Waitakere v All Whites. Wednesday, 7:30

The Facebook page said it was from 30m out
anth1832011-05-25 20:51:32

4-0

4-0 Timmy

and we will probably never see it...

surely NZF has the $$ spare to put a camera or two at the game???

please dear god let some footage surface

They even manage to get a camera down to the pre-season a-league games most of the time. Brockie has a habit of scoring crackers in games that dont matter..

I want to watch this soooo bad!

Wow, they're really handing it to Waitakere..

Sweet

Sean Lovemore on for Brockie..

I thought he was out injured? Hasn't played for the U20s yet. I dont think?

Waitakere scored

Goal Ant Hobbs!!

Finshed 4-1 to the All Whites

was lovemore the only sub on?

From what I've heard

Surely you expected it?

Lovemore playing with the All Whites. Surely a sign he's good enuf for the nix?

Just got back.

First thing I gotta mention is that the crowd was way bigger than I expected. I estimate it at about 3000 - 3500 and that is somewhat conservative considering pretty much all seating was taken and 5000 is capacity for douglas field.

First half was scrappy till the last 10 minutes or so, Siggy header off upper bar in the last minute. I don't know what Ricky did at half time but its as though someone shoved a rocket up the AWs arse - Brockie from 30+m out. Then a few more great goals, Kosta and Timmy. Waitakere grabbed one near the end.

There was several cameras (of the video variety ;)) so footage of Brockie's screamer should come up sooner or later.

Jeez, if we didn't thrash them i'd be pretty damn worried haha

Also, back from the game. Decent performance from the All Whites. Crowd was good considering it was Wednesday night and raining (as always in Waitakere), crowd was mostly Waitakere fans (obviously as well as being All Whites fans).

Was at a "VIP" event prior, was there for drinks and nibbles, but left as soon as presentation started. Nabbed a goodie bag and went to trusts stadium.

McGlinchey easily man of the match for me. 1st half very average. Barbarouses not as good as I expected. Good second half.

Nick Branch (71) and Nikko Boxall (87) also came on.

Hey guys, if anyone finds any video from the game, esp the brockie special can you put up a link please =)

like to give a special thanks to tomrewi, top notch commentary mate

Yeah they got on, Lovemore was the only player that I remembered to say came on ha

Same from me. Top work Tom. Was good to get those Twitter updates.
Would love to see some footage, anyone with a link.

TV3 showed three of the goals on Firstline this morning.  I'm sure it will be loaded onto their website at some stage.

Dominated the 2nd spell. McGlinchey, Siggy and Ivan best performers for me.

Agree with this - Ivan was solid at the back and McGlinchey had great control, took players on and has an accurate pass... Makes you wonder why he didn't get a game in the WC?

Im hearing about solidity at the back, but I also heard about several one-on-ones with moss... doesn't sound quite right?

Only a couple of one-on-ones? Ivan was a beast in the air, and Waitak fell into a trap of hoofing it long everytime  Played well in the first half, probably almost shaded it, until Siggy scored. We never really looked likely to get into the game after that, and the AW's scored some nice goals. Brockie, woah! And Kosta's finish was naize. McGlinchey was really good, especially put in a nice ball for Timbo's goal (I think it was him?). Agreed about the crowd, gotta be happy with that, even if it was notoriously quiet... And yeah, sicks Payne was subbed, especially to be replaced by Coombes. 

"Goal for Waitakere, but i'm not going to tell you who scored it"

2 mins later...

"It was Ant Hobbs"

i wish i could've been there, sounded awesome

I've got a few photos and some shoddy video from my phone, does anyone know how I can post them up here? otherwise put your email addy up and I'll send them through to whoever is interested

Also mistaking Siggy for Smeltz for the first goal, pretty clear it was Siggy who powered it home.

so did we play the 343?

If so, I assume lindsay was in defence?

So who played up top with Smeltz and Kosta? And on the flanks we had Brockie, McGlinchey or Clapham?