Vs Mexico 2nd Leg Wed 20th 7:00pm SS1

Yeah it should be a 4-2-3-1 or 5-3-2 at worst. Need 3 in CM. McGlinchey as most attacking. It's a pity Vicelich is out as he and James could do a great job as the 2.
Who's the other CMs we have?

Kosta, Marco and Smeltz as two wide players and up top. Brocks and Fallon to replace.

If we went with the two up top what about Marco and Smeltz, with McGlinchey just in behind? Midfielders job to hit McGlinchey as outlet with Marco drifting wide and Smeltz central. I like playing slightly lopsided, overload one side, maybe right with Roux there.

I know there's no chance of either (sounds like the XI is sorted) but interesting to throw some alternatives out there.

Looking to catch up with the Yellow Fever lot, and any fans travelling down from Auckland. Will be driving down tomorrow, so if you know where everyone will be hanging out, let me know... 022 6085390 :P

We usually head up to the BackBencher pub before a home match, I reckon anytime from 15:30 onwards.We are usually out the back rather than the main seating area - But for this match I reckon the entire pub will be filled by supporters.

https://maps.google.co.nz/maps?oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&q=Back+Bencher&fb=1&gl=nz&hq=Back+Bencher&cid=0,0,7928252242889012605&ei=3gSKUsq8IIOilQXUiYDwAw&ved=0CBoQtQMwAA

Post match it's usually The Four Kings for Wellingtonites. Some of us out of towners pop back to the BackBencher for a pint.

"BARNEY RUBBLE":  so does this guy
 i.e. "has a club" - yeah, that guy Miguel "Barney Rubble" Herrera has Club America - it's a big club...

This guy, Paul Raymond owned a club or two: and I'm looking forward to seeing Steve Coogan play him in new movie "The Look of Love."     C'mon, we've all "read" one of his publications! Should be a (poignant) laugh:

Paul Raymond (15 November 1925 – 2 March 2008) was an English publisher, club owner, and real estate developer.[1]

After opening the UK's first strip club, Raymond became very wealthy, buying property on a scale that got him dubbed "King of Soho"[ and launching Paul Raymond Publications with the soft-porn magazine Men Only, soon followed by Escort, Club International, Mayfair and many other best-selling titles. He was starting to hand over control to his daughter Debbie when she died of an overdose in 1992, after which he became a recluse.

...In the 1950's Raymond toured a show featuring nude models as statues who were moved around the stage on podiums; nudes could not move on stage at this time under a ruling from the Lord Chamberlain's Office which controlled what could be shown in the theatre. Raymond opened the Raymond Revuebar strip club as a private club to circumvent the Lord Chamberlain's powers, in Soho in 1958, which was at the time the first British strip club. Within two years, 45,000 members had signed up.

... Raymond had regular clashes with the authorities for over a decade. In 1961, Raymond was fined £5,000 following a magistrate's decision that permitting members to ring the Ding Dong Girl's bells constituted running an "unruly house". The JP also objected to a performer swallowing a snake in public and described the venue as “filthy, disgusting and beastly”.

Steve Coogan in "The Look of Love." He had a few clubs.... 

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"Eat my goal- the goalie has got football pie all over his shirt..." CGW used this with footage of the Mexican goals v NZ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXUZIZEMh1s

Goals at both ends I suspect!

and Christie !!

Shout out to Ricki for going out with a bang. 

So Boned.

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/all-whites-and-other-nz-international-teams/topics/white-noise-presents-football-fiesta-nov-20th

I'm on the road from Auckland now. Ngarawhawhia (sp). Flags everywhere. Horns beeping. Guys singing from the pavements. Yeah right.

Ricki naming a stupidly attacking lineup so they get thrashed and he can do the fingers at everyone that said he was too defensive & say 'I told you so!'.

I predict a 5-5 draw.

I see the Goldilocks Syndrome has kicked in. Didn't take long

"This side is too defensive, this side is too attacking"

Fuck me, this place is depressing sometimes.

We are 4 in the hole. Stupidly attacking is the only option he has.

7 - 3 would be good. That mean we qualify?

Dont care what the scoreline is, lets face it we wont win four nil, i just want herbert to use good tactics, play a positive entertaining brand of  football.

I like the lineup. Probably would have taken a risk and gone with Siggy ahead of Dura. Siggy wins more ball and if we are going to win by four goals (which is not likely) we need to disrupt them as much as possible. Just feel like Siggy is someone who can fire the rest of the team up. Plus Duras defense in the air and general marking has been wobbly recently.

good looking line up, and id almost say that this would be the baseline team ( plus or minus one or two) for the next coach to play.

he seems to have picked a team that is fairly mobile. which is different for ricki, but congrats to him.

its gonna be an interesting game. there will be goals, but too many in our net.

Plus Reid and Wood

Sorry trying to catch up with thread but I really like this

although that's still a lot to ask 

lol

Wonder if they can fly Ryan Nelsen down to give a pep talk in the changing rooms before the match. Get them inspired and fired up.

Looks like a fair swag of Mexicans about to board my flight Sydney to Welly.

Now in Otorohonga, NZ's "Kiwiana" town (eh?) and heading south. No sign of any Mexicans yet despite the heat. Or All White supporters. But I'm getting nearer.