So Surman, Paulsen, OVH & Kelly-Heald to miss the Nix's Australia Cup tie against Melb City. If so will leave the Nix very light.
NZ have PNG & Fiji in their pool. Two to go through to the semis, no quarterfinals. American Samoa pulled out.
No Conchie picked, which is the right decision, though by rights he could have been picked?? His ban only covering club football??
Dibley-Dias he has to stay in England, given he's now cracking match day EPL squads for Fulham. But great news if indeed he has chosen for NZ for his international football, in the short term at least!
Be interesting to see if he's picked for the AWs in October.
NZ have PNG & Fiji in their pool. Two to go through to the semis, no quarterfinals. American Samoa pulled out.
No Conchie picked, which is the right decision, though by rights he could have been picked?? His ban only covering club football??
Dibley-Dias he has to stay in England, given he's now cracking match day EPL squads for Fulham. But great news if indeed he has chosen for NZ for his international football, in the short term at least!
Be interesting to see if he's picked for the AWs in October.
Luckily, they won't necessarily miss it! This seems to be one of the few tournaments where chopping and changing the squad around is permitted. I'd expect the Nix and Bazeley to have had a chat about bringing Paulsen and Surman (at least) back for the game, if flights to and from Aussie aren't too hard to handle
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/nz-teams/132749590/availability-of-wellington-phoenix-players-for-olympic-qualifiers-still-to-be-confirmed
AV appears to have the draw wrong way round. PNG on the 27th and Fiji on the 30th according to OFC
Must have been up late watching the WWC.