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The young Miramar lads took the game to Karori (held WSK out for 30"). Then conceded 30" and 38". defencive lapse. Then battled back to till HT. Pulled a goal back 50" 1-2. But the damage was done with players running out of legs. Then Karori scored 55"+60". Karori Keeper pulled of a couple of great saves. Then keeper decide to try and score from his own goal box. 2  one bouncers to be easily collected by Miramar keeper. 

Fair chat that. Miramar had a good patch of 15 minutes in the first half and a ten minute period in the seocnd half when they brought the score back to 2-1. But apart from that wharf well and truely bossed the game. More desire, more composure and more experience in the end I would say. To be fair to Mar, they were good on the break and knocked the ball round well at times, just needed more consistency.

We'll see.

BNU into 2nd place after a 3-1 away win over Karori. Came back from 1-0 down as well

Just got back breeze park IBU  took down Uni - Uni keeper help by both posts and the bar. Good game. 

Wtf is this feverish?

Disgusting from North Wellington. Yet not suprising, the two fifteen year old lads were better than every single North Wellington player.

Absolutely disgusted in the club tbh.

How did they know? Just guessed and took the punt?

I guess cos they are Onslow kids and NW is trying to get their fingers in that pie. Stuff like this wont do them any favours

So you think this was a good call by NW?

In this case I had to follow the majority but the crux of the matter is that there is a process in place to provide for dispensation for younger players and it wasn't followed. 

As mentioned my personal thoughts are that this rule should be looked at but it is a fine line as younger players may have the skill but not the mental game to play senior football (actually I've seen the same with 17, 18 year olds). We do have a duty of care as coaches and administrators to ensure we are not harming these young players by throwing them in to soon. 

This is accurate. There is a process that Karori (me, in fact) didn't follow. It's just a shame that NW used the rules to grab the points when playing a couple of kids can hardly have been said to have influenced the game in Karori's favour. 

For the record, one of the kids is about 50 days shy of turning 16 (and being okay to play) and the other one is about 80 days. They're both more than capable of playing senior football. The whole "child welfare" argument has no relevance here. 

Fair play to NW, they've played a technicality and got all three points and I have a face full of egg. Just have to take it on the chin and move on.

Actually Smithy you have a good point and is something well worth discussing. 

I don't think we have a divine right to those players but it is in our interests as a club to work with the colleges to promote football and have us seen as the logical step in their senior development. 

Ourselves as a club we have taken to actively working with the two local colleges in the area to promote football for everybody,  identify and manage talent as well as providing a structured pathway to the senior game.  It's something we needed to do and is working well. 

sounds like they probably could find some 14 year olds better than what they have to be fair.

don't worry you would probably still crank up a few points through protests :)

sorry I'm not sure if your logic or sense of humour is off..

Teza we all look forward to the return fixture at KP enough said.

Pretty shite way to lose 3 points. 

If you break the rules, even unwittingly and even if the rule's pretty dopey, you leave yourself open to this kind of thing. So, we have to accept we created the risk here. But interesting to ponder whether we would have exploited this kind of mistake if the shoe was on the other foot. I have no problems with sides protesting unregistered players or when sides drop too many players down the grades, but this is a different kind of indiscretion.  I like to think we'd have let it go.

Clubs shouldnt need to be protesting any of these "mistakes". It can cause bad blood between teams.

Its Capital Footballs job to pick these indiscresions up and punish the offending clubs. If teams cards are correctly filled in they should spot the mistakes.

some truth amongst a bit of bullshit

Not sure what all the fuss is about. Rules are in place, rules were broken, deal with it. Most teams go into each fixture abiding by all the rules, so not sure why some feel that they dont need to.

the 15 yr old lads who had a run in the game (10 minutes and half a game) have exemption to play now - so they will probably be fired up along with the rest of the team for what could be the final game of the season (with NW looking for a promotion spot?). I might get along to watch it. 

You're obviously not as knowledgeable on the Regs as I gave you credit for (maybe you can get the kids you speak about at NW involved?)

Be sure to introduce yourself - you sound like a top bloke :)

As an aside, Jimmy Cudd mentioned to me the other day that he was playing National League for Gisi at age 15

That would be right. It might have even been 14.

Yeah I enjoyed watching him play. He didn't play for NZ did he. Was there a reason for that?

yeah he might have said 14. Yeah he was in an NZ side - got a few caps I think?