From tonight's Nelsn Evening Mail (see below)
The battle for the Nelson Pine Industries men's division one football crown remains no clearer after the top-of-the-table clash between Richmond Athletic and the Marlborough Mariners was called off on Saturday.
Points: Marlborough Mariners 29, Richmond Athletic 28, FC Nelson United 16, FC Nelson College 13, Nelson Suburbs 13, FC Nelson Metro 0.
On the Sporting Pulse website it shows Richmond on 28 and Marlborough on 26, updated today - Last Uploaded : Tue 12-Jul-2011 13:01:42
FMD Richmond still have 10 league games to go and FC2011 finish their Div 1 competition in 3 more games. Even if Mainland throw in a league cup competition it leaves them several weeks short of competitive games going into the play offs. 10 weeks from now takes us into October for the start of the play offs. That's crazy. Will they play Saturday/Sunday like we have down here to get the league finished sooner? They shouldn't have cancelled Saturday, there was no danger to players and all other games went ahead, what the hell is going on?