All Whites vs Fiji | Sat 25 Mar | 2:00pm | SS3

Good little 1pm kick off time in Fiji. Match chat here. Sounds like we'll be going 5-3-2

Goalkeepers: Stefan Marinovic, Tamati Williams, Glen Moss.

Defenders: Andrew Durante, Thomas Doyle, Michael Boxall, Kip Colvey, Themi Tzimopoulos, Deklan Wynne, Winston Reid, Sam Brotherton, Tommy Smith, Dane Ingham.

Midfielders: Bill Tuiloma, Clayton Lewis, Michael McGlinchey, Moses Dyer, Ryan Thomas.

Forwards: Chris Wood, Monty Patterson, Marco Rojas, Shane Smeltz, Jai Ingham.

Couple of open training sessions coming up.

Monday 20 March
Training from 11am – 12:15pm at David Farrington Park, Wellington (open session)

Tuesday 21 March
Training from 4pm – 5:15pm at David Farrington Park (open session)

Assuming 5-3-2 I'm guessing Hudson will go something like.....But who knows

                      Marinovic

Ingham     Box   Reid    Smith    Wynne

                         Themi

         McGlinchey     Thomas

                   Wood     Rojas

Marinovic

Tzimi, Reid, Smith

Ingham, Lewis, Tuiloma, McGlinchey, Wynne

Rojas, Wood

Hudson specifically mentioned that Themi has been playing as a DM recently so got me wondering if that was foreshadowing something.

1 pm kickoff time in Fiji = 2 pm in NZ I think?

Saturday 25th March

Should be live on Sky TV?

Fiji have a new coach (arrived in January) Frenchman Christophe Gamel, a former Paris Saint-Germain Women's Team assistant coach 2012-16. He was at PSG Ladies during the most successful period in their history when they were runner-up every season he was there to perennial champions Lyon and made the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. He has a UEFA Pro badge and has coached the Qatar national u-17 and u-19 teams 2009-10 and Al-Rayyan club side in Qatar, and the DVTK club in Hungary:

http://fijisun.com.fj/2016/12/31/our-new-coach/

https://www.oceaniafootball.com/fiji-appoint-new-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christo...

http://www.psg.fr/en/Association/4010005/Women-tea...

Fiji's French coach Christophe Gamel on the side's problems:

https://www.fijifootball.com.fj/fiji-prepares-for-...

Two key midfielders, Zibraaz Saheb and Malakai Tiwa are unavailable.

Several other FIJI players continue to be unavailable due to having two clubs playing in the OFC Champions League, Ba and Rewa. Ba have completed their games (thrashed 8-0 by Team Wellington in their last game March 4). But Rewa don't finish their Group D matches in Tahiti until March 17, a week before the All Whites game. Some Ba players are having trouble getting further time off work after the OFC champions League games.

The remaining players entered camp on the weekend.

Roy Krishna and the Rewa players won't join the Fijian training camp until March 20:

https://www.fijifootball.com.fj/roy-to-join-camp/

"Gamel said he has included some new faces in this camp after watching their performance in the league games.

Suva goalkeeper Emori Raqata, defender Tomasi Uculoa and young striker Sairusi Nalaubu have been incuded in the extended squad.

Rewa players expected to join the camp are Peniame Drova, Amani Makoe, Epeli Saukuru, Joseteki Taumudu and Simione Tamanisau."

Seems Fiji are calling up two NZ-based players, James Hoyt and Rinal Prasad:

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=392655

Christophe Gamel, Paris Saint-Germain Féminines:

Have seen somewhere that the away leg is live on Sky.

im looking forward to this.  Feels like ages since the last game. 

I am expecting us to really dominate the NZ leg. With our big names here I am hoping for a decent crowd and performance to match.

Evening less than a 3 goal buffer in my mind will be disappointing.

$31 a head on a Tuesday? You're dreaming.

For the Wellington game, where's the best place to get tickets for White Noise? Also, if we have a large group planning on being in there, do we all have to purchase tickets together or do you just rock up to the zone and stand wherever?

Ticketek - select the white noise section - tickets just have Aisle number 22 on it, no seat numbers so just rock up

if the match in Fiji is on Sky, could some one do us foreign based kiwis a favour and stream it please!!!

Couple of open training sessions coming up.

Monday 20 March
Training from 11am – 12:15pm at David Farrington Park, Wellington (open session)

Tuesday 21 March
Training from 4pm – 5:15pm at David Farrington Park (open session) 

PAX just sneaking over 3000

Got my tickets as soon as they came out.

With the AWs hardly ever playing in Wellington, I'd be disappointed if at least 6-8k don't show up for it.

Tuesday night and people don't seem to like the $31 price for the tickets when its "Fiji" from what I see on social media makes me think we will be looking at a 6k crowd.

I know they can't play all the games in Auckland, but if Fiji on a Tuesday night was at Mt Smart, you'd clear 10K crowd in Fijians alone...

Coming to Wellington for this. Will try to wrangle a few more to come along

Any football coach that makes his players attend training when an All Whites game is on is mad. Make it a team bonding trip. Football players are the No 1 target audience here surely.

I bought 6  tickets

Silly duffer

It's the Tuesday after the first game of the season (well for NRFL), that's a pretty crucial training if you ask most coaches.  

A more sensible approach may be to move training to another night if possible.

I believe the Westpac gates now show different colours when scanning adult and children tickets so the people at the gate can see what type of ticket you have when scanned.

Because it is dishonest and a prick of a thing to do.

It's also the NRFL, not the English Premier League. 

Why are people turning their nose up at the cost of the tickets?  That's £15 or three beers in London.

I spent more than that on Tuesday night to watch Plymouth Argyle draw with Wycombe at Wycombe (£22/$45).  Two sides I expect the AWs to walk away with a relatively easy win.  Seems like people looking for a poor excuse to not go.

Beer is that cheap in London?

sorry but that's dumb attitude - for some people who play NRFL it's their premier league - just like us as fans of the Nix treat them like our premier league side.

No-one is trying to say the quality of NRFL is anywhere near premier league but to just half ass something because it's not the VERY VERY TOP elite level is pretty cup half empty.

I'm not saying teams should def train or teams should def go to the game instead - I am just saying I could see why a coach and his players for that matter might choose to train instead.

And, at least your spending less.