ASB Premiership: Changes Needed Next Season
...However, the New Zealand premiership is no ordinary competition. It is a 14-match league but because it runs alongside the Oceania Champions League (0-League), it tends to stretch on interminably, taking as long to play as a rookie reader would take to reach the final chapter of War and Peace.
The Dragons have not played a premiership match since March 11. So Braithwaite has to balance an innate desire to cocoon Collett and company with the need to give them match-time before the playoffs.
"It's that balancing act," he explained. "We don't want them to pick up another booking or they'll be out for the playoff game but if we rest them, they won't have played at this level for five weeks.
"We have to look at how we can get 20 minutes or so out of them and then replace them after that.
"It's Catch-22. We haven't decided what we'll do yet."
The four-week hiatus has been a challenge for Braithwaite and his coaching staff in terms of maintaining their players' match fitness.
"The league was supposed to finish three weeks ago, so we had lads booking holidays and [goalkeeper] Adam Highfield got married because when he made his plans, the competition was going to be finished," Braithwaite said.
"We're the only one [of the four playoff teams] who haven't had a game," he said.
Auckland and Waitakere have been playing in the O-League and Team Wellington last weekend won the White Ribbon Cup final against Waikato FC.
The Dragons have tried to fill the void with practice games with Canterbury clubs. However, it is not the same as fronting each week against national league sides.
Blew - your tirade against Futsal is really boring. ASB premiership scheduling is not related to the growth of Futsal FFS. You are blinkered to suggest so. Good on Futsal for bringing new players to the round ball game.
however, there are glaring weaknesses such as several poorly performing franchises (needs a freshen up), the lack of match action for non-playing squad members, poor playing and training facilities and the world's longest 14-game season
+1
Nelson Mayor Aldo Miccio, who is also on the board of Nelson Bays Football, says he would �help facilitate� Nelson�s inclusion as much as he could. �I don�t think any football person in Nelson would object to it. It�s a pathway for our kids.�
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2011 at 4:00am <!-- Message -->If you give a place to Manawatu so they can get less than 200 to a game then yes, Nelson should have a chance.
Manawatu, Hawkes Bay and Otago are watched by 10 people out walking the dogs plus a few seagulls and the odd cat on a fence. That makes at least 150 attending.
Tahuna Park in Dunedin makes Trafalger Park seem like Camp Nou.
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2011 at 4:00am
Apologies for the mis-quote.
Otago v HB at Tahuna: 250
Otago v Canterbury at FB: 500
Otago v Waikato at FB: 250
Otago v TW at Cally: 210
Otago v YHM at FB: 500
Otago v Auckland at FB: 250
Those numbers are from the ASB Prem website. Obviously some sort of estimates. So average home attendance = 416. It was 490 for just FB games compared with 230 for non-FB games, so the venue made quite a difference.
Canterbury average home attendance to date = 517.
Compare this with someone like TW, average home attendance to date = 322, and both the SI teams look good.
21 rounds would be much better option...
Nelson apparently are�right now�submitting an entry for next season�and have been unhappy for some time at playing second fiddle in the Mainland Football Canterbury United franchise.
spectators watched January 2011�s ASB Premiership clash between</span> Canterbury
United and Team Wellington at Trafalgar Park, the highest attendance in the
country that season.
Nelson Mayor Aldo Miccio, who is also on the board of Nelson Bays Football, says
he would �help facilitate� Nelson�s inclusion as much as he could. �I don�t
think any football person in Nelson would object to it. It�s a pathway for our
kids.�
Thanks for re posting this comment. If you look at the date of my post then I stand by what was posted.
Good atmosphere at that Cant v Well game in Nelson.
I have been to Canterbury v Oatgo games in Dunedin and without the Chch people there, yes every cat must get counted to get 150, 75 max at the last game at Tahuna Park in 2011 and that included those sitting watching from cars, what fans are they?
Mind you same could be mentioned about the last Waitakere vs Waikato game at FTP.
Piss poor numbers [except form waikato fans] at that game as well. Stiil it is Jaffaland and it was a drizzly day. Mind you you can't get them out on a fine day up there.
FTP is not worthy of being an ASB Premiership ground. Pitch is or was crap for the above mentioned game, bare patches and ruts down both sides.
Hopefully Tauranga and Nelson get teams. Yes, Auckland could sustain another team on the North Shore, but fu** that. If your on the Shore get down to Kiwitea St or Fred Taylor Park, no excuses for football fans up there.
The most leagues(Tahiti,Vanuatu,Solomon-Islands,NZ,...) play in the (NZ-)Summer and in New Zealand you can�t keep the whole player in the franchises for only 6 games in 2-3 months.
This have to consider by Kavanagh.
My way(like in Europe/Germany), I don�t know if this is also possible in NZ.
1. The ASB Premiership have to make a expansion to 11-12 teams.
2. A NZ-Cup, like the White-Ribbon-Cup, but for all teams.
3. The Youth-League about the whole season(14-20 games). Then you can create good Youthteams. This is a normal standard in the most of the countrys.
4. The ASB-Premiership Season start in September until Mai
The result is a season with ca. 26 plays for all teams(without Play-Offs and O-League). For Auckland as example 38 games, this is normal for a team, which play international. And the effect is you have better youth-player and the squads with 25-30 player are at long last useful. And another regions in NZ have a ASB-Premiership-Team like Nelson(crowd of 2500). Rugby is Number 1, but with a good football league and a good training for the Youth-Player, New Zealand will play a good role also in football.
sounds counter-intuitive i know, but that's what happens when you have a 'amateur' franchise national league and a fair % of the game's player budget resides in the club-based regional leagues.
reg222012-04-20 12:18:50
Hopefully Tauranga and Nelson get teams. Yes, Auckland could sustain another team on the North Shore, but fu** that. If your on the Shore get down to Kiwitea St or Fred Taylor Park, no excuses for football fans up there.
Correct. Listen to our new podcast to find what Grant McKavanagh has to say about the future of the ASBP and future franchises.
http://yellowfever.podomatic.com/entry/2012-04-23T03_52_17-07_00
Nelson bid confirmed
awesome, let's hope it happens. has been promised ever since the original highlights show was canned