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AW vs Mexico Match Thread 2pm Thurs SS1

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
loyalgunner wrote:
Is Marco Rojas going to be playing on Sunday or probably still sick?
....he is playing
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
brockie left back? why not just get musa, branch or hobbs in the side for a game jesus.

4-4-2 finally altho i would be fine 3-4-3 with the injuries and having
moss, sigmund, boxall, boyens, brockie, mcglinchey, brown, rojas, smeltz, wood, barbarouses

paston, gleeson, fitzgerald, clapham, mulligan, killen on the bench


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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

isnt fitzgerald a right back? why play siggy out of position on the right with no hope boyens playing in the centre of defense instead of fitz on the right? he says 442 but article names killen,smeltz and wood up front?

oh and thinker our player depth is a little more than those bad old days chief, that 1st half was painful to watch

rojas, so special

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think it is good the young guys are getting a run. I wouldn't read into the results too much and don't believe our game has gone back at all. Looking at the number of players missing now is the perfect scenario to see how these guys perform at international level. Although I will say I don't think you can have Woods and Killen in the same team, they are target men not wide men, one of them up the guts and Smeltz and Kosta running off them.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The Thinker wrote:

So many short memories on here, Back when we played 4-4-2 or 4-5-1, we got humped like the Mexico game all the time. 3-4-4 has alot of short comings, but minus Thursday, we have been competing with some very good teams over the past year or 2. This has been the most successful formation in NZ football history. 

 
Do you think that maybe we get 'humped is because maybe we aint that great and whatever the shortcomings of any formation that we play we dont have the class to compete against the better teams. To do that we have to have players prepared to play and not go missing in action, players need to play to their position and not try to bend them into the chosen formation e.g.' a winger doesnt necerssarily lend thems elves to being a defender etc etc etc

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
off topic, USA are playing Spain in a friendly tomorrow afternoon in preparation for the Gold Cup (4:30pm eastern). Lolz Mexico got us and USA get Spain.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
paullt wrote:
The Thinker wrote:

<P ="Msonormal">So many short memories on here, Back when we played 4-4-2 or 4-5-1, we got humped like the Mexico game all the time. 3-4-4 has alot of short comings, but minus Thursday, we have been competing with some very good teams over the past year or 2. This has been the most successful formation in NZ football history.�

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Do you think that maybe we get 'humped is because maybe we aint that great and whatever the shortcomings of any formation that we play we dont have the class to compete against the better teams. To do that we have to have players prepared to play and not go missing in action, players need to play to their position and not try to bend them into the chosen formation e.g.' a winger doesnt necerssarily lend thems elves to being a defender etc etc etc


I think you have got it in one.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The whole point of playing 3-4-3 was how to get our best 11 on the pitch in a formation that works - no point f**king with the formation to end up with good players on the bench and lesser players on the pitch.

Peoples Republik of Aucklandia

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
PROAK wrote:


The whole point of playing 3-4-3 was how to get our best 11 on the pitch in a formation that works - no point f**king with the formation to end up with good players on the bench and lesser players on the pitch.


Agreed.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
That would be a win by default then.

I know, I know, its serious!

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
3-0 NZ!!
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Clenbuterol enhances stamina by making breathing more affective to the body or something alike right?

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Does that mean the result will be overturned? Will the AWs be credited with the win?
 
It's a bit like a dope cheat handing back an Olympic gold and it being awarded to whoever came second.
 
We can dream  
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Not sure about the result, would imagine its not for some farcical Fifa reason, hope I'm wrong.

Mexico vs Cuba in half an hour, will be interesting to watch..

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
yip we surely would have won if they werent on the drugs. Not that their keeper did anything all game. And gio dos santos tore us apart single handedly, it doesnt matter, we would have won!


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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
playwithFire wrote:
yip we surely would have won if they werent on the drugs. Not that their keeper did anything all game. And gio dos santos tore us apart single handedly, it doesnt matter, we would have won!


Everything except those last 4 words you wrote is irrelevent. we was robbed!


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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Azevo wrote:
Not sure about the result, would imagine its not for some farcical Fifa reason, hope I'm wrong.

Can't remember the exact regs regarding it. Starts off like"In the event that a team other than Qatar has later been shown to have..." or something.


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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Robb wrote:

Azevo wrote:
Not sure about the result, would imagine its not for some farcical Fifa reason, hope I'm wrong.
Can't remember the exact regs regarding it. Starts off like"In the event that a team other than Qatar has later been shown to have..." or something.


Hammans deep pockets..

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
"De Maria added: "The cause is believed to be because of [eating] beef or chicken between 17 and 20 May so an investigation will be made with the food suppliers."

Wonder if Suzie had anything to do with this...

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
There is a little village in Spain...  Contador got away with it(ish) based on that.
 
 

How's my driving? - Whine here

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Azevo wrote:
Not sure about the result, would imagine its not for some farcical Fifa reason, hope I'm wrong.

Mexico vs Cuba in half an hour, will be interesting to watch..


Regarding reversing the result.. Yeah right..

Think of Henry + hand ball.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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