No habla Espanol - the NZFC bitch fight

Anyone headling along to watch the game vs CCM tomorrow night?

I would quite like ACFC to get humped so the knitting circle can stop trying to claim that the ASBP is close to A-league quality

CCM will win 6-1

2-2

Ciudad de Auckland CF 2
Central Coast Mariners 1

If anyone's interested I can tweet updates from the game - @Bozman19

Couple have.

Would be going, except that Gaelic footy training starts tonight.

4-0 to CCM

4-0 to CCM? Someone doesn't know their football.

Sounds like ACFC are doing well,  @Bozman19 Feneridis scores right on halftime after great play by Exposito. 2-1 City at half time.

Full-time, 3-1 City.

Amazing. As much as I hate everything Auckland - well done City.

I believe I was the closest, muchas gracias todos.

I'm surprised the Mariners even got that close to the 5th best club team in the World.

The Mariners didn't exactly hold back either.
Nicely satisfied & thanks to the Croatian hosts who spent much of the day bringing everything together.

From the CCM website:

Went and watched.

In terms of possesion, it was 50-50 but when Auckland had it, they struggled to get it out of the back 4. They really played with patience though and focused on ball retnetion. Their two goals kinda came against the run of play. Penalty - dead set. Having said that, CCM spent more time in Aucklands half in both halfs but never made Spooney work. The goal they scored, I don't know how Spooney didn't save it, must have taken a deflection or a bounce and he only had one other save to make early in the 1st half. Otherwise, fair play to them, they won 3 - 1. The new Spanish guy they had (he was listed in the program as Andreu) was a nice footballer but I fear that Chad Coombes might be spending a bit of time on the bench. He looked ordinary at right back and his first touch also let him down a bit. He was also the only one to get booked for a typical Chad foul. It was a quite dumb.

On the flip side of that, I have never seen a team moan so much in my life. CCM complained about an obvious penalty and literally complained about every single decision, even the obvious ones. There was a foul right at the end where it was their striker on one of the Spaniards and he blatantly pushed him, then moaned when the free kick was given. On attitude alone, they didn't deserve to win.

Can someone tell me once again why Michael McGlinchy doesn't start in the All White midfield? He even played at right half today but he surely has to start for our country everytime. Just a class footballer. Never gave the ball away, make some cracking passes and was never caught in posession. How the hell he is playing in the A League is beyond me cause he is better than that!

Jeff Vader2011-09-28 22:48:58

They might have played man to man at the back but up front when Ivan and co had the ball, they used a sliding zone... He basically talks bollocks because they looked like they were trying and put out a near full strength team

I think ACFC would beat the Phoenix having seen both game on the the weekend. Thats really a sad indictment on the state of the Phoenix

It's not a pity.

ACFC (or at least the people behind ACFC) had the perfect opportunity to step up to the A-League five years ago when the Knights went under.

For reasons only known to themselves they didn't take it. They could have, they had plenty of time and opportunity (NZF were almost exclusively focused on finding new owners in Auckland until Terry finally stepped up and forced their hand).

I would love to see a second A-League franchise in NZ though, and despite the past history I still think Auckland would be the best place for it.

I don't feel sorry for ACFC (or Auckland in general), however, for not taking the opportunity when it was sitting there on a silver platter.

Anyone on here know why the Phoenix turned down an opportunity to play ACFC in a friendly?

Is that confirmed Proak or .....?

The pity is that the league needs significant financial input each year from individuals so ACFC, which is an actual football "club" (despite being recently created) never had the money. 

Two things to add to this.

1: ACFC would need to lose players because they would be well over the import quota. Danko, Dickinson, Andreu, Esposito, Albert, Angel, Tade, Corales, Feneridis.

2: Why would they play in that league? There team is all about giving spots to Kiwis.

Incidentally in both games against CCM, the Phoenix had more Kiwis on the field. (Paston, Lochhead, Brown, Bertos, Siggy vs Spooney, Vicelich, Coombes and Hogg)

Feneridis is a Kiwi lad.

Think Corrales and Danko while clearly imports have been here long enough that they would be residents like Daniel is for the Phoenix.

Kosta Rican I thought?

Herbert said Daniel play for 5 years in NZ.
Therefore he is eligable to play for the national team.

So Koprivcic isn�t important for the import quote.
Feneridis is Kiwi.

So they have 6 Players.
Is it sure that Andreu signed for City?

How much player can be "import-players" in NZ?

maskedavenger2011-09-29 07:13:40

hopefully that verifies my point that Feneridis has duel Kiwi/Greek nationalitymaskedavenger2011-09-29 07:17:52

You say they're all about giving spots to kiwis immediately after claiming 9 of them are imports... ?

maskedavenger2011-09-29 07:30:50

Good $hit Auckland. Obviously didn't see it but I'm guessing the attitude was pretty good. Good result to give our lads a kick up the arse as well. Should hopefully dispel the rumours that NO ASB players are a-league quality. More of these sort of fixtures would be good.

Good game, and even though I can't stand City, they did well and were well worth their victory. Had a quick chat to Disco Troy after the game- top man.