Frustrating night ahead (Brazil match)

Darn Beno was quick back after Daper caught him flat footed.

draper, took too long to get his cross away though. nelsen has looked pretty average with some sloppy touches

get millions of poor people and give a them a football and Pele to watch....

or move New Zealand closer to Latin America, everybody with really big paddles...

Bugger 5-0Rumney72R2008-08-10 22:58:18

FARK!!!!! It was only a bloody toe poke!

So who's going to claim Ronaldinho's shirt?
brumbys2008-08-10 22:58:27

Class goal. 5-0. Must be our worse score against them now.

good bye brazil.hello belgium

what a loser, he still sucks his thumb

oh well. night night. not looking froward to the paper in the morning. 

5-0 huh. Ah well, a class apart that's for sure.

Bring on Belgium.

OH GOD WHY!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder how Draper compares to Hearfield. He looked all right out there against Brazil, although that's not scoring a goal to make a final I know...but still...

sh*t your ages behing lol poor old TVNZ

spoonley come on dude that one wasnt too tough. fight for ronaldinhos jersey now!

5-0. class. great goal.

Not a great result, but to be fair, Brazil took their chances, their conversion rate tonight must be pretty high.

maybe Nelson can see why the Phoenix didn't take some moree under 23 players into there team.

so I guess we want Belgium to win against China, which would set up a winner takes all game between us and the Belgiums (providing Brazil beat China). If China beat Belgium then they would only have to draw against Brazil

Brazil were taking the piss at the end there.

The Oly-Whites are football's answer to Eric the Eel.

Yea I think he did play for MAG's,their entire backline was way over 6" 1" at the secondary school nationals in 2006

Hogg good, elliot good, peverley not bad, nelsen ok, ellenhson poor, draper hopeless

we should play a lot better next game,

I mean isn't that the kiwi way? play a good gamee then have an average then another good?

well heres hoping anyway, gonna be hard without neilsen, and having old back

TBH, I doubt Old would have made that any worse.
Hard News2008-08-10 23:07:47

so this Spoonley was the guy that got the Manchester United trial? He didn't have the best of games tonight

Gleeson, not Spoonley.

elliot's distribution was great. he hardly gave ball away all game

Highlights for me were watching Brockie successfully nut-megging two Brazilians (one in each half), Draper doing something similar right at the end.

Hogg and Peverley were the bright lights for me.

Nelson was rubbish - I thought someone of his standing would take control but he didn't seem interested.

Who gave away that ball for the opening goal ?

I didn't say Drapes was great, just better than Killen.

So who gets his shirt??? Saw him pointing at the dressing rooms but dunno who he was talking to 

Hope Elliotinho picks up a contract after this tournament. He was decent at Fulham and has impressed me in each of the last two games. He seems a very intelligent player, does Simon

i reckon Stu j would have been happy with Elliot's contribution, i doubt he would have ben asked to do much different

Agree that Elliott had a good game, especially in the first half. One of the best performances I have seen from him- came looking for the ball, distribution was excellent. Really stood up into the role of "senior player" I thought.

Hogg impressed me tonight (and actually against china at times)- he was hungry for the ball and did not seem to get fazed at all when things went awry.

What was with Killen? apart from a fairly smart shot that I think went for a corner, he looked pretty lazy. (I say that while sitting with a beer and watching telly, not running around in 30 degree heat and 80 percent humidity)

what days Belgium?

hogg was sound defensively, didnt panic, strong enough, and even got forward from time to time. showed a bit of toe when he knocked it past that defender and got cross over in second half. he's only 18? good talent

sooooooooooo painful to watch.honestly.the difference in class was silly.did they have a possession stat.it wouldve been 90-10%.the were taking theeeeeeee pissssss.duno about hogg being good?and elliott does nothing for me.no1 can put there hand up and say they were decent.maybe henderson and perverly coz they didnt stop working.drapes looked suspect and ellensohn..duno!