Cap 2 2014

I'm pretty sure the player has to take the field, not just be on card, enabling extra subs to be named but not played (and therefore regraded). It may not be within the regrade rules itself but a general law of game that you must take field in order to constitute playing a match. I'll try to find out.

Yeah hence I owned up to it. And as I said, my perception (from what I've heard from others) is that it is easy to stack teams. This would stop that, and allow those fringe players to get game time. 2 weeks is reasonable and wouldn't hinder anyone's first team chances either. 

You also forgot to point out that I took the suggestion from an online game, which makes me lose even more credibility :p but again I did own up to that too. 

Yeah but for every bit of tightening you do to the regulation to stop 'stacking' you're also taking away freedom which should be allowed for genuine football reasons (development, rotation etc.).  Many coaches would love to have no regrade rule, and it's not because they care about keeping up reserve/third teams.  It's because they want to be able to select and drop who they want when they want.  And it's hard to argue against the coaches prerogative to do so.
No one's ever said the regrade regs are perfect but they seem to do an ok job at the moment of restricting the ability to affect a game week to week with regrades while still providing freedom to select and drop players as their performance/development necesitates.

Haha there it is. 

Good job hiding behind irrelevant details of how I got the idea, rather than the actual idea itself. 

Spartacus, Jeff and energy: fair enough. You raise good points. I have just heard about team stacking being quite a prevalent thing, and that was an off the cuff suggestion as to how to get round it. Another way to look at it is to ask if a certain amount of team stacking really a bad thing? If the first team has played to the point that they are safe in their goals (perhaps safe from relegation) then maybe they've earned the right as a club to redistribute resources. Who knows. I think there does have to be a balance. Perhaps that balance is being successfully met now?

Well whatever Upper Hutt did or didn't do, they were beaten 6-3 by wests.

Just got from Wairarapa united vs Olympic  Wairarapa edging it 15-3

Stuff being a keeper with that defense in front of him aye but I did think they must be missing a fair few players,honestly if United had of taken there chances it could have been 25 or 30 we have Olympic next week I'm picking it will be a totally different side 

Sounds like the Wairarapa team was stacked to me lol

Some folks around here get pretty sensitive when they read the word 'stacking'. We settled on 'maximizing resources' if I remember rightly

;-)

Sorry could not resist the "Stacked" quote, I will take it back and replace it with:-

 "The Wairarapa team maximized there resources to help the Res team get the much needed results"

Hope that this eases the tension and again im sorry if I offended anybody.

:-)  

Perhaps Olympic stacked the team below in Cap 5??

You cant use the work "STACKED" but probably not lol

A little light humour, lets all relax  

Whatever euphemism you care to choose, sometimes it just doesn't work out does it? Upper Hutt lost 6-2 to Olympic in the 5.30 CL game and the 2nd team lost 6-3 to Wests at 12.30 in cap2.

Games featuring 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th tonight.

IBU win 3-1 over Lower Hutt at Wakefield in the pouring rain. Lower Hutt lad received a straight red for pretty malicious tackle. Talking to the lads, apparently it wasn't his only shocker (he'd also received a yellow earlier).

Hey energy,

I think they forgot to mention the head butt by a island bay player also. Red card for lower hutt player was average decision to be a straight red, was possibly only a yellow at best.

Looks like the odd bods at CF have moved round 18 forward to 10/5 - any ideas behind the logic? Understand it's Chatham Cup but only one team in the league qualifies so why the reshuffle? Could have just played round 6 as scheduled one would have thought.

Anyone got the facts or just care to take a wild stab in the dark?

I figure maybe it is just easier to set it to play every divisions round 18 on sportingpulse? It's the same for us in cap9. 

is it because jamie has left/leaving?

I cant remember the last time a season was ever played round 1-18. I dont know why they do it, but they do. Rounds were jumbled up last season, and the season before. I think last season in Cap 5 we even played the same side twice in 2 weeks because of it.

Match up of the round has to be Upper Hutt vs Wairarapa. A loss for either side could really dent any title aspirations this early in the season.
Expect Wests will be too strong for Stop Out with the early form they've shown.

Didn't get to see the game, how did Olympic v Villa go?

That Wests team must be pretty strong. Full of Ole young guys?

Any profound thoughts on this weeks fixtures?

The bye at least gives a chance for the field to make up some points on Wests who have a nice gap at the top already.

What are the thoughts on the Monday night games? Pretty miserable if you ask me.

Any match reports from the last round?

Sat 17 May: Wests beat University 7-0

Any comments on the game? Or other games for that matter? Personally I think Wests are gonna be pretty tough to beat this year. Will be interesting to see if Island Bay can stop them this weekend.