Central League

rumour has it that Lower Hutt are trying to have their game against Stop Out moved to 5:30 so that their coach can coach Wellington United at 2:30 then make it back to Fraser Park in time to coach them.

He is. the rumour will have come from the fact that Steve Coleman, who is the Lower HUtt City coach, is also working for the academy (he took the weenix for the last couple of games of their season)

Doesn't he also coach Rathkeale College First X1? Has he got a helicopter to get him around on Saturdays ;-)

...and Temple will be in Sydney with the Phoenix A-League squad as he's Greenie's assistant.

is it still a 3.30pm kickoff?

Help me....

Cap football says so and there is a 5:30 Cap Prem game still listed.

Cap football also just tweeted weekend fixtures with them unchanged.

Rapa missing quite a few regulars, but still gave Wests a good run. Poor spectator turnout, and with their grandstand out of action all season, it will be interesting to see how many people are prepared to pay $5 to watch in the pouring rain.

Have herd Angus Kilkolly not returning to Rovers but instead signing with Miramar once finished with team welly

He'll probably get a month of football in at this rate.

Any ideas why lhfc v well united postponed? Presumably to advance the conspiracy theories?

Think it is because both Coleman and Temple are away and with both being away one couldn't cover for the other this week. Not sure Wests were afforded the same luxury when missing players with U17 and U20 commitments, but I guess it's just fortunate that they drew each other this week so they could both approve the change. That being said it is a bit harsh on Petone facing a strengthened Hutt side tomorrow in Cap Prem as pointed out in the Cap Football preview from what is a pretty questionable decision from CF to let the game be moved. 

The restraint that Ifill and Declan are showing on Twitter (this weekend) astounds me

Last week kick off were moved or attempted to be moved to free one up to leave and one to cover both. This week they used the influence of single employer to postpone a match that CF should never had agreed to. If there was a recent track record of this happening ie covering for national league absences or National team absences then it wouldn't be an issue, but this just seems strange. 

"Saturday was also meant to see league-leaders Wellington United play Lower Hutt City, but this has been postponed withWellington United coach, Paul Temple, away on A-League duties with the Wellington Phoenix and Lower Hutt City’s coach, Steve Coleman, also away with the New Zealand Secondary Schools team travelling the USA. It is great to see the opportunities being given to our local coaches."

Source: http://www.capitalfootball.org.nz/newsarticle/61329

Rumour has it that the Wanderers have a signing who is debuting tomorrow against Miramar. Unsure of the name but have been told he played semi-professionally in ukraine a few years back.

well that really worked for Lower Hutt - Petone won 4-0!

10 Man Wanderers lose to Rangers - Hawke's Bay Today 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=12033087

Featuring two ex-Napier Marist lads (Josh Murphy and Ben lack now residing in Wellington for varsity) off the bench for the 'Mar

Just maybe! some clubs don't have hidden agenda's. Obviously no stacking happened.

Wests beat Karori 4-1. Cagey first half-hour before Just opened the scoring for Wests. Davenport-Peterson equalised for Karori from a really well-delivered free kick by Kim, but Wests went up a gear and Sippola scored before the break. Clayton made it 3-1 a couple of minutes into the second half and the game died as a contest. Karori looked frustrated, couldn't string passes together and the 50-50 balls and officiating kept going against them. Davenport-Peterson got a second yellow after a couple of reckless challenges in the space of 30 seconds and Karori kind of just gave up from there. Sippola added a fourth and apart from a couple of attacks by Cain and Kim Wests were able to do pretty much whatever they wanted except add to the score.

Waterside Karori USA signing (Matt Sheldon) analysis his match against Western Suburbs

for only the 3rd time this century and the first time since 2010, Olympic beat Miramar

Score was 3-1

Deserved win for Olympic, but they did make hard work of it, the 3rd goal came in the last 2 minutes and they didn't look comfortable at 2-1, think that was probably because it was Miramar and the fact they hadn't won against them since 2010

Olympic opened the scoring after 20 mins through Seth Ward. 10 mins later Miramar equalised with their first shot of the match a ball in from the right flank about 30 meters out, found Dom Rowe about the penalty spot and he headed in to the top of the net - A goal so good even some Olympic fans applauded! 

Birhanu Taye restored the lead from the penalty spot. Mar player tripped an Olympic player on the spot, definate pen, Ref gave it and then produced a red card, Miramar complained that it wasn't, ref spoke to his AR and changed it to a yellow card

Gavin Hoy scored in the last couple of minutes to give Olympic the 3-1 win

other results

Waterside 1 Stop Out 2

Lower Hutt 5 Havelock North 2

Rapa 3 Wgtn Utd 2

NCR v Wests tomorrow

Who saw the Mar vs. Oly game last night. Apparently Mar coach said that Olympicbeat their Capital premier league team and to see how they go once Team Wellington players are available 2nd round. Wonder how the current Mar squad feel being called Cap Prem level by their coach.

Wests 2-1 winners over NCR. NCR's twittertron says Declan was sent to the stands, allegedly for OFFINABUS directed at Napier bench.

Deçlan is an absolute Twit! His sideline antics are boring af. 

Wests deserved their win today - looked the sharper team.  I go the impression that NCR were too busy reading their press reports in the first half.  Anendra does a great job with his local reports, but I think our team should be banned from reading them.

Declan also deserved his little walk to the stands - came about half an hour later than I expected.

rumour has is that Keegan Smith has signed to play central league for lower hutt.

Keenan can't he's a pro?

Unfortunately, to many coaches think they are bigger then the game. Edge is on the top shelf. They crazy thing is that the guy has done absolutely nothing from a team perspective in the game as a coach.

My bad he won the CL after 4 years of trying!!!!

bit of a kick in the teeth for Marcel Kampman who has been TW reserve keeper all season and played for Lower Hutt last season