ACFC - Better than the All Whites.
Hmm.
Interesting negative comment considering ACFC have, once again, achieved an exceptional result against both Uzbekistan and now the Moroccan champions.
Clean sheets (bar for penalties) against both too. Well played Tamati!
Funny innit. Once upon a time I would have been absolutely stoked by this ACFC result. Kiwis on the world stage, doin' it!
But you and your friends (or multis?) and your insistent trolling on here has gradually made me more and more apathetic about it all.
I suppose overall it's good for the game here because of the money and the exposure it brings.
Smithy, I just have to say this cuts both ways. I know I play the devil's advocate sometimes in defence of the ASBP and ACFC on this forum but that's usually in response to a constant drumbeat of erroneous and malicious digs at ACFC by some of your regulars.
I just wish more of those who go on this forum would turn out to watch Team Wellington. The O league is a tough competition now and TW will need it. The local national league desperately needs bums on seats.
I'm just basking in ACFC's glory in Morocco and looking forward to the game against the African champions E S Setif, so I won't be at Eden Park this weekend. I hope the Phoenix win but my heart is elsewhere. ACFC's performance may have been defensive but NZ football, in particular the ASBP, will benefit from the prize money, regardless of what the ACFC-haters here say.
We all know what's coming down the road. The Phoenix are increasingly going to become a nation-wide franchise because of insufficient support in Wellington (Dome has openly said this). That means three or possibly four games in Auckland and probably a rebranding as the NZ Phoenix and we'll get fewer at Kiwitea Street as a result. But hey, who knows, a couple of new franchises might rejuvenate the ASBP and at least ACFC have the O league and the CWC. There won't be another NZ A League franchise in Auckland because FFA don't see our low attendances/TV viewers as worth it.
The Phoenix and the ASBP are odd bedfellows because of the Asian/Oceania split but we just have to get used to it.
"Third crack at pro football team on cards in Auckland."
- see Steven Holloway in today's NZ Herald (with encouragement from Oz pundit Michael Cockerill "Oceania Football Confederation should look at being a partner, because they have so much to gain from it." ... and ACFC chairman Ivan Vuksich: "If there's a possibility of another A-League team in Auckland we would definitely be keen to be involved. I have people working for me trying to find investors and the signs are reasonably encouraging.").