2012 OFC Nations Cup Solomon Islands

You're kidding if you think Solomon Islands will turn over New Zealand. 

No, I'm not. But I'm not saying it will happen. I'm saying it could happen. But rather than re-type most of what I've written on this forum to justify my position on that for your benefit, I'll let your comment stand. 

Didn't realise but there's some ridiculous new rule applying to this tournie- two yellows and you're out for the next game! Going to be heaps of players suspended from all teams...See:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10810512

Apparently "players are suspended for one game if they pick up two yellows at any time in the competition."

Changes to AW's lineup for tomorrow:

' Herbert is likely to make a handful of changes. It's unlikely goalkeeper Mark Paston will be risked as he recovers from concussion, meaning Jake Gleeson could start - Glen Moss could play but is coming back from a torn adductor.

Chris Wood, Jeremy Brockie and Michael Boxall might also be given the nod with Marco Rojas, Leo Bertos and Ivan Vicelich the most likely to make way with Wood playing as a front pairing with Shane Smeltz and Kosta Barbarouses playing in behind.

Rojas was largely ineffective against Fiji as he struggled physically and Herbert is also mindful of the cards picked up by both Bertos and Vicelich that could hurt them later in the tournament - players are suspended for one game if they pick up two yellows at any time in the competition.

"It will be beneficial to try to rest some players but the ones who will come in were knocking on the door anyway," Herbert said. "It's not because we are playing PNG we are going to win comfortably. We need to be careful." '

Possible New Zealand side to play Papua New Guinea at the Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara, tomorrow (1pm NZT):

Gleeson; Sigmund, Smith (c ), Boxall; Brockie, Killen, McGlinchey, Lochhead; Barbarouses; Smeltz, Wood.

Substitutes from: Moss, Paston, Myers, Vicelich, Hogg, Bertos, Clapham, McGeorge, Howieson, Payne, Rojas, Fallon.

Yeah. I find this forum as most suitable to find out more on Oceanic football, and I see there is OFC TV commentator as member (I like his posts a lot). I hope to be up tonight to watch Kiwis against Farina's side, should be a great match. Shame that games are so early so I can not watch whole tournament - 8 pm local would have been awesome.

Little cloud cover today.  Could be a hot one.

Not good for us. 

Decent breeze though.

Anyone else having trouble purchasing the game? Same as last time.

Click purchase now and it just refreshes the page.

It just seems to very slow.

I think they have an issue keeping people logged in, when I went to the page to purchase it said "Hi, welcome back!" at the top of the page. When I am logged properly in it includes my name.

The New Zealand Football twitter account just posted that today's game is free to watch. Not sure how accurate that is though.

Had same problem but logging in and out had no result- (I was registered with e-cast from the Olympic qualifiers)

THE FINAL SOLUTION:

Only thing that worked for me in the end was to register under a different name and email and then I was able to purchase straight away.

Seems if, like me, you registered on the e-cast site to watch the Olympic qualifiers from Taupo a few months ago, then that registration won't work for the Nations Cup- bizarre and just a little incompetent on the part of whoever is running e-cast!  

[Quote New Zealand Football @NZ_Football]

#AllWhites v PNG: Gleeson (gk); Sigmund, Vicelich, Smith (c); Brockie, Killen, McGlinchey, Lochhead; Barbarouses, Smeltz, Wood.[/quote]

Anyone else find it weird Killie's playing as a deep lying midfielder when we have Ivan and Boxall in the squad who are there to do that job?

This OFC streaming is so frustrating, im going backwards and forwards, checkout, purchase and nothing seems to work...

http://www.speedyshare.com/pBQQc/nz-fiji-2nd-half.mp4

Here's the laggy screen cap of the fiji game i did for whoever the person was that PM'd me.

Ricki has always said he will find a way to get his best players on the field, Killen has better ball skills than those guys so he gets the nod

Hoping the stream chokes and I can watch it again for free... 

Ahhhh yup that's the solution. Seems like someone borked their DB migration to the site.

If when you login it says "Hi, welcome" instead of "Hi Sean, Welcome" then RE-REGISTER.

You'll need a new email address to register. I used my work one.

New Zealand vs Papua New Guinea:

Played: 3

NZ Wins: 2

PNG Wins: 1

Draws: 0

Goals: NZ 16, PNG 2

Previous Meetings:

July 2002: NZ 9 PNG 1 (in Auckland)

June 1997: NZ 7 PNG 0 (in Auckland)

May 1997: PNG 1 NZ 0 (in Port Moresby)

Yay, thanks to logging out and logging back in with another login it worked.

Yep had to reregister! Thank god for YF....I was at a loss what to do otherwise!

Stream just started, c'mon NZ!

Cheers for the re-registering hint. Was a little frustrating... and Yet I still blame sky...

Complained about the problems with the NZ/Fiji game - I'm pretty impressed with the response.

Got refunded for it and they made the rest of the games free :)

Smeltzy!!

Goall!!!!!!!!!!

goal!

Early lead for NZ...Smeltzy with the header

Killen looks ok inthat midfield position.

Hope Brockie can keep crossing like that for the Nix.

Smeltzyyy!!

Can I just say that I had absolutely zero problem signing up and watching the game? Pity I missed the first goal, though.

Stream is a bit stop start, anyone else got that ??

Smeltz loves Brockie I bet

Nor I & I also missed the goal farken.

yea a bit choppy, but my internet at home is crap too

anywhere to watch online?