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Posted December 10, 2014 05:01 · last edited December 10, 2014 05:01

james dean wrote:

Thread to discuss the Rob Sherman ASBP review and the future of the competition.

First question, should the competition remain a summer league?  You do have the benefit of better pitches and weather, and with players playing on a Saturday theoretically have more people in Summer to come and watch.  I but I also wonder whether there's just more to do in Summer which means you lose people.  On a nice day in Wellington there is a million other things to do rather than go and watch ASBP football.  

Second question, club or franchise?  

Personally I'm going away from the franchise league because while I think it has helped to raise standards I don't think it has really met many of the other aims of the league (increase crowds, improve organisation, secure funding, get more media coverage, be more financially viable).  The issue I have is that the 4 best franchises Wellington, Napier, ACFC and Waitak are basically just winter clubs in summer guise.  Canterbury are a combi team which they've always had right back to the old Summer league/ Southern league days so they've probably done best to combine the clubs down there.

Sorry for the lateness in response but I have been away for a couple of weeks. This might have already been raised [I haven't gone thru the thread yet]. Napier HB is not Napier City Rovers in disguise. While they play at their ground [owned by the Council] use their facilities and a lot of the volunteers are from NCR, the players and coaches are not always NCR. In fact this year the complaint is that there are bugger all [almost none] players from HB at all in the team. In saying that, you might be right about the other 3 clubs you mentioned.

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Napier Phoenix edited December 10, 2014 05:01
james dean wrote:

Thread to discuss the Rob Sherman ASBP review and the future of the competition.

First question, should the competition remain a summer league?  You do have the benefit of better pitches and weather, and with players playing on a Saturday theoretically have more people in Summer to come and watch.  I but I also wonder whether there's just more to do in Summer which means you lose people.  On a nice day in Wellington there is a million other things to do rather than go and watch ASBP football.  

Second question, club or franchise?  

Personally I'm going away from the franchise league because while I think it has helped to raise standards I don't think it has really met many of the other aims of the league (increase crowds, improve organisation, secure funding, get more media coverage, be more financially viable).  The issue I have is that the 4 best franchises Wellington, Napier, ACFC and Waitak are basically just winter clubs in summer guise.  Canterbury are a combi team which they've always had right back to the old Summer league/ Southern league days so they've probably done best to combine the clubs down there.

Sorry for the lateness in response but I have been away for a couple of weeks. This might have already been raised [I haven't gone thru the thread yet]. Napier is not Napier City Rovers in disguise. While they play at their ground [owned by the Council] use their facilities and a lot of the volunteers are from NCR, the players and coaches are not always NCR. In fact this year the complaint is that there are bugger all [almost none] players from HB at all in the team. In saying that, you might be right about the other 3 clubs you mentioned.