Speed wobbles at Cashmere Tech?
Seven Tech Junior A team coaches from last year are NOT coaching their teams this year or have left the club: 10A, 11A, 12A, 13A, 14A, 15A, 17A. That's a helluva lot of coaches to lose in one off-season.
Will be interesting to see if the new club(s) enter a Mens DIV 1 team as they have a lot of youth players who can't get into the PDL side because Danny H bought his team over from the Academy. For example none of the Cashmere Tsunami U19 team (runners-up) is likely to play PDL this year (well, not at CashTech anyway!) Clubs are circling however with Western, Coastal and Bays all picking off players. Cashmere had a Div 1 team last year but I don't know where they are at because their coach went to Oz and it looks like Tech is running seniors now; and clearly Cashmere is running Juniors. 2 clubs in one? Have Mainland Board signed off on this new club(s) model by the way? They hadn't before Nike Cup was played.
In possibly good news for the club(s) they could advance to the Melbourne round of Nike Cup if they beat Petone today. I think there is only 1 team from each state in that round. Lucky for NZ non-Auk feds (1 team from popn about 1 mill); but NSW with popn closer to 10 mill only get one entry too!
Cashmere didnt have a div 1 team last year but the did in the 2010 season, pretty sure they back in div 1 this year but i heard that before the merger was confirmed for this season, fc twenty have another team in div 1 aswell i thinkSeven Tech Junior A team coaches from last year are NOT coaching their teams this year or have left the club: 10A, 11A, 12A, 13A, 14A, 15A, 17A. That's a helluva lot of coaches to lose in one off-season.
Will be interesting to see if the new club(s) enter a Mens DIV 1 team as they have a lot of youth players who can't get into the PDL side because Danny H bought his team over from the Academy. For example none of the Cashmere Tsunami U19 team (runners-up) is likely to play PDL this year (well, not at CashTech anyway!) Clubs are circling however with Western, Coastal and Bays all picking off players. Cashmere had a Div 1 team last year but I don't know where they are at because their coach went to Oz and it looks like Tech is running seniors now; and clearly Cashmere is running Juniors. 2 clubs in one? Have Mainland Board signed off on this new club(s) model by the way? They hadn't before Nike Cup was played.
In possibly good news for the club(s) they could advance to the Melbourne round of Nike Cup if they beat Petone today. I think there is only 1 team from each state in that round. Lucky for NZ non-Auk feds (1 team from popn about 1 mill); but NSW with popn closer to 10 mill only get one entry too!