AWs V Japan Wed 5th March 11:30pm SS1

Marco out. Fallon likely to be included. Ryan Thomas in doubt.

I'd go:

                                              Moss

Roux                Sigmund                  Dura                 Tuiloma

                 James                           Payne

                                 McGlinchey

Kosta                            Wood                           Thomas

Then would like to see Boxall on at fullback, Tuiloma into holding midfield, and Howieson in AM.

"Interim All Whites coach Neil Emblen is hoping to call in Crawley Town striker Rory Fallon as a replacement. Crawley are not obliged to release him with such short notice, however."

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. 

This will be a very interesting game. Japan have called up 11 of their players in europe.

We have 11 of Europe's finest elbows via Crawley Town!

(Read: We're doomed)

For us kiwi's living in Aussie, Foxsport are showing the Japan v NZ live.

is it being played on sky live?

March 3 is not a Wednesday.

It's in 5th not 3rd. Japan is pretty much at full strength. It will be tough.

Japan squad - yikes!!!! Eleven from UEFA clubs including Man Utd's Kagawa, six from Germany, a player from Inter Milan and AC Milan:

http://www.jfa.or.jp/eng/topics/2014/31.html

Goalkeepers—KAWASHIMA Eiji (Standard Liege), NISHIKAWA Shusaku (Urawa Reds), GONDA Shuichi (FC Tokyo)
Defenders—KOMANO Yuichi (Jubilo Iwata), KONNO Yasuyuki (Gamba Osaka), INOHA Masahiko (Jubilo Iwata), NAGATOMO Yuto (Inter Milan), MORISHIGE Masato (FC Tokyo), YOSHIDA Maya (Southampton), SAKAI Hiroki (Hannover 96), SAKAI Gotoku (VfB Stuttgart)
Midfielders—ENDO Yasuhito (Gamba Osaka), AOYAMA Toshihiro (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), HOSOGAI Hajime (Hertha Berlin), HONDA Keisuke (AC Milan), KAGAWA Shinji (Manchester United), KIYOTAKE Hiroshi (1.FC Nurnberg), SAITO Manabu (Yokohama F. Marinos), YAMAGUCHI Hotaru (Cerezo Osaka)
Forwards—OKAZAKI Shinji (1.FSV Mainz), KAKITANI Yoichiro (Cerezo Osaka), KUDO Masato (Kashiwa Reysol), OSAKO Yuya (TSV 1860 Munich)
Coach—Alberto Zaccheroni (Italy)

Could be worse... Ricki could still be managing us

I would like to see the following

Boxall - Siggy - Durante - Roux

Kosta Tuiloma James Thomas

                  McGlinchey

                     Wood

Don't stop believin'  Rory will knock 'em about like ninepins.

I'll be plesantly surprised if out outcome is any better than a complete flogging.

Japan will be too quick and too skillful, unfortunately.

Still will enjoy seeing the All Whites on show and Japan playing some nice football

Wed 9.30 pm Eastern time.

Think we'll get flattened here.

Someone explain to me why no Fitzgerald? I so confused.

i saw smeltz go down at the end of the perth v brisbane game. is he injured or was it only cramp of the mohawk?

kakitani is out with a fever for them

clearly the reason they didn't call up Lochead is they couldn't fit the states on this map..

Seriously though how come Moss is flying out of Brisbane?

Isn't Moss from Australia anyway? Probably stayed on with family/friends after the two away games followed by an international break. Same with Smeltz. Because he does play at Perth and not Brisbane.

why no direct flight to Japan ex 09?

New Zealand football is doing a good job I think with all the posts and updates. Trying to get fans involved

Has anyone seen anywhere this is being televised in the UK?

Neils putting out a young attacking team. Boxall and dura at the back should be good. But I think we are gonna get a bit of a touch up here. 4-1 lose

Team line up:

http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=11&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2807&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=b7126da900

Considering who we are missing it's a pretty good team tbh.

Although how fucking retarded is Neil for starting Tuiloma at RB ffs (assumption). Marseille are training him at DM.

3-1 to Japan is my prediction, which we would be pretty happy with.

He'll be LB not RB. We don't have anyone else who can play there really.

Well played Embers. The future is now!

Interesting that he's picked Boxall ahead of Sigmund, or is Sigmund still banned for his stomp?

We don't really know because we don't know how well he's settling into the DM groove at OM. Another example: who would have thought Tim Payne would make a DM when he was playing as a central striker under Emblen at waitakerie?

Serviced it against T&T pre qualifier.