Mainland Premier League

Never assume things always remain as they are Vim! 

Actually Selwyn are showing greater maturity at a earlier stage than Waimak, so should evolve into a serious club sooner than them (obviously well on the way already and could shortly threaten the status of some existing MPL clubs - Bays would be my pick as the likeliest candidate here). Good point about maturity actually 10cc, goes hand in hand with planning - ever lived in a house full of teenage boys? If you have you'll get my point. Never ending chaos directly attributable to frontal lobe development that means they can't plan regardless of the need to. There are parallels with the growth and development of clubs.

Could he have a French accent maybe?

Selwyns websites tells it all www.sufc.co.nz , a very well organised club by the looks of it with lots going on, looks like they have all the bases covered for a complete football experience no matter what level you are at. 

My point is I've seen it all before where clubs get organised, setup and all good to go yet time and time again they can't sustain the early initiatives for various reasons. I'm an advocate of planning over random haphazard approaches that stand and fall on the people who invariably come and go from the game. Selwyn, as are several other clubs, are doing great work and I'd like to see that continue for the good of the game. For me the parallel is Waimak who have a considerable time advantage but appear to have under achieved imo for those reasons. 

Pretty much in a large organisation nothing is sustainable unless you plan and review, plan and review ....... I think this point is best illustrated by the numerous mergers over the past 10 years. Those clubs weren't clubs that planned to fail, they simply failed to plan. And some of those merged clubs appear to be repeating the same behaviour that lead to their mergers in the first place without having learned the lesson. Only my opinion of course and interested to hear other points of view as always, positive or otherwise :)

Heard FC20 have appointed Glen Lapslie (2013 PDL coach) as Mens Div 1 coach for 2014. He has a good group of young players, many of whom have been coached by Glen at various youth and junior levels over the years.

Waimak (Kaiapoi / Rangiora) Certainly works at Junior level. Great numbers. Still looking for senior success. Have their own plan  

Mergers.

Waimak (Kaiapoi / Rangiora) Certainly works at Junior level. Great numbers. Still looking for senior success. Have their own plan

Coastal seems to be working, must be 5 years plus now. Established in MPL need more of their own juniors. Have their own plan

Selwyn again great progress with juniors. Establishing Seniors. Have their own plan.

FC 2011  3 years on great junior numbers. Struggling with seniors. Obviously have a plan, apparently currently under revision.

CTFC  2 years on seem to be doing OK juniors and seniors. They also have a plan.

I don't see any failures just works in progress, all clubs looking to develop their area at all levels, they all have plans, different plans but they have plans. The clubs without junior, youth and senior plans are the ones that should be worrying. 

  

Agreed PT, of the unmerged local clubs I would include Halswell in there also in terms of an organised planning club, that leaves Bays, Western & Nomads - all unmerged clubs - out on a limb perhaps? Then there's Varsity who appear ambitious at the moment but will that carry on? 

My reference to merged clubs struggling was more about the behaviour than the lack of planning that lead to the original clubs dissapearing and the possibility that the newly merged club might repeat that behaviour which could threaten to undermine any plan.

Scottie Road is that the admin at Nomads you are referring to?

Or Mainland?

Nomads.

Plastic pitch coming to Tulett if goss around that area is correct, no time frame yet mentioned.

Remember Dragons use Tulett for training. 

More at AGM Monday maybe.

Gossip. Speculation Sean Devine (assistant Canty Utd Coach) ex pro striker from UK. turned down MPL roles to take on CTFC reserve

So another lower league UK pro into coaching circles in Chch. Does he at least have any coaching badges?

Without me digging into annual reports - which Board candidates did Mainland federation support at last NZF board elections? Would it even be there? BTW are mainland board minutes made public to their constituent clubs ?

And if they are trying to get several Mpl players with a similar mind set then the future is looking bright for Selwyn football.

will be interesting to see who they can attract,if they can get a couple of good players then others may well follow.any names being thrown about.?

 

Gossip. Speculation Sean Devine (assistant Canty Utd Coach) ex pro striker from UK. turned down MPL roles to take on CTFC reserves.

French connection at Coastal?

 

So another lower league UK pro into coaching circles in Chch. Does he at least have any coaching badges?

That shouldn't surprise anyone.. I thought that was one of the rules of being involved with Keith and the Canterbury United set up.. You have to join Cashmere Tech in the Winter League.. Failure to do so would jeopardize your chances at Canterbury United. 

Mainland rules state MPL coaches have minimum of NZ National Licence.. Wonder how many MPL coaches have these qualifications... Out of last seasons MPL coaches, I think you will find only 2.. Mick at Bays and Gareth at CTFC had these qualifications. Both these 2 are not coaching MPL next year !!!!!!!

So john brown is ineligible to swap jobs with Keith if, say hypothetically, he is not reappointed to dragons job, or are there different rules for that job? As to cashmere reserves job, is it absolutely Devine or the Pitts, or someone else? 

 

I heard that there was going to be some french flavour at Coastal this season aswell from someone close to their MPL side, could make for an interesting season in MPL/Div 1 with some of the coaching appointments

Hey you coastal spirits, you've been too quiet; what's wrong? Got a frog in your throat? 

Oh hilarious!  All in good time my friends. 

I'm not one to spread gossip. In fact, I find it embarrassing.

Hey you coastal spirits, you've been too quiet; what's wrong? Got a frog in your throat? 

Well there are other ways to persuade people than money, but thats just coarse and vulgar. 

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