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Your mum made first line. Which to be fair peeved a lot of people off cos she didn’t even trial.
You will find out when the public finds out Wick, sometime in May I think.
When they originally finished vector arena, they stated they hoped to have ice hockey games there. So i guess this is what they are talking about….
Incidentally one of the proposed uses of the new multipurpose stadium in Dunedin is Ice sports as well, I remember reading so maybe these events are starting to occur.
I hope it does occur, but think about this, the website says the games will occur in June, and bear with me. 2010 Winter olympics right dates Feb 12- 28 right, I am correct in assuming NHL has two week break because of this?
In the last Olympic year the Stanley Cup didn’t finish to June 19th. So what sort team is going to get sent to NZ, in June, directly after Stanley cup which I presume is the Worlds Off-season, apart from NZ.Also on Wicks hypothesis the World Champs of 2010 are set to occur in May 7th to May 23rd, so the games will obviously not be a warm up for World Champs in Germany.
So until i hear from Canada or the USA they are comng I won’t hold my breath (incidentally stupid proposal for any event, I am so sure this event will occur so I will hold my breath for 13 months until it does????? idiot). Also its being Screened for 27 countries? is that it, for Team Canada Vs Team USA???
Not a great story on Sunrise I didn’t think, saying how NZ lacked people to playing and struggled to get exposure.
And then neglects to say people when people could watch world champs in Dunedin or that there is a national league which is building the level of skill in this country…
Oh yeah I forgot Rick, so there are 4 goalies in town….
Yeah there is a Belgian goalie here.
You are aware the christos email was down for two weeks and they are just catching up now…
I thought you were giving up hockey this year? or playing for red devils? you changed your mind?
Vince seeing as their are now three goalies in Dunedin and you are not in Dunedin I am not sure how if Dunedin Thunder played Mongols, you would end up playing?
Oh thats right in Jeffs email….
I am just speculating here, but if anyone was going to change their name perhaps Albrury to Tekapo????Pure guess
I kept telling people I was in freaking LA when the AGM was on….
I don’t have a problem with the rego fee. In fact i think it is fine. I have paid it already, but I am going to play for Dunedin, in some fashion, if I can afford the training that is.
Apologies as last nights rant got out of control and twisted and turned like a anaconda in the mighty amazon.
The problem I have is DiHL only players were always allowed to play, having paid an associate membership fee, 15$ from memory I think. And I was not informed that would be changing hence me not putting in email correspondence about this upgraded fee…of 75$ thats HUGE!!!!!
400% is not a rise to be sniffed at.DiHL is the only place where this applies cos everyone else gets training etc…for being part of the club which I agree with….Maybe “oldtimers only” as well, the merits of such a league i will leave that for another rant…….
Without getting too negative cos you guys are doing a good job which is seldom rewarded. Its seems to save a job which i agree is administrative nightmare but not an impossible task, it has been done before, and can be done again.
It seems to save said job, you are alienating a huge part of the Dunedin ice hockey community.
The people who will play DiHL for a laugh….people who may have never encountered hockey before, like we used to in the old days, the odd candian drifting thorugh who will not register but will play a few DiHL games, the guy that gave the game away years ago that just wants to play a few games…..DiHL used to be a family carnavial atomsphere were young man and old man played together, boys and girls played together, beginner and expert played together, Chris Laing and Ryan Wick played together. But no MORE….
We are faced with a world where old timers want to go out on their own, all 15 of them, middle timers(who ever that is) want to go out on their own, all 3 of them, where youngsters are forced to play with themselves (remove heads from gutters now)
This is a world where Chris Laing still lives in Dunedin and Ryan Wick lives in Canada, which is world I don’t know that I am comfortable raising children in.Same as the ginormous downpayments on practises, yes it is annoying saying stefan have you paid this week, fred have you paid this week, for the last time Sidney this is Dunedin not Pittsburgh….but at the same time when people are faced with paying $10 a week the outlook looks peachy. When the same people are told they need to pay $300 for 30 weeks these people quiver in fear as they can not understand why the sudden increase in fees, and unfortunatley we can not send all these people to rudimentary maths classes to show them in fact they are paying the same.
Instead these people label the game unaffordable and leave, Is this what we want? I say no! I say no for the Youngsters! I say no for the Ryan and Chris seperated by mile of ocean!Can we fix this problem? In the immortal words of the man who concieved them “Yes we can”
I am of course refering to bob the builder and not that pretender who stole them for a campaign to win american presidency.How do we fix it you ask? We resume normal transmission and return to the days of yore where fish swam in the meadows and deer frollicked in the ocean…or what ever happened in the days of yore…..
You refer to membership cards, and benefits, I think you have misinterpreted the meaning of club in this sense.
A sporting club collects memebership fees to pay subs, not build a war chest of money. We are not talking about the no-homers club here or the stone cutters for that matter. We are talking about a hockey club where people come together to play hockey, not go shopping in town for benefits……Man sorry for my rant its just been building up for a while…..
Yeah Kara I realise you have no input in the setting of the fees so thats cool…just raising the issue for debate.
Yeah actually I do remember people going on about SPARC needing numbers and stuff, but SPARC only gives money to like the top ten sports in the country anyway, so we are forcing people to pay exorbirant fees to pander to an organisation that won’t give us money.
The thing is the DiHL used to pick up a lot of casual players when it was at big chill, who wouldn’t play in SiHL, but wanted to enjoy some good hockey, and for $70 you can justify that, but at $170 people will just say its not worth it.
