Mainland Juniors (please play nice)

In Napier, Cashmere Technical currently third in their group after a win, draw and a loss in the main draw with FC Twenty three wins from three to top their group in the satellite draw.

Wellington v FC2011 Girls final 12:00 Monday

Green Island v Bays Boys Final 12:40 Monday

In Napier, Cashmere Technical into the semi's were they face Wellinton Olympic in the main draw with FC (who have yet to drop a point) also into the semi's in the Satellite tourny, take on Cambridge - who FC have already defeated in pool play 1 - 0.

Sadly for both Cashmere Technical and FC Twenty11 their title hopes in Napier have ended at the semi-final stages with Technical going down to Wellington Olympic 3 - 0 in the main draw with Cambridge ending FC's hopes in the Satellitte draw when winning 2 - 0.   

FC2011 go back to back in the girls comp 

Green Island win boys 2-1 over Bays

Late goal in Final v Wellington United to win 1-0.

2018 will bring major changes to our high performance Junior and Youth structure. There is a requirement by New Zealand football, that Clubs apply to be licensed. We have done this and will hear if we are successful on 1st December. Clubs who are successful will be eligible to enter a 13th and 14th Grade team into a new Youth Premier League. One of the requirements to be a licensed Club is that our Youth Premier teams we have coaches qualified to at least Senior Level 2/Youth Level 3 and players train 3 times a week. These teams in 13th and 14th grade will be our CTFC Academy teams. There is infomation on Mainland Footballs website or click here

1st December was meant to be announced which clubs have met the standard to be licensed. Anybody know any news?

Clubs were notified yesterday as promised.

Numerous clubs not ready

We might have a 4 or 5 team comp

Waimak announced they were successful on their FB page yesterday

Some interesting subscriptions model from Waimak's AGM.

Subs have gone up substantially, 13 and 14th Grade Premier players are now at $865, 9-12 Yr Old Development Plus sides are at $365

Full document is here

So you could have almost FREE subs at Waimak, by supporting the club.

I guess so, but unsure what the options are or what they might be 'worth'

FTC North

The silence is deafening from Mainland and clubs other than Waimak as to which clubs got their license and those that did not.

Cash Technical had an information evening yesterday about the new Youth grades and Academy set-up but I was otherwise engaged and I don't know of any other parent that went. Anyone on here go?

Running an academy (or whatever else you may call it) as part of a CY licensed club costs money and needs to be funded one way or another.

One way is to charge youth players for their own development . Good on Waimak I'd say; if the product is good it will hold up.

Some clubs may prefer to keep subs low and forget about youth development and simply continue spending on 'attracting' players others have developed for them. However this will soon cut them out of the Premier Leagues (Youth and Senior).

It's all about choices. Where does Coastal sit?

Announcement: 

NZF Club Licencing

We are very excited to share our news with you all that Nomads United AFCs application for a 2018 Regional League Club Licence (C) and a Regional Youth League Licence (Y) has been approved!

We will be in touch with you all in the coming weeks about what this means and the opportunities that this makes available for our members and players.

Congratulations to the Mainland teams that won their age groups at the National Age Group Tournament. It looks like the 14 and 16 boys won. The other three teams all did well.

Apart from Nomads and Waimak has any other club announced that they are going to have a Regional Youth League License for 2018?

Looks like Christchurch United according to their Facebook post

Halswell , Selwyn and Bays

Thanks Gavin for the information.

CashTech have also produced some information and indicative pricing for their proposed  2018 Youth Academy and they are eye wateringly expensive. See website for details.

http://ctfc.co.nz/uploads/2015/2016/2017/2017/Presentation%202018%20CTFC%20.pdf

So with Nomads, Waimak, Christchurch United, Halswell , Selwyn, Bays, Cash Tech all approved (or close to), who is missing?

Coastal, FC Twenty 11?

Was there only nine clubs chasing licensing this time around?

That’s uni and coastal not with a CY licence in 2018 which will become a prerequisite for MPL in 2019. 

So would Coastal, FC and Uni all be relegated then at the end of the season if they didn't have the licence for 2019? If so only CHCH Utd and Halswell to come up ;)

Waimak also in CCL with CY license. 

Depending on how successful the South Island League is in 2018, if expanded for 2019 there will not be a MPL going forward.

Would the CCL not become the Premier League effectively?

Yes but surely likely to be called the CCL or similar as will only have teams from the greater Canterbury region.

No competition with Parklands FC in it can be called Premier

Why not - punching above their weight.

Parklands United doing some better stuff with their football programs than some MPL clubs. Had a Junior ‘academy’ running in term 4 with over 80 kids involved. 

Good luck to them, trying to move the game forward in their region!

Hopefully will make their club more Premier worthy...

Slinging mud at a club that’s done considerably more for junior and youth Development than Coastal has is a bit rich Foal. 

Best talk to your nephew around that ? but as a whole the club are looking to develop. It takes time, but following the likes of Selwyn and Waimak with their types of growth and pathways can not be a bad thing. Surely the more clubs striving to improve both Junior and Senior levels the better for Football in the City

Was chatting to a couple of parents at a Cricket Tournament this week, their 10 yr olds play for Ohoka rugby Club and their subs are $45 for the season, this includes 2 trainings a week, a game on Saturday, a gear bag, and hoodie. Shirts are supplied but need to be handed back. They need to supply socks and shorts.

One of the dad's is a coach and last year he had to attend 3 coaching courses and 1 referees course before he could be accepted as a coach.

My 10 yr old subs  at Waimak are $365 and we have to buy all the kit on top of that.