Mainland Premier League (Part 1)

Here's interesting facts from a mate in Wellington and how Capital Football run it. 

Capital Football do not check cards, trouble only ensues if an opponent complains or (in the most recent case) the player gets booked. Wairarapa will lose their one point they earned when they drew with Wests as their player was booked and it turned out he wasn't legal. 

Teams have 7 days to complain, and the punishment is not backdated. Hence they lost 1 point not all of them.  And they certainly don't get an extra 3 points deducted to rub it in.  

Thoughts for Uni to mention in the appeal.

 Speaking of which Paris K has taken over their women's team and started with a loss to bottom of the table Universities. 

Here's more goss: Tsetso is not going to APFA, he simply got the chop from the top job as it wasn't going well points wise, he was spending too much of his paid time on the role, too many people were leaving (thus losing money), and it was making for a very unhappy club. Sounds like APFA have bought in someone from overseas now.

Tony G is stepping in the meantime, but not for long as it's a sinking ship. Speaking of which Paris K has taken over their women's team and started with a loss to bottom of the table Universities. 

Will Nelson need to bring swimming togs and gum boots to play Bays at Barnett Park on Sunday?

ASB Park is booked for a  game at 2.30 on Sunday.

Weather forecast shows sunny for the next 5 days so we shouldn't have any cancellations.

Not sure if you can see the lines on many pitches, best the council get busy tomorrow marking them.

Will Nelson need to bring swimming togs and gum boots to play Bays at Barnett Park on Sunday?

ASB Park is booked for a  game at 2.30 on Sunday.

Weather forecast shows sunny for the next 5 days so we shouldn't have any cancellations.

Not sure if you can see the lines on many pitches, best the council get busy tomorrow marking them.

They are in discussions with Stu Kelly, need to splash the cash though.

What ever the ponts deducted end up at it's a shame on Varsity and on the standard of administration they have. 

It take a couple of seconds to login and see who is registered at your club at any given time of the year. What is the team manager for if not getting these things in order before season starts. 

Never take anything for granted when dealing with Mainland Football always double check and get it in writing/email with a name on it.

Some clubs break the MPl rules week in week out and nothing happens. This is and old gripe for several clubs so maybe Mainland have decided to get tougher and this will be the start. Let's hope so and get the facilities and pitch standards the next going over.

On that point I see the Otago Daily Times SPL [nice to see the local paper getting involved] playing a couple of games at Fosbar stadium each week.

The standed of team getting promoted to next years MPL [if not varsity] will not be good enough to compete in the MPL. 

Will give Chch U a boost as from no hope to Div 1 contenders within a week, they have to play Waimak twice and could go top after Friday game, for 20 hours anyway.

The rules state that the team shall be deducted 3 points if they play an illegal player. It doesn't specify whether the points are earned legally or illegally. In each case, regardless of using an illegal player Varsities won the 3 points, surely they can only be deducted those 3 points? This was the case previously with Halswell and Coastal in the MWPL a few years ago. Mainland may be in a spot of bother. They need to be consistent at the very least.

Robbie’s Division 1 leaders
Universities have been stripped of  competition points and have now plummeted
from top to bottom of the competition ladder as a consequence of playing an
ineligible player round 1 through round 5. 

Mainland Football CEO Mike Coggan
expressed his disappointment in having to enforce the competition rules. “No one
and least of all Mainland Football want to see any club’s aspirations of playing
in the Federation premier grade evaporate in this manner.  Due to what seems
like an unfortunate clerical error Universities had been playing an unregistered
player for the first five rounds.  The onus is on each club to ensure all
players are registered and members of Mainland Football and NZF.  We have a
responsibility to enforce our match rules in such circumstances.  As sad as it
is, our rules are very clear.  Under competition rules Universities can appeal
the ruling to the Board of Mainland Football and further still to NZF beyond
that”. 

Universities have made a very bright
start to the 2013 season winning five games and drawing one.  The player in
question who hadn't transferred from  a previous club has subsequently been
transferred and is now registered to play in Mainland Football competition.  It
will be a big challenge for the students to recover from this and challenge for
the Robbie’s Division 1 title. 

Yeah you think???

In the junior leagues clubs can have two teams in Div1, if there is a re-grading and say the CTFC div2 team are top and get promoted to Div1. Can this happen in MPL? With CTFC and FC90210 having both div 1 and MPL teams? Only 4 points now between 1st and 4th.

I'm pleasantly surprised that most of the grounds are open - should make things interesting given the state a few are in

Gonna be fun without lines - better pack those disks!!

Waimak must still be worn out from Tuesday's game.  That'll tighten that leaderboard up big time

As much as CashTech would love 2 teams in MPL there is deffo a rule around it. Not that rules are adhered to!  It would be funny if FC got relegated and it's 2nd team gets promoted. Bet there isn't a rule around that as it would be random!  Might see the best players from FC (oxymoron) start playing in Div 1 to secure promotion!

Yes ChCh United will sit on top over night at least. Unsure what has happened as was sure the Mainland Website has Waimak on 13 points earlier in the week but now showing as only being on 10????. 

Here is what is showing on the table so unless it is wrong looks like Waimak have lost three points for whatever the reason.

Pays to look a bit further, Waimak have has lost three points as well, found this on the Fixture List for Div 1.

Competition Notes

Rules regarding Div 1 are only a club with no team already in MPL can get promoted, to do so they must win it. they don't get promoted if they come second to say CTFC or FC2011. Which gives FC2011 a huge incentive to restructure their teams and go for broke in Div 1. They have 2 options here, drop players from their MPL team to help out or move them over from their PDL team. Or they throw their game against CTFC in the hope they win the league which will prevent their first team from being relegated from the MPL.

And what's going on with the Div1 table? Selwyn now have 2 teams in it?

One would have to make that assumption.