Tanzania, Botswana, Italy friendlies

Apparently it's 2am NZ time. SO should be soon. Had no luck in finding streams :(

Accordingly to the news, starting line up seems to be:

                      Moss

Mulligan Boyens Vicelich Scott

            Oughton Elliot
   Barron                      Smith

               James
                            Killen

but they are aware of the new grass . . . slow and soft patches may be painful.

can someone who has access to the match please post an update or two during the game

South Africa are beating Poland 1-0, my hope of getting a result against SA is now all but gone.  they are under huge pressure within SA to make the semis though, so if we don't lose to Botswana, i'll keep dreaming.

according to the Botswana FA site, all Botswana Premier League matches were postponed this weekend because of the match against the Allwhites.  you've gotta love any country that holds NZ in such high esteem!

oh yeah

Well half time and no news?

0-0 45+

SA 1-0 Poland

I cant even find a Radio feed for this match.

There's nothing. It's sad times being an All Whites supporter.

Yeah it's definitely a difference to the other team I support (Argentina by marriage). Oh well.. I will always dream of a day when the All Whites will be more publicised! Bring on the Confed & World Cup :) At least you know you're a loyal fan when you're sitting there for the whole game with no news, constantly reloading the page.
Quabazaa2009-06-07 03:56:11

Japan is the first team to Qualify for the 2010WC.

And that makes you angry why convict??

an Allblack farts and it is in the news in minutes, where the **** is this result!

Botswana 2-0 New Zealand.

BBC says 0-0

Got in just before me Walksox. I assume BBC is right?

Estonia 2 - 0 Equatorial Guinea - Stupid

i'm not convinced, but hope so as is better than 2-0 to Botswana..

BBC might have been looking at those betting sites...lol

Where did you get 2-0 Convict??

http://www.botswanaradio.com/

now it's on the nzsoccer website 0-0, it's official

Obviously I haven't seen the matches, but it's a bit of a concern we could only score once (and from a penalty) against those two. A draw is better than a loss, but considering we are about to be playing in the confed cup, a win would have been a lot more respectable. jamesnz2009-06-07 05:45:52

Australia through.

Well on the radio stream the AW's played very very defending type of game. I'm sure its because of the pitch that the game was slow - but damn defending for 90+ min suxs.
If you listen to radio Africa's sports news you will hear that the AW's just defended and played long ball all game.
convict2009-06-07 05:59:54

0-0

Cool, thanks.

Not a great warm up so far to say the least.

pretty dissapointing. Haven't heard the words all whites and win together for a while and dunno if we will for some time with the quality of the upcoming teams. Hopefully we can get results againgst SA and Iraq.

And I would have thought Ricki would have given the Smeltz/ Killen strikfe force a run because we always hear how they have little game time together

Oh well.
The bench was almost all nix past and present players

Smeltz was carrying a groin niggle apparently - probably best not to risk him

I think that 0-0 aint all bad at least we did defend haha...we have only played two games together as a team all year so hopefully the more we play the better the results.

im happy with 0-0 away v botswana, esp given not full strength 11. solid

[QUOTE=convict]Well on the radio stream the AW's played a very very defending type of game. ...

Will be good practice for the next 4 games then, wont it!!!.. strong defence will be key to prevent humiliation,would hope they dispense with long ball and get serious up front too.
The key here is they are getting quality game time together against some of the best football teams in the world.
Sure I'd love to see some good results with the Confederations Cup and every game they represent New Zealand is important, but the ones that matter are the WC play offs.

I would have to agree here. We have to be on top of our defensive formation before we could try and set up sweeping attacks. We are being cautious with the newly sowed ground which is brown, soft and slow with holes. We don't want injuries and we want to have a team communicating with each other.

I imagine for the game against Italy we will have a near to full strength line-up and work on the same defensive tactics and introduce counter measures in the first half and see whether we can get our passing game going in some form in the second half without losing back tracking. It would give us a big picture what we can and cannot do at that level.