Senior LeaguesWe play at Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre (WRAC) in Kilbirnie, Wellington on Thursday nights 7:20pm - 9:45pm, this is also known as a 'Senior League' night. Throughout the year there are different Leagues organised for players to participate in. They range in length from short 3 week leagues up to longer 8 week leagues.
WUHA Clubs Coordinator & Club RepresentativesWUHA Clubs Coordinator
Geoff Coplon (KoM) Club Reps
Phoenix: Zoe Houston, Finn Hollingworth Crocodylus: Eloise Sharpe, Ben Paviour-Smith KoM: Leah Chamberlin, Josie Hunt |
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And that's a wrap ... cup League 5 results / stats
The season is over. Going to be a bit odd not heading to the pool on a Thursday night for a while!
Results and stats for cup league 5 are below. Attendance less than sub-optimal. We will be stricter in restricting access to preferred grades next year due to poor attendance (planned and unplanned). Guidance will be published, and the club reps will help with decisions.
We resume after Anniversary weekend. Regionals training on Tues 21st and Clubs resume on Thursday 23rd. First night will be a have-a-go, have not yet worked out the league plan or fees for 2025. I'll put out a sign-up form early next year.
Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou ki a kouto
Results and stats for cup league 5 are below. Attendance less than sub-optimal. We will be stricter in restricting access to preferred grades next year due to poor attendance (planned and unplanned). Guidance will be published, and the club reps will help with decisions.
We resume after Anniversary weekend. Regionals training on Tues 21st and Clubs resume on Thursday 23rd. First night will be a have-a-go, have not yet worked out the league plan or fees for 2025. I'll put out a sign-up form early next year.
Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou ki a kouto
Final standings
Individual stats
Composite stats
Cup League #5 (Thursday)
Welcome to the final cup league for 2025.
This has been harder than the rest to sort out. Shout out to the club reps for guiding the grade split and team allocations, which necessitated making some tough decisions. It has taken since Friday to sort out.
We had 72 registrations when we started pulling the structure together. We settled on a 50:50 split, noting that this end of the year tends to be disruptive (ramp up to Xmas (!) and exams). Being a cup league without mercs and a lot of pre-advised absence, teams of 12 are the optimal split. Planned attendance was taken into account with team allocations as best we could, while trying to ensure even team strength.
League details:
This has been harder than the rest to sort out. Shout out to the club reps for guiding the grade split and team allocations, which necessitated making some tough decisions. It has taken since Friday to sort out.
We had 72 registrations when we started pulling the structure together. We settled on a 50:50 split, noting that this end of the year tends to be disruptive (ramp up to Xmas (!) and exams). Being a cup league without mercs and a lot of pre-advised absence, teams of 12 are the optimal split. Planned attendance was taken into account with team allocations as best we could, while trying to ensure even team strength.
League details:
- Five nights: 31st Oct, 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th Nov
- Two grades
- Scores recorded
- No mercs (using non-team players will result in a default)
- Four games a night per team and two refereeing duties (plan to be at the pool for the full night)
- Refereeing duties are allocated and must be kept, point penalties will be applied for teams that don't supply water and chief refs (first responder)
Men / Women Split (Tuesday)
Numbers are a little light, so rather than making teams, the pool time has been split and teams will be made each night for an hour of full court. Players and pool allocations are below.
League setup:
League setup:
- Five nights: Tuesdays 29th Oct, 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th November
- One hour, rotating weekly between men/women
- Full court
- People playing must have signed up and be financially up to date.
- If anyone wants to that hasn't, they are more than welcome, please get them to let me know and they can be included.
- Teams will be chosen each night. The club reps have asked that everyone is there 15 mins before kickoff so teams can be made. If you're in first, that's 15 minutes before putting the barriers in (~1915h or so)
- We must have a first responder. Recommend end subbing to cover that responsibility if there isn't someone dry who is willing
"4-a-side" League
- 3 nights: Oct 10th, 17th, 24th
- One blended grade
- Chief-refs are mandatory (these are our first responders)
- No unofficial mercs ... (see below)
- All players must be financially up to date with WUHA
While we don't have official mercs, if a team is drastically down on numbers or strength, non-playing teams are free to donate players. No stacking though: we want everyone to have fun (not sure if that is a thing when it comes to 4-a-side!)
Club League
- Four nights: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th September
- Club based teams
- Grades: A, B and C
- While players may move between teams, everyone must have registered (no mercs)
Clubs will place players in teams and advise their players. Players must have registered (form is still open for those in teams that forgot to sign up: https://forms.gle/ut2LZrDHrPqZLVyT6). Teams are:
- Crox: two A-grade, one B-grade
- KoM: one A-grade, one B-grade, two C-grade (only one the first evening)
- Phoenix: one A-grade, one B-grade, one C-grade
No-231 League
- 4 nights: August 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
- No mercs
- All players must be financially up to date with WUHA
This is intended to be another fun-focussed league. We welcome back most of our intrepid travellers, returning to 76.5 players. This is down on the cup leagues (~15-20 people), but up on the mystery league, with a lot less nightly variation in attendance.
Grade requests via registration have been honoured. Positions requests have been spread as much as possible, but given the non-standard formations, and the overabundance of forwards, some flex in where people play will be required.
Formations have been selected and allocated to teams. There are "experts" in how the formation works in the 3-2-1, 2-1-1, 1-3-2 and 2-1-2-1 teams. 2-2-2 doesn't have an expert, but I suspect we've all played this at some stage or another.
A/B Grade |
The A/B grade has 5 teams, playing 14 games each across the 4 weeks. Developing the draw was tricky. As uch as possible, teams won't playing the same team twice in a night (one occurance only) and won't play three games in a row. As we didn't have quite enough game slots for 4 full rounds, each team plays each other three times, and a couple of teams an extra time
Refereeing: best efforts, ideally try to get at least one in the water please. Unfortunatly when games are in both courts, one team picks up both duties, but still better to have one in than not. |
B/C Grade |
The B/C grade has 20 players, so I've divided you up into 4 mini teams, and re-combine between weeks to add some variation. The suggested formations for each game are on the draw, but feel free to mix it up as long as it is NOT 2-3-1. Nydia has kindly offered to explain 1-1-1-1-1-1 to the B/C grade.
Referring: no obvious solution as everyone plays the whole time, unless people want to take turns rotating out to ref. |
Formations
2-2-2: The OG
2-1-2-1: Box variation
3-2-1: 90s Kiwi Domination [age grade teams]
1-3-2: The French
2-1-1: The Stabbity
1-1-1-1-1-1: The Compass ™
- 2 forwards, 2 mids, 2 backs
- Expert: everyone
2-1-2-1: Box variation
- 2 forwards, 1 centre, 2 backs, 1 goalie
- Experts: U19M players (Cam, Hamish)
3-2-1: 90s Kiwi Domination [age grade teams]
- 3 forward, 2 backs, 1 goalie
- Expert: Andy
1-3-2: The French
- 1 forward, 3 wings, 2 back/goalies
- Expert: Pierre
2-1-1: The Stabbity
- 5 dynamic players, 1 goalie
- Expert: Benson
1-1-1-1-1-1: The Compass ™
- 6 players
- One conga line
- Expert: Nydia
Teams
A/B Grade
B/C Grade
Draw
- 20 minute game slots: 8 min halves, 2 minute half-time, 2 minutes between games
- Refereeing preferred where possible (at least one in the water)
- A/B grade: 14 games, 7 referee duties
- B/C grade: 13 games, team combinations in draw along with suggested formations for each game
Next League - Club teams, preparation for nationals
Registrations will open late August.
- LENGTH: 5 nights with a scratch at the end
- TABLE: No
- REFS: Yes
- SCORES: To be celebrated but won't be recorded
- GRADES: Dependent on club team nomination
- MERCS: Nope (so sign up even if you're only intending to be here for a couple of nights)
Club Leagues Plan 2024
Please refer to the calendar below for the breakdown of all of the planned league nights.
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Please refer to the PDF with the decsriptions for each of the leagues below.
| 2024_club_league_descriptions.pdf |
Clubs Fees
Clubs Selection Process
| wuha_clubs_selection_process.pdf |
Pool Rules
General:
- Set up may begin at 7:20pm or earlier if the blue mats are down
- Goals and barriers must be placed on the blue mats when getting them in and out of the water
- 2 people per goal bin to carry and when swimming them in the water
- 1 person per yellow barrier to carry and when swimming them in the water
- There is to be no use of the bulk heads, if you must get from one side to the other either walk around or swim across
- There is to be no poolside changing (public have recently been complaining)
- A spotter is required for UWH and is a designated person focused on the pool at all times, they must be seated next to the pool on the blue chair
- Set up may begin at 7:20pm or earlier if the blue mats are down
- Goals and barriers must be placed on the blue mats when getting them in and out of the water
- 2 people per goal bin to carry and when swimming them in the water
- 1 person per yellow barrier to carry and when swimming them in the water
- There is to be no use of the bulk heads, if you must get from one side to the other either walk around or swim across
- There is to be no poolside changing (public have recently been complaining)
- A spotter is required for UWH and is a designated person focused on the pool at all times, they must be seated next to the pool on the blue chair
Barrier Placement
Previous League Results 2024
WUHA Cup 1 (15th Feb - 14th Mar)
| 2024_wuha_cup_league_1_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
Previous League Results 2023
WUHA Cup 4 (26th Oct - 30th Nov)
| 2023_wuha_cup_league_4_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
WUHA Cup 3 (22nd Jun - 11th Jul)
| 2023_wuha_cup_league_3_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
WUHA Cup 2 (27th Apr - 15th Jun)
| 2023_wuha_cup_league_2_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
WUHA Cup 1 (16th Feb - 6th Apr)
| 2023_wuha_cup_league_1_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
Previous League Results 2022
Cup 4 (3rd Nov - 1st Dec)
| wuha_cup_league_4_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
Cup 2 (5th May - 26th Jun)
| wuha_cup_league_2_-_wrap_up.pdf |
Cup 1 (10th Feb - 7th Apr)
| wuha_cup_league_1_-_wrap_up_published.pdf |
