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Highgate<br />
www.soccerotago.co.nz<br />
Hobbits<br />
Otago Rep Teams: Did they jump, or were they pushed?<br />
Remember when the season was rounded off by Otago representative matches<br />
against Canterbury and <strong>South</strong>land? I do… and I asked <strong>Football</strong>south what happened<br />
to them. After four months pursuing the question, the final answer that I received was<br />
that these fixtures ‘seemed to die out<br />
some years ago’. Upon investigation, it<br />
appears that this might have been<br />
more a case of <strong>Football</strong>south<br />
‘withdrawing life support’; the quiet<br />
withdrawal of sustenance in the<br />
expectation that the patient will slip<br />
away silently in the night. And we have!<br />
We players wander around<br />
aimlessly looking at each other and<br />
shrugging our shoulders, mystified by yet<br />
another unexplained (and possibly<br />
inexplicable) decision by <strong>Football</strong>south.<br />
I would like to see the minutes of the<br />
meeting at which the decision was made<br />
to pull the plug on these fixtures but<br />
<strong>Football</strong>south are ‘unaware of any formal<br />
minutes, rules etc governing this<br />
process’. Hard to believe that nobody<br />
knows what’s gone on?<br />
I’m told that the Masters from<br />
Canterbury and <strong>South</strong>land are still keen;<br />
so any Masters out there up for it? I’ve<br />
volunteered to organise this for the Masters, but I’m not a one-man-team. Ask your<br />
Masters Rep to get in touch. Anyone who wants the full, unabridged correspondence<br />
between <strong>Football</strong>south and me, drop me an E-mail at colin.brown@otago.ac.nz.<br />
Colin Brown, Highgate Hobbits<br />
great turn and hit from a Braes striker managed to put the Braes in front and secure their<br />
win. It was another day where it was safe to say Varsity held the control of the game all<br />
throughout the 90 minutes but once again failed to convert their possession to anything<br />
in the final third. A disappointing but deserved result.<br />
3rds drew 2-2 with Dunedin Technical. Bones had another great game. Terry Parle<br />
4ths beat Caversham 4-1. Fresher will remember names next time!<br />
Girls had no game this week.<br />
gm@footballsouth.co.nz<br />
www.soccerotago.co.nz
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