Mainland Premier League

So much for working together for the good of football in Chch; I assume Coastal Spirit will play their semi final at ASB or Cuthberts.
Opportunity lost.

I thought Coastal had English Park booked in for 12:30 that day. Surely the Women haven't been bumped for the Men!

What u on about Vim? According to that tweet, Cashmere have decided to play their semi at Garrick. I was thinking a double header at ASB. Women at 12.30, Men at 2:45. We got lights, we could even play it later.

Taken from NZF regs...http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Rules_And_Regs/Regulation_5_-_2013.pdf

As a general rule:

13.1. Any player who is not a New Zealand citizen or who does not hold a permanent resident permit, and requires an ITC to play in New Zealand, is to be regarded as a “Guest Player.”

13.2. No team may have more than three (3) Guest Players recorded on a team card in the same match.

13.3. 13.1 and 13.2 will apply to all competitions that fall within the direct control of NZF and controlled by the regulations for these competitions.

The application of this paragraph 13, beyond NZF competitions, will be at the discretion of each District Federation to determine. However it is expected that this paragraph 13 would apply to the principal competitions of each federation both at senior and junior level and for both male and female competitions

13.4. A Guest Player may, after having resided continuously in New Zealand for a period of not less than twelve months, be re-classified provided they apply in writing to NZF via their local District Federation.

Bit harsh. Oly play home games on turf so would be an advantage for them to play at English Park.

Lmao. What a disaster for mainland. More headaches to deal with.

Oops misread it.

As the Chatham Cup is a NZ Football competition they have the final say as to when and were cup games are played including KO times so NZ Football must have OKed it. I know that due to the time Olympic are flying out, and allowing for extra times and pens that the Chatham Cup cannot kick-off any later the 2pm and if the Women's KO Cup game is kicking off at 12.30pm then sadly the two games cannot be played at the same venue. 

Forgot to add to the above posting that while NZ Football make payment from semi final stages it does not cover the entire airfare costs and with the ALL Black in Welly that weekend they will not be too many cheap fares going at this stage. I know for a fact that some of the airfare Seatoun were quoted was $7000 for the return trip on the Saturday.

Common sense is one thing but tell if one game has to kick-off at 12:30pm and the other at 2pm how can they be played at the same venue, would get away with it for a league game but not a cup game with the possiblities of extra time and pens.

Tonight's womens Reta Fitzpatrick Cup Semi Final result: University 0 Cashmere Technical 2 

Does the site how many seats are available on any one flight as would need around 20 seats plus the cost for transport to and from airport to ASB and some food all adds if.

Looking at Air NZ now.. Each seat about 228 return ($4560 @ 20people) There are some cheapies of 80 available going to chch. If you managed to get all of those there and 114 back then about 4k on airfares alone. 

Include food and taxis then I'd say roughly 5.5k isn't out of the question

Looking forward to some Friday night football tomorrow. Nothing better than football under lights. 

Coastal fans having pre-match warm-up at the Fox n Ferret with $4 pints from 4pm. 

Jackpot.

I assume you will be tweeting updated?

I'm sure my fingers will find the buttons after a few pints.

Cheers all the best for the Bradshaw Shield Challenge.

It's been a while since anyone has told me off. 

English Park was the last time that happened....

Hold on to your hats expect some answers on the Div 1 appeal(s) today. 

Wow.  Give us a clue please AW82 you are obviously in the know!  

Feverleaks.

Megagossipload.

GSCYellow.

Bradley Yellow Manning.