The Road To Brazil 2014 via Wellington feat. Mexico

"I said if I could see ya on the fucking pitch when ya win this game".

yep!

watching a dog chase a football on the 14th of November is a spiritual experience

RESULTS AND TABLES AFTER STAGE THREE OF CONCACAF QUALIFYING STARTED LAST WEEK:

See:

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/nccamerica/matches/index.html

Leading six teams at present after first two rounds: Mexico, USA, Panama, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Canada

(Honduras and El Salvador only picked up one point each from two games)

Honduras lost 0-2 at home to Panama.

Four more games left for each side before Stage Four of qualifying.

12/06/12 20:05 Panama City   Panama 1:0 (0:0) Cuba /   12/06/12 20:00 Guatemala City  Guatemala 1:1 (0:1) USA   

12/06/12 20:00 Georgetown   Guyana 0:4 (0:2) Costa Rica /   12/06/12 19:45 Toronto   Canada0:0 Honduras 

12/06/12 19:33 San Salvador   El Salvador 1:2 (0:0) Mexico /   12/06/12 19:00 St. John's   Antigua and Barbuda 0:0 Jamaica 

08/06/12 20:30 Kingston   Jamaica 2:1 (1:0) Guatemala /   08/06/12 20:00 San Jose   Costa Rica 2:2 (2:1) El Salvador   

08/06/12 19:30 San Pedro Sula   Honduras 0:2 (0:0) Panama /   08/06/12 19:11 Tampa   USA 3:1 (2:0)Antigua and Barbuda   

08/06/12 19:00 Mexico City   Mexico 3:1 (2:0) Guyana/   08/06/12 14:00 Havana   Cuba 0:1 (0:0)Canada  

Group A Team MP W D L GF GA Pts USA 2 1 1 0 4 2 4 Jamaica 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Guatemala 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 Antigua and Barbuda 2 0 1 1 1 3 1

Group B Team MP W D L GF GA Pts Mexico 2 2 0 0 5 2 6 Costa Rica 2 1 1 0 6 2 4 El Salvador 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 Guyana 2 0 0 2 1 7 0

Group C Team MP W D L GF GA Pts Panama 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 Canada 2 1 1 0 1 0 4 Honduras 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 Cuba 2 0 0 2 0 2 0

STAGE FOUR: The group winner and the second place side from each group enter a single group to play home and away from Feb. - Oct. next year with the top three sides progressing directly to the finals and the fourth side facing the OFC winner in a home and away play-off.

Nine of those teams still in with a decent shot at making the top 6 imo. Will be interesting to see how things develop, especially given that we can now watch many of these games on Watch&Bet.

Or maybe you should be asking, if we can draw with Italy and Paraguay, why New Caledonia shouldn't be able to beat us?

Both situations are freak results, if we're completely honest with ourselves.

Having said that though, none of our performances were convincing. If we had looked better in general but still lost I think the angst might not have been so pronounced. The fact that we could barely beat any of those teams we faced is much more worrying than a loss against inferior opposition taken in isolation.

Any news on the fixtures for the OFC Third Round and the friendlies in August and November.

Did anyone really expect us to beat them comfortably though? An upset was always possible,I thought. 

I expected us to win every game & thought an upset was possible.

But I live life on the edge man...

There are never too many easy games, but I thought we should have bolted in.

We should have bolted in.  Yes conditions were difficult but our team is full of professional players.  They should be able to overcome those conditions and as Wynton Rufer once said "make the ball do the work"  

Poor effort by our players and I think some of them will have now played their last game for NZ

Can assure you every single seat in the FBS is covered.

A tinge of bias I know, but I'm confident Dunedin will get a game.

Any news of the OFC Third Round fixtures been sorted yet?

@OFCfootball will be conducting the draw for Stage 3 of FIFA#WorldCup qualifying at 2pm today. #AllWhites

Hopefully this means they are announcing venues etc so we can plan to be at the home games, but it sounds like they are just going to be working out the order of the fixtures.

EDIT: Just announcing the schedule of the games, NZF will announce venues later.

There is 6 games to play, and 3 windows. Hopefully they won't do home & away in each window. For the Nix's sake, I hope we can get 2 of the away legs out of the way in the window before the A-League starts.

Any word yet?

#AllWhites #WorldCup qual draw.

NCL (A) 7/9;

SOL (H) 11/9;

TAH (A) 12/10;

TAH (H) 16/10;

NCL (H) 22/3;

SOL (A) 26/3. 

#Brazil2014

http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc/News/ViewArticle/tabid/125/Article/f9e53acd-aa60-4183-a673-d895a1313411/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Oceanian Zone Stage 3 Qualifiers 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™

Match Day 1
Friday 7 September, 2012
Solomon Islands v Tahiti 
New Caledonia v New Zealand

Match Day 2
Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Tahiti v New Caledonia 
New Zealand v Solomon Islands

Match Day 3
Friday 12 October, 2012
Tahiti v New Zealand
Solomon Islands v New Caledonia

Match Day 4
Tuesday 16 October, 2012
New Zealand v Tahiti
New Caledonia v Solomon Islands

Match Day 5
Friday 22 March, 2013
Tahiti v Solomon Islands 
New Zealand v New Caledonia

Match Day 6
Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Solomon Islands v New Zealand
New Caledonia v Tahiti 

I'm reasonably confident Dunedin will get a game. First one would be ideal. Second one is during uni exams. Third one is reasonably close to Phoenix game.

Actually scrap that, its 5 days before egg ball test vs the saffers, so 2nd game will be the pick.

I think the 26th of March is Otago Anniversary Day, so having the game on the 22nd v New Caledonia would be pretty cool.  Do uni holidays fall around then?

No holidays around then. My only fear is that Dunedin won't be able to get behind 2 big football games in the space of a month.

Simple - move the Nix game to ChCh and Otago hosts the AW game.

Everyone wins (mostly me actually).

So two Tuesday home games and one Friday home game. Good to see NZF weilding their considerable influence in Oceania again! Can almost guarantee they will go to Auckland with the Friday game, hoping that Wellington and somewhere else will front on a Tuesday.

And geez that 5 months between match day 4 and 5 is going to seem like an eternity.

It's a random draw Term.

Yep, I think you are right there timmy. NZF would have had tentative plans in place, now they just need to finialise them and let us know so we can plan travel etc.

Is there a final? or is it just league winner goes through?

Just matches.

NZF will go to councils/stadiums to see who what's to host what and go from there.

Yeah, but every team plays one home game and one away game in each window. No reason why NZF couldn't have pushed for our home games to fall on a Friday (maybe they did?). Suspect it will have a much more detrimental effect here than in the islands where they don't have any decent telly on a Tuesday. Two games on Tuesday will probably cost NZF about 5-10k x $30-40 in lost revenue for each game. Charlie Dempsey would have 'fixed it'. Re-spect.

If we can't get the A-League games moved, hope they played the Friday 22nd March game in Wellington. We have an A-League game the next day at home, maybe we will be able to use some of the Nix players off the All Whites bench.

ChCh missed out on some Nix love, so hope they get an All Whites game. Hamilton hopefully will get the other.

I'm not sure the White Noise/Yellow Fever Zone will have recovered in time...

Grant McCavanagh on the radio todday gave me the impression Welly wouldn't necessarily get one of these three.  Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, New Plymouth were all mentioned and seemed more likely than here.

Although that did suggest the play-off should we get through would come back here.

Disclaimer: This was all interpretation, a different listener may not have read the same between the line items I did.

zero chance.

I know that New Zealand will play at Stade Numa-Daly Magenta, NCL, Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, TAH and Lawson Tama Stadium, SOL. I would play the 3 home matches at Mount Smart Stadium.

Any news for August and November friendlies? I know 14 November will be China away.

Why the fuck would you do that? It's best for everyone if these games are spread around the country, and if you are going to have them all at one venue, why Mt Smart? Surely there are far better options both in and outside of Auckland.

I just assumed that was poor quality trolling.