Capital 1 2010

Capital 1 2010

who are favourites for capital one this year??
when is the draw out? anyone know

Not Stokes Valley for sure

Defaulting at HP - poor form

Gotta be Olympic I'd say

oranje beat olympic 3-1 a last week in a pre-season 'friendly'. tis only pre-season though

How many teams from this grade are playing in the Hilton Petone? Who's been looking the goods so far from those playing?

Petone played two lost two (against a school team and a team from the league below).

Olympic ressies have been strong, 11 for none against.

Stokes Valley have had one hammerring and one default.  LH 2nds looked okay las night when I watched them.

North Wellington have lost two but they've had Masters players filling in.

N Welly also have a new coach.  Old one moving to Auckland.

Waterside Karori will be no bunnies

Yes, I imagine they would be some kind of water fowl.

silver foxxxxxxx...

Just out of interest, do Wellington United still have a Dutch following? I know they were Dutch originally but just wondered if they still maintained their links to the Dutch community in the way that Olympic to with the Greeks and Central with the Croatians?

well TECHNICALLY yes, because my grandparents are dutch heh!

i hear that stokes valley have pulled out of capital 1??? if so who will replace them?
olympic 2nds definite title favourites and petone 2nds will be strong with their club depth with wainui a dark horse perhaps!!
dellboy2010-03-03 21:21:44

um... Olympic and Petone are already in Cap one... as are Wainui.

I think he is saying that those teams are forerunners to win Capital 1 News

Wouldn't it have to be Tawa's second team, they lose the playoff against Island Bay last year?

Agreed. Especially if its because they just dont want to play in Cap 1 and would rather play in Cap 2. And if its because they havnt got enough players, well then it should be all over for them.
AJ132010-03-03 22:07:19

I heard a whisper about a 9 team league in one of the higher grades (more correctly, a 10 team league, one of which is called 'bye'). Maybe Cap 1 is it.

Ties in with that comment about SV dropping out

sounds like BNU to stay up, and SV's departure to stuff up existing draws and changes the grade of some teams

But boooo to Stokes Valley for defaulting Hilton games.

Our whole top squad have pretty much left the club leaving the seconds (div 7 last year) and Killer Bees (div 8) to try fill the void.

Defaulting against KCU was pretty much our only option, They  only had 7 players at training, Im not sure how many were willing to play after the 8-0 thrashing they got against olympic(from the 15 or so minutes I saw it could have been more as well)

Geez that sucks, when I was there in 2008 it wasn't the most amazing year but they had potential.

Last year was up and down, but again not the be all and end all.

Maybe a time to look at a merger or some such, it is a small club

....NO player payments or free subs  I am told ... hence why players left .....back to being true" amatuer" club , maybe able to play in the NZFC which is totally  amatuer .

so does every club in Cap 1 pay teams subs?

no. maybe some subsidise but i doubt many would pay full subs. it would probably differ between teams that are first teams/reserves

Is Stokes Valley's problem re Hilton and Div 1 a unique one? If free boots and no subs are taken away from "imports" playersa nd these players walk away or stay out,  can all the clubs coopeprate for the good of the game and for mutual existence of smaller clubs? Could these players be poverty stricken or premadona- driven or worst than that, refugee mentality? Who are they and may be they can be identified so ALL clubs will know not to accept them into the game. Surely ecery player has to pay subs towards the clubs as an indication of commitment and loyalty. Otherwsie, smaller clubs will disappear.

Nah thats not what i heard (being the reason they left). And besides Stokes Valley has always been a small club. When i was 14 and playing the odd game for Wests 3rds we played Stokes Valleys 1sts, and that was 10 years ago. Maybe they dont have the right people running the club. I mean if nothings changed in 10years, maybe they need to ask themselves why that is?

we did, as you know, 2 seasons ago when we were in cap 1. and we will again once we win cap 2 this year and go back up.

Our (second) team in Cap One all pay subs, although most of them at the high school student rate!

Has anyone heard when Cap 1, Cap 2 etc is starting this year? Is it the first weekend after Easter?