Mainland Premier League (Part 1)

All the Canty Utd transfers have been signed off so should make for an interesting round of football this weekend. Must certainly push a few players out of the Tech and Bays teams.

Some hot gossip from my mole at Tech....  Tom Schwartz had signed an agreement to play for Bays who were going to reimburse his expenses.. "CASH"mere Tech have persuaded him to sign for them insread for $250 per game + bonuses and Julian Collett has been offered the same deal plus Ken Yamamotototo is apparently getting a car and expenses.

[ Its not healthy for the league in my opinion. I'm sure all the junior players at tech and bays are delighted to see their subs helping to pay crazy wages to the senior squad

Mainland have issued a directive to all clubs regarding the lop-sided scores in the juniors. Basically the margin for results will never be more than 7 goals, and last weeks results will be altered. Options for coaches to consider are swapping goalkeepers, swapping attack for defense and reducing the numbers of players.

Sigh.

Bays just continuing modus operandi.

As for Cashmere, the new Board is splashing the cash on buying senior players. I wonder what those Cashmere & Tech juniors think about development pathways when they see so many players bought/brought in?

Seriously a club that big (1200 juniors between the 2 clubs in 2011) should be investing ALL its money into player development - but that would be a long term view and not satisfy 2012 Chatham Cup dreams.

Talked to someone high up at Bays and they are only paying legit expenses to certain players from now on. Mileage to training and games, new boots etc. These players will be expected to do some junior coaching clinics for which they will also get reimbursed, if they want to earn more. This possibly backs up the reason that Schwartz decided not to sign for Bays and go to Tech. Apparently, Bays decision came about after the pre season Mainland meeting, where Mainland said that only these type of expenses could be paid and clubs could possibly be deducted points if they were found they were paying players just to play.

Mainland have issued a directive to all clubs regarding the lop-sided scores in the juniors. Basically the margin for results will never be more than 7 goals, and last weeks results will be altered. Options for coaches to consider are swapping goalkeepers, swapping attack for defense and reducing the numbers of players.

Sigh.

lets deal in facts rather than�getting information second hand

Some hot gossip from my mole at Tech....� Tom Schwartz had signed an agreement to�play for Bays who were going to reimburse his expenses.. "CASH"mere Tech have persuaded him to sign for them insread for $250 per game + bonuses and Julian Collett has been offered the same deal plus�Ken Yamamotototo is apparently getting a car and expenses.

Mainland have issued a directive to all clubs regarding the lop-sided scores in the juniors. Basically the margin for results will never be more than 7 goals, and last weeks results will be altered. Options for coaches to consider are swapping goalkeepers, swapping attack for defense and reducing the numbers of players.

Sigh.

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?

in the poor organization arena, we turned up to find no posts and no marked field... worse still two fields marked across the one we were supposed to play on. Unacceptable really. The home coach was pretty upset, more so when I said this equates to a default  as he has the far stronger team and his side should win D1. The issue of course becomes it's his boys that miss out on the win if I protest. sigh.

since the mainland premier league doesn't exactly have a large fleet street following, i say rumor and third party observations are probably just about right for this forum

Halswell up 1-0 at half time tonight.

FT Western 0 Halswell 1

true? a guy who used to clean the house of the ex-coach told me it was 2-1

Further to my other comment about the West Coast team being in the Chatham Cup, it appears they are called Westport Cosmopolitan, which perhaps is an official club and not a gathering of West Coast players.