Mainland Premier League (Part 1)

Come on do not Beat around 

Yellowfever going cryptic. Next level.

On another note, what a random newsletter they sent out this week.  Three random articles. Here's my all-important opinion.

1: Politicial move spreading the word about the (great) law restricting dodgy pokie maching money. Never seen this type of edititorial from a sporting body. Surely generating money via addicts and going through trusts renowned for lining own pockets isn't the best model for sport.

2: Classic commentary about how hard it is to do draws. My favourite line is about how they have to pit schools against each other during the hols so there are no defaults. Tough shark I say! Shouldn't be there in the first place so not sure how they get first dibs on divisions and then get the pick of the dras.

3.Garrick Park up and going.  Good to see so many coming to the party to get it playable and looking good apparantly, hopefully there will be more of the same for other clubs that have been massively effected by the infamous EQ.

Yes he is still active working in the School of Football setup if my eyesight can be trusted, sure I saw him there recently at ASB Park. Handy player in his day, good coach particularly at youth level. Spent a year coaching the senior men a few years ago at N Brighton and got them 4th in the league only to be asked to reapply for the job. Madness, symptomatic of the thinking that led to the demise of the club.

From my independent balanced viewpoint you are correct and he will probably get the job. Lucky for Mainland & Halswell but Coastal apparently have it covered as always. Victims of their own success as the most progressive club in town.

I think Fred will never return given how he was forced out in the first place.

Not saying its likely at all, but in terms of football knowledge etc he'd be up there.

On a side note, do we really need 3x FDO's Under Alan Walker (4 if you include Sinclair who I understand is there as the GK FDO) ?

Rknow - can you explain the Halswell reference? Lee Hanvey was covering clubs in the south-east, not Halswell.

Vim, this also raised my eyebrows. I'll bet you anything that Mainland did not write that piece. I reckon someone (who is very close to the gaming trusts & thus has a lot to lose) has been in Mainland's ear to support the gaming industry's agenda. I'll also bet you double or nothing that it was the gaming industry and not Mainland who penned that blatant PR piece - that every family in football is likely to see. Are we as clubs allowing Mainlnd to make that stance on our behalf or have Mainland consulted the clubs beore taking such a stance? Was there a club meeting on this matter? With NZF? I would be ASTOUNDED if a federation would take such action without consultation with its member clubs or NZ Football.

I've also posted the article on the News Discussion thread as the bill has national ramifications.

Following up on Ronaldoknow's recent lament re laack of coverage in The Press, I've done a little analysis.

Sports News headlines (articles) from The Press online site, Thursday 17th May:

50 articles

27 rugby (14 crusaders)

5 netball

3 hockey

2 cricket

2 league

2 athletics

2 swimming

2 football

1 cycling

1 softball

1 harness racing

2 other (Dndn stadium and op-ed piece from US)

Anyone have any idea of the participation numbers of football compared to other sports? OK, so the town doesn't have a football team competing in a national weekly competition like crusaders or tactix at the moment as ASB Championship season is over; but surely as a sport we can get better media coverage? Or are we kidding ourselves? Rugby really is that entrenched. What about the number of Canterbury viewers of Yellowfever or 442 or other football websites, or how many Canterbury people watched the Man City v QPR game or will watch West Ham v Blackpool and Chelsea v Bayern Munich. I'd love to know how many are really following what sports.

This Gaming bill just got massive. Mainalnd is now actively campaigning against it with submission forms opposing the bill available on the mainland website. Expect a call from your club soon, by the looks of it.

From my reading of it, the guts of the bill is that local communities can decide if they want more or less pokie machines in their area and there will be more transparency in distribtuion of funds, instead of decisions being made by the gaming trusts. And the problem is...?

Sport has known for ages that this issue was coming. Clearly they haven't planned for it via better revenue & sponsorship models etc and the reality is now staring them in the face.

Um, just a question. Why is Mainland the ONLY federation to be campaigning like this? You can read the Sallies' view on the bill on the News Discussion thread.

Yes I am sure that rugby does get too much coverage but the current sports editor, at The Press, Greg Ford is a rugby nutter but we did OK when the ASB semi finals were on, thankfully we have Tony Smith on deck.

I think The Press coverage for sport overall is now somewhat limited some days only a page or two, likely to be reflected by the drop in advertising due to present climate, quakes etc. The more ads the more pages so the more sports coverage so most also work in reverse.

The weekly double page spread on Metro / Country rugby is paid by rugby.

The NZ Herald have a great football page on Tuesdays, all the UK, European etc tables so they must think it sells papers as has been going for a fair while now. 

Yes I am sure that rugby does get too much coverage but the current sports editor, at The Press, Greg Ford is a rugby nutter but we did OK when the ASB semi finals were on, thankfully we have Tony Smith on deck.

I think The Press coverage for sport overall is now somewhat limited some days only a page or two, likely to be reflected by the drop in advertising due to present climate, quakes etc. The more ads the more pages so the more sports coverage so most also work in reverse.

The weekly double page spread on Metro / Country rugby is paid by rugby.

The NZ Herald have a great football page on Tuesdays, all the UK, European etc tables so they must think it sells papers as has been going for a fair while now. 

Also the Otago Daily Times give football good coverage but I think in general they give the minor sports a fair share.

Tonights Women's Results

Western 2 Cashmere 1

FC Twenty 0 Coastal Spirit 3

Coastal look to have title already in the bag.

Well if that's the second best side in town then it must surely be in the bag. 

Yep sure, applicant.

And what are those better revenue and sponsorship models? Higher subs? Less gear?

Maybe not

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No, more like 9. Wait, there are 9. Perfect.

Maybe not

Tonights result ChCh United 1 Ferrymead 2. United were 1 up at the break with Ru$$ell Kamo scoring early in the 2nd half, then he missed a pen (Do Not Pass Go Do Not Collect $$$) with Josh Smith scoring the winner late in game - a draw would have been fair result.  

Coastal drew 2-2 with Tech, and I heard Nelson beat Halswell 3-1 I think.

Makes an interesting table if I can work it out.

And Western beat FC90210. Think point stable is:

Bays 18

Nelson 16

Coastal 16

Halswell 14

Cashmere 13

FC20 8

Western 8

Chch utd 6

Western defeated FC Twenty11 2 - 0 to win the Hurley Shield, but the three points will be the greater prize for Western.

Next weekend Round 10 see's:

Ferrymead Bays v Coastal Spirt

Halswell v FC Twenty

Western v ChCh United

Suburbs v Cashmere Tech. on Sunday

also plenty on interest in most games.

Dinamo, most of that Selwyn team are kids at APFA right?

Only Div 1?

Mate that is a huge result, well done to the club, keep it up for the rest of the season and we'll see you in the Premier League soon.

Welcome DC, very good result for your lot today.  That's a terrible red to get for nomads.  1st equal with tech now. 

Any match reports???
 

This one

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/club-sport/6952749/Press-on-line-reports-get-more-outrageous-each-week

Another great report full of information

In the Western vs FC game 2011 started pretty well without creating much. As the half went on Western got more on top and created lots of chances but all were missed even when it looked easier to score. Second half was pretty scrappy but Western finally made the breakthrough after again getting in behind the FC defence, with a good ball across the area being tapped in at the far post. FC threw more players forward leaving even more space in behind the defence but Western were again wasteful until Sam Miles showed good composure to slot under the keeper to seal the win.

Great to win the Hurley shield but the 3 points were far more important, hopefully they can make it 3 wins in a row next week against Utd.

Yer that's a cracker alright. Spelling mistakes throughout, and two incorrect scores with the women's Halswell (only) getting beat 6-0 and Coastal men drawing with Tech 2-2. 

Here we are asking for more reporting but perhaps we shouldn't!  Is that what the url was referring to?

Stuff's URLs allow for a bit of creativity if you know where they can be amended so that they still point to the original location.

But it's just a pointer, a sequence of characters/bits that point to a location, you shouldn't read any more into it!

At least the URL was accurate, that report is indescribably bad and a testament to the Press's committment to football - zero.

Time for a letter to the editor.

Michael While??? ...Michael White has to be one of the only MPL players to have played in the A-League, you could at least get his name spelt correctly.

Plus that has got to be one of the worst reports out there.