Local womens football (incl. W League)

Awesome ask the ref to tell comet Stopout 4  Stokes Valley 0 as team card submitted Div 2

Awesome ask the ref to tell comet Stopout 4  Stokes Valley 0 as team card submitted Div 2

turns out there was a failed protest - turned down on the basis she hasn't played for a while. 

Anyone at the 3-3 draw between Palmy and Wests? Were Palmy missing some Futsal girls?

You wouldn't have predicted a table like this even after two games.

don't know - swap Palmy Marist and Upper Hutt and I'm not far off!!!

does the PN keeper Courtney Norman play for rapa? or same name?

yes same player

new Wairarapa United website has all their players 

http://www.wairarapaunited.co.nz/teams/womens-w-le...

oh right so who is PN keeper?

Grace Minnis acording to their program

what the deal with the Toon/IB combo? what does it entitle them to do?

From my understanding, IB is the reserve team for Seatoun, so players can move between the teams as per the regs. It's something like the alliances that are popping up at Junior level.

so designed to keep Seatoun afloat - but Seatoun players can go to play for IB? slightly strange?

was that v Utd? Nat apparently

more reason to move the common day back to Sunday too

First round of the Kelly Cup today:

VUW 0 - 1 Karori

KCU 1 - 2 Petone

BNU 0 - 8 Wests

Stop Out v Rapa result isn't on the Cap Football site yet.

Stop rapa was 13-0 to Rapa (10-0 at half time) - maybe just as well Stop Out pulled out of W-League

Good move by Capital Football. http://www.capitalfootball.org.nz/newsarticle/6208...

Looks like some good games this weekend:

http://www.capitalfootball.org.nz/newsarticle/62155

U18 women's has folded. Suggestion is replace with a monthly 9-a-side comp

http://www.capitalfootball.org.nz/newsarticle/6215...

Solid win for Karori over Uni on Sunday to stay top.

Rapa doing solidly in the WLeague - adding another Palmy player apparently. Utd coach Guille has copped a four match ban.

Does that mean he can't even be on the central league bench?

For Olympic

not normally

What is the promotion plan for the W-League next season? 2 up, O relegation, or did CF change their minds.

Last I heard the plan was for 2 up from premier league and W-League becomes an 8 team league

wonder if there are any thoughts of changing back to sunday?

Is that preferred by the teams/girls? Thought having the games as a double header with Mens teams would be good for the clubs?

unsure. Does anyone currently have double headers?

Sat is niggly for male coaches who play. Will also mean another six officials needed on Sat?

Most do when the draw allows for it, only one that doesn't really is Wests and that's because the mens team tends to play in sunday's when at home

Maybe Saturday games will encourage more female coaches to step up.

They needed another 9 officials on Saturdays when they started the W-League and don't seem to be having a problem, think its easier to get officials for a Saturday than a sunday

Well... Actually we don't have enough referees but I don't really think that is moving the games to Saturday is the problem. More that a whole lot have given up or retired so we are short. A lot of referees are doing two or more games each weekend at the moment.

That's an interesting point about Wests, seeing as they are allowed to move their mens game to Sunday, it is funny that the women have to play on Saturday. You would hope clubs do take advantage of the double headers for their teams.

do Seatoun?

This year there are rarely many refs down in cap 4. Most weekends. I don't believe any Junior 13/14th grade premier has had any refs.

Yeah that is a mix of this referee shortage and covering the W-League. I remember a few years ago we had down to Cap 5 and the Juniors but we just don't have anywhere near the numbers. So really get below Cap 3, no juniors and also having trouble covering the College Sports Premier grades.

yeah I don't think this is true if you look at effects on cap3,4 etc

the ban does mean he isn't allowed on the bench for Olympic, but the 4 games are 4 W-league games (despite the fact it was during a Cap Prem game he got the ban) and with a week being called off for the ferns game it's going to be 5 weeks that he has to miss

yeah as Yakcall said more an issue in general with a lot of refs leaving or retiring and not many new ones coming in