Capital 14 (a or b)

It was a mess when we got there, already places where the ground was saturated to the point of puddles.

Playing with 10 men all game i think we did well, never the best conditions at Raroa, need to attached some studs to a pair of gumboots i think. We did get one classy own goal, brilliant header that bet everyone, then a few really unlucky ones, but in the end great to get out and play again after so long off.

Bring on a mini-league to finish off the season i say.

Greetings div 14 freinds!  I have arrived in Hobart, Tasmania. Just to really annoy you, the pitches here are pristine...flat and green with no trace of mud or puddles!!

Watched my first local game on Saturday. Beachside versus Barnstoneworth Utd.  Div4 (theirsocial division). 3-2 to Barny. Standard similar to Divs 11 to 14 with quite a few players that would be Masters Divs in Wellington.

Teams have full rosters so probably wont play until next season...may do some reffing.

Sorry to miss the end of season.....just how it goes.

Hi jim, can you email me please, wstmerat@hotmail.com

Bring on the mini league!!

C'mon councils let us have another swim in the mud this weekend, was the most enjoyable game of the season last week (nothing to do with the fact we won 3-0 and did I mention I scored lol).

CANCELLED!!!!!

I may seem woefully ignorant here, but whats happening with this mini league now? We've had quite a few cancellations so will there be enough weekends to actually play it out or am I being an idiot time wise, and just how was the mini league going to work? Play each team twice(home and away-and were points going to be carried through from the original pools) or something? I never really got it to be honest...

i dont even know if its happening is it? its all just speculation i think. not heard an official wor on whats what. It would be nice to know for sure whats happening

Look at the draw. There appears to be some sort of mini league...

oh hey that certainly changed! so much for the cross division thing, cheers yomcat, probably would have picked it up at some point but atleast the mind wont be pondering it tonight..I think mini league(or somehting similar) was always going to happen cos our grades only had 8 teams each unlike the rest of them(10 teams), therefore would have finished earlier had nothing happened after pool play..cant say people wouldve been happy!

looks like we are getting a div 11 team into our pool. oh yay. altho sme of those teams we may be able to beat on a good day.

so it changes again! hmmm , i love the fact we are playing Uni at their historical home ground of Ngatitoa, i heard its worse than a lot of wgtn grounds(not complaining, will be v happy to play)..didnt look at other teams but im guessing theres some other interesting "home" grounds..though with the forecast i spose noone will be playing

3 days without rain!!! Hopefully we can finish up this week and be able to start planning our weekends again.

Its not looking good. Refs recieved this from Capital Football this afternoon:

Hello all Clubs

With the sun shining I just want to make sure that everyone has realistic
expectations ahead of this weekend. It's fantastic to get some fine weather
but the grounds are still very very wet. We met with all the local councils
yesterday and the situation is pretty much the same in Wellington, Hutt
Valley and Porirua. The water table is very high and should this fine
weather continue through to the weekend even the better grounds will
probably only handle a game or two each. That's the optimistic scenario -
the forecast is for more rain on Friday so we could even be back to last
weekend's situation whereby only a handful of games were played.

The priority for this weekend is to try and find some game time for those
worst hit by the cancellations this year - that means juniors, especially
the 12-17 age groups in the Combined (Wellington/Western Zone) grades. We'll
also look to play Hutt Valley juniors and King Toyota Super 6s if the
grounds are good enough.  Priority will continue to be given of course to
Central League, Champs Premier League and Capital 1 and 2 as well.

What that means is that there is very unlikely to be much, if any, senior
football this weekend from Capital 3 down. Women's football on Sunday is
also under threat but we'll try to at least give some priority to the
Premier League. Giving priority to junior football this weekend means that
we'll swing the priority back to senior football the following week,
regardless of how this weekend goes. We'll reassess the situation again
after the next two weekends.

We are hoping to play a lot of junior football this weekend for 11th grade
and younger (i.e. not played on full-sized fields) but the big factor here
will be how much rain we get on Friday.

That's the latest thinking.  There aren't too many good options left at this
stage of the season so we're sorry if this scenario doesn't work well for
you.

For those of you lucky enough to actually play this weekend could we ask
that you be particularly careful with where you warm up. In any conditions
it's a good habit to warm up away from the pitch itself, and even more so
with conditions as they are. Not all grounds have room away from the pitch
but please do your best to protect the grounds as best we can. Thanks.

oh thats real great news isnt it.

this is the season that never ends, it'll go on and on my friend, we started playing it then it started to rain, and we'll be forever waiting to finish all of our games cause...

(kinda to the tune of - this is the song that never ends -, kinda, just make it fit lol)

or try this version

this is the season that never ends, it'll go on and on my friend,
it started raining and its never going to stop, and we'll continue waiting here cos the grounds are still water logged, ...

Those were the days my friend, the season never ends, a winter summer blend, those were the days oh yes those were the days....

So what is everyone doing during the halcyon days of winter? My kids are barely escaping murderifying....alcohol consumption quadrupled due to free friday nights....mind you after the last game the kit took 4 loads in the washing machine at 3 washes each, and its definitely not the sort of thing you can ask your partner to do!

I'm wishing for some clear weather

Not having much luck ... yet .. will let you know how i get on with that.

Plus i think i got my birthday wish for this year sorted out

well i think it kinda worked just not for my team! our game wasn't played but good to see others out and about playing

Fingers crossed for this weekend, but I did notice that bastard Jim Hickey on the news showing wet weather due Friday......... just for a change........NOT!!!!

Slayers WIN!!! 3-1 victory over PC Mana and a great way to finish the season.

Martians win 2 1 (without me ) and finish 5th. Well done lads.

Thanks Slayers for a good game and great reffing! Bring on the drinking mini league :D 

awesome times in Cap 14, looking forward to playing upper hutt-if we play! all the same thx to everyone in 14a, great bunch of guys cheers for the season!

Thanks Sealad  good luck in your championship game against Upper Hutt.  Wonder which division you will be promnoted to?  Good luck anyway and thanks for the good sportsmanship.

Anyone playing upperhutt gets my best wishes! Their a hard team so bring your game face!

We are ok :)

Hard as nails ;)

Original slayer they meant the other Upper Hutt team!!!  We know you slayers are tough......

Nah, he can't mean that ragtag bunch. They're crap!  They don't even post their scores up at the clubrooms :)

The board is to small to write up all the numbers.

It's a shame so many teams defaulted and that some pairing up didn't occur for the teams that could play.

Mr Jolly2008-08-31 17:11:05

Hows everyones team shaping up for the new season.

bit premature for Div 14 isnt it?

It is the best football division in Wellington though...sure all teams have been training hard out for a couple of months already.

it doesnt even exist any more

Which makes it even tougher to win this season...