Canterbury Premier League

halswell apparently only have the one, so the rest must be all at united then. i cant wait to see the transfers page to be honest

Depends if Christchurch Utd have employed someone to do their admin :D

I'd say all clubs will struggle with the admin this season

Nomads have Rose still keeping an eye on things which is a good job because the rest of the executive would be lost in the NZF new incarnation of the wheel.

Waimak preseason tournament unofficial results

Waimak 12 v Ferrymead bays 0

Western 1 v Selwyn 1

Western 5 v Coastal 0

Burwood 3 v Nomads

Varsity 3 v Cash Tech 2

Hope Tech got something out of the game other than some fitness. 

I'm told the aging Western team got a lot out of their match with the Selwyn youngsters including a lot of cramp.

Tech went 3-0 up, Parklands pulled it back to 3-2 and Tech scored the 4th with 2 minutes to go when Parklands switched formation to go for the equaliser, I'm sure both teams will have got a lot more out of it than the games they had last week.

Games like this are what the pre-season tournament should be about. Waimak beating Bays 12-0 doesn't do a lot for either team.

Obviously each team have their own agenda's for the tournament, and that is totally up to them, but I've a feeling some of these results seen so far will drive some of the better teams away from the tournament in the future.

A few years back every game was very competitive, especially with most MPL sides putting their reserve sides out. Nowadays there are the splattering of good games (at least after the round robin things should even themselves out too for all teams :) )

Do you know how many Nomads scored as this bit is missing :)

Varsity 5 v Cash Tech 4

Burwood 3 v Nomads 1

Christchurch United have annouced a few signing and re-signings on their facebook page in recent days (weeks):

New signings:

Stu Kelly (Cashmere Technical) , Geoff MacIntyre (Ferrymead Bays) and Rodrigo Balcazar (Universities)

Re-Signing:

Rodrigo Alvarez, Tom Chadwick, Lew Gordon, Kevin Guttmann, Chris Constanti and Henry Finnis

Also announced that their Regional League Club Licence and Regional Youth League Licence have been approved.  

How much $$ are united paying??? Heard whispers weeks ago that tuckey was chasing a few hundred a game and has been down at united also. kelly certainly doesn't play for free, neither would macintyre. So the academy's the club has run all year round at high prices pays these players wages in other words. We are talking about ccl for gods sake, its ridiculous in mpl as it is

Parklands United are pleased to announce the re-signing of reserves player/coach Steve Potter.....................fee to be confirmed :)

a shark load better desire to play than than the others mentioned. Cant buy that

Hope it’s a big fee involved to keep up with all the Millionaires about. Especially stepping down from 1st team captaincy duties to take on the rol

With only one team going up, some CCL  clubs are not going to get a good return on their investment. At least Chch United is offering junior and youth development. 

Any progress on the SAS entry in to the CCL? 

Colin Grant was not keen on them entering [making an odd number] as he's not there now and if not CCL what Div are they going to be in? 

Div7? 

Playing home games at English Park if St Albans Park is not completed.

http://www.sporty.co.nz/asset/downloadasset?id=1ed...

Do they have a reserve team too as to be in the CCL they need a reserves too I think

Believe it is one team only, told was an ex FC Twenty11 team from last season

Think it's FC2011 Thunder Panthers if it all goes to plan. Being in Div7 iwould be harsh at least for the other teams in Div7.

'Tis the rule to stop teams just changing clubs. 

In saying that, I thought there are no rules in the CCL, if you are the top team of your club, and you meet the criteria, you can go straight in. You don't have to work your way up from Div 7. 

SAS happy to have a team start in CCL. Mainland should take the easy way out and put them in Div1 and not run with byes in CCL and the combined CCL/MPL round.

Did not think there is going to be a combined CCL/MPL round, unless it has been changed.

Top team in the CCL promoted after 20 rounds with the bottom three sides in the MPL after the 14 rounds (top 5 sides moving to the South Island League) then playing each other twice to determined which side is relegated,with the teams carry over the points they gained in rounds 1 - 14 in the MPL.

That is what we've heard too

That’s exactly what it is. 

Think you’re right. 

It is there, you have to set the date for the whole season and then select the Canterbury Championship in the drop down menu in the second box.

Have pasted what is shown:

Do you have a special login there AW? Because I don't see anything on CCL at all

In the first box (where is says seniors), unselect all then click on seniors and oddly enough every league in the country appears

Handy start to the season for Chch Utd. 1st 4 games all at home.

Also they’re playing home games on a Friday night too this season is what I’ve heard so some of those fixtures may be wrong 

where does it say that benchwarmer?

It doesn’t on those fixtures but on the draft ones sent out to clubs it does, plus have heard direct from a Chch Utd player this will be the case (unless they’ve not decided against it)

If I had the opportunity I'd rather play Friday night games when ever possible, don't lose a whole weekend and if you've got kids can watch them play too.

The downside is when you’re involved with the reserve team too and have to make the trip 2 days in a row which takes away from family time too, plus this could impact some teams if players are unable to finish work in time

Good point!