Local womens football (incl. W League)

Jane Barnett Central league player of the year and was definitely deserved, had a outstanding season!

Cap Footy Awards

Emma Main Young Player of the year & Central League Leading Goal Scorer - Upper Hutt

Becky Stewart Womens Cap Prem Player of the Year _Upper Hutt

Upper Hutt also winners of the Senior Club Championship

Brian Wood Club Volunteer of the year - Champion bloke who does an immense amount of the behind the scenes stuff at the club

Just an edit to this, Becky shared the award with Sarah Duffin from Petone too.

wouldn't jane barnet have got golden boot?

Maybe pay attention during the season

Yes stupid me for trusting the website of the governing body

so no Massey in CL next year

They completely pulled out or their players moved to Marist?

Ain't entering apparently 

Wow that's a crazy development!!! I just can't imagine why they wouldn't be entering.

Lots of players graduating?

There were not many Massey students in the squad anyway

 Rori aren't you a Marist man yourself? 

And you can't even figure it out. It's pretty obvious don't you know.

2011 - S. LEES coach of Marist 1sts - fails to qualify for play offs

2013 - S. LEES goes back to back with Massey and coaches Marist  Men's and gets promotion to CL

2014 - S. LEES coches Marist CL Mens

2015 - as above but now Marist women get promoted

2016 - S. LEES coach of Marist women's CL 1sts.... swarm of players from Massey to Marist

Thought that this would be common sense or are Palmerston people that transparent? 

Superbly put swinger, I knew ha!

Ahh Yup I have been but I still think its crazy that Massey would just pull out rather than fight for it, They had a pretty strong reserve team with a lot of young talent coming through (I ref'd them a few times). Their women's really was a great platform for them unlike their men's at the moment.

I am actually sad they wont be there next year for two reasons, It would create a good intercity rivalry and I get the feeling this will just prop up Valeron for another year putting peanut butter over the cracks. Please don't get me wrong I hope Valeron have a huge turn around and can find their way back to their former glory with men's and women's competing at the top level but from all reports they have some deep issue's within their club and culture.

I would love nothing more than to see Palmy become a women's footy mecca with 3 or 4 teams in central league and I believe Massey could be a huge catalyst to this.

sounds like they have done a bit of a turn and are now committing to entering

It's going to be very interesting to see the make up of all 3 Manawatu clubs, following the change of heart from Massey.

I guess we will find out in 2016 whether the Manawatu has enough female talent to compete with 3 squads in Women's

Central League, if players are after game time at the level & find spots across all 3 clubs, I have no doubt they all can compete.

In response to the Valeron comments above, in 2015 the culture in the females squad was the best it has been since being

involved in Central league, just lacking a few more quality members in the mix & hope to have more players fit & will be back

to competitive ways.

Predictions for the WCL following round 1 results?

WU beat Seatoun

UH beat PNM

Stop Out beat Valeron

Moturoa beat Massey

Mine would be:

Wellington United

Upper Hutt (or third if they lose Cush for any top four matches)

Palmerston North Marist

Seatoun

Moturoa

Massey

Stop Out

Valeron

who is Marist coach? Was Simon Lees stepping in or does he still do the men?

Think I saw an article the other day that Lees was coaching the women

yeah I thought so. They will go well with him at the helm- he has been there done that

I watched, and wrote a few words at ITBOTN, the Capital Premier League match: Wairarapa United v BNU.

Stop Out 2 from 2 - potential dark horse?

article here on Cushla http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/78779587/cushla-lichtwark-takes-her-game-to-a-new-level

What happened about rapa coach with wests?

hmmm stop out have played the two bottom teams so far... But good on them for securing points! I bet Seatoun would trade places in a heartbeat

WCL Upper Hutt 8  Moturoa 1

...err maybe not - they lost 8-0 to Palmy Marist today

Also today Wellington United 16 Massey 2

might as well hand Massey the wooden spoon now

Have they lost a lot of players? Use to be up there with Wellington United and Seatoun

My Predictions from here...........

Wellington United/Upper Hutt

Upper Hutt/ Wellington United

Seatoun

Palmy Marist

Valeron

Stop Out

Moturoa

Massey

the whole team

Re Massey - yep totally new team. But one of their main issues is how they played defensively. They played a very high line against United... This was always going to play into their hands with such pace and skill. If Massey concede that they aren't as fast as other teams and defend deeper they could stand a chance to stay up - albeit slim. But if they keep this high line against the other top teams their goal diff and spirits will lose them that chance real quick...

Knock Out Cup games for Capital Region

If that is it I assume the other big teams have automatically gone through to the next round.

as the Podcast pointed out - there were ridiculous results last week 8,9,18,10 goal games.

The league continues to have a split between top and bottom. The quality at the top half has not increased, and you can probably foresee Valeron, Massey and even Seatoun failing to have a team next season.

Current Table:

I know Wellington United have played an extra game, but 27 goals scored already?!
Should be a good game next week between United and the Hutt!

and Upper Hutt City host Wellington United at Maidstone next sunday (1pm KO)

and thats the game I went to this week

Here is my write up

and some photos