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Oly-whites (the Olympic campaign)

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Hammer Head wrote:
Is it just me or does everyone else hate the name Olywhites too?
 
I'm finally getting used to it
 
but yeh, it doesn't exactly raise the adrenaline - in fact it sounds positively whimpy now i think about it!!
 
Well i was getting used to it
 
 
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Hammer Head wrote:
Is it just me or does everyone else hate the name Olywhites too?
 
I'm with you. At the Team Wellington game last weekend, I overhead a conversation about the U23s. When one chap called them the Olywhites, the other thought he meant Australia. After being enlightened, he said it sounds like an Australian name. It is a plaigaristically close to Olyroos.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cheeps wrote:
This totally needs to happen.
MON THE OLYWHITES.
It'd be awesome to see Nelsen, Killen and Smeltz playing Lochhead as well.


I'm guessing Chris James (who is U-23) would be available as well.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
hockeycam wrote:
Looks like Killen and Neilson would play if selected!

"....After forms were sent players who could come into the side under the "three players over 23 rule", former All White captain Ryan Nelsen, now captain of Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League, and Celtic's Chris Killen made themselves available.Phoenix players Shane Smeltz and Tony Lochhead have also said they would play if selected..."
 
With the Olympic football having no profile in the UK  - there being no GB team - I'm not sure that Blackburn and Celtic would have thought it a possibility that they could lose players for three weeks. It is common for players not go to the youth finals. Though after England were hammered by FIFA for sending an almost completely different team from the one that qualified to one of the youth WCs (Nigeria?) a few years back that may have changed.
 
Question - do the player release rules apply to the Olympics like they do to senior FIFA tournaments? Do Blackburn and Celtic have a say?
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
and Michael White...
 
I think you would have to have smeltz, killen and Neilson. Defense should be ok, they have a Phoenix in their. Old.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Dont no about Killen, I think Mulligan is a proven choice...He can score goals, take free kicks and setup goal - he can also hold up the ball unlike someone we know.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Latest Sport News:
 
The New Zealand women's hockey team (qualified for the Olympics of course) have been beaten 5-1 by China in the opening game of their five-match tour of China.
 
Not looking good eh Barry?  I say ditch them...then again...
 
Barry Maister
 

Barry was a member of the New Zealand Hockey team which won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He was selected for New Zealand teams that competed at Mexico City in 1968, Munich in 1972 and Montreal in 1976.

Stevo2008-03-13 16:39:37
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Even more reason to send both football teams to the Olympic Games.
As a 16 year old living in Wellington I remember listening to the game on the radio.
It was well known the the Hockey team was never ment to make the final let a lone win the gold medal.
So Mr Maister dreams do come true. 
JUST SEND THEM TO THE GAMES.
 
 
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
im not sure if i would take Smeltz over Lochead...I'd rather have a solid back line first, we have decent strikers in the squad

who was playing at LB for them in the qualifiers? (been away from the news for a while and cant be bothered scanning through)


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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I say we need to have Killen and Smeltz up front and Nelson in the back.

The young defenders to get some experience from Nelson for AW's WC road. Shame that Jack Pelter is out. But he and Steven Old will be soild in central defence.

Tony Lochead had recent AW experience. But. . .

More important to get Killen and Smeltz linking together than Nelson and Lochead linking.

I would prefer to start checking on what Killen and Smeltz can do together. Its a bit of time to work some combinations up front. It's harder to get forward combinations out quick enough whereas defensive cohesion are bit easier to combine at short notice. And it would some time before they would get much match time together. Also it frees up the chance to go on a 433 attack rather than the usual 443 or 352 game that we are use to.

Shame that Michael McGlinchey didn't go on the nationalities transfer before his 21st birthday, then it would be less reliance on Killen then get Lochhead in instead.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
"personally" id rather see none of these players brought in, as we don't really have any chance of advancing past the first round (hope to be proven wrong) why not give more young guys oppurtunitys to experience this football after all nz footballs gonna use the wild card to nzoc "great development if you send this young team" 
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

So you seem to be so sure we wont make it through, who is in our group huh???

Also im sure cardiff and Portsmouth weren't supposed to make it this far in the FA Cup..... They should have not entered...
hockeycam2008-03-15 01:16:41
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
tawa wrote:
"personally" id rather see none of these players brought in, as we don't really have any chance of advancing past the first round (hope to be proven wrong) why not give more young guys oppurtunitys to experience this football after all nz footballs gonna use the wild card to nzoc "great development if you send this young team" 


I'd like to think that having the chance to play with the like of Nelson and Killen would be a great  boost to the development of our younger players. I'm sure they'd be able to learn a lot more from having experienced elite veterans working with them - in addition to the learning environment the Olympics will hopefully provide them
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
decision to be made tomorrow, according  to media from last week, I wonder what time a press release might occur?
 
hopefully the NZF staff will knock one out before shuffling off for their hot cross buns, Easter eggs and liquid refreshments
 
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