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Perhaps the bridging idea could come from the SIHL Open grade? The Dunedin Open grade team could be used as a Thunder development team perhaps?
And then the open grade team and Thunder could combine along with a few other senior players to form a three team local contact DIHL? The level of play would be quite high but not so high that the new Junior aged players aren’t out of their depth.
Then the weaker Junior aged players who aren’t likely to bridge the gap to the Thunder any time soon anyway would be able to move to the SNC DIHL rather than getting their asses kicked by in the contact DIHL.
"Ryan":ktualx1b wrote:Perhaps the bridging idea could come from the SIHL Open grade? The Dunedin Open grade team could be used as a Thunder development team perhaps?[/quote:ktualx1b]
SIHL open grade hasn’t been particularly successful the past few years. You’d also have to get queenstown to agree not to send their stampede players.
The other issue is that part of the problem is that people don’t especially want to travel. And why would we make them travel when we can make our own domestic hockey grade here – more hockey for less.
Also realise that a lot of the other juniors in other regions will eventually end up at some sort of University, and odds are that uni will be Otago. So having a NZIHL team based in Dunedin is important. Just look at Rick Parry where would he have played if there was no Dunedin team.
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If rumour has it correct we may well see a couple of very handy players from ChCh attending Uni next year. Throw them in with 5 imports and boom! instant winning formulae"Active":24xhkyxc wrote:Also realise that a lot of the other juniors in other regions will eventually end up at some sort of University, and odds are that uni will be Otago. So having a NZIHL team based in Dunedin is important. Just look at Rick Parry where would he have played if there was no Dunedin team.
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That was the other main reason and important selling point that we pushed to the Southern League when we put the proposal to them.
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