Fees to play Football by Federation

This is kind of the point I was trying to make. Playing off a fee increase under the guise of developing a pathway is just wrong. Getting a NWL team funded to compete should absolutely be done, but in smarter and more directed way than a blanket fee increase. 

The NYL is a responsibility of TW surely so why this is included is beyond me. 

The player pathways are currently being done by academies let's not pretend otherwise. 

MPL costs now also include all referees fees (I'm fairly sure) - this is the reason.

Due to the costs with the Southern League?

anyone know if there has been a drop in teams in CF Men's grades? Looks to go up to Cap11 (seven teams) where it was 12 last year?

My Cap 6 Olympic team has been asked to move to Cap 5 due to teams above dropping out.

When I moved to Wellington 7 years ago it went to Cap 17, so the drop is pretty damning indictment on how Capital Football runs the leagues and the level of service provided to social footballers.

I think our Cap6 has gone to 5 too

Sunday league continues to grow?

Think there are major issues with Capital 4 being a 'serious' grade. Has seen our team drop from being promoted to 4 to dropping all the way down to 10 at this stage.

I can't quite get my head around what you are saying Marron? Did you not want to be promoted?

I'd imagine the move to non-rolling subs is a big turnoff for a lot of social sides - I know it would be for me.

Ridiculous if Capital Football's solution is to drop a Cap 4 quality team to Cap 10 if they're asking other teams to step up though.

We've turned down the move, although we may not have a choice.

Yeah - carrying a squad of over 15/16 is near impossible to operate fairly without rolling subs.

Teams should have the right to refuse promotion if they did not finish first in the grade they were playing in.

Argument could be said it is unfair to push relegated teams back up to the grade they just fell from however. Purely comms imo.

not sure you get the luxury of turning it down? My team would too

We told the club to promote the other Olympic Cap 6 team.

Stuff like this does happen at the intersections of the game, like amateur to semi-pro and semi-pro to professional, all the time around the world though. Sometimes it's clubs/teams that want to go up not meeting the criteria of the league above because their stadium is too small or whatever, sometimes it's that the club/team isn't interested in making a fundamental change like having to figure out going fully professional. You have to have these thresholds though, because it would be worse to let some teams have rolling subs but not others. 

I think that once it's below Cap 4 they could perhaps create an entirely separate structure for "social" teams. If a new "serious" club or team wants to join they could potentially just do it at Cap 4, even if it means Cap 4 changes in size from year-to-year.

Ha Marron you have us opening week. You'll pants us if you are a Cap 5 side. Might see if any Asian sports markets have a book on it.

You sure that's right Newsy? We're in Cap 9.

Even more amusing the draw for match has/had us playing the Marrons but we're listed in Cap 9 that they are not in.

A club re-shuffle has put us in 9 by the looks. Seems to be the case on the CF website (not taking that as gospel however)

Yeah. Confirmed. As stated chasing sporting bet websites and seeing how much I can get as a second mortgage.

Half the Nighthawks are on or around the Fever so be nice.

Sad to say that the Wellington United Salmon, in their 20th anniversary year, have dropped out of Capital Football to join the Sunday League. Probably many reasons but i think fees may have been one.

Totally, there needs to be two entry points in the system. One for serious teams and one for social teams. It's a simple fix. The club captain could work with Capital Football to deem whether or not the team should be entered in at the serious entrance point or not, this could be assisted by having friendlies against teams in that grade. 

It is nothing short of absurd that you would have a team that is wanting to play serious football enter into anything lower than 4 or 5. Worst case scenario you would have a cap 3 or 4 with 11 or 12 teams in it for a season.