Welcome to Waterside Karori Football in 2012

 Key Dates
Extra Programmes
Club Rooms
Playing Gear
Purchasing Gear
Grades and Ages
Player Profile
Key Information per Grade
Playing Times
Cancellations and Transfers
Club Committee and Grade Coordinators
Coaches' Education

Karori Football Club Committee warmly welcome you and invite you to enjoy football with us in 2011 and explore all that the Club has to offer you.
Club Rooms are on Karori Park. They provide you with a space to relax and meet, enjoy cafe food and meals. Our new cafe business provide excellent, rapid, high quality service. The spacious rooms are available to relax in and enjoy sport and the surroundings.
Junior Football is a large section of Waterside Karori Associated Football Club (WKAFC). WKAFC is one of the largest football clubs in New Zealand with over 1100 members (750 juniors in mixed teams playing on Saturdays and girls only teams playing on Sundays. There are 300 seniors in 18 teams).
The new Club website provides current news on events, dates and player information.  We aim to help you and your young footballer enjoy many hours of fun, support for player development and learning.
Please feel free to contact your Grade Coordinator with any queries you wish to talk over. Their contact details are on the website.

 Key Dates

9th Grade and older starts on Saturday 21 April
8th Grade and younger (including SonicSixers and Super7s - 5 to 7 year olds) starts on either Saturday 21 April or Saturday 28 April tbc
Sundays Girls Only Football starts on Sunday 22 April
End of Winter Season is weekend of 27/28 August
Football games are not held in the middle weekend of school holidays i.e. 23 April and 23 July

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 Extra Programmes

Each year our Club runs optional extra programmes for keen footballers to develop further
They include: April and July Holiday Skills Programmes with excellent facilities, curricula and top level coaching services
There are a further two programmes run each summer over Terms 4 and 1.
The Summer Soccer Skills Programme (SSP) and the High Performance Players programme (HPP).  Please talk with your Coach or Grade Coordinator about these extra opportunities to develop football skills and techniques.

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 Karori Park Club Rooms
You are welcome to enjoy the Clubs Rooms on Karori park at any time 12 months of the year when they are open. We have a fine café with plenty of room to relax and meet.
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 Playing Gear
Players require boots and shin pads.  The Club uniform is black shorts and Club socks. The club provides each team with playing shirts.
Care and return of all the club equipment is vital and saves Club funds.  Gear is a major budget item.  Our Gear Convenor provides 'care' requests to coaches and managers.
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 Purchasing Gear
Munros in the Karori Mall stock: Karori Club socks, boots, shin pads, shorts. All available from Munro Shoes in the Karori Mall.
Football Central (Champs Sports) in CBD - provide a wide range of top quality items.
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 Grades and Ages
Junior footballers are graded according to the age they will have become during the calendar year. These can differ from the school year. A player's grade is (2012 minus the year of birth). e.g. a player born in 2006 will be in SonicSixers (for 5 and 6 year olds), if born in 2005 then will be in Super7s (our grade 7), if born in 2004 then will be in grade 8.
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 Your Player Profile available on the website
You can log on at Club website and enter your details securely and confidentially. You will see your full team contact details when you login. Often Coaches, Team Managers and Parents need to make rosters and be in contact with the team.  This information is available only to each team's members upon a secure login.
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 Information on our Football Grades
SonicSixers Grade is for players born in 2006 and a few from 2007.  The games are at Karori Park every Saturday morning from 8.30 to 9.30am.  Boots and shin pads are essential.  Players are to wear clothing appropriate for the conditions. Super7s is our Club's 7th Grade and is run on a similar format to SonicSixers but expertly designed for the older children.  The format is coaching followed by competitive games at the same location.  This format enhances individual player development and enjoyment for the children playing football.  Super7s meet at Karori Park on Saturday mornings from 9.30 to 10.30am. The coaching and games are played on Karori Park on Fields #2 and #3.  We encourage our parents to take great care of the grass.  Adults walking back and forth on one line make a much bigger impact on the grass than the players. We call these two grades format our Player Development Programme or PDP.  The format is the first half is spent on enjoyable football coaching appropriate to the age. This follows our own well developed curriculum.  In the second half of each Saturday session games are played in an internal competitive draw. The emphasis with these small sided games (five players vs five players) is to encourage maximum time with a ball for each player. Every player has a ball to train with during the Saturday sessions.  Our Gear Convenor has a supply of second grade balls if you would like one for home use.

In 2012 Grade 8 will also be run along similar lines to Super 7s, meeting at Karori Park each week. For more information on changes to the grading system for 2012, please look at this page. 
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 Juniors' game playing times
Grades 9 to 14 play in the Wellington district league competition. These games begin at varying times on Saturday mornings according to the published weekly draw.  The draw is published weekly by our federation (www.capitalfootball.org.nz).  This is published during the week, sometimes earlier where games are played away on the artificial turfs.  The final version of the draw to work with is the one published in Thursday's DomPost and itself is subject to alteration, postponement and cancellation on Saturday mornings via radio.
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 Cancellations and Transfers
These are given every half hour starting at 7.00am on NewstalkZB (freq 1035AM) on Saturday mornings. The day could be beautifully fine; however there may have been heavy rain earlier in the week and/or the Council may have closed the grounds.  Your team may also have a ground change - it always pays to listen to these.  Coaches and Grade Coordinators also find out by listening to the radio.  Capital Football may also place cancellation information on their website.
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 Club Committee details are on the Club website
There are two tables: Committee and Grade Coordinators. All parents/players are welcome at any time at Committee meetings.  We are an incorporated society and hold an annual general meeting in March each year.  We have a Club Executive that oversees and governs matters relating to our whole Club (Juniors and Seniors). Ten Grade Coordinators manage team building following any selections and locating coaches and managers.  The website, your team coach and Grade Coordinator are the source of regular information and answers for you during the season.
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 Coaches' Education
We will be running an introductory course for new coaches at the beginning of the 2012 season and will support and encourage all coaches attending further courses at Capital Football in Petone. More details to come.
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