Unless Thomas and Singh were injured .That was such a poor decision to sub them. In my opinion they are two best players in team with Wood of course. We made Aussie look average and they are average. We had an opportunity to beat them twice and the coach did nothing to help. It's time we started beating teams like Australia especially at this moment when we have such creative quality players. It may sound ruthless but I'm not sure Bazeley is good enough. That was infuriating seeing Thomas and Singh come off when we were dominating Australia
Someone said they were on a limited minutes agreement or something?
Its very hard to swallow, turning the team upside down when we were dominating the game. This is the sort of thing you would see in the social grades where everyone deserves a run because they all play their subscriptions
As above there are likely agreements between NZF and Forest, Zwolle etc on how many mins some of the AWs players will be on. Wood has had a bad unlucky trend lately of picking injuries on AWs duty downunder
Has been a lot of the talk the last 6 months about Thomas only coming back in when he thought his body could handle the extra load of international football.
As it is we got him one window earlier than scheduled ie it was to initially be October. Man he was good
Starting to think yes a diamond midfield of Bell, Stamenic, Thomas and Singh our best formation. Just and Wood up top. Tika taka keep the ball and like the goal verus Ivory Coast, score from fast turnovers. Was a delight to see the frustrated looks on the Socceroos players in the first half, they literally were chasing ghosts sometimes.
Work on set piece goal opportunities as well. I had hoped Boxy would have a few throwins. He’s had a number of throwin assists with Minnesota this season. Was Baze keeping that up his sleeve? But then Boxall probably won’t start at Mt Smart
Can see Poppa starting a whole new midfield in game 2. Their starters were poor