Football
Wairarapa United's record of not having lost a game at their home venue of Howard Booth Park in Carterton for more than a year will be in jeopardy when they meet Petone in a Central League football match there on Sunday.
After all the crushing 8-0 defeat suffered at the feet of Wellington Olympic last weekend will not have done a lot for confidence, and neither will the knowledge that the last time these two teams met, Petone ran out comfortable 3-0 winners.
And then there is the admission by Wairarapa United coach Phil Keinzley he wants to use this game and the season's finale against Upper Hutt City seven days later to give further experience of playing at the higher level to some of the up-and-comers in the Wairarapa seconds team which has already won the Capital third division title. It's an understandable approach but shouldn't that also make the task easier for Petone?
For Keinzley, however, the outlook is anything but all doom and gloom.