There are two Burnley teams over I believe, one a 15th grade (in which Mainland's FTC's beat them 4-0 and 2-0 today) and there is a under 16's. Can't give them too much stick as they are kids but yes, they weren't as good and were soundly beaten.
Would like to bring up the point raised by Ray Hicks about the players used. The teams were FTC teams. I was sitting in the stands with parents of kids in the FTC (I'm not one of them) and there was much discussion about how there were quite a few ring-ins for the FTC who played plenty of the game yet had not paid the same $900 fee that they had. Does seem a bit off that this happened.
While we are on the Mainland rant, here's another couple of bits of juicy goss that may or may not be true but when has that ever stopped this forum. In the South Island Tournament, Canty teams were charged $400 to travel and stay at the same place Mid Canty team stayed and those guys were only charged $50! And Baranowski is up for a Sport Canty award for "science of sport" despite being relatively invisible during the FTC programme and not delivering what was promised when people signed up for it.
That's enough shark-stirring for tonight. But you guys started it.
