bigfudge wrote:mraotxt2 wrote:This feels very harsh, especially when you see that Port Hill didn't have the chance to get cup-tied because they defaulted their only D1 cup game against Rovers in the first round.hotchips wrote:It’s a stupid rule until you are in the reserve league and play against half a Prems starting team 🤷♂️mraotxt2 wrote:Samuel Wait, Tomas Suarez, Jack Pyott all cup-tied by playing for their ressies.
Prem Cup East
Napier City Rovers Res 14-0 Gisborne Thistle
Sounds like Thistle travelled with a very very young inexperienced team. Not even close to their usual side. Scoreline isn’t a surprise
Havelock North 6-0 Port Hill
Havelock North absolutely clinical finishing, they probably had 8 clear cut chances and scored 6 of them. Considering how boggy the pitch was, they passed the ball around beautifully.
There are rumours they fielded multiple cup tied players, will be interested to see if anything comes of that
It's a stupid rule but it's still a rule.
Although they lost that game, so it could be a double backfire.
Feels like they're being rewarded for defaulting. Also, 3 players dropping down can hardly be considered playing against "half a Prems starting team".
The part I think is stupid is that players are cup tied up, not familiar enough with their team to know if they are normally prems players. Dropping players into lower grades is shitty and them ending up punished for doing that is just desserts I guess.