Word I heard was that they asked for a deferment and Mainland refused - on grounds Coastal women had been refused one earlier or something. Not sure of the details but it would be good if the facts came out before the bullsh*t & sh*t-kicking. Tech-people, what's the story?
Interesting that the fixtures change came about to allow the National KO� Cup game between Coastal Spirit and Western to go ahead a week earlier as Coastal had three players away�at the World Cup Under 17�Extended Trial's, fair enough but�what was strange that Coastal elected to play against Halswell, on the same day that KO Cup was originally scheduled and now Coastal have been allowed to�defer their game this Saturday when due to play Western - trials still going on.�The whole deferment�appears�strange, from the outside looks like�Coastal allowed to call the shots on when and who they play.
Nothing strange at all about that AW82. Coastal see the knockout cup as a high priority competition. they were entitled to a deferment and were granted it. Mainland didn't have to agree to the proposal put to them. Coastal played the game against Halswell on Saturday confident they could get the points to stay in the title race using players from their PDL group to fill the spots of the U17 trialists without falling a further catch up game behind FC2011. Could have backfired horribly but it didn't so fair play to the team. They should be commended for the approach taken, not be accused of being "allowed to call the shots". As it is they have back to back games coming up. Why so critical of a club that has gone out of its way to support the womens game and yet so defensive of the whole bye saga? Ronaldoknow2011-07-25 21:19:36