AW's vs NC - Take Two - Home match Thread

How far along will Eden Park be I wonder ?  Test drive it...

 10 in the past six games though Leeds_Chris2008-09-10 21:22:04

smeltz off for old

How long left?

5 minutes plus added minutes.

Radio said official crowd was 6,500

6,500

6,500 crowd according to radio sport

TV's 'official' number was that 7,600 number.  It's wrong.

Average the two out, 7,000.

TV eh, always getting the numbers wrong

"They enjoy playing with each other."

I quite like Ivan as comments man... he needs to get a bit more excited but he adds value for me.

Easy !

"what the all whites will cop here tonight is a 3-0 win"

Good win, sounds like we dominated all match. Nothing wrong with that really.

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Jock Aird

Bobby Almond

Jack Baker

Gordon Barker

Andy Barron

Shaun Baxter

Bill Brownlee

Allan Carville

Dennis Charlton

Tinoi Christie

George Cuthill

Lew Daniels

Gerard Davis

Nigel Debenham

Declan Edge

Thomas Edge

Adrian Elrick

Tony Evans

Jim Ferrier

Tony Gowans

Matt Guildea

Reg Haggett

Brian Hardman

Iain Hastie

Terry Haydon

Dick Hislop

Bill Hooper

Leo Hope-Ede

Greg Hough

Tom Howarth

Charlie Ives

Chris James

Jack Kidd

Joe Kissock

Bill Knott

Greg Little

Garry Lund

George McAnulty

Tom McCormack

David McKissock

George McLaren

Ken Mason

Arthur Masters

Alex Metzger

Bob Morrison

Tony Moynihan

Steven Old

Ken Olley

Duncan Ormond

Klaas Poelman

John Raat

Paul Rennell

Andy Rennie

Brian Roberts

Harold Russell

Pat Ryan

Ned Sale

Brad Scott

Dick Scott

Jack Sharp

Ben Sigmund

Mike Simeonoff

Peter Simonsen

Jack Skinner

Scott Smith

Harry Spencer

Alex Stenhouse

Ken Sudlow

Joe Taylor

Robbie Ten Broeke

Bill Thomas

Maurice Tillotson

Colin Tuaa

Chris Turner

Riki Van Steeden

Johan Verweij

Jim Warrender

Gavin Wilkinson

Dave Witteveen

Les Wood

PLODDER

2ndBest2008-09-10 21:38:37

Passing was poor in first half but tight defensively, however second half better passer but slightly less tight at the back (although nelsen did go off). MOTM - Chris James for me especially in the first half.

Much better second half. Good finishing and some very good passing moves put together by the lads.

Crowd looked alright, the Bloc looked alright, nothing spectacular. I think at this stage i'd rather see the game in Welly purely for the fact that i doubt we'd sell out at either NHS or Mt Smart and that would be a very poor effort for one of the most important matches in our footballing history.

When is the Fiji match?

November

goodness knows what team we'll be putting up for that match. wi

Yeah it's great we managed to get things together and get the Oceania group sorted early this time around....

Thanks for the Stats  everyone. A great second half and the team trying to play some decent football. I hope the Nix players try and continue the trend this weekend. I wonder how cold it was up there for the game? Roll on Sunday.

James definitely MOM. Definitely one for the future. 

first half was a bit average on our part -then I went out to indoor (where I cracked one from twenty yards to draw the game and win on pens) to see a different story. Missed two of the goals - but good controlled footy in the last twenty or so. Elliott and James were class (Si controlled the game where James has a bit of Bertosesque spark that we need). Smetlz was class again Feverish2008-09-10 21:52:48

Teza2008-09-10 21:58:21

I'd go for James or Smeltz as MOTM. James looked very sharp in the midfield and he has that creative flair that i thought was missing on Saturday. And Smeltz? If he can continue this form for the Nix i will be one happy man.

haha plodders goal was class

It's an easier game when you don't have muppets kicking lumps out of your ankles...


Anyway, Chris James was impressive, Smeltzy a legend as always, Elliott good, defence not really tested at all. New Caledonia, however, were woeful, and the disappointing bit for me was that in the first half we couldn't put together two decent passing moves, despite sh*tloads of space and time which we had. We only looked potent when James and Smeltz had the ball.

Second half better from us, we moved the ball around a lot better and passing was more accurate, but that was also greatly helped by New Caledonia who were amazingly enough even worse, they got very tired and ragged and their fullbacks went MIA, and they couldn't hold the ball for more than two passes. Their keeper was also badly caught out on the 2nd and 3rd goals, and probably should have done better with the 1st given that he got both hands on it. Top header from Smeltz though.

Over and out.el grapadura2008-09-10 22:51:49

Loads of control and domination in the first half too from the All Whites.  Reminds me of the game between the Kings and Northern Queensland where the Kings were content to string them out and invite frustration, then ran away with it by four goals later in the match.

Bloc 5 was brilliant. I can't wait for the playoff - Yellow Fever and Bloc 5 teaming up should be MASSIVE.

Chris James MOTM. Props to Ryan Nelsen for coming out of the dressing room to sign more autographs for the kids.

Sly little digs. You never sing in unison and rarely vary your songs from the same old 3 or 4.

As for the crowd, i thought it was pretty accurate. Judging by what the NZK looked like with 2-3 k, it was busier than that downstairs, and I expect upstairs aswell. Plus, it was a Wednesday night, sh*t weather and a game that meant nothing in terms of the AW's. Decent crowd,  considering.
Wolfben2008-09-11 09:35:46

was there, mulligan is definately better, he was right infront of me in the 2nd half, and makes a heck of a lot of space, and a lot of the time he was wide open on the right without being passed to, he did well when he got the ball

It was bloody cold, a dead rubber, a Wednesday night, at White Elephant Lane, and with no promotion - it was a damn good crowd - and much better than turned up to watch the AWs in Wellington the last time they played, in a game that mattered.

The Herald now says 7600 crowd.  Not bad for a Wednesday night.  Hands were frozen by the end of it.

I've been in 7-8000 crowds at NHS, and that didn't look close to that number.  There were (supposedly) 8,000 against Malaysia and last night looked no more than 2/3rds of that.

As for your statement Dai, if we based it on what A-League football gets in a city then we could expect 562 at North Harbour ?