ALL WHITES V BAHRAIN - Official 2nd Leg T

Is the festival of football the same as the street football? And is it open for outa-towners to show their footballing prowess?  Anything like that organised?  Has the NZFC match been confirmed for a particular time yet?

Street Football is homeless World Cup related and is combined with NZ Freestyle champs as the Festival of Football.  At this stage the Team Wellington game looks like it will be at 16:00 - Newtown already booked, no other venues.

Junior News has spent many (early) evenings at the Kings.  He is now 10.  Post game might be a bit dodgier but during the day no problem at all.

Am I classed as homeless seeing as I'm up from Chch?  My boy has seen many a pub too before, so the 4 kings it is!

Swine Flu hits Blackburn rovers.

BUGGER!!!!!

Surly fate wouldn't be this nasty.

yea no talk yet of ryan being hit. samba and dunn were missing from the chelsea game and one other player has got it. aswell some staff. they will quarantine them and hopefully that will prevent any other guys getting it

I had a dream last night that I was late for the game, then couldn't find the stadium and ended up missing it, even though I begged blues legend Robert Johnson to magically transport me there.

It was a crappy, horrible, crappy, crappy, horrible, crappy dream.

Whats happening on sat? i will be down from hamilton and was wondering what sort of things will be leading up to kick off

Uruguayan refferee announced by FIFA with his country men running the lines.

Not much. Just rock up to the ground 10 mins before kick off

. Stop eating so much cheese just before bed Cosimo!
Seriously, I had the same thought that all the buses were full & could n't get back from Team Welly v ACFC for the AWs v Bahrain.
As if I couldn't get there inside four hours! Banish that dream.

Two hours...  that game is now 16:15.

if you turn up to Queens Wharf Square there will be plenty of football related entertainment from 11.30-4.00pm Salmon072009-10-27 16:15:12

...and Exodus Yellow Fever Team Wellington vs Auckland City at 16:15.

Im gonna put that out there, that is a ridiculous time. Finishing about 6-6.15 leaving only 2 hours to get to the ground, town will be heaving, the lines to get into the stadium will be long. Others might disagree but the game should have been at lunchtime to allow people plenty of time to get back from the game and get to town.

too...much....football....for...one.. man...to...handle  

Yes.  Fair call.

Unfortunately Newtown is booked for another event earlier in the day and no other appropriate (and practical) grounds are available.

Ideally we wanted it at 14:30-15:00 so people could get from the Festival up there and still have plenty of time to return, but we can't get Newtown in time.

Incredibly disappointing as we were chasing a big crowd.
Hard News2009-10-27 16:32:18

Ask feverish, I'm just the poster boy.

how about that uruguayan referee? Thoughts?

Yeah might have to give the TW game a miss, for all the newcomers in the group i think the pub will be more appealing.

What time you reckon you will have to show up at the BackBencher before they put the 'full house' sign up. Or is this Mansfield Street Party still going ahead?

Uraguay is supplying ref and rest of the match officials.

Can anyone enter the freestyle festival?

Sounds like a little bit card happy...

Good news for us i think, especially with the theatrics that Bahrain pput in last time.

Id kind of go with bad news if hes card happy. We play more of a physical game,which is bad with that kind of ref,also Bahrains theatrics will encourage the cards to come out further.

yea i dont think it will have that much a bearing on the game

So Old for a recall? I think it makes complete sense. Drop Mulligan or Scott, and bring him in. Then theres the chance of Brockie too?  Will have to make a big call but maybe even drop both Scott and Mulligan for Brockie and Old. Brockie off the bench will cause a stir up i reckon

I guess if they want to go to a 442 then the problem area is right back. It kind of makes sense to recall Old as he is currently playing in that position in a good comp. but I still break out in a cold sweet recalling some of his defending in phoenix season 1.

But hopefully the guy has progressed and would add something to the squad.

Mulligan and Scott are just too risky....the other option is Siggy. He wouldn't particularly want to do it but he would never let us down playing there. That would leave the experianced old heads of Vicilich and Nelson in CD

That USA v Italy game was brutal, all the cards were well deserved. De Rossi broke McBride's nose with a flying elbow from memory.

yea that de rossi elbow was quite a hit if i recall. quite an exciting game that one. dont care what happens come nov 14 as long as we win

siggy was hinting that the 442 would be deployed with scott/sigmund in rb. nothing said about mully.

I'd have Siggy and Ryan at centre backs and Old at right back. Lochy on the other side obviously. Across the middle would be Super Leo, Brown, Eiliot, McGlinchy. and Smeltz and Killen up front.

I'm sorry but I just can't get the image of "Old - version 2007/08" out of my head.  He really was catastrophic at times during that season for the Phoenix.

you and 34,000 others

Apart from sky tv can anyone confirm that TV1 will also play either live or delayed coverage on Nov 14?? Heard a rumour that Steve Sumner was going was going to be guest commentator for TV1?? darkhorse2009-10-28 19:30:25

I share the memories of Old for the Phoenix but I still reckon he had great Olympics and that gave me hope. But, the things is, even though he is playing at right back for Killie I am pretty sure that is because they are short of options there (I get the impression he did well at CB pre-season but got shifted out to the right to do a job, which he has done adequately). He is a centre back in my view and not a bad one, particularly if you want your centre-backs to defend - less so if you want them to play. I would be quite concerned about that speedy left winger for Bahrain running at him and Im also thinking we are going to have to look to our wing backs to play and get forward a bit in Wellington - we need to win - im not sure thats his game.