This weekends results will have no impact on the season outcome.
Personally I think this year is going to be a good competition with quite a few of the teams capable of taking points off the supposedly "Big Two", as was the case last year. And for the midtable battle, the Napier v UH and LH v Wests games could mean the difference in finishing 4th or 9th.
Yeah, still stick with the same theory Blew. Wairarapa were one of the front runners last year and will probably be there or there abouts this year. Therefore for Miramar to get three points today, they have already put 3 points between them and one of their challengers.
Given Wests have a few to come in and got an away win against a team that will be close to them most of the season, this was a key result.
Olympic needed three points against unknown opposition to be up there from the start and so did Petone with three of the next four games against Oly, Wair and Mar, so Yeah, today may well have an impact later. If you think this league is going to be won or lost on the two games between Olympic and Miramar, then you are probably underestimating the strength of the other eight teams.