Has the All Star lost its shine?

It seems the Waikato Bay of Plenty Football Federation can't be arsed putting anything on their website about the annual All Star Game.

Interesting...and a little frustrating.

I know it was a fairly low key sort of a match, and many of the best players were missing, but it did have six goals and a penalty shoot-out. And some of the football was played to a decent standard.

Sorry to bag you Peter, but this isn't really good enough. Football is a 12 month of the year deal nowadays and it shouldn't take the best part of a week to get a basic report up (if it ever appears). I do despair, sometimes, at the level of PR nouse involved in our game.

I might be harsh in saying this, but it seems to be up to the clubs to do all the work to generate a profile for the game in our region, and yet it is the clubs that basically fund football in our region (we pay for refs, we pay excessive fines and, hell, we pay to keep the Fed and NZ Football afloat).

The money thing is a touchy area to venture into. It's starting to get really annoying, though. The football business model here appears to be built on clubs run by volunteers being cash cows to fund eveything else. Am I wrong? I hope to be proven so.

On a positive note, there is footage available of the All Star shoot-out. Okay, the South side (my side) lost, but how often do you actually get to see real digital video (or any other type of video) of our local football. Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/user/Swiftlyone