Central League

Do you go to Central Football Board meetings???

Do you really want that point refuted? I live in Auckland and I can find massive holes in that article. I also live in Auckland and laugh repeatedly at Capital Football. Do they have a fund designed for buying shot guns and foot surgery?

That's an in joke between me and Old G (Tight R) Sole. Friends from way back...

He knows full well that I do not (anymore) attend CF meetings. I've done my time.

If it makes you feel better, mainland football make capital football look like a well run, inspirational, fair, innovative, transparent, player centered power house of football development....

play-off day in'it? WeeNix will be without Rogerson (suspended), Dimario (transferred to Nix) and is McGarry still injured (maybe not)? They might be happy with a scoring draw and then win the home leg.

Final score?

now 2-0 mcgarry

So does the announcement of Mcgarry and Rogerson contracts mean they are unable to play in the second leg tomorrow? Might change things a little.

Surely they will wait until after this weekend to put the paper work through? It was the Nix season launch so the timing of the 'announcement' was right I guess but you'd have to assume they wouldn't take the home play off away from them.

According to The Dompost, The Phoenix fly out to Aussie on Saturday for a week long trip. Therefore these boys have been signed so they will go on the trip. It makes sense as the A league team should come first.

The Wellington United team is effectively their third team.

I wasn't aware of that. Could be the case then, but I would be surprised.

No transfer out listed on Cap Football website, so they are still eligible for United.

Broken fax machine?

maybe they are getting a later flight 

United go up -4-1 aggregate

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/72005550/team-taranaki-fail-to-win-promotion

from WU facebook : 

A lot has been said about the new direction United has taken with the Wellington Phoenix. We have been called "sellouts" and having "no respect for local players" with our strategic direction this season. Apparently the new team would have "no affiliation with our club", and "couldn't care less who they were playing for", "United's 100 and more year history was irrelevant to them."

Well, this photo is a small testament to that entire team who have assimilated into the United family, and it will only get stronger going forward. These players are United, and they love playing in Oranje.

Well done Wellington United Premiers, now Wellington United Central League and here's to looking for more silverware in 2016.

Yep they definitely signed for United because of their passion for the Oranje. No doubt about it at all. They are Wellington United to the core. 

What?

They love playing for Wellington United but do not appear to want to play on Wellington United's home ground of Newtown Park.

I was lol'ing at it to be honest

And I was trolling... Feverish. But still nice to see Bobby M smiling

I didn't realise Bobby was such a Phoenix fan!

It's going to be a funny looking board at the WU clubrooms. The honours list will continue to grow, but the 100 games row will gather dust I'm imagining!

For what it's worth, even though they bossed most of the game, they were lucky to come out of that second game with a win. Team Taranaki butchered half a dozen chances. Thought the two TT central midfielders were awful and didn't help out their cause at all - gave the ball away every time they got it. Some handy players throughout the rest of the squad.

Let's hope if Rogerson gets on for the Nix that he learns to pass the ball. I'm predicting WU to end up somewhere near the bottom next year in CL.

Gee the Weenix have done wonders for the United club.

Ok they can say "United" won the league, where in reality we all know it was Nix in disguise. The United "reserves" get  relegated from Cap 1 and now they not even sending a team to Napier for the 19s. Looks like they really moving forward as a club...

maybe their 40k debt is an issue

I think you are spot on Feverish, surely the debt they are straddled with  made the Phoenix option appealing as they did not need to fund a first team.  The Phoenix now just need to be careful not to tread on other clubs toes and respect some of  Wellington United's traditions such as using Newtown park as their home ground.

That's quite sad about Wellington United under 19s but I guess not a huge surprise given the lack of pathway there now.

that is very sad about the u19

as it will mean they will be required to play satellite football  when they return.

that will hinder there pathway repairs in the future.

NW had a blip of a missed year and has never been able to recover as who wants to play in the second tear when you have offers to play top tear…..

WU always sent a good team up so that is also a loss to the tournament.

Not unless things have changed in the week since I last spoke to him. He is going to Olympic in a "technical director" type role and will have a role in co-ordinating coaching throughout the club. He's really looking at getting Kaizen re-established in a full time academy ( similar to the set up at Ole). He's got coaches lined up, gym/fitness etc. Certainly when Jr and I spoke to him last week, he was clear then he isn't taking the firsts. Of course , things may have changed.

rumour has it that there was a player meeting last night with stu introduced as the first team coach. Also two key players walked in halfway through the meeting, could mean they're on the way out and not concerned about what stu had to say.

OK ,things  have changed. Jr and I met Stu a weeks or so ago and that's when he told us of the new Kaizen venture and his role at Olympic. There was another meeting soon after that at Olympic when he had a larger group of kids and parents and kids explaining his vision for the central Welly based academy. He really wants  to work with a few good young kids 4-5 x a week. He rates the Ole program. WPFA- I won't say. Again he mentioned that he wasn't going to be first team coach. What I did gather was that OLympic was keen for him to take on the role but he wanted a TD type of role instead. Sounds like " instead" is now "as well as".

Either way, Olympic get a  good coaching resource.

So Bes has been given the boot. Interesting as heaeing he taking 19s

Well I thought so but I can't really relate his views on his behalf. He is/was very complimentary of the Ole set up on both times we met to discuss a few things. All I will say is trhat he's very clear in his view on WPFA.

The other thing he is trying to do with this new academy of his is getting a US link established. I do know who it is but I'm not 100% it's across the line  yet.

Essentially the right coaches for the kids at the right time. More exposure for the kids to these coaches " on the grass".

He's trying to replicate what he instituted at CCM here in Welly for his Kaizen group; this is where the physical link with an established club comes in very handy.He gave a very good presentation about this last week. Most of this he'd already told Jazz Jr and me ( he's very keen to do more work with Jr) but as a snapshot of where he sees NZ football it was quite enlightening. He didn't say at the meeting what he thinks of the current Feds/ NTC path but he had told us previously.

I can remember most of what he talked about but it would take too long to relay here ; I don't type that well. He sees three distinct outcomes for talented players .