CANCELLATIONS

Boom.

ITAL 6:         Uni Accies __ Petone Chicago __ Kelburn (12.30) NOW Onepoto 1;           CAPITAL 7:         Marist Cobras __ Uni Raiders __ Miramar 2 (2.30) NOW Wakefield 4;           CAPITAL 8:         Karori Aces __ Tawa AC United __ Karori 3 (12.30) NOW Grenada Nth 1;           CAPITAL 12:         Brooklyn Northern __ LH Ballkickers __ Happy Valley 1 (12.30) NOW B Heath 1;           CAPITAL 14:         Naenae Nighthawks __ Trust House Seatoun __ Naenae 1 (12.30) NOW Naenae 2;           CAPITAL 16:         WU Honey Badgers __ Lower Hutt DDs __ Miramar 2 (12.30) NOW Adventure 1;           CAPITAL 17:         Brooklyn Northern __ Lower Hutt City __ Happy Valley 2 (12.30) NOW Trafalgar; Stokes Valley Default To __ Massey University FC __             MASTERS 5:         Marist Classics __ Brooklyn Northern __ Miramar 1 (2.30) NOW MacAlister 2;

Thank goodness for Wakefield, 3rd week in a row we have manged to play there. The amount of games that have been able to be played because of this facility must surely get the Council fast tracking other pitches.

anyone else sitting at the Cap Footy cancellation site with thier finger on the refresh button?
love to be a fly on the wall of some of the conversations going on betwixt council officers and CF right now

would have thought there would be cancellations today. Have been cancelled in much better conditions than today- bog ball here we come!

two game ptiches will get smashed

it's gopnna be ugly if your playing the later games today lads....typical though, they cancel games when the weather is perfect and today it's figgen aweful and nothing.

yup, no updqate since yesterday arvo!

IS there are cut off time for cancellations???

The big difference today is that all Junior soccer is off because of School holidays, therefore many more grounds are available.

Where on earth is Capital Football's logic? If they thought the grounds would cut up after last week, what do they think they will look like after today?

Moan when you don't play. Moan when you do.

The thing is is that it has been windy all week and there hasn't been much rain so that would have helped dry the pitches out a bit. I know ALex Moore 2 was looking ok on Thursday night so I suspect other pitches may have recovered slightly.

If councils are going to make calls based on Friday night/Saturday morning weather they make them by around 7.30. Absolutely impossible to do much after that, the body of information you would be trying to work with is to large for trying to do it on the hoof.

how many games were cancelled today after teams turned up and got changed etc ready to play?

Cap 2, Welly Utd v Uni Gossies, match abandoned at Melrose before a ball kicked!

a couple of games not played at Karori. No chance.

Alex Moore 2 was one of the best pitches out today. Firm ground with only a few puddles. Council must have mowed it this week and it even looked like it was rolled, the pitch was decently flat.

Alex Moore 2 update complete.

Onepoto was much better than i thought it would have been- held up with two games on it

Will be surprised if Kelburn Park gets any more games on it this season.

I would rather play the next three weeks or how ever many on sh*t pitches than no pitches at all.Stefan2011-07-23 19:11:05

benburn park will be out of action till summer, had two games on it yesterday and it was poos!

Played in the 2nd game on Petone 2 yesterday and the pitch was best we have played on for weeks. The rain yesterday morning had no effect on it at all and as others have said a week of wind had obviously dried the pitches out.

Karori was terrible. No chance for our 230 game to even kick off. Hopefully the match gets replayed.

Miramar park had emergency tape around one pitch and the others weren't much better. We called our game off early and Miramar and Marist who were due to play after abandoned theirs. Had a laugh in the mud, Its a shame though because I think we ruined the pitch. Hard to believe that cap football thought two games could be played on that lake

Played the 2:30 game at MacAlister 2 after being shifted there. There was no game before us but the pitch was already trashed. We played 30 mins each way.

At times I could not see my boots unless I was running as the mud and lakes were so extensive.

nightz2011-07-29 17:03:14

grrr. no rain all week and cancelled+
so why did they bother pretending they'd play us in the first place...

+ok there was a bit of snow...

Not to bad so far then.

Thats pretty sh*t. Will have to find a way to play on Sunday now. Given that we are cancelled.

To be fair, thought there be more cancellations than this. Guess it's that time of the season.

Does anyone know what state Naenae 1 is in?  Or likely to be in at this stage of the year?  Never played there before.

Better than last year. Hard News2011-08-01 14:03:34

I coach a junior team.  Grade 13 JPL playing on Naenae 1 at 9, before you big buggars churn it up. So will we be able to play our free flowing passing game on it?Stevel2011-08-01 14:09:16

Ah.  The last two years it's been a swamp with everything near the wicketblock and the wicketblock a stinking pool of mud. Hard News2011-08-01 14:14:27

Thanks.  Hoping to put one of your junior teams to the sword on it.

Don't like your chances.  They'll be looking for revenge after an 8-6 loss last weekend (I think I heard that was the score).