All Whites V New Caledonia 22 March 7:35pm - Craft Bar or Four Kings

thank fuck

does anyone in NZ football have the balls to pull the trigger?  sounds churlish but need to make that call

 We were lucky, bloody lucky

Thank christ for that. Totally undeserved, but that was one of the worst refereeing decisions I have ever seen. I hope our guys admit their shortcomings, but consequences for the refs? Never

herbert has to go

 We need to join Asia, we are just going to get players injured playing all these hacks. Players are not going to make themselves available for selection.

Awful game, great result.... Now the next game HAS to be In Wellington....

That was a fucking incredible spectacle. I was feeling sick there for a while. Some of those pricks need serious time out from the game.

 you got robbed that was a big  PENALTY   KICK....lucky  football always rescue titself from he mistakes of  the  refs

1-NZ  needs to try midfielders  one solution  to play reid as holding with mc glinchey   brockie and bertos on the sides

Missed a penalty red card, another red and how many yellows?

We now have 9 players on yellows. Expect a few to miss the 1st away leg now.

Holy crap how bad are we? Glad we snuck the 2nd still

FUCK YEA MOTHERFUCKER !

Oh my god, that was stressful. THE BET LIVES ON!

We played shite, but Caledonia and the Ref were cunts and fuck them we won.

Despite that performance, I like to think our team is actually ok. Disrupted preparation and there were bound to be nerves. I agree we have a HUGE amount of work to do to qualify, but we only seem to perform if we're the underdog.

at some point someone has to stop using the excuse "the result is all that matters".  We're playing the fucking Islands - the result should be a given

Reid needs some PR training..badly

Is Herbert perhaps involved in the worldwide match fixing scandal?

So does Gareth.

He's no Nelsen...

I think we have more important issues than PR training for Reid

MOTM:

Diz - for the link

Chotey & Piney -  for the commentary.

Kosta - for being the most hungry of all the actual players.

Man, PI teams give me the shits...

Tommy Smith saved Rickys job?

Hear him on radio sport? cringeworthy....

Ok, we were garbage and we're all breathing a huge sigh of relief. But as a football fan, how many times do we have to watch idiotic refereeing with no consequence? I understand they are human, but surely when you see a guy with half his forehead missing you go to your linesman and point to the spot? Football doesn't need goal-line technology, it needs refs who have half a clue about the game

How the fuck was smeltz not given a penalty? How could his head possibly be bleeding? It certainly wasn't from heading the fucking ball. ARGH

 Not having seen one second of the game it is pretty hard to say a lot.

I picked a 5-0 win and was not even close and from most of the comments I take it we were not that flash.

Without being detrimental to New C, if we can't beat them with any conviction then I don't fancy our chances of getting to Brazil.