All Whites V Tahiti Tues 16th 7:30pm

What about Wellington is wonderful? Surely that would be popular?

Always had a feeling the white noie zone would be screwed up. Worked out well in the end although it was only the simple chants that were really getting going.

 the crowd was surely larger than the listed gate.

game failed to reach any great heights, but all good to have a proper game down here

Former All Whites coach John Adshed talks to Radio Sport's Mark Richardson ahead of the second football match between the All Whites and Tahiti in Christchurch.

http://www.radiosport.co.nz/player/ondemand/602729818-all-whites-at-home-against-tahiti

All Whites assistant coach Neil Emblen chats with D'Arcy on Drive about the testy 3-0 win over Tahiti in Christchurch

http://www.radiosport.co.nz/player/ondemand/830428979-all-whites-assistant-coach-neil-emblem

have the rules changed, or has I <3 Nix just gone rogue?

edit - bold doesn't seem to work

At $8.30 a pint I wont be going back there either, but I didn't think it was that bad.

Yeah.  But Honduras could've and probably should've lost to Canada in Canada.  International football - you must believe.

Yep, agree with that too. No-one will ever underestimate us again.

The other difficulty we will have is making sure we play enough games next year to keep the guys playing together. In 2009 we had the Confederations Cup plus friendlies around that, and another friendly with Jordan, altogether 8-9 games in a few months prior to the game with Bahrain. At the moment we have 2 World Cup qualifiers in March and a big gap which we'll need to fill with some friendlies, and finding decent opposition will be tricky with qualifying still going on in other regions. And this time around we'll only be facing a 4 day turnaround between the two play-off games, rather than the month last time around. So it looks to be a much tougher proposition on multiple fronts.

WTF, more people watch the post game coverage than the actual match coverage

http://www.throng.co.nz/2012/10/tv-ratings-16-october-2012/

Most watched on SKY Sport 3

1. Intl Soccer Post Game: 45,480 (9:30pm – 9:50pm)
2. Intl Soccer: 28,560 (7:45pm – 9:30pm)
   
   
   

Was there something on after the post game that people may have tuned in early for?

For all the complaints that football is not looked after by Sky, we have an competitive international live on TV, in a great time zone, with our strongest team available, and we get less than 30,000 viewers.  On the Tuesday a week earlier, Counties vs Tasman rugby game got 42,000 viewers.

there has been so much angst at Sky over the years, with complaints that live football gets bumped off for highlights of schools rugby, but the bottom line is that ratings are king and if there are not enough watching football (and more watching other events) then that is what will take priority.

I wonder how the work out ratings for those of us who had to record the game and watch it later?

Term X is right.  If you can't understand that, you're an enemy of football (ie., a sheep farmer/moron).

 I might be wrong but I think Timmy is a Canterbury farmer... and clearly not a moron.

I am indeed a Canterbury farmer. I got the gist of what you were saying but was a tad curious as to the connection between morons and sheep farmers.

The fact that you don't understand something isn't surprising - moron. 

;)

Back from match..albeit via Hanmer Springs for 2 nites.  Lovely to wake up to it snowing this morning.  Anyway..surprised that I cant see any comment about the state of the pitch which apparently contributed to the need to hoof it long and negated Kosta and Marcos usual style.,  Two good articles on it in the Press post match.  I concur with the ref angst and antics of some Tahitian players..they had some talent tho I though and at times outpassed us...despite the "sticky" pitch.

Stomping on the floor of the temp stands created racket..good sized crowd I thought.

I agree I thought the stamping on the stands worked well too, it surprised me a little how well some of those entrenched rugby fan things worked. Canterbury had played a ITM Cup match 2 days before, and another game there on Saturday which would explain the 'sticky' felling the pitch gave. Ground staff probably kept the grass longer and there would have been scuff marks everywhere from the rucks.

 Watching the Tahiti lads practice their longer passes pre game along the ground you could see the ball snaking along (and not in a manner which was due to their skill)

I am a cocky, but I also run lambs. We are twice a day until March when we go to 16 hourly.

Back to the topic at hand, I could be wrong but I thought the Rugby Channel was actually independently owned (like SoHo and Rialto). I'm sure if someone had the funds and the drive they could put the idea of a Football Channel to Sky. I do find it incredibly hard to believe that only 28,560 people watch the live broadcast given the interest that I personally saw from people (although that may have been due to the locality of the match). Also I'm almost certain that if it had been followed up on Prime or TV One the numbers would have gone up significantly. It would be interesting to know how many people watched the replay either the next day, today or the highlights on 33.

Has anyone got a link to video highlights of the game.  OFC hasn't put anything up and a youtube search brings up nothing either.

http://www.3news.co.nz/All-Whites-battle-for-3-0-victory/tabid/317/articleID/272980/Default.aspx