker holds lead

Colin Walker has failed to score in five of N.Z. Permanent Gisborne’s last six Rothmans Soccer League matches, but he still leads the individual goalscorers chart, with nine in 11 matches. The blond haired international striker has scored one-third of the goals the defending champion has amassed this season. Three of his goals have come from penalties. One goal behind is the swift McKee Nelson United striker, Simon Dwyer. The former Matlock Town and Sheffield Wednesday attacker has, along with his team-mates, Paul Brydon

and Colin Tuaa, picked up 19 of the 23 goals scored by the third-placed Nelson team.

Five players share third with six goals apiece — Barry Weymouth, the Hani-mex-North Shore striker, whose efforts have won him a place in the national squad of 33; the D.B. Wellington pair, Bill Harris and John Barry; Tuaa and the University Cowan player, Alastair Elder.

No player is in better current form than the Landbase Papatoetoe attacker, Steve Tasker, who is one of six players with five goals to their credit. Tasker’s goals have come in the last

three matches. Others with five are Brydon, Nigel Simpson, of National Mutual Miramar, whose goals all came in the first six matches; Kevin Birch, Gisborne’s international striker; and the North Shore pair, Brian McKeown and Allan Boath. David Jackson got his fourth goal this season for Christchurch Brother United in its 1-0 win over Napier City Rovers last week-end. Two other players, Grant Lightbown, the imported Masport Mount Wellington striker, and Elder’s University team-mate, Nigel Somerville, have four goals each.