National Youth and Womens league 2008/09

[john_kowolski]

A few questions....

* has anyone seen a draw for the youth league?, and does anyone know if the games at Bluetongue will act as 'curtain raisers'?

* are we going to be a part of the national womens league? I haven't heard too much about this either. From what I've heard its a 6 team comp, with SBS televising it, but would hope that if we had a central coast team, the club would take intitive and link with them.

I would really hope that we have a womens team on the coast affiliated with the mariners, in terms of growing the mariners brand, could you imagine how good that would be!!! 

I would think that having a different name for the youth team (and womens if we have one) would also work well, while keeping in line with the 'Mariners' theme.

Has anyone heard anything about these competitions?

 

[marinermick]

- yes, they will be as curtain raisers except for the sunday game where the earlier start will put the players at risk heat wise and therefore played at another time
- the club has investigated three venues for these alternative games - pluim, budgie or christie park and funnily enough pluim came out top with the FFA
- no draw for the NYL is out yet but assume they will preceed the senior game in most instances
- assuming that the new woman's league will be state based given that there are only six teams (QLD, NNSW, NSW, Vic, SA and WA) and no team affiliated with a-league club, though i do believe each a-league club should have their woman's team as well

 

[offtheball]

- yes, they will be as curtain raisers except for the sunday game where the earlier start will put the players at risk heat wise and therefore played at another time
- the club has investigated three venues for these alternative games - pluim, budgie or christie park and funnily enough pluim came out top with the FFA
- no draw for the NYL is out yet but assume they will preceed the senior game in most instances
- assuming that the new woman's league will be state based given that there are only six teams (QLD, NNSW, NSW, Vic, SA and WA) and no team affiliated with a-league club, though i do believe each a-league club should have their woman's team as well

Gee I hope some money is going to be spent on Pluim then!

 

[Jesus]

I think the comp starts after the 1st round of a-league matches. eg round 8

 

[soccersensei]

Pretty darn excited about these leagues. Youth league... getting to see the next big names in their early years is going to be fantastic - and Football as the dominant code in Aus is a dream that will be super powered on by the growth of the women's league I think, not to mention that Australian women are just such terrific athletes pound for pound that I think the future looks simply awesome.

 

[Tez]

- yes, they will be as curtain raisers except for the sunday game where the earlier start will put the players at risk heat wise and therefore played at another time
- the club has investigated three venues for these alternative games - pluim, budgie or christie park and funnily enough pluim came out top with the FFA
- no draw for the NYL is out yet but assume they will preceed the senior game in most instances
- assuming that the new woman's league will be state based given that there are only six teams (QLD, NNSW, NSW, Vic, SA and WA) and no team affiliated with a-league club, though i do believe each a-league club should have their woman's team as well

Gee I hope some money is going to be spent on Pluim then!

Would love to see that place upgraded!
specially if they are going to get bigger crowds there, and maybe they could do something about the parking there as well.