Mainland Premier League

He is getting slimmer he even paid for his subway with some of his payments ;-). ;-)

Just looked at the time of some other posts...tut tut... My boss is a good sponsor and football man, I think he has sponsored Can utd for the last 6 years, I actually showed him one today. But as a tax payer and looking at potential schools it,s always good to see what teachers get up to.

Just looked at the time of some other posts...tut tut... My boss is a good sponsor and football man, I think he has sponsored Can utd for the last 6 years, I actually showed him one today. But as a tax payer and looking at potential schools it,s always good to see what teachers get up to.

Yes rules allow for players to be allowed to pay expenses - with the amount of expenses up for debate. If the IRD believe the expenses are in fact income income then liable for tax.

Clubs in Auckland have been paying expenses for the last two or three decades and not just the the top level. 

Unsure if locally players are being paid  'sign on' fee or  not but would be surprised if they are - why would any club pay a sign on fee.

In the old Southern League I am aware of player(s) being 'signed on' not for money but in one case a share in a race horse with another a car, another club that offered a push bike missed out for some reason. Both cases going back a while now.

Hassling me personally doesn't make your argument any better or even valid. But if it makes you feel better then I suppose that's ok. 

Hope you have a great successful season. :-)

This is way better than tinder and twitter

Interesting read this, off Mainland website, from meeting held in early March..

http://www.mainlandfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=406

Just read the 3 march minutes. what on earth is the new offside rule?

Harassing , so should I not grew some balls when being accused of being dis honest

Onthemoney just come out sat nt, revival and tinder and if that fails over the road to cruise and grinder.........that never fails

Right then, lets all agree to disagree?

Who are the picks for the season in the guys and girls MPL?

Obviously Coastal and Cashmere in the girls but will Varsity step up this year?

In the guys CTech will be hard to beat but Western, Nelson and Bays should give them a run for their money in a much tighter league than last year with Coastal and Halswell a step above Varsity and Nomads with one of those two facing relegation.

Games this weekend -

Bays v Nomads (Bays win)

Western v Coastal (Draw)

CTech v Halswell (Draw)

Nelson v Varsity (Nelson big win)

Sounds like Nelson are going through a bit of a rebuild this season so may be not a title contender this season, Skippy will be missing for a first week at the stat of the season due away for a belated honeynoon, No Gagame or other Solly lads this season. Mark Johnston playing rugga and the usEful Chile lad also back home so some youth players will get their chance, but Nelson alway hard at home so hard to see them finish near the bottom.  . 

Would expect Bays Tech and West to be up their, and as you say a matter if halswell, Coastal and Nomads can step up. If Universities can pick uo early points then they could surprise not going to pushing for a top half placing but not neccessary odds on for the wooden spoon.

My picks: Bays, Western, Tech and draw in the Sunday game.

Am I allowed to play?

Nelson will still be tough to beat at home..my predictions:

Bays, Western, Cash Tech, Nelson all wins.

Like all sports the more time you can buy the better the product. That is my opinion, not my clubs.

No, my opinions are my opinions. I would have thought you would know that Wayne.

Looks like some action in the lower Grades, the Mainland Football draws site has today added...

• Mainland Foundation Reserves
• Div 1
• Div 2
• Div 3

For interests sake, what would in fact happen should it be proven that a club is in fact paying players to play? Lets go worst case, followed by the wet bus ticket option.

Thanks

Nothing. Followed by nothing.

I suppose in reality their amateur status is in jeopardy. their are Fifa rules around this but not sure how you'd find out. The really difficult part would be proving they were being paid to play. Currently Mainland have a rule in place that allows clubs to legitimately reimburse players for training and playing expenses up to $800 (from memory) for the season. So paying players is legit. Makes you wonder why Kamo is getting so much at Bays, no other club would come close to offering that sort of money surely?

A lot of people are not aware of the actual rules. You will not find a "sanctioned" figure for player expenses anywhere, as there isn't one. FIFA rules are actually relatively simple and clear. You will find that if someone normally works on a Saturday afternoon, but plays football instead and thereby forgoes his income, then the equivalent of his ordinary income may be classified as an expense. Some footballers in town must therefore (a) hold down highly paid specialist dayjobs, and (b) normally work on saturdays. That' d be easy to substantiate then!

It was $750 reimbursements that mainland tried to push through but never got the backing of nzf so no rules as such.

For the record I had a good chat to our women's coach, first year in the job and has a good passion for the game. She hasnt offered any money to any women's player. 

NZF cant give backing to anything not in accordance with FIFA rules. Last year's International transfers debacle which cost NZF tens of thousands in fines from FIFA for not following the rules at least made them realise that they might want to be careful with Player Status etc also.  

Jane hasn't coached for the last 13 months she now lives in Aussie 

Tech women: Clare turner stepped aside from coaching women's firsts and former GK Megan shea coaching. Or so I've heard.

Er, Of course that should have been Clare Warner. Just checking you are paying attention.