Capital ONE

marist do have a history of winning cap one and getting relegated the next year,nae nae won this grade easily last year and look like being relegated.both have dodgy grounds

Marist got pretty shafted last year by teams dropping players, and got relegated with a few more points then Lower Hutt and Naenae this year.

BUT, that is all second hand knowledge, wasn't in the team last year

WatersideKarori have a very dodgy ground too,.....but then they hardly ever play there so they are safe from relegation

nothing wrong with it go take a look at it for yourself (number 2/3 that is)

Marist were a good team last year and got shafted by that fact that both Wests and Lower Hutt's 1st teams seasons were over by the half way stage allowing them to swap teams.

I would have to disagree... They were not under achievers, there team was greatly depleted from last year so achieved to where they probably should have.

But the main reason I disagree is I think they had the best striker in the league. No.9 Believe his name is something like richie(?) He just had no one to support him.

Must admit I'm with Redwards, they got some great results (beat and drew with us), but then blew out twice against Stokes Valley. Just no consistency

anyone from island bay know when cap 1 relegation/ cap 2 promotion game is? Location?

um its next week at a neutral ground. Island Bay firm favourites to win as they have half their 1st team squad (Patterson and Luciano and a few others). Definately going to have to take a big game from the Tawa lads

bobboltontawa22009-08-16 20:24:33

island bay guy told me its this week

Result from today

I know Island Bay are staying put (boo), would have been nice having a bit more variety in cap 1.

BUT any word on Olympic result?

Olympic won on pens according to News.

Yep, 1-1 FT, 1-1 AET, 8-7 on pens....Olympic promoted.

well done bubbles ressies

Nice day, couple of hundred there watching an end to end game.

Suspected it would go to the Olympic once it got to pens.

OH what a day.

Great game today and what a ripper. Good crowd and a great atmosphere.

Chahoo, bring on champs premier.

pretty sh*t result for us, if we had a striker result game would have been well over by extra time. olympic played the better football but we had more chances. Olympics goal should never have gone in either. sh*t happens though. Pretty disgusting display from Olympics spectators during the penalty shootout. What a bunch of w**kers, was no need for what they started doing.

Which was.....

Lets just get it out there to start with

Obviously monkey is going to be upset, and no doubt the Bubbles will say he's a sore loser. But what was going on during the shootout?

In reality as a goalie, I would like silence, any heckling aimed at either shooter or goalie, just makes what is already a farce of a way to end a game even more farcical.

Yup heckling, whistling, shouting abusive crap. Just typical Olympic spectator sh*t, they wonder why nobody likes their club? Agree with you nomad, there should be silence for everyone involved during the shootout, just makes things ridiculous and immature. Olympics officials and coaches should have been involved and asker their spectators to keep quiet. Olympic won't survive in prems anyway I believe unless they do something about their poor discipline, so many of their young players don't have a clue when to shutup they argue with the ref about everything. Thought the referee was quiet fair actually.
monkeyboy2009-08-23 11:37:16

pavlos82009-08-23 13:06:47

See now your just being a sore-winner pavlos

We don't need an essay, in fact lets not for a change and just keep it civil. Was there heckling going on towards the Naenae shooters? Was it perhaps over the top, or simply good banter, and monkey is seeing it through not so rose tinted glasses.

There's always two sides to a debate, I think we need an unbiased person wading in here to say what they saw.

I was on the other side of the pitch from the bubbles fans- and there was one fairly well oiled Naenae supporter giving each of the Greeks as they went up to take their penalties a fair amount of very loud and vocal offensive abuse - he was asked to tone it down by another Naenae fan - to which he took a bit of offence to himself. So no angels on both sides.
What the bubbles fans were doing - booing and whistling during Naenae penalties - is no different from what we were all doing in the YF zone during Melbourne's penalties in last seasons PSC final.

I still see it as being bad sportsmanship. The difference between our spectators and theirs was that about 30 of them were doing it and only about 3 or 4 of ours were. Pavlos I would love to see your "essay" if you've got an opinion why not share it completely? Not a good look for Olympic when you've got your Central League players on the sideline making dickhead comments to our players as well namely a coloured boot wearing gel headed retard, should these players not be making an effort as senior players of your club to setting a good role model for everyone else??

monkeyboy2009-08-23 16:48:07

Guys, it's football, not opera. Participation from fans on the sideline/in the grandstand is welcome and encouraged, as long as it does not descend into racial/sexist abuse. Live with it.

The Sheik speaks.....and we all listen....

Been known to throw a bit of sideline abuse myself over the years.....

Yeah monkey I was there as well, was standing opposite the benches just on the half way line during the penalty shoot out and could hear some 'involvement' from both sides.

Suspect Naenae haven't really endeared themselves to the football powers that be either - email to clubs during the week asking them to discourage drinking on the sidelines...and Naenae there with (to quote one of them) "more beers than there are people here, so help yourself"...

Can't say I heard about that Smithy but can understand the reasoning behind it, most football supporters aren't too bad  with their booze though not particularly going  to end up with crowd fighting like rugby! Thought it was pretty sweet they bought a BBQ though and were giving out sausages to anyone that asked haha.

I think the bubbles fans are just releived that they are now in the prems, after having to travel to levin just towatch them get smsashed!!! To me bring it on another Mar v bubbles derby!!

It's not golf or tennis. Nothing wrong with a bit of passion on the sidelines.

Monkeyboy you reck of sore loser syndrome,,, Olympic totally out played you. Nae nae's game plan, was there one ?? you couldn't get more than 3 passes together the footballing team won simple really yourmomma2009-08-23 18:32:14

yup and the better team WON

Don't worry about this knob LF1, always seems to have some idiot opinion when it comes to Naenae. I think he smells of ex disgruntled player or something similar. Maybe his girlfriends blouse is chaffing him today.

Want a tissue Monkeyboy...lol