Auckland City FC - Thanks a Trillion

I wouldn't go sharing needles with rugby players

Slightly off topic about Auckland City but on the topic of pokie funding - one of the things that amuses me about the whole brouhaha about pokie funding is that people with a historical knowledge of National League football will remember when that when the franchise league system was bought in , the prime advocate (Bill MacGowan) stated that the existing  club based league was too dependent on pokie machine funding and the franchise system would reduce that. It seems to me that the current league is even more dependent on that funding source ?

And how many jobs has MacGowan burnt through as CEO.....?

Interesting Blew.

"Auckland City FC is completely committed to strengthening NZ's football talent at grassroots level and supporting our colleagues at clubs around the country to find and develop the best young talent to escalate into national and international competitions. It's great to see our newly formed Junior Academy catering to 11 - 16 year olds really blossoming this year, with 125 youngsters and seven committed coaches."

- ACFC Chairman Ivan Vuksich, quoted in the ACFC U-17 Youth Tournament programme.

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 9:25a.m.

Riccardo is joined by Paul Poser to about the Auckland City FC Youth tournament.

http://www.radiolivesport.co.nz/Paul-Poser/tabid/454/articleID/23899/Default.aspx

fixed

Apparently both Auckland and Chianese were keen on the transfer but couldn't get it sorted in time for the OCL and as a result it's not going ahead now.

Former @SydneyFC striker Joel Chianese's move to @AucklandCity_FC wasn't registered in time for the Oceania League #SST

— Soccer Stoppage Time (@SocStoppageTime) March 26, 2015

Chianese is now expected to join a club in the Malaysian football league #SST

— Soccer Stoppage Time (@SocStoppageTime) March 26, 2015

Further to our earlier report, we can now confirm Sabah Football Association have agreed a fee with @AucklandCity_FC for Joel Chianese #SST

— Soccer Stoppage Time (@SocStoppageTime) March 26, 2015

So ACFC signed him from his Aussie club and then sold him?

a fee? But he's an amateur player at auckland City surely....

2.5 mill

Edit :)

Yeah so twist there. So apparently ACFC signed Chianese but could not register him in time for the O-League, which is the main reason he wanted to sign.

Malaysia Club Sabah, who have only just signed former Brisbane Roar coach Mike Mulvey as their head coach, then immediately offered "a very tidy transfer fee" for Chianese which ACFC accepted.

interesting that his original preference was to play for free for an amateur side, than professionally for the Malaysian side....

Apparently Colin Murphy, Ant Hobbs and Danyon Drake have all joined according to an article on the Auckland City website. 

That World Club Cup is a hell of a carrot.

OFC Champions League Confirmed on Sky Sport: 

Auckland City's Games:

April 11: delayed 8.30 pm vs. Suva Sky Sport 5 ch. 55

April 14 live 4.30 pm vs .Western United Sky Sport 2 (replay 11.30 pm SS 3)

April 18 live 7 pm vs. Amicale Sky Sport 5  

FINAL: April 26 live 7 pm Sky Sport 6 ch. 56 (replay April 27 1.30 pm SS 3) 

Thank god they have organised this as the live streaming last year was terrible. 

The reality is he would have been on the same money at both clubs, despite the 'status'.

Pleased with the 5-1 win over Waitakere always good to flog the local rivals. Hopefully the final is more competitive.

'paying him'

Can't imagine the stand down period would have got in the way of the coaching that he was being paid to do. 

http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/streaming-coverage-con...

"New Zealand Football confirmed on Tuesday the ASB Premiership Grand Final between Auckland City FC and Hawke’s Bay United will be streamed live via N-Tech."

The LIVE streaming coverage of the ASB Premiership Final will be available here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football

Sunday 5 April, 2pm

Anyone having trouble with the stream?

Yep, lagging and sound is off and on. Probably because of my internet though..

Had pixellation, lagging etc for first 13 minutes of match, since then (up to at time of writing 18 mins) it's been watchable.

PENALTY HAWKE'S BAY

Tingles to take it.

SCORES 

AC 0 HB 1

Penalty goal for Hawkes Bay.

Pretty easy Penalty to give

1-1 De Vries goal

Rate the quality of the stream coverage.

the stream was great for me in the first half but now it's gone all blocky and jumpy and now just froze completely

Edit: refreshed and now it's all good again

Been all good for me the entire time.

Yeah, great stuff getting it up. Has been fine for me the whole time also. (from Australia using bad internet)

Is John Irving injured?

I noticed he was playing for Auckland last month.

I get the feeling that ACFC are going to open HBU up at the back again soon

...and there we go

I now see what everyone has been saying about HB being big whinging bastards.

Feel like slapping some sense into them everytime they whine.

Isn't he trialing somewhere?

Looked like a pretty good call for the handball and penalty there I thought

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