It feels like the season is over so early. With all the artificial pitches it seems that we get through the season much faster. Would there now be a place for some knockout cup football??
I played a fair bit of football in Hawkesbay and there was nothing like playing a good cup tie.
Has there been lower grade cup football in wellington before? Is there interest? And...would Cap Football actually consider it?
Central (Palmy) has Knock out for all grades and I freaking love it!
It feels like the season is over so early. With all the artificial pitches it seems that we get through the season much faster. Would there now be a place for some knockout cup football??
I played a fair bit of football in Hawkesbay and there was nothing like playing a good cup tie.
Has there been lower grade cup football in wellington before? Is there interest? And...would Cap Football actually consider it?
In 2009 and 2010 there was an end of season cup in lower grades for Cap Footy. Was quite fun as it wasn't knock out (league based then 1v1, 2v 2 , 3v 3 and 4v4 but they reduced the leagues to 8 teams so with 14 league games plus 4 cup games you ended up playing 17 games instead of 18. What was good was that teams that were effectively out of the league had something else to play for in the cup, what wasn't so good was that some teams/clubs stacked their sides for the finals or, worse, defaulted. I agreed that the cup adds something but not at the detriment of a solid 18 game league.
PS- WU Salmon won the 2009 Div 9 cup, beating Lower Hutt City something like 7 -0 in the 1v1 final -one of our greatest moments of glory so I look back on those days fondly!
Edit- think it went to 2011? The 2010 and 2011 version had inter division play offs which added something different as you came up against new teams, but the 200-9 version was intra-division only
Salmon swim upstream
With all the turfs that are available now I dont see why Cap Football cant have a knock out cup on say Wed nights throughout the season. It could be for all the first teams and gives mid table league sides something else to strive for.
Just a thought...
It just adds to excitement. Especially when it's inter divisional. For example my former club has just reached the Hawkesbay premier knockout final. Yet they are in the division below the premier League. It's a great way to put your team up against different opposition. In sure it could work in Wellington. Just split the divisions into either 16's or 32's. So maybe one divion would encompass sides from cap 2 to cap 5. Then the next cap 6 to cap 9 etc
we have a charity cup tournament that used to be really good, all the teams in wanganui from federation, western premiership or whatever it is called and local league teams, they were split into random groups. if a local league team was to play a federation team they would get a 4 or 5 goal start and then it was up to the top team to chase enough goals to win, it was always great fun taking on the top teams even though they usually always scored the winner near the end of the game. good times.