Surely noone is worth anything in Canty football Gings. With no prize money is it worth anything? Having the biggest club in town paying the biggest amount of money, it sure doesn't look good.
I said the same thing last season when this topic came up: Mainland need to step in and remind everyone it is against the rules to pay players. If New Zealand Football can tell NZFC franchises to not do it, can't Mainland tell clubs?[/QUOTE]
just for playing? yeah to a degree I agree. Western has the potential to use someone like Clapham to raise the clubs profile, bring in more juniors etc but they don't. For me he'd be about the only one worth it. (We do have some top players in the region who are employed as club FDMs etc but thats a tad different if they actually do work...)
[QUOTE=Stretford End]If i was a club administrator who put a team in div 1 that got smacked 24-0, I would expect to be sacked and the team drop about 3 divisions immediately. And where is that SBHS team this week? Still in DIV 1 and playing STAC. Now tell me how is it that SBHS and STAC get a DIV 1 team first year of high school? I don't recall that happening in the last 10 years. Anyone answer that?
I said the same thing last season when this topic came up: Mainland need to step in and remind everyone it is against the rules to pay players. If New Zealand Football can tell NZFC franchises to not do it, can't Mainland tell clubs?[/QUOTE]
just for playing? yeah to a degree I agree. Western has the potential to use someone like Clapham to raise the clubs profile, bring in more juniors etc but they don't. For me he'd be about the only one worth it. (We do have some top players in the region who are employed as club FDMs etc but thats a tad different if they actually do work...)
[QUOTE=Stretford End]If i was a club administrator who put a team in div 1 that got smacked 24-0, I would expect to be sacked and the team drop about 3 divisions immediately. And where is that SBHS team this week? Still in DIV 1 and playing STAC. Now tell me how is it that SBHS and STAC get a DIV 1 team first year of high school? I don't recall that happening in the last 10 years. Anyone answer that?
14s is an utter shambles. Where are the likes of Western, Chch United and a host of other clubs? If the schools are the only ones with the balls to jump into div 1 at that level then I have no qualms with it (as long as they're up to standard)
On a side note STAC play 13s (and 12s?) so they may have earnt their way up