Central League

football has always been semi pro in that players could and do get paid if they can get a deal sorted with there club.

professional footballer in todays terms is a player who is paid solely for football and can live from those proceeds alone.

performance and or boot money that you mention i think is not as high as you have indicated as far as i am aware but maybe some do get a good deal now days.

most of these small payments are kept low so that TAX is not a issue and is all above board and transparent in contracts and the books but i have herd that some clubs try and hide this sort of stuff in the accounts and off record so that club members and other players don't ask questions and these types of arrangements if brought to light could bite them when the TAX man finds out.

so don't always believe the talk from players as most players are always looking for the best deal and so may inflate things to look good.

$1000 x 18 games = $18000 and the tax on this is about $4000 and IRD would want that and the ACC ect.

Anyone actually got a source about Wellington United asking to play professionals? Not much point slagging them off if it's not even true.

Nix/weenix/wellington united first team - all the same organisation, right? Anyway, is it true - they want to play professional players in an amateur league?

What you on about?

not sure on this one.      But ol'Sole is credible source

No I'm asking what you on about. Utd and Nix are the same thing for this team

interesting... there has been talk about players being paid in (every CL) team for years...

Maybe about time that it was above board for all teams anyway. Then everyone's cards would be on the table - prob be better for all clubs - esp if there was a team cap... Or limited number of paid players... At the moment players play clubs off against  each other to get maximum income.

Every club relies on grants from gaming fund trusts. Those grants only go to amateur organisations. Hence, the issue.

I hope like hell the proposal was "a fact" as our Chairman, on receipt of an invitation from the Phoenix, attended a meeting in Wellington on Sunday.  

no doubt the decision will be taken out of your hands by higher powers.

What was the proposal? Do you get to pick three Nix players of your choice to play for you?

wrong i think  as then NZ Rugby would be excluded and lots of other organisations who are not amateur

it's non profit or charity status that a organisation requires not amateur.

too many rugby ideas in this country of the good old amateur days that we now know was one of the biggest jokes of our times unless you where in England where one just dose it for the love of the game…… YEAH RIGHT!

reality time even golf amateurs can get paid just not lots.

So Spartacus, staying on topic, what's your view on Nix pro players playing in central legaue?

i think it's great but not if it is weighted towards one club while others are excluded

seeing Nix players are on a salary and contracted any payments for services would go back to the Nix management to disperse as they see fit.

and if a club cannot afford to loan these Nix players i am sure it won't be the deal breaker of playing central league.

as for the benefits of having a few class players to show the up and coming players what standard they need to attain  maybe the way to raise the standards here in NZ and help or local players get deals off shore or with the national team.

t's also not good having youth not getting as much match time as possible as this i feel is the best learning  any young player could have  while the old players need rest and recovery from a strong A Legaue season.

i don't want them back until they finish winning but it is making the start of the season a bit distorted down the leagues as players get moved to cover the gaps in the affected clubs.

still good win for olympic vs west

peverly seemed to be in the CL game pics. He not playing OFC? Don't think they have many others in there - maybe Jackson?

So Kaisen> ole? Or do neither care about winning anyway?

Ps that wee nix team look young as. They must have played well

Lower Hutt 4 Petone 0.   Petone early favourites for relegation ?

I saw the Kaisen v Ole game and would vote for Kaisen as they actually attacked the goal, Ole played nice football but seemed to have forgotten the aim of the game is to score goals (their goal was from a pen), there were several times ole players broke into the box and then passed the ball across or behind rather than shoot

napier city   3    wairarapa  2

Hottest of favourites to go down

Relax on the Kaizen mate, we are Wellington Olympic. Stuart Jacobs was once a player of Wellibgton Olympic and is now the Head Coach of the same club. Olympic care about winning, always have and always will. Don't kid yourself buddy. Get your own backyard in order. 

aww gummon mate 

How about the Reserves then? The Ole boys put 5 unanswered past them. The young Kaizen fellas struggling, they've shipped 14 in 3 games!

Think I read that Pev's partner just had a baby so probably not keen to be up in Auckland. Think Jackson is the only one going back.

Oh and I think Andy Bevin

I have been told that the DomPost Sports Editor said that it comes directly from Cspital Football and DomPost are less than impressed with the quality of the articles. Apparently a new person doing the writing. Sub standard in my view. In one game they mention one scorer but not the other two scorers. We as football supporters deserve more than what is being served up by Capital Football. 

I think with Robert Johnson not at Cap Football anymore has affected this.

maybe the team in question didn't inform CF of their goal scorers. I think they only specifically watch and get detail from a couple of games.

Look at you defending Cap Football. Guess there's a first for everything.

Robert Johnson was really good (anyone know where he went??). Guess if he's gone a replacement will take time.

Think they are best to do one game properly, and cover the rest in brief. Instead of trying to cover all 5 games evenly.