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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Theo had a rough time. He might be rated now but all he was able to do back then was pick the ball out of the net.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Sorry people, I'm bored, so what about a best ever line-up from the combined talents of the Kingz, Knights and Knix (apologies to those of you too young to remember the first two outfits!)

Theoklitos

Hickey

Hay

Emblen

Lochhead

Almendra

Salley

Vicelich

Bertos

Rufer

Smeltz

as a 4 - 4 - 2

subs

Ngata, Silva, Bunce

No Ibrahim. No Burton. No Linesy. What's going on Oi Oi?

Also i'd stick JP at the back ahead of a lumbering dinosaur such as Hay or Emblen.

Apart from that not bad. Let's not forget Zenon Caravella either.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Paul Harries was definitely Australian. He began his career at the NSW Soccer Academy before being signed up by Portsmouth under El Tel's stewardship. I think he only ever played one game for Portsmouth. I met him in 1998 when he was on loan to Basingstoke Town in the Ryman Premier League. Nice bloke but never in danger of "making it".

Sean Devine is Irish, not English. He's from London but played for Rep of Ireland 'B' when he was at Barnet.

Tim Stevens was a bizarre one. I remember when he signed for Stevenage Borough in the Conference around 97-98. He was at the height of his fame then and was on good money. He scored twice in five games and then they let him go saying, "He wasn't what we were looking for." I remember trying to get my local Conference side to sign him up instead but they wouldn't have any of it. Ended up back at Waitakere City after that I think.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Ok, now the fun part seeing as we have some agreement. How about a team of players that make you shake your head with a wry smile and wonder what the hell were they doing. You'll get a lot more credit if they played a number of matches or if they were on decent moola. No prizes for one match wonders

Buffy, Carravalla was garbo

Normo's coming home

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

james dean wrote:

Buffy, Carravalla was garbo

James I thought some one had done that on the front page but people such as:
Devine (enough said)
Tamiti Williams (more worried about his looks and modelling then playing)
Con Boustianis (walking out on the club without ever playing a game)
Fitsimmons (couldn't score if he wanted too)
G** (terperamant)
George (what was Ricki thinking)
Urlovic (how he missed some of those sitters I'll never know)
Carbon (how many transfers can you have in the same year)
Yeo (was he a twat in the dressing room... we shall never know)

I think that Stigi and Jackson should be in the best of squad as well. Stigi always played with his heart and was a fan favourite at North Harbour and Jackson was a fighter, not scared of nothing.

I loved watching Jacko and Ngata scrapping it out in the midfileld.

Supporter world's best and worst football teams: Waikato/WaiBop, Kingz, Knights, Phoenix, The Argyle, The Whites & the All Whites

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

"you're going home in a Jackson ambulance"

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Fair shout too having Jacko in the squad. Oi Oi has picked Salley as the DM and for good reason given the influence he had on the Knights when he did play and the quality he possessed but Jacko gave years of service for the Kingz and AWs, leaving no stone unturned and giving it his all in true Wacko Jacko style.

Linesy - Burton - Jacko - Hazza in the midfield =

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I know I'll get slayed for this but Brockie did real well in the disastrous last year of the Knightz.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think that we should have the worse NZ pro line-up and see what we can put out. I would say there would plenty of names to put out than this thread. . . . .

AllWhitebelievr2009-07-10 11:53:59

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

AllWhitebelievr wrote:

I think that we should have the worse NZ pro line-up and see what we can put out. I would say there would plenty of names to put out than this thread. . . . .

It was done on page 1

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Here it is by Scottishbhoy - must be the worst team

Scottishbhoy wrote:

Something like this

Milosovic (sp?)

Cleberson Old O'dor R.Bull

Goa (wont let me have G**) S.Gemmil Dustin Wells

Devine George(c) Dani Rodgerues

World beaters

I don't know any of the kingz. Don't think they were that good.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I only started watching the A-league near the end of the Knights. I remember Jonti Ricter... He tried hard... but just looked like a crazy high school kid against men.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yeh Jonti was a worker alright, couldn't shoot but, a good fulla.

Sorry, I've seen Leilei play some bloody good games, (for the Knights, not so much the Nix) so I wouldn't have him in my worst line-up that's for sure.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Jonas Sally for most Sickening injury, Knights looked half decent until that "crack that reverberated around Nth Harbour"

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Oi Oi Edgecumbe wrote:

Sorry people, I'm bored, so what about a best ever line-up from the combined talents of the Kingz, Knights and Knix (apologies to those of you too young to remember theï¿½ first two outfits!)

ï¿½

Theoklitos

Hickey

Hay

Emblen

Lochhead

Almendra

Salley

Vicelich

Bertos

Rufer

Smeltz

ï¿½

as a 4 - 4 - 2

ï¿½

subs

Ngata, Silva, Bunce

Never got past Emblem. Have had some GREAT poms but this guy was an imposter-out of his depth.

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

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

Oi Oi Edgecumbe wrote:

Sorry people, I'm bored, so what about a best ever line-up from the combined talents of the Kingz, Knights and Knix (apologies to those of you too young to remember the first two outfits!)

Theoklitos

Hickey

Hay

Emblen

Lochhead

Almendra

Salley

Vicelich

Bertos

Rufer

Smeltz

as a 4 - 4 - 2

subs

Ngata, Silva, Bunce

Never got past Emblem. Have had some GREAT poms but this guy was an imposter-out of his depth.

Ehhh???? He was with out question (to me at lest) the best import either the Kingz and esp. The Knights ever had.

Supporter world's best and worst football teams: Waikato/WaiBop, Kingz, Knights, Phoenix, The Argyle, The Whites & the All Whites

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

disco_mart wrote:

Ehhh???? He was with out question (to me at lest) the best import either the Kingz and esp. The Knights ever had.

Not even close, that fact that he couldnt even command a starting place in the position he was signed up for.

No way was he better than John Markovski, Dennis Ibrahim, Robbie Middleby all Kingz imports.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Neil Emblen was a quality player who could do well in defence or as a striker. Great player, definitely one of the best Knights players and better than many of the Kingz.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

nightz wrote:

disco_mart wrote:

Ehhh???? He was with out question (to me at lest) the best import either the Kingz and esp. The Knights ever had.

Not even close, that fact that he couldnt even command a starting place in the position he was signed up for.

No way was he better than John Markovski, Dennis Ibrahim, Robbie Middleby all Kingz imports.

Markovski, Middleby and all the other Aussies aren't really imports though are they.

All three NZ teams would have been stuffed with out the Aussies who have inevitably upped our squads but I stand by my call on Emblen.

Whilst Almendra, Ibrahim and others were good, Neil's versitily outshone everyone else at the Knights. He would have been the clubs only really decent purchase, better then Salley even.

Supporter world's best and worst football teams: Waikato/WaiBop, Kingz, Knights, Phoenix, The Argyle, The Whites & the All Whites

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yeh you're right discomart, Neil was so consistently good, that's where he left oithers behind

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

loyalgunner wrote:

Neil Emblen was a quality player who could do well in defence or as a striker.ï¿½ Great player, definitely one of the best Knights players and better than many of the Kingz.

We can't be talking about the same player I saw in Brisbane a few years ago. The guy was crap. I saw him in Japan for Waitakere, and he was also crap.
Give me a break.

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

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Agree with you Leggy, not sure what these guys see in him.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

im going to ask the (un bias) question, what about our very own chairman(or whatever position he holds) of nz football? came in and took wilson's position and then was voted 2nd best oceania gk of the century. playing about 30 games for the all whites

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

We're talking players for the NZ pro-sides only here RM.

As the Kingz started in 1999, he was a little beyond that.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Some would argue we have had/have more than the Kingz/Knights/Nix as pro sides with some of the money rumoured to have been paid to local players.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

nightz wrote:

Agree with you Leggy, not sure what these guys see in him.

Cheers for that. I thought that I was the only person to think like that.

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

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

"No way was he better than John Markovski, Dennis Ibrahim, Robbie Middleby all Kingz imports."

I cannot agree with "John the Cheat" being better than Neil. John was way past his prime and used every trick in the book to survive on the field. Would rate him as one of the worst purchases in the Kingz history. He was a player that wound me up, he should not have been on the field, lazy out of condition cheat, had the conditioning of Mario Jardel.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I assumed they were taking the piss.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Wasn't Markovski the "striker" who missed an open goal from 3 metres that could have won us the game and then was dropped into defence for the rest of his stay?

The hurt lingers on...

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Markovski was a better player in his day (way before the Kingz) than Emblan ever was. He was past it when in arrived in NZ but still way better than Emblan was for the Knights. Emblan to me symbolises all that was wrong with the Knights.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Well Nightz, all I can say is, I'm glad you're not a coach of the Phoenix, with that sort of judgement.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

Knights

Banks, Campbell - New Zealand
Bazeley, Darren - England
Brockie, Jeremy - New Zealand
Bull, Ronnie - England
Bunce, Che - New Zealand
Buari, Malik - Ghana
Caravella, Zenon - Australia
Carbon, Matt - England
Casey, Adam - Australia
Christie, Jeremy - New Zealand
Collett, Ben - England
Crossley, Nick - Australia
Devine, Sean - England
Duruz, Grï¿½gory - Switzerland
de Moraes, Fernando - Brazil
Emblen, Neil - England
Fitzsimmons, Steve - Australia
Fleming, Jeffery - New Zealand
G**, Leilei - China
Gemmill, Scot - Scotland
Gordon, Dean - England
Danny Hay - New Zealand
Hickey, Noah - New Zealand
Imaya, Naoki - Australia
Jasper, Sam - New Zealand
Johnston, Richard - Australia
Kovacevic, Sime - Australia
Yan, Li - China
Marcina, Alen - Canada
Maguire, Josh - Australia
Milosevic, Danny - Australia
Mohamed Hamza - Ghana
Moss, Glen - New Zealand
O'Dor, Steven - Australia
Paston, Mark - New Zealand
Parisi, Franco - Australia
Richter, Jonti - Australia
Rose, Joshua - Australia
Rodrigues, Dani - Portugal
Salley, Jonas - Cote d'Ivoire
Tambouras, John - Australia
Tinkler, Cole - New Zealand
Turnbull, Michael - Australia
van Eijs, Frank - Netherlands
Wells, Dustin - Australia
White, Michael - New Zealand
Zhang, Xiaobin - China
Simon Yeo - England

Hey News, are you sure Mohammed Hamza was in the team, from memory he never made it into NZ? and wasn't Jeremy Christie playing for Perth?

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

First season Plodder was at the Knights, second season he was in Perth.

Hamza Mohammed not only made it to NZ, but played in a at least a couple of matches. started a 3-0 loss to Newcastle and a subbed in the 1-0 win over the clogs.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

Needs more Sime Kovacevic, Alexander Midtsian, Johnny Foundoulakis, Andy Bluhm and Andy Vlahos...

Really? Admittedly I only saw Kovacevic with the Knights but he was an absolute disaster. Did one thing good, and that was a reasonable header from a corner against Sydney(?) which everybody's favourite, Dani Rodrigues, got in the way of.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

Did Hamza actually play? I don't think he did News

Supporter world's best and worst football teams: Waikato/WaiBop, Kingz, Knights, Phoenix, The Argyle, The Whites & the All Whites

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

disco_mart wrote:

Hard News wrote:

Did Hamza actually play? I don't think he did News

News is correct

He played the full game against Newcastle in the 3 -0 lost on 14/10/06 wearing the no. 24 shirt. Was on the bench for the game against Melbourne on 27/10/06 but didnt get on.

Also was subbed on in the 88th min for the win against Queensland Roar on 5/11/06.

On the bench against Sydney 10/11/06 but didnt get on.

A dog with a bone :)

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