Capital 2 2010

oooh dumb. of course!

but mr angus, i just am so passionate about my cap 2 football, I have to take it seriously..

After playing everyone I think its fair to say that the karori vistas probably deserve to be where they are, how-ever they were no better or worse discapline wise than any other team we have played, including my own team (stop out).

Tawa A v Stop out will be the game of the round, just depends if the pitch is good. Where are they playing?

Well the pitch definitly won't be good as its a home game for tawa and they dont have a good pitch. Having said that, who does in capital 2 at this time of year? apart from us, even then one end of the pitch is less than ideal. Should still be a good game tho, 2 sides who will be going all out for the 3 points and had a cracker of a game in the 1st round which we were fairly lucky to come away with really.

Tawa A may not have any 1st team players on sat, as the first team are playing at 230 v Napier.. And they have been relying on a few first team players over the past few weeks. Stop out 2-1

If tawa A have no first teams (jarrad, sharpie, etc) im picking stopout to win 8-0. If tawa have ibrahimovic, puyol and bill bradley, probably a 2-2 draw

looks like everything's cancelled for tomorrow.
not complaining. am pretty crook but still going to the Nix

probability and or likely hood Tawa will be dropping players on Saturday?

Its not about dropping players down.It is about the 1st team had a squad of 16 players at the start of the season and had 2 players out every week because of injuries or player availability.The last few weeks people have started to come back and now we have 16 fit players.So yes people will be playing for seconds but it will be number 15 and 16, in other words players that would not be travelling up to Taranaki.So we are not doing any stacking at this stage.

Yeah well that sounds logical. After all that is what a second team is for to give players in the extended first team squad game time. So even 14,15,16 does not sound too bad its just if 3-8 or something like that would be a bit ridiculous. But a the end of the day it comes down to tawa and they have to make the best decision that suits them.

So big weekend in capital 2. We (United) play Tawa A and anything could happen. If we and Uni firsts win our next 3 games there is every possibility that the last game of the season will be Wellington United vs Uni firsts at Kelburn with United leading Uni by one point- a cup final with a draw counting as a win for United.

Massive if though.

Tawa A will be tough.

Emile Heskey- What a champ.

did uni gossies beat uni firsts?

CAPITAL 2:
Stop Out              6    Upper Hutt City       0
Wellington United     2    Tawa A                1
Uni Gossies           2    University 1st XI     1
Tawa B               __    Marist               __
Karori Vistas         1    Olympic               3                       P  W  D  L  GF  GA  Pts
Wellington United     15 11  2  2  31  13  35
University 1st XI     15  9  4  2  27  11  31
Tawa A                15  8  2  5  39  23  26
Stop Out              15  7  3  5  25  22  24
Uni Gossies           15  5  5  5  23  25  20
Olympic               15  6  1  8  25  27  19
Marist                14  5  2  7  20  22  17
Tawa B                14  4  3  7  15  28  15
Upper Hutt City       15  4  2  9  20  35  14
Karori Vistas         15  1  4 10  19  38   7

stop out 6 upper hutt 0?

yup gossies beat us. they have noew beaten all of the top 3 teams

Good game out in Titahi bay marist vs Tawa B,played in good spirit and the conditions weren't that bad.Unfortunately the ref made a meal of pretty much everything both teams did which caused more aggrevation than it was worth,long story short he was absolute rubbish and needed to concentrate on the game rather than what was being said in frustration,only ref we've had this year that just killed the game off by being a twat,anyway good game Tawa subbed their Central leaguer (s)? 30minutes to go,1 of them scored and we drew 1-1,well done to all.sniper2010-08-01 15:12:07

Fair enough , a draw was a fair result.Tawa played well as did Marist.
Well done.

So how exactly did Gossies beat the firsts? I'm not disparaging the Gossies by any means but isn't the tradition for the firsts to stack their own bench with the better Gossies players and for Gossies to, sort of, roll over? (Although that didn't happen last year either did it?) Or am I mistaken? It sounds like Gossies must have really gone for it. What was the game like and what happened?

Sorry but that's not the case at all. Sure the first team coach has the privilege and the authority to 'stack' his team but never has anyone even contemplated throwing the game. The gossies went for it as there has been a bit of tension at training. First of all I think we (gossies) are mostly disappointed in how our season turned out. Winning 4 games out of 4 early on in the season was a dream start but we didn't really follow through after that. So I guess that's what spurred us on. And also, after losing the first round game 4-0 we wanted to get some respect back.

About the game. Lots of chances on both sides in the first half. Gossies took the lead with a nice tap it from a long-range shot that hit the post, and Uni equalized a couple of minutes earlier. Tempers flared a bit in the second half. Gossies got the winner with about 20' to go, through a nice header following a corner kick. Uni tried their best and had lots of possession in the last 20' but couldn't capitalize. They had a penalty but their star striker missed it and missed the follow-up. That sealed it for us.

Now we (gossies) really need to win our next 3 games to help the first team get promoted. It's going to be tough. We still have to play Wgtn Utd who are on a dream run, and (I might be wrong) Tawa A, plus another team I can't remember.

University too have to play Utd and Tawa B.
Let's hope for 18 points out of these 3 games!

you should have thrown the game you fool

yeah I know. but there's only so much a man (or 11 men) can take. It'll help our first team harden up for Cap 1 don't you worry.

Damn fine of you to go for it. You certainly did us a favour.

Yep we've won eight or nine in a row now but we still have both uni's to play and stopout who I heard looked good against Upper Hutt.

of course I know that but we're focussing on the positives here. The problem with having the reserve team in the first team's league is that sometimes you can't help but having some healthy competition. At the end of the day, the first team (and everyone else) only caught up with the Gossies just before the end of the first round of games, and that in itself was a bit of a pickle.

To be fair to you, at least the Gossies have kept some integrity in the league by not falling over. And if the 1st do get promoted it will be on merit.

Our problem is we played poorly and couldn't turn over the Gossies, which we should be able to do as a first team. Any of the side issues of what the club should have done, personality issues and even club structure should be kept within the club and not discussed on here.

nah give him a break. Steelo's right. I didn't mean to discuss anything private on here. All I wanted to highlight was how detrimental it is to have two teams (one "first" team and a reserve team) in the same league. It just creates a whole lot of confusion and being dropped or being promoted becomes merely a subjective feeling when that happens, depending on a player's preference.

On an unrelated topic - aren't you meant to be working for an un-named secret govt organization? Surely they don't pay you to be on YF all day

I for one was loving the airing of the dirty laundry

Me and a few others from our United team (the one that is top of the table) trialled for Uni in first year (third year now) and didn't really even get looked at, ending up getting dumped for a season in Cap14b which is why we went to United last year. There is a certain perverse pleasure in being top given that well over half of our team are Vic students.

That was under the old coach who had the joy of trying to pick players for the senior squad out of around 60 trialists plus the incumbents, so I wouldn't take it personally that you didnt get picked. Just one of the quirks of the Uni club

I feel for you Alex Danger. I too have been there in my first year fo Uni. I thought I did OK but I was placed in Capital 11 or something. It's never a good feeling. I think there is a story that comes out every year at trials about a dude who played National League or something and was placed in a captital 14!

Marist               __    Karori Vistas        __??

ref called it off at miramar

someone want to let us in on Tawa B getting a draw with uni 1sts?