Central League

Ha garb more clown Carry on

Haha outing yourself is poor troll work.

Ha! Garbs fronting as a supposed Wharfie to try and stir the pot!

And Olympic wonder why they're the club everyone loves to hate. Remarkable.

I don't believe that is an opinion shared by many and longer Guy.

I guess clubs get intimidated by clubs who have success. WO is a very well run club. The environment, now, is very professional. Gone are the days when WO players were seen to be beer drinkers and smokers, a label that can be attached to a number of clubs IMO.

WO is driven to provide young players opportunities to enhance their futures, hence the depth of young players at the club now. Its won't be long until WO players are on the International stage following in the footsteps of Clayton, Costa, Leo etc.

WO will be a leading club in NZ in the very near future as is the direction the club is committed to driving towards.

Garbs plays a massive role in that!!

I don't think people fault Olympic for their success, but I disagree with it being very professional. Sure they may not be drinkers and smokers but they seem to be the team that swears, argues and gets all the cards. The supporters on the sideline don't seem to be much better either. Sure each club has one or two players and supporters that makes the club look bad but Olympic seem to have that at every level of team that plays for the club.

It is good to see you have set your sights on being a leading NZ club and driving youth opportunities though so I credit you for that.

I'm not sure you can claim "Garbs" has a "massive role" in the club's new-found professionalism when he comes on here and does what he does.

The proof of the pudding as they say...

But I've always been a fan of the Greeks so you don't need to convince me to like them...

olympic has always been professional like many wellington clubs over the years and the drinking smoking thing is a NZ culture thing and not a Olympic only culture.

The club is working on a good programs like most clubs today to help develop players but they still have the history and heart which is often displayed on the field as over the top passion  and thats why i and some others have developed a hate yet respect for them when playing the infamous GREEKS over the years. 

I do hope they don't throw this away to be PC correct wannabes of the new football culture like NWAFC seem to have done.

No Olympic passion would make a boring wellington football culture.

Yeah that PC shark like not abusing officials. 

some officials deserve it unfortunately .

but most of us just let it slide when we get a shocker official as we don't like fines.

and it is pointless as it never helps matters as history shows.

but then playing 10 greeks is always better than playing 11

some officials deserve to get abused? Seriously? 

The fans they bring are quite charming. Smoking on the sideline (local by-law prevents it), threatened a Lady who asked them (politely) to stop. Quite odious.

Go a couple of weeks without us and refuse referee appointments if we are that bad. I'm sure you'll show everyone how it's done with ease.

The Capital Football misconduct page has 4 teams: Upper Hutt, Petone, Wairarapa & Carterton with people serving suspensions for "offensive, insulting, abusive language and/or gestures at a match official" & several clubs seem well represented in the yellow cards table.

I presume some earlier season misdemenaours (from any club) will have been served so not on the current web page ? but I think its a blinkered view in saying Olympic seem to have it at every level of team. 

Ok, so the top part only shows the current ones and doesn't show people that have already served their suspension but from my comment I wasn't meaning swearing as directed at the referee and getting the four game stand down. 

But your comment about cards made me have a good look at the list (Take into account no players show who have finished the season with less than 3 yellow cards so it is missing that data) however Olympic lead the list for most yellow cards and most players who got yellow carded. Only bit they don't win is yellow cards per person which goes to Stop Out, followed by North Wellington then Olympic.

So when Olympic has 26 more yellows than the next nearest team (Lower Hutt) and 4 more players than the next nearest team (Lower Hutt) I would think that the data backs up my original comment.

4 more players ? either way, good work.       

None so blind as those that will not see

Yeah not sure what I did there but meant four more players. 

16 - 12 = 12 apparently.

Rumour has it Jordan martens to North Wellington (transfer from central league team to cap prem team) 

Lloyd O'Keefe has just signed on as their manager, Ben Sigmund on board, maybe it won't be Wharfies who bottle the promotion to Central League this season

Sigmund is surely a big drawcard for any young player. Wouldnt be surprised if he attracts a few youngsters.

"Man, I always wanted to learn how to hoof it long"

back to CL chat. Who is LH coach?

Rapa making a few moves.. Signed Cameron Lindsay, and have Dale Higham and Seule Soroman returning. Add in Mason smith chettleburgh and Ifill (if he stays on) looking good so far.

they sacked Ifill

must be thick skinned 

.... and Millwall.

Also saw that Ryan Tinsley has left Waitakere United and headed back to England to play for Sheffield FC. So would be guessing he isn't returning to play for Napier City Rovers this season.

Ifill and Keinzley are friends again and he'll play a bit for them this season I think. He's also the Lindsey link I'd imagine. Good news for all concerned.

Wairarapa United targets Tasman talent for Central Premier League football season: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/domestic/887...

I think we have NZ's second A-League team

"Wairarapa United coach Phil Keinzley has confirmed that his club is interested in "about seven" Tasman players "and just about the whole Hawke's Bay team" as he aims to build a team capable of winning back the Chatham Cup."

So Sunday's SSPremiership game between Hawke's Bay United and Tasman (at Memorial Park in Palmerston North) will effectively be a Wairarapa United trial!

Well yeah but there isn't much is there? Small population so they're always only going to have a few locals. 

I have no problem with how Keinzley runs Wairarapa United because (unlike most franchises) a good chunk of it is his own personal money and he has consistently provided opportunities both to locals and to players who were wanting to become locals for the long term. 

rumour has it that Phil Imray is coming out of retirement to play for Miramar this winter