All Whites' Dead End Road To Russia 2018

At least Messi will be playing for them this time.

Reid out of New Caledonia matches - hamstring

All Whites squad for New Caledonia fixtures in November

Goalkeepers
Stefan Marinovic (SpVgg Unterhaching, Germany) 10, 0
Tamati Williams (RKC Waalwijk, Netherlands) 1, 0
Glen Moss (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand) 29, 0

Defenders
Andrew Durante (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand) 11, 0
Bill Tuiloma (Marseille, France) 13, 0
Louis Fenton (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand) 7, 0
Thomas Doyle (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand) 3, 0
Michael Boxall (SuperSport Utd, South Africa) 19, 0
Kip Colvey (San Jose Earthquakes FC, USA) 6, 0
Themi Tzimopoulos (PAS Giannina FC, Greece) 8, 1
Deklan Wynne (Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Canada) 4, 0
Liam Graham (Chesterfield FC, England) 2, 0

Midfielders
Clayton Lewis (Auckland City FC, New Zealand) 5, 0
Michael McGlinchey (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand) 40, 4
Te Atawhai Hudson-Wihongi (Auckland City FC, New Zealand) 3, 0
Moses Dyer (Eastern Suburbs AFC, New Zealand) 6, 0
Ryan Thomas (PEC Zwolle, Netherlands) 5, 0
Henry Cameron (Blackpool FC, England) 2, 0

Forwards
Kosta Barbarouses (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand) 35, 3
Chris Wood (Leeds Utd, England) 44, 18
Monty Patterson (Ipswich Town FC, England) 7, 1
Marco Rojas (Melbourne Victory FC, Australia) 28, 2
Rory Fallon (Truro City FC, England) 24, 6

Thinking that with the latest squad, at least for the home game, we will probably see:

Marinovic

Graham, Boxall, Tzimopoulos, Durante, Wynne

Tuiloma, McGlinchey

Thomas

Wood, Rojas

Most likely change to that would be Lewis into midfield, perhaps with Tuiloma playing somewhere at the back.

Tuiloma listed as a defender seems a little strange. Maybe looking to use him as one of the wing backs?

No real surprises there. Still I would like to see Smeltzy or Boyd being called instead of Fallon. He's not even playing for a 6th tier team.

Don't at all get the ongoing Tyler Boyd snub.

I thought Smith was meant to be back?

He's injured. Will be back for the March games.

Smith has no excuse for the March window.

Seems the spirit of Ryan Nelsen lives on

When he will be back to basics shoring up the defense at the back and backing himself in the 50/50 challenges until he is injured and subbed - but that back will be back.

As for the Reid article - chime - same again geezer - "we have depth the squad is bigger ....yadda yadda yadda"

It is called the "The Reid-Thomas-Smith Clause" - for whenever they feel a bit poorly they veto a trip downunder and we bring back someone else from the wilderness.

Then the Moss quote - "he was always in my thinking" but obviously not on your cell phone - the guy had to fly to Auckland to read your mind Hudson - now he's getting upptie about New Caledonia "We have the squad to deal with them ...."

What's on your mind now Hudson and Hall - we have no idea.

At least with Smith he hasn't played for a while and not due back until December, Reid however played a full 90 last weekend and probably will play after the international window.

Most likely. but then again he went to the US so I'm inclined to believe there isn't some kind of injury. Think NZF practice is they ask for the relevant medical documents. Whether clubs actually comply with that is another story. I've heard it's been an issue in the past.

Reid didn't play on the weekend. Is listed as injured.

Someone should ask on Tyler Boyd

As an opposite to that I really cannot for the life of me see why Moses Dyer is still in the squad. I have watched him play for Onehunga Sports and now for Suburbs and he adds nothing as far as I can see!

I have nothing against him personally but if he cant get into the Suburbs midfield ahead of Burfoot and Payne something is wrong!!! 

Played against Everton didn't he?

Yep, my boys in Blue thrashed the Hammers with Reid in the team.

The loyalty of some of these fudgeing players man... It pisses me off. 

People need to be a bit realistic about availability of Reid half way through a long EPL season. The guy is now 28 and for last few years has constantly been struggling with lower back/hamstring injuries. He will battle these niggles the rest of his career. Flying 20 hours to NZ even in business class ain't good for these type of injuries.

He committed to the 2 quality friendlies recently, and would have got well imbedded with Hudson's systems, his role as captain/leader/best player - plus got to spend 10 days with many guys he wouldn't have met before.

AWs should be well too good for New Caledonia without Reid. The much greater benefit was having him available for the recent quality USA/Mexico games. If Hudson keeps Reid and West Ham both well happy, then Reid will be appreciative and well committed for the big games that matter.

Fans in NZ, may not like it but reality is, need to treat Reid differently than most of the other players - esp as he ain't a young injury free kid anymore.

No Storm Roux? I know he was injured for a while but looked really good last weekend for CCM against Sydney B. I'd take him over Fenton any day.

Take it Roux is eligible?   Seems a strange omission. Highly rated over here in Oz.

What could happen if Winnie came down under to play with his dodgy hammy.

Tears his hamstring off the bone, catching his studs in a North Harbour stadium pothole, at 89 mins mark.

AWs leading 5-0 at the time

Still some Generation Y AWs fans are ecstatic as they get to take 'selfies' of them and Reid as he is stretchered down the tunnel

Bilic rings up Hudson and tears him a new arsehole in Croatian

West Ham looks to sue NZF but realises they have no money

Kevin Muscat says he sent West Ham a fudgeen fax, warning them about that fudgeen sandpit in fudgeen Auckland

New Caledonia complains about the playing surface and cold

AWs lose return leg 0-1. Complain about the heat

Reid is out injured for 6 months

Rory rings Winnie and recommends a great healer called JC. Reid blocks Rory's calls

A young fit cheap CB from Liberia, becomes a fixture in West Ham's defence as they go on a pre Christmas winning run.

West Ham finish EPL season in 9th, and young Liberian CB is offered a 5 year deal

Reid is on the outer at the Hammers, and "Tommy Smith like" is not returning Mr Hudson's ph calls, ie giving NZF the silent treatment

West Ham refuse to release Reid for any games/AWs camps outside FIFA windows.

Reid goes into Confeds Cup woefully out of shape

By South American playoff games in October 2017 he is still out of West Ham 1st team squad, and considering a loan deal to Leyton Orient.

AWs lose to Ecuador 2-3 on aggregate with an unfit Reid conceding a late own goal.

One consideration is the opposition we are playing.

If you are carrying even the slightest injury, why risk it with the crude tackling technique of the island footballers and even worse island referees (and thats very much on the money before anyone cries racist based on history)

I give you exhibit A  (please note the opposition although I think the ref in this one was Australian)

he's been ruled out for 3-5 weeks so that puts it all to rest anyway.

Strebre Delovski reffed that game IIRC

Seeing that photo makes me wonder once again why Smeltz is not in the squad.

he's just won the Malaysian Cup. Scoring goals. I even think the Nix could use an experienced striker like him even on a short term deal..

That's super tough on Reid as Orient is on its way out of the football league.  Reid would be playing only one division higher then Rory.

If anyone is interested in going to the Fiji away leg, Air NZ has a sale to the Islands atm.

Don't delude yourself, a couple of glasses of wine, a patented RR back massage, the way the moon glints off the sea, the perfect white sand between your toes. There's only one way its heading.

If anyone's interested, Tahiti vs Solomon Islands is today at 6:00 pm. Not sure if there'll be an official OFC stream or not. Group B has those two teams and PNG.

Tahiti defeat the Solomons 1–0 thanks to a goal from Tauhiti Keck. The reverse match (Solomons vs Tahiti) will be on Sunday at 5 pm (NZ time).

PNG play Iran on the 10th.  They played Malaysia in June (and won 2-0).  

Maybe NZF should speak to them about arranging decent friendlies or maybe we should actually invite them here for a match.  Just use the Oceania/out of season lads to keep the AWs in the public eye, would be a decent hit out, could be played in Hamilton or Christchurch instead of the usual culprits.

PNG manager Flemming Serritslev has coached in the Iranian league, so that probably gave him the connections to arrange a match against Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_Serritslev

When Hudson eventually goes, Serritslev would be a good option for the All Whites and / or our youth sides, our technical set-up etc.

He's too good to be coaching PNG - former Denmark national team assistant and long-time Denmark u-21 head coach.

He is 69 however. It's a shame he's not coaching in NZ right now.