Garbett didn't impress me over these two games. His touch is a little heavy and I think he can be a little lazy at times with his tracking etc. Gives really good moments of energy, but other times seems to fade out.
I would keep Stamenic and play him alongside Rufer in the middle with Singh playing ahead of them. Old and McCowatt on either side of Wood on the flanks.
The sad thing is, with our next level of opposition we won't really find out aything new about our players.
I would keep Stamenic and play him alongside Rufer in the middle with Singh playing ahead of them. Old and McCowatt on either side of Wood on the flanks.
The sad thing is, with our next level of opposition we won't really find out aything new about our players.
Yes OFC qualifying will tell us nothing about where the AWs are at. I predict we win each game in NZ by 5 goals all more. Tahiti in Vanuatu a bit tougher.
Blessing is it's all over quickly by next March, and does have 4 actual (5 with the Malaysia friendly) AWs games in NZ.
But leave truly assessing how the AWs are tracking again, from June next year.
Baz needs to start playing NZs best XI every game even in the islands to gel the players with each other. That's what worked so well for us in '09/10. No more fringe players in the squad.
Today's game was not even the best eleven foot players available to NZ. I do wonder if maybe the players are coaching themselves due to Baze's ineptness as was the case under Ricki.
Who was missing from our best team? The list to choose from isn't very long...
Roux being the most obvious fit example.