nah! I want to se the kids training on ASB. Much better this than the venue hired out to make $ from other codes. I reckon Mainland have done well with this, our park for our footballers.
Philospically I like the concept of the best juniors having the best access to the best facilites. Honestly it's a big deal for the kids to run on ASB, it's a reward in and of itself.
Dragons issue is partially becasue of season extension + making finals. Plus FTC sessions were changed/adjusted to help them. Maybe it could have been planned better but it wasn't 100% in Mainland's hands either in a strictly plannning/operations sense.
Schools out! Agree for sure.
2nd comp re: English Cup, again yes. Needed for next season IMO. Real danger we are going to end up with 4 'serious' clubs in Chch.... as the junior teams narrow this has to extend into seniors, do we want 4 clubs each having 2 sides in Div 1 Juniors for every age grade? Furthermore we be more dependant on Selwyn and Waimak to give us harder games
Junior Rep Teams up on website this arvo