Ah, yeah, apparently I had it around the wrong way. I didn’t recognise the name of the Canterbury player so just assumed it was someone from Auckland.

So Cantabrian supposedly poo’d in Auckland players glove. Yuck!

Hope he pays for a new pair of gloves.

Southern Juniors won a rough game against Canterbury earlier today. Regan Wilson from Southern and one of the Canterbury players got game misconducts for fighting. Souther won fairly convincingly, although they didn’t help themselves much by getting lots of pointless penalities. I can’t remember the exact score but it didn’t look like Canterbury stood much of a chance.

The Southern Women vs Canterbury Women game was quite lop-sided too. Final score was 5 – 2. I’m not sure how Southern are going to go in their next game against Auckland though. They really don’t look like they have the same fire power that the Auckland squad has. There’s at least three players on the Auckland team with good shots on them, whereas Southern only has one (Susan Green) and Canterbury none. I suspect the Southern team will be able to keep up skating wise with Auckland at least.

Southern Peewees also cleaned up this morning apparently. I didn’t see that game and I’m not even sure who they were playing (Canterbury I think) but the score was 10 – 1 (or something similar).

Any reports from the games?

I saw the Canterbury vs Auckland womens game last night. Quite lop-sided. Auckland has some big, fast, strong players who could clearly out muscle the Canterbury players. Canterbury started with Sarah in goal, but switched to Lyndal half way through the second period which helped quite a lot, but still wasn’t enough to hold off some of the stronger Auckland players. Brydie Gibbings was doing a good job weaving through the Auckland defense, but couldn’t get close enough to land a shot past the goalie. Some of the Auckland players looked like they were coast a bit, I guess saving themselves for their next game against Southern who they also beat quite convincingly yesterday (or so I heard – I didn’t see that game).

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I guess I missed it ….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWScGJvRjPI&NR=1

@Rhys – What the fruck?

You are taking a top-down approach to referee improvement. Perhaps a better approach would be to take a grass roots approach and try to drive up the number of referees we have. This gives you a larger pool of referees to choose from, creates more competition amongst the referees and increases the likelihood of some of them going overseas for more experience.

Dunedin did this a few years ago and the proof is in the pudding. The standard of refereeing in Dunedin has skyrocketed to a level we only dreamed of a few years back.