Automatic promo again next year with the 2012 season format to be reviewed by Mainland. Most of the MPL clubs I think are more into the playoff format and as Mainland are always going on about improving the game, what do they do if the winner of Div 1 is a crap team in a crap league?
Mainland Football should sort out the PDL league and go back to a MPL Reserve League with the teams in Div 1 having a their own reserve section or play those teams in what they should be in in Div 2.
Better for the people wanting to watch afew games on a Saturday at the one park without driving all over town to follow a clubs top teams.
Can't Mainland Football see it would be easier alround?
This won't happen because Alan Walker and others at Mainland want to have a team of 19/20 year olds playing Reserve [NO it's PDL] football and they want to give every club that wants to enter the PDL league no matter how bad they maybe a chance to get thrashed by the likes of Tech or Western. go figure.
Mainland Football should sort out the PDL league and go back to a MPL Reserve League with the teams in Div 1 having a their own reserve section or play those teams in what they should be in in Div 2.
Better for the people wanting to watch afew games on a Saturday at the one park without driving all over town to follow a clubs top teams.
Can't Mainland Football see it would be easier alround?
This won't happen because Alan Walker and others at Mainland want to have a team of 19/20 year olds playing Reserve [NO it's PDL] football and they want to give every club that wants to enter the PDL league no matter how bad they maybe a chance to get thrashed by the likes of Tech or Western. go figure.
Agree with all of that PM. Word from our man at the MPL meeting last night was that all 7 ChCh MPL teams wanted the Reserve League to mirror the MPL with Reserve teams kicking off at 12:30 and the Academy team filling the Nelson Suburbs spot but Mainland wouldn't have a bar of it, wouldn't even minute the discussion. Bollocks. Told to focus on ball kids and programmes and try and improve facilities ffs. Some very pissed off clubs in ChCh. More time spent on the makeup of masters Div 1 in the lower leagues meeting the week before than on the Reserve/PDL league.