Napier 19's

Agree crap from central. potential of playing 8 games in napier on great pitches against some players born 92 ( which is a strong age group) so probably better standard than n.yl in some cases.  would have been a perfect pre n.y.l. warm up..instead of training..

Good. Very good.

Shore actually look alright. First year back in the championship for them after winning satellite last year. Good experience at tournaments, the majority of the 19s squad played together for TGS at a school tournament last month and won it convincingly. Not sure if they have it in them to go all the way but should look at a final 8 spot at least.

maybe hib coast be ok as they have a young 1st team,  agree that birkenhead will be good , ecb are always good and well drilled .

Does anyone know where i can find info on the criteria players/clubs must meet to play in this tourny? Cheers

  Smithy2011-09-26 11:39:36

Thanks guys, you pretty much summed up all i was wanting know. Cheers

anyone know anything about Oratia Utd?

They aren't very good. In fact they are pretty rubbish. The only good thing going for them is the new artificial turf they had put in this season.

Nola coaching them?

Haha, not that i'm aware of. Although if he was able to get a free trip out of it...

Going to be Interesting this year. I fancy Lower Hutt and Birkenhead for the final again. Rovers have a young team as usual and probably growing.. looking at maycenvale to be close to getting promoted in Satelitte.

Do your homework.

Birko not that strong after all 3 players with ASB teams and 4 other first teamers away playing in oz, real young team no threat! 

The 3 ASB players will play. Who are these 4 going to oz you are talking about?

apparently the fijian boys are all away in oz at a tournament..

There are only 3 Fijians and 1 of them is too old anyway. So that's 2 if they are indeed away that weekend.

just what i heard thats alll i watched birko quite a few times this season and if they had all the players playing and the usuall guests in napier would have been a  good chance to come close..

Not sure. Last year there was a Road to Napier tournament held out at Fencibles. Birko won it and got a grand for it. No idea if the same or a similar tournament is being held this year.

any u19s game on over the weekend? in auckland/north shore

Shows just how clueless you are mate as ACFC havent made semis of NYL for last 2 seasons and seen as you can only have 2 guest players at the tournament how can they include most of the NYL players in the Central squad (at least 1/2 the NYL squad are non Central players)

Ok, Sorry for not being entirely correct, although you did state that the coaching stuff and several players were involved with ACFC. I don't know these players but considering most players at central would be close to starters you could pull in two guest players and get some more game time together. No hard feelings. NYL is over rated but is still not long enough but back to the Napier tournament.. Maycenvale don't have any standouts just won the HB knockout cup and federation cup with there prems who are decent young players. Birkenhead I feel will win again depending on the players left over from last year

Apparently A.C.F.C are having a camp that labour weekend!, and any players who wanted to go with there  own club's down to napier arn't allowed and if they do wont be in the N.Y L squad.    Birkenhead from what i believe could be pretty much as strong as last year!

Will the Watson boy be available for Lower Hutt now thats he's playing for Napier in the NZFC?

Andy Bevin played for NCR last year but not sure if the NZFC had kicked off at that stage last year. Don't HBU have an away game that weekend?

national league kicks off that weekend so quite a few good players wont be available who are with ASB teams, some players mite be available for a day of napier not sure( couldnt they start asb league a week later?

Yeah it's fairly average for some teams who might lose their key players. At this stage our team is likely to lose our best two players which changes things massively for us. There is a rule that says that teams who lose players to an ASB Prem team can add an aditional guest player but by the time those contracts are finalised there aren't a great deal of quality players left or available for other reasons. I doubt NZF thought of the Napier tournament because they probably don't see it as a big issue but I think they should in the future.

We played our clubs under 19 team on Saturday ( East Coast Bays ) And they were quite good. I am interested in seeing how they will go down there. ( I sure didnt like playing against them, Far to much running )

I'm not sure as to the how the strength of the teams that clubs put out in the Upper Hutt tournment compare to the squads they are taking to Napier but the finishing positions were as follows.

they! sure will

i thought they had a fit team last year but didn't seem to do very well  which suprised me!!

sorry thats  E.c.b..

Or not send a team next year either!!