All Whites v Ireland | Fri 15th November 2019 | 8.40am | SS7

Ireland have taken the rather odd step of naming their XI 24 hours before kick off. Very much second string but still some decent Premier League experience in there.

It would have been awesome to see Sheridan in the team...

Doubt he was even close. Their squad is almost entirely EPL and Championship players.

2 of Wood’s Burnley team mates named.

A close loss, and evidence of less route one football by AWs are my hopes. Will be much trickier if the Woodsman is absent.

Radio Sport just said Wood probably not playing anyone heard why.

Tightarse, er, glute

Does anyone know if this game is going to be played somewhere in Wellington CBD tomorrow? Preferably somewhere with good coffee, but beggars can’t be chooses.

Is the SkySportNow package likely to be better quality than the usual SkyGo or is it using the same tech?

Sometimes on at James Cook Hotel foyer..two screens.  Coffee okay

NZ at $9.60 on Betfair, $8 NZ TAB, seems about right? If Wood is confirmed as not playing probably drags that out past $10 though...

Much better 1080HD high bit rate compared to SD

international report on our fixture:

What’s worse than a meaningless friendly? A counterproductive friendly! So hats off to the Football Association of Ireland for arranging to play New Zealand on Thursday four days before their critical Euro 2020 showdown with Denmark.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/nov...

I never bet on friendly games anymore.. Got burnt way too many times. The results are way more unpredictable than in competitive matches

Anyone know if there is a broadcast in Australia?

10 minutes, fire the fark up! 15 months...

the 10th anniversary of the Bahrain game has made me soo much more amped to see the guys in white again. COYAW

starts for Just, McCowatt (what an 18months for that lad!) and Bell. 

i like our initial setup and the selection is very cool too!

how are we lining up?

Anyone got a stream? please

Sky Sports Now - $1.99. Worth supporting imo. 

4-3-3 / 4-2-3-1

marinovic - roux, reid, boxall, cacace - singh, bell, thomas - mccowatt, wood, just

big crowd

looking for a stream as well please. I'm overseas so can't watch on sky. Anyone got a link?

https://daddylive.live/channels/stream-35.php

only a short time in and Ireland have dominated the ball but pleasing to see that when we have it we are trying to play and there is no long ball kick and hope. Hope Hay can keep this approach going.

https://www.vipleague.pw/ireland-vs-new-zealand-streaming-link-3

Legend, thank you

mccowatt is really struggling

looks well below the standard

Agreed McCowatt and Just seem to be struggling with the step up to international football, not offering enough off or on the ball. The players you'd expect to be class (Thomas, Singh and Reid) have looked great though.

GOAL 

awesome

mccowatt

we'd been looking good

Woot!

you were saying 

goal for mccowatt

Mcowatt not up to standard eh!

Hahaha he scores. Have to say I disagree with you two. Too early a judgement. 17 months without a game, a debutant and a team trying to play a new type of game for us. Havent thought he was that bad, just inexperienced. His job is to score goals, he just did.

Haha Reg, we anti-jinxed McCowatt.