The Road To Brazil 2014 via Wellington feat. Mexico

We will not qualify if we are facing Mexico. No chance. Herbert is away with the fairies if he thinks we would have a chance. With the style he plays, we seriously seriously struggled to beat New Caledonia.. lets get real here

One of the joys of being a fan is the ability to be optimistic. You can choose to be one of 2 things, miserable or positive. Neither stance affects what happens on the pitch at all - so why choose to be pessimistic? Have hope, believe, aim big.

There is a big difference between being an optimist and a realist. I'm sure every NZ fan is hoping that NZ play an amazing playoff series and somehow battle their way through...thats called optimisim..

The reality is somewhat different. Our coach appears to have lost his mojo. We have only played two games this year where as our opposition will have played close to 20.  Only 100 days from the games and there is currently NO confirmed  warm up games. Several key players have retired(Nelsen, Elliot) and several key players are currently injured(Rojas, Smeltz) Our last appearance we only just beat New Caledonia....a team of mostly amateurs from an Island with the population same as the  Hutt Valley, and we played like shiite. We will end up playing a team that is considerably better in all aspects than Bahrain. That is the reality.

That is to say that we do have some sort of chance. One thing about Ricki is that he does know how to set up a team that is hard to break down. If we go over there and park the bus, get 10 behind the ball and come away with a 0-2 loss then all is not lost. If we somehow could nick a goal and come away with 1-2 then it is game on in Wellington. The irony is we do now have quality all over the field, except in DM. If NZF gives Ricki the warmup games he needs to get the team in some sort of shape and if everything goes our way over the two legs then we could get through......thats optimism, or maybe just blind hope.

I'll always try to be optimistic but when you read that Honduras would've had 17 games by November and Panama potentially 22 and New Zealand just 6? I tend to not be so optimistic. 

We're going to be so underdone IMO

Why all the angst about something that is not in NZFs control?

We play who we play. Still have to score more goals than they do (over two legs).

My point is, as fans we don't have to be realists. We can afford the luxury of optimism. 

Haha AP it was more in response to leggys comment that its not going to matter after we lose 3-0 and the general pessimistic attitude :)

It'd be a boring forum if all we said was "we have quality everywhere, we are going to win the World Cup" without any sort of analysis etc that you just provided. 

Fuego's group of 30 almost ready to book their tickets on Monday. Bring it on!

Anyone got any idea of the match time?  Can't find anything on NZF shithouse site.

we got about 20 in our group plus I know another at around 20 people also

Is there a limit on the number of tickets you can purchase at once?

Fuc*in Jetstar. I booked 4 of us months ago (on a hunch the game would be in Wellington), and then this morning our Wed (the 20th) morning flight scheduled for 1030 has been moved to 655am, and the return flight on the Thursday scheduled for 1150am has been moved to 810am. Can you imagine the state of us at that early hour...

One of my mates has pulled the pin, as he has committed to something first thing on Wed morning before going to the airport.

#pricks

Air NZ did the same thing to me, however, I just depart 30 minutes later.

Yer my brother was on jetstar and got changed to day before but Black Rebel Motorcycle Club playing the night before so he heaps happy.

If its a group booking through group booking phone number no limit on tix and $12 total booking fee plus credit card % fee. That's what we doing sounds cheaper.

My jetstar flight was delayed an hour. no biggie.

Ricki Herbert's All White Army? http://www.trademe.co.nz/clothing/menswear/other/large/auction-624376981.htm

Boom!

16 tickets locked down for November 20, no problems.

Got straight through at 9:00 on the Ticketek group bookings line. On the phone for 5 mins, tickets in my email inbox straight away.

Well done Ticketek for once.

PAX PAX PAX give me PAX!

Been calling since 9.01, there is no call waiting queue, they just cut you off......

Have called about 30 times now. Blood pressure rising

Edit: This is the group bookings line, trying to get hold of 35 tickets :-(

PAX:3279

PAX 4054 at 9:13.

PAX 5075 on my 35th ticket!

PAX 5015

Also had some issues with ticketek's website telling me there were no available tickets when I used Google Chrome but when I switched to Internet Explorer (shudder) it worked fine

Wowsers, PAX rising really quickly!

Anyone got a phone number for Ticketek thier website won't let me make my purchase.

Ten booked. Whitenoise uncovered! Slight issues with chrome purchasing tickets. Recommend switching to explorer.

i had no problems using chrome

I was able to book 16 on the group bookings line, so as long as you have 10 or more I'd try that.

Boom 26 tickets! 30min of calling and about 8-10 on hold but all good now!

Yay, have 12 tickets...after a 20 min wait on the phone. 

Could sell out today....

PAX 6748

I don't think there will be an issue selling this puppy out somehow.

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