Bulid Up Games- Mexico/Serbia/Slovenia

all slovs are the same right? 

All Whites v Serbia on May 30 ??
http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=270
halu2010-02-06 19:21:30

03.03.10
New Zealand
Mexico30.05.10
New Zealand
Serbia04.06.10
Slovenia
New Zealand

From NZHerald

Likely All Whites squad: Moss (Melbourne), Bannatyne (Team Wellington), Spoonley (Auckland City), Boyens (New York), Lochhead (Wellington Phoenix), Nelsen (Blackburn), Sigmund (Wellington Phoenix), Smith (Brentford), Vicelich (Auckland City), Barron (Team Wellington), Bertos (Phoenix), Brown (Phoenix), Elliott (San Jose), Fallon (Plymouth), McGlinchey (Motherwell), Killen (Middlesbrough), Smeltz (Gold Coast), Wood (West Bromwich)

i loled at that too

Squad is http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/3308355/All-Whites-team-for-Cup-warm-up-named No Mulligan or Vicelich (suspended). Craig Henderson and Moss added. Fallon included.

wooooooohooooo no mulligan!!!!!!!!

i like that squad
craiga2010-02-09 22:05:50

Mulligan played how many games for the Nix and people on here have written him off.

Mulligan is complete pants. The sooner he disappears from the NZ football scene, the better.

What time is the mexico game? I cant find kick off time anywhere.

I'm guessing it's going to be mid arvo 4 march NZT.

edit: It's 5pm NZT
teret2010-02-10 11:26:56

Is it on Sky Sport?

One would hope so.

I gather it is, I have read that rights to televise might not be available for the Eurpoean warm-up games but the Mexico one will be on sky.  Scouted around for the story but couldn't find it.

Not looking good for the home game pre WC. Seems like nobody loves us.....or nobody wants to travel the huge distances to play here. Not sure the Honduras game is definitely off but the NZHerald says it looks like no game.

Yeah f**k all this 'playing like someone else' bullsh*t. its fine if you can actually get someone but i would be disappointed if we had to settle for nothing. Just play someone, anyone... outside Oceania though...

Should've taken China when we had the chance. They gave us enough chances by the sounds of it.

They wanted us to play over there.

So they did, at their expense if I recall. Surely at this stage playing an Oceania XI would be an option, better to give the boys something rather than nothing. Or even an NZFC XI.

We all know how THAT story goes

As long as they play in Welly or Chch we should be OK.

youre dreaming
AJ132010-02-17 23:00:30

Why?

It would be like choosing between a life of beer or sex, but only one. 

pleased the Aussie game 24/5 is @ the MCG
Melbourne is the sporting capital of the world after all

We'll donate the game back to you guys, host it in NZ, seriously, we'd be happy to hand it over.

Australia vs NZ. Brilliant. It was the game that needed to happen.

^LOL.  Try telling that to Dingo's Son.

I like that! But look, like I said elsewhere, if they really MUST play the game...then play it, but NOT as the official send off at the MCG. This game would be OK at the new 30,000 seat stadium, but not the MCG.

Play it in Perth, NZ, anywhere, but not the G.

People over here from interstate are already cancelling their trip to Melbourne for the game. (and some people over here are speculating that the game is to do with World Cup votes).

Like I said, if the game was hosted in NZ, well so be it, but it's not a MCG worthy clash.

For $50-60 (say), who has NZ got to entice me, Bertos, Smeltz? I see Smeltz and Bertos every week in the A-League. Good players I'm not arguing with that, but f..k me if I'm going to hand over hard earned money to see them in what amounts to nothing more than a practice game.

You blokes may be looking to the raw hit-out as good, but looking at holistically (crowds, tourists to the game and so on) it's a farce.

The FFA will charge good dollar for this game, and watch the sh.t hit the fan then.
diego's son2010-02-21 06:22:44

Might fly over for that one. Seeing as I'm not going to SA and all.

Apparently not.  If you were happy to hand it over to us... it would be here.  It seems clear to me that playing there was one of the conditions of having the game, as we seem to have written off the home 'farewell friendly' that we were chasing, and your kidding yourself if you think we wouldn't have wanted to play this in NZ.

And if the All Whites win, you will look as silly as Miron Bleiberg and Clive Palmer do today. Or indeed, all those fellows who were saying the Nix would finish "distant tenth".

so fair to say that there will be no farewell game here in NZ. would that be right? or is that still to be sorted

Mike, I'm not the FFA though. If I was in the FFA, I would have played it in Perth, Adelaide or Wellington (or Auckland if they put up some dollars :) I have not objected to the game per se, I have just said it's not MCG-worthy as the official send-off game. Melbournians just won't go for it, unless ticket prices are REALLY cheap.

how about this match ???
not confirmed by NZF

Honduras-New Zealand 03/04/2010San Pedro Sula Friendly

I acknowldege that, but in that case, its your use of 'we' that I object to.  You are projecting your own opinions and make it sound like that you putting forward Australia's position.

Check edit above, I can't speak for the other 3.8 million Melburians, but judging on previous 'blockbuster' clashes at the MCG, this one will struggle (especially if ticket prices are high). Obviously I was hoping to explain here what the Melbourne market would think of the game (given it's a pre-World Cup practice match ultimately, with nothing on the line except some grabs/comments for the media), but I might be wrong.

Was just trying to "assume" the Melbourne market's position on the matter. Wasn't meant to be derogatory, but more an assumption of the marketplace here in Melbourne.

In saying that, if this game was in Perth or Adelaide (who have been dying for a Socceroos game for a few years now), my position on the game's "attraction" would be different.

DS
diego's son2010-02-22 10:36:45

Anyone know if any NZ channels are going to screen the Mexico game? (sorry if this has been asked elsewhere)