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Vs Mexico 1st Leg Thurs 14th 9:30am SS2

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over 12 years ago
Bluemagic wrote:

So it has been confirmed - Christie in midfield, a player who hasn't played a truly competitive match since 2011. Ricki - I know loyalty to old mates is to be commended usually, but this is the reputation of NZ football we're talking about. Please don't inflict Christie, Lochhead, and Bertos on us for this most vital game. These are fading old mates from yesterday. Take the bull by the horns and give our exciting young players a chance. Play Roux and Tuiloma and call up Ryan Thomas. Even Clapham would be better partnering McGlinchey than Christie. I've nothing against the lads but from a playing point of view they're past it.

I don't mind going down if we're giving our best young talent a chance and building for the future. I don't want to watch faded remnants of Ricki's Posse huffing and puffing one last time. There's a place for stubbornness and a place for bold thinking. Now is not the time for the former.

Bugger
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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History
Big Pete 65 wrote:

Talking about "deja vu" !!! - there was the same silly talk on here before the home leg vs. Bahrain last time.

Some fans were talking about making a racket outside the Bahrain team's hotel.

No need for it in the end was there, anyway?

Australia experienced a hostile reception in Uruguay during their qualifiers several years ago, including fans making a racket outside their hotel - but you can't lump all countries together.

As the Mexican lad says above, it doesn't seem to be part of Mexican fan culture  - and let's make sure it never becomes part of ours!


In the 2002 WC qualifiers the Socceroos went to Montevideo leg ofthe playoffs and experienced being jostled and spat on (by elderly women of all things) on the street during a walkabout. There was the usual pot and pan banging outside the hotel, looked on by bemused constabulary with no hint of intervention looming.
In the 2006 WC playoffs they flew in from the training camp (elsewhere) on the day of the match, and flew back to Sydney directly from the game - FFA paid for a charter 747, set up with sleeping spaces, ice baths etc.  Recovery was conducted on board. Uruguay team followed them (for the second leg) on a regular flight, in economy class, and their Qantas plane circled over Sydney for an extra 1/2 hr or so "awaiting landing spot". The last bit may have been completely coincidental....    The short of the long was that by the second half of the second leg the Uruguayans were fading, even if they only had to travel once. I watched their best playmaker (Recoba) simply hit the wall by about 65 minutes. Australia scored just once via Bresciano andthat was enough to cancel the 1:0 loss in the first leg, the game went to penalties where Mark Schwarzer easily earned a knighthood.  But that, as they say, was a different team in different times.


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over 12 years ago
TV wrote:

El plodder makes me angry not excited about game. If we qualify and hes allowed to play at WC without a club...


I don't think you need to worry about that. 

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over 12 years ago

Christie huh, what was herbert's justicfiacation for playing him?

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over 12 years ago

Hes coach ....and gone in 2 games...


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over 12 years ago

At least we arent Jordan. 

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over 12 years ago


starting feel a head cold coming on, can someone tell my manager?

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over 12 years ago

If Ricki Herbert was not our coach, would anyone else in the entire world pick Christie to be in the squad let alone START in this game??? I honestly do not think that ANYONE ON THE PLANET would make this decision. Lochhead and Bertos will get destroyed down the flanks and I can't imagine the devastation that the Mexicans could cause through the middle of the park with Christie in there. Why don't we play young players with talent and potential, instead of old club less players whos professional careers are well and truly over? Start Roux over Lochhead and Tuiloma over Bertos. We may as well be building for Russia 2018 already. This is beyond a joke.

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over 12 years ago

Of course I will be supporting the team till the end, but as a lot of us my frustration with NZF is just reaching boiling point.

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over 12 years ago

Jeremy Christie to be the new Stephen Donald. 

All Aboard the Phoenix/ All Whites Bandwagon!!

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over 12 years ago
brettdale55 wrote:
Bluemagic wrote:

So it has been confirmed - Christie in midfield, a player who hasn't played a truly competitive match since 2011. Ricki - I know loyalty to old mates is to be commended usually, but this is the reputation of NZ football we're talking about. Please don't inflict Christie, Lochhead, and Bertos on us for this most vital game. These are fading old mates from yesterday. Take the bull by the horns and give our exciting young players a chance. Play Roux and Tuiloma and call up Ryan Thomas. Even Clapham would be better partnering McGlinchey than Christie. I've nothing against the lads but from a playing point of view they're past it.

I don't mind going down if we're giving our best young talent a chance and building for the future. I don't want to watch faded remnants of Ricki's Posse huffing and puffing one last time. There's a place for stubbornness and a place for bold thinking. Now is not the time for the former.

Bugger

Links?

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over 12 years ago

I really hope we somehow managed to survive tomorrow. But F me NZF how the hell can you sit back and watch Herbert select Christie.

It just boggles the mind. But what really pisses me off is that he has not been racked over the coals about his selection by the media. Is there some sort of, don't piss Ricki off rule, because he'll stop giving interviews??

Christie did fine as the back up DM in the last campaign so I wouldn't have minded him as a selection if he were still playing somewhere, even if it was somwhere obscure like India. But to be club less for 2 years.

I must have posted the same thing a dozen times now... but i stil cant get over it!!

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over 12 years ago


Jeez how much are we getting to throw this game? not making much of an effort to hide it... Christie in the middle of the park....Christie?.... Christie? wow

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over 12 years ago

The more I think about this, the more angry I get. As JV stated earlier, time to start thinking with the heart for the next day.

I have a feeling that Brockie will score a 30ft screamer to break his international duck. Either that or Rojas will come on in the 80th minute (knowing Herbert) and slalom his way through a couple of Mexicans and slide the ball through the keepers legs in the 88th minute.  

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over 12 years ago

Too much angst in here. We're in with a chance.

We can bitch and moan all we want afterwards.

COYAW!

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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Jesus Christ will prove you all wrong.

But agreed - we'll save the angst for afterwards. We're on a hiding to nothing anyway.

a.haak

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over 12 years ago

This would have been a better midfield pairing:

 


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over 12 years ago
Colvinator wrote:

This would have been a better midfield pairing:

 


ahahahahaha
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over 12 years ago

Who is Stephen Donald?


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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over 12 years ago
threatD wrote:
Colvinator wrote:

This would have been a better midfield pairing:

 


ahahahahaha

Brilliant Colvinator. Absolutely brilliant.
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over 12 years ago

pumped for this match. However I was thinking Christie would never actually see the pitch, yet the piss take that is ricki has taken it a little too far this time, in no other national team would this be acceptable. Such a giant circle jerk between the old timers, de jong and ricki.

yung thug

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over 12 years ago

Everybody cheer up. It must be motivational video time...



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over 12 years ago

"That left Christie in a battle with Chris James, Aaron Clapham and Jake Butler, which he has won." this stuff quote sums it all up pretty well.

yung thug

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over 12 years ago

Best of a bad bunch..and why no Lochy angst?..clubless as well.  It either exposes or affirms squad and coaching limitations.

A small town in Europe........looking to bounce straight back up....well that aint going to happen

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over 12 years ago

Has any New zealand football Journalist question NZF over the christie selection?

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over 12 years ago

Fucks sake... never a more negative bunch Have I ever come across.

Saudi Arabia 5 -0 away anyone?

Look at Mexico's results over the last 12 months. If ever we were going to possibly nick a result it would be now

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over 12 years ago

And here's some jokes by Mitch Hedberg, including one about refried beans...



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over 12 years ago

Work is impossible today, right?

head, heart, head, heart...

Kotahitanga. We are one.

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over 12 years ago

Refried beans, LOL

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over 12 years ago
brettdale55 wrote:

Has any New zealand football Journalist question NZF over the christie selection?


Oh! NZ has a football journalist?

Auckland City FC

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over 12 years ago
Stretford End wrote:

Work is impossible today, right?

head, heart, head, heart...

Totally. Every time I try to think about something else my mind just comes back to this game.

 

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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over 12 years ago


christie paying 35 to score first goal, vicelich 40, durante and lochhead 50 - surely 15 on Mcglinchey is the money

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over 12 years ago
robmm1976 wrote:


christie paying 35 to score first goal, vicelich 40, durante and lochhead 50 - surely 15 on Mcglinchey is the money

These oggies?

"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...

I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...

Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."

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over 12 years ago
robmm1976 wrote:


christie paying 35 to score first goal, vicelich 40, durante and lochhead 50 - surely 15 on Mcglinchey is the money

If we score it'll be from a corner or free kick, nodded in by 1) Ivan or 2) Dura  or3) Wood. Or Fallon of course, if he comes on.

"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...

I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...

Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."

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over 12 years ago

no oggies allowed :) otherwise you could lop off the first digit. Still I have the wierdest feeling, wood to equalise in the 32nd minute, 3-1 to mexico final whistle and Wellington is all go.

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over 12 years ago

Dura is in goal scoring form....

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over 12 years ago
Jerzy Merino wrote:
robmm1976 wrote:


christie paying 35 to score first goal, vicelich 40, durante and lochhead 50 - surely 15 on Mcglinchey is the money

If we score it'll be from a corner or free kick, nodded in by 1) Ivan or 2) Dura  or3) Wood. Or Fallon of course, if he comes on.

Or Christie might be our secret specialist penalty taker. Nobody will have a clue which way he's going to go!

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over 12 years ago
Jerzy Merino wrote:
robmm1976 wrote:


christie paying 35 to score first goal, vicelich 40, durante and lochhead 50 - surely 15 on Mcglinchey is the money

If we score it'll be from a corner or free kick, nodded in by 1) Ivan or 2) Dura  or3) Wood. Or Fallon of course, if he comes on.

Or Brockie will volley one into the top corner from 40 yards

 

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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over 12 years ago

^ Or Lochead/Siggy/Dura will volley an oggy into top corner from 4 yards.

"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...

I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...

Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."

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over 12 years ago

Funny that the New Zealand media think that 30 journalists being at the airport when the All Whites arrived is a 'hostile reception'.

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