Its a bit of a shame the new club in yaldhurst got shot down. New facilities, huge growth projections in the region and the chance to plan ahead and get a foot hold in the community.
Its not a new club, its an academy isn't it ? who are there coaches, what qualifications do they have ? are they full time coaches or just part timers ?
They wanted to form a new club as well (club to use the facilities as home and host the academy) but this was shot down by mainland due largely to there already being enough clubs in the area - FC & Nomads are bloody lucky. Personally I think its far enough away to justify it, but I feel if the quality of the product was good players would travel.
"Personally I think its far enough away to justify it" - What planet are you from ???
Logical thing here would have been for a partnership with FC. Tetso was with FC, i believe the russian funded their new kit when FC was forrmed etc etc. Somewhere along the line the relationship must have soured. Maybe when Tetso was asked to present his A licence, and didn't/couldn't? Something fishy here, but then money can make good more often than not. You gotta ask yourself, why volunteers at a forward thinking club have't grabbed this "opportunity" with both hands, and why MF has not proactively assisted with this knowing full well the outcome if it didn't.
We should be celebrating someone wanting to chuck millions into facilities here in chch. So why aren't we ?
This will all end in tears.