So the story I heard goes like this: apparently Selwyn tried to enter a team in the WPDL after the senior team was decimated by the McCann exit, McExit. Mainland refused - wouldn't grant age dispensation to a number of players. Yet every other club agreed to play them on the BYE weekend, except FC20 who refused (ouch, #rivalism).
Presumably Mainland won't supply refs or grounds or enter results but I imagine Foster Park or another Selwn Council ground will be available. So the girls will play, don't pay Mainland any levies and everyone is happy, except perhaps FC20 and Mainland.
Meanwhile, Mainland have just released a list of age dispensations (denied and granted) on their website - yet not one from Selwyn.
Interesting. Anyone confirm or deny any of this story?
(As an aside, in the photo of club captains released by Mainland for their "season launch", the Waimak WPL captain is still 14 years old and required dispensation to play; guessing it's safe to say it will be a young team; judging by the fact that Waimak applied for age dispensation for 11 players to play Womens Prems and Reserves).