Local womens football (incl. W League)

innit. Easiest way to not give away penalties, is to avoid making careless fouls in the penalty area.

Did I mention you got that card wrong yesterday (although I didn't really see what you eventually booked him for)? ;)

That turned into a bit of a rant, point is I know plenty of players don't know the rule book back to front but we're all human :)

Not commenting on the incidents in question here - but if there's a general thing that a ref needs to work on, the assessors will be able to work with the ref after the match to talk through the issues.

I saw Wellington United play Palmerston North Marist in the knockout cup on Saturday

here is my write up

and some photos

I wasn't there but....moving the ball away from a corner kick then running away and  gesture to another team mate  to 'retake it' the second player then can takes it or crosses it from where the ball is found so as to confuse the deffending team is deception and therefore 'unsporting', yellow card and free kick. I think Man U did this years ago and got pinged.

I've seen it before and nothing got called, Wellington United were pretty adamant they were allowed to do it

any refs know what the rule is?

you need to notify the ref if you are doing that carry on -otherwise he will never know what was going down

IANAR but

"The ball is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves; it does not need to leave the corner area."
Law 17 
http://www.theifab.com/laws/the-corner-kick/chapte...

changed at "2016/17 laws"; immediately before then it didn't have the "clearly".

If the ref didn't see it move, then it could be argued that the ball didn't "clearly move".

Oops  fair call there. If ball is kicked and moves game on!!

not needed by law but good luck doing it if you don't

That was probably the problem, the AR saw it and said it had been played but the refs weren't miked up like they would have been in a Chatham Cup (ie Men's) game so the ref blew as he thought Briar Palmer was playing the ball to herself

this  

also 

The innovative corner has been used without penalty quite often over the years.

For instance both Waterside Karori and Miramar Rangers in the national league

in the 1980s.

I got a bit ratty when an opposing coach tried it in an under-12 game. I told

him not to be so silly at that age and (as ref) ordered a re-kick.

fair enough - I though I saw it at the Chatham cup game I was at but I'm not sure I did, think it may have been the Mar v Rapa Central League game - the perils of watching 8 games over the weekend!

I looked at this league for my preview today and man it's uneven. One team had scored like 50 goals and one team 4 goals.

I know nothing about women's footy but surely this is not the best version of the truth?

It's a 6 team league with 3 divisions in it

Title challengers - Upper Hutt, Wgtn Utd & Palmy Marist 

Then there is Seatoun, used to be (and still are) a decent team but are aging and not able to keep up with the younger players of the top 3

then there is Stop Out & Rapa battling it out for the wooden spoon and trying (unsuccessfully) not to concede many goals

Actually, Beep flags would have(very likely)  been used in two of the wormens cup games given the officials present.

They've put out a document about this (linked from the club newsletter which is public now). I'm pretty sure they mean equality...

Interesting. I note that Stopout W and Central League teams are now kicking off at the same time on Sat, so should be a joint function etc, same number in the ball crews for each game.

Speaking of which, interesting appointment!

I think equity makes sense; the clubs 'taking a stake' in the womens game, rather than playing lip service to the same number of chairs out in the technical area for both.("equality")

That's my fault. I'm suppose to be doing Cap 1 game at that time but am injured, so Jamie assigned himself to this game and referee originally on this game is now doing my Cap 1 game. 

When I was out there they had a joint function (with all the teams, not just the Hutt Park ones), but no ball kids (for any games, I think the concurrent game was against Seatoun reserves in Cap something, so no ball kids anyway).

The lack of ball kids at W-League is annoying, especially at places where there's no nearby fence - Hutt Park (and Newtown, though Wellington United provide ball kids) is a prime example.

It will be interesting to see if there is a review of the changes where a discussion can be held about the good and bad points a move to Saturdays has brought about.

If they finish their respective games at the same time it could be interesting with the boys and girls showering in the same changing rooms

Down boy

Confusing all this equity/ equality banter. Good that they want to maintain standards. Being on Sat would make it harder for some clubs. Also not sure what the relevance is to non WL clubs

This is an issue even at different kick offs; i.e a cap (n) game at seatoun following w league match..

Round 3 of the NWKO Cup this weekend

Seatoun v Palmerston North Marist, Seatoun Park, KO 12:30, Saturday

Seatoun beat BNU 2-0, while Palmy Marist beat Wellington United 2-0 in the last round, both teams had byes for the first round

They have never met in the NWKO Cup before

Seatoun have reached the Semi-Finals 6 times (2004, 05, 06, 07, 08 & 13)

Palmerston North Marist's best performance was reaching the Quarter final stage in 1994 & 96

My Pick : Palmerston North Marist

Upper Hutt City v Wairarapa United, Maidstone, KO 3:30, Saturday

Upper Hutt City beat Victoria University 1-0, Wairarapa United beat Stop Out 2-0 in the last round, both teams had byes in the first round

Previous NWKO meetings

1999 Wairarapa United 9 Upper Hutt City 0

Upper Hutt City's best performance was reaching the semi-finals in 2009 & 2016

Wairarapa United were runners up in 1999 & 2000 (losing 3-2 to Three Kings United & 6-0 to Lynn-Avon United)

My Pick : Upper Hutt City

Neither of the above matches seem worth a watch after Seatoun losing to Stop Out... I am more interested by the Vic Uni game on the Sunady against Karori (if I read the right date?)

Karori win 3-2