United left homeless

Wairarapa United are without a home ground for their 2011 central league football campaign.
The region's premier football club played the bulk of their home games at Hullena Park in Masterton this year but president Phil Keinzley confirmed yesterday they would have to look elsewhere next season.
The desire to play matches drawn at home on Sundays is part of the reason Hullena Park has been ruled out.
Wairarapa United is keen to move in that direction because it would mean limited playing resources are better served by the organisation of a game schedule, which allows for their seconds team to play their Capital competition games on Saturdays and the firsts to play as many of their central league games as possible on Sundays.
"When you have the two teams playing on the same day, you don't have the same back-up as you have when they are playing on separate days," Keinzley said.
"You only need to have a couple of injuries in the premier side and, suddenly, there are basically no reserves to call on."
Keinzley noted too that having the premier side play on Sundays meant team management had greater opportunity to analyse the form, individually and collectively, of other central league sides.
"It always helps to know what they have to offer and having the Saturdays free means we can travel around and do that," he said.
Another point in favour of Sunday matches was these gave the sporting community more chances to see Wairarapa United's central league side in action.
Keinzley said crowd sizes had dwindled to a degree last year when many of their home games were played on Saturdays, despite them finishing an impressive third on the competition table.
"Sunday play means people involved in other codes can come along and watch and, obviously, the bigger the crowd the better the players are likely to respond," he said.
Keinzley has no beef with the Masterton AFC's decision not to support Wairarapa United playing at their Hullena Park headquarters on Sundays.
"They have their own teams to look after on Saturdays and they don't want to have to stop their sides playing on their own grounds then so as to protect them for us," he said. "They have to put their own interests first and we understand that. They stood by us this year and we are very grateful for that."
And even if Wairarapa United were content to continue playing their home games on Saturdays, Hullena Park would "very probably" have been ruled out as the Masterton club had indicated they would be charging a fee for their use, and Keinzley said Wairarapa United would struggle to meet a commitment of that kind.
The problem for Wairarapa United, however, is that apart from Hullena Park there are no other football grounds in Wairarapa which have the amenities and the surface suitable for central league play, apart from Queen Elizabeth Park oval in Masterton, where there remain concerns footballers could damage the cricket wicket there.
"Right now we don't seem to have any options. If anyone can help us out we'd love to hear from them."