The All Whites. Road to South Africa 2010

you'd hope so eh, you homo racist cunt

mind you I'd probably get stabbed before the raping takes place

$40 was such a steal, even if tickets were $100 I'd still go and see it

now thinks back at Galaxy game what a waste of money

but that was about seeing Beckham then

so biggie meet next time AWs play in March in welly?

Props to Pstu for coming up with the biggest unintentional laugh on biggie since the 2 sleeps till xmas joke first appeared...

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Ahahahah, wtf?!!

Classic posts RA and HF


and yeah and psssst hehehehehhe

the fact is we all know we will get our azzes handed to us in South Africa. But it doesnt really matter. I literally stop for a month to watch the WC anyway. So the fact that NZ is playing means I now have more to do than cheer for the English/Argies/Russians and hate on the Australians/Itiliins/Camerooon etc

Olympics is the biggest event in world sport

no it's not

Nope. The Football World Cup is much bigger.

According to what?

More people watch the Olympics, more people participate, more spectators at the Olympics and more people watch it on TV. Its also makes more money ... so yeah according to who or what? Would be interested to know

Way more people watch the WC on telly

From what I can find around 3 billion people watched the 2006 WC and 4.3 billion watched the Olympics in 2008.

Link?

From wikipedia:

If you guys were Southlanders you'd feel a lot different about it.

Gap between Southland holding the Ranfurly Shield: 50 years

Gap between NZ reaching the Football world Cup finals: 28 years

You do the math.



Fuck I sound like Vads /slap

Did you just make that up?




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_of_sports_events

FAIL.

What a night though....special, very special.

pssssst. Im from Kaitangata. Close

My thoughts, aside from the first 5 minutes we were much better than than in the first half, I was worried that we wouldn't convert all the chances into a goal as we approached half time... Step up Rory Fallon to allay my fears, in the second half they controlled the game but that was largely down to our tactics, which were to sit back and play on the counter. Despite the control they exerted, other than the missed penalty I felt we were still the team more likely to score. Our defense was immense and the midfield pressured them well, having said that the Sunday Star Times player ratings were laughable... No player scored less than an 8, even Lochhead and McGlinchy who's blurbs did not suggest they were anything above a 5 or 6.

Oh and Smeltz at an 8 as well who compared to Killen and Fallon was very quiet, and missed the best chance we had to go two up when he opted for a low percentage drag flick in front of goal.

Smeltz wasn't quiet. He was simply shit on the night.

He saw a lot of the ball but constantly lost it, botched up passes and had poor shots on goal.

yeah I loled when I saw all those big numbers and dismissed them as the ravings of an over excited journo

Ive watched thr replay a couple of times now and we really need have quite afew gilt edged chances in front and one goal was a poor return from them all. Would like to see Wood have a long run about soon as I suspect he might be a bit moe clinical. Despite his age too. 17. wow. If hes got significant improving to do he could be a monster

Yeah I would have brought Wood on for Smeltz at some point in the second half rather than for Killen (I think it was Killen). But I guess given that he is a pure finisher Ricky wanted to keep him on for that one chance where he could've wrapped the game up. Well that and in changing to a 4-4-2 he probably wanted to have one target man and one quick striker rather than two target men.

Squad named.

Bring on the Socceroos!


New Zealand World Cup squad: James Bannatyne, Andy Barron Leo Bertos, Andy Boyens, Jeremy Brockie, Tim Brown, Jeremy Christie, Aaron Clapham, Simon Elliott, Rory Fallon, Chris Killen, Tony Lochhead, Michael McGlinchey, Glen Moss, David Mulligan, Ryan Nelsen (Captain), Mark Paston, Winston Reid, Ben Sigmund, Shane Smeltz, Tommy Smith, Ivan Vicelich, Chris Wood.

Who is mintgamecube

Unfortunately there will be no European players in the All White side to play the Socceroos. :-/

Never fear bro, players fresh from Europe can't handle the pace of the A-League game anyway so probably in our favour <:

Jeremy Christie and David Mulligan FFS!

ya I thought Christie was a starnge selection. Perhaps a case of camt find anoyone better?

Am very curious about this Winston dude. Apparently Serie A clubs are looking at him tho, and if he is as decent as that sounds we have got a pretty solid 3 at the back!

ya I thought Christie was a starnge selection. Perhaps a case of camt find anoyone better?

Am very curious about this Winston dude. Apparently Serie A clubs are looking at him tho, and if he is as decent as that sounds we have got a pretty solid 3 at the back!

Getting super exciting now! 1 month to go!!

darn!

I'm going to that

I thought Nelsen would fly back, Premier League is finished now

hmmm

still will be good, at least Aussies are minus Tim Cahill

great minds think alike

1 month till I get over there to SA and watch the darn thing