Mainland Womens Premier League

The greatest club in women's football, ever, surely!

didn't catch the game is it correct that tech brought in longo ?

what bev peterson has done for this team this season should not be under estimated , and that is what makes gunnie so good . 

Bev peterson had only worked with a couple of the older girls in sprints? imo full credit too Gunnie/team/pdl for working hard individually. Think this club has produced a large number of talented players under Gunnie's wing over the years, interesting what next season will be like. Coastal seems to have it sorted

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I heard she was asked (as she does every time Tech play Coastal) and said no again as she hasn't played for the team all year. She was at the game. 

Wouldn't have been a good look, mind you they did sign Meikayla Moore, flew her down for half a game, and never played again!

Pretty sure Annalie came off the brench once this season, think it was in the second half. 

. cheers for correcting (was wrongly informed that Bev was involved with the whole squad ) . any team could do a lot worse than getting canterburys most successful speedster involved in their set up ......can never praise Gunnie/ coastal women too much as their results speak for themselves . Have they ever won Canterbury sports team of the year ?

Canterbury United Pride squad announcement

Interestingly no Tasman players but suppose the commute put some off 

don't they have to pay their own way as well?, that probably put some off as well

Do not think that is the case, but will follow this up.

I've heard there's quite a few people living up there, you could perhaps start your own team... :-)

Have been advised that there is funding available to bring players down from Nelson to play, so no players have to pay. Several spots still to be named and understand likely to include player(s) that turned out for Tasman in the WPL. 

Results from Mainland Awards Last evening - categories winners highlighted in bold:

Women
Goalkeeper of the Year	Una Foyle	Hannah Hegarty	Briar Guyan
Defender of the Year	Rebecca Lake	Ashleigh Ward	Kathryn van Emple
Midfielder of the Year	Lily Bray	Beth Elliott	Whitney Hepburn
Striker of the Year	Emma Kench	Mel Cameron	Jayda Stewart
Youth Player of the Year	Jayda Stewart	Beth Elliott	Macey Fraser
Golden Boot	Mel Cameron
Coach of the Year	Alana Gunn	Keith Braithwaite

Overall Player of theYear was Emma Kench

Bray only played half a season is my understanding? Who's Kench?

Plays at Cashmere Technical

Have a look at the next waves of WPL players - and the clubs they're from; just 3 from Coastal/Cashmere out of a total of 42!

Awesome, so good for the game.

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Great to see these other clubs investing in womans football, the results would appear to be clear! Waimak to win the WPL within the next 5 years, unless the same old poaching and pride carrot comes out :)

Great to see some clubs making a serious investment in woman's football and I hope that they get rewarded in the future,especially to stop the poaching that has made some clubs seem more successful than they deserve to be. Surely Halswell should be rewarded with a WPL team. They have won PDL which is more than other clubs have done to get promoted. They have the depth and they develop juniors. They have more right to be there than Varsity on that basis.

I've commented on this thread before about Parklands promotion and Shane - due to poor process/criteria from Mainland. Then there was the McMann-led debacle that destroyed Selwyn at a critical time. 

The key, as always, is how a club treats its premier women's team - especially in relation to the men; and what opportunities a club can offer. The challenge for Waimak will be to see if they can build from here as the players begin to reach maturity, and all that that brings re work, education etc

End of an era. Well done Gunnie. Big boots to fill.

Size 8? All the best Gunnie, I know you have other coaching gigs for 2018.

Halswell seem to have a team in the WPL, not sure if it's been mentioned previously. 

Rumours going around that there will be no Tasman women's team this year. 

Does the league have the ability to support additional teams coming in? - seems to be a lot of young players in many teams and will there be a lot lost to other areas for University etc?

Any news on Coastal Spirit WPL coach for upcoming season?

Yes for Goalkeepers

Sadly Tasman's withdrawal from the WPL has been confirmed today by Mainland. 

Does a team pull out of the WPL every year?

Almost seems the case. Sounds like the bulk of Tasman's squad from last season unavaliable for various reasons - no longer in the region, retired etc.

Tasman added to the WPL in the last two sesons, finishing third twice with their record being - played 33, won 18, drawn 3 lost 12.

Jimmy Small, confirmed on Coastal's facebook page earlier today, Jimmy coached Western's MPL side a few season's back. 

Jimmy Small, confirmed on Coastal's facebook page earlier today, Jimmy coached Western's MPL side a few season's back. 

ex burnside legend 

Apparently talk of FC not having a team this season. Players going to other team trainings

Time we stopped pretending NZ has the quality & quantity of girls/women to be calling anything a Premiere League.

Train and play the best & serious ones in with the boys/youth/men. That's what they as players deserve and need for their development.

Happens overseas where the numbers are much more favourable than in NZ. The rest is participation / social.

Regional version of Ferns Player Development Programme. Surely time for a a national winter club league. Find the money.

And the rest? There still needs to be a female only top league - for all sorts of reasons.

Yeah agreed Global. Speaking to Turnbull it seems there are some good works in motion...

I think their world cup money should go towards this... Not sure how much they get for their world cup campaigns though.

WPL commences on Saturday - both games at English Park 

Midday

Halswell vs. Universities

2pm

Coastal Spirit vs. Cashmere Technical (Hawkey Shield Challenge)