Why on earth has Steve Hepburn put Malcolm Fleming of all peoples opinions in the ODT. A shocking one at that. He's had his shot at every club in Dunedin, including OU - move on.
I'd like to afford Malc some respect for his track record, but once again he just comes away sounding like a typical negative plonker.
It's pretty shark when a small but vocal minority including him have a pop at the Irish blokes. The last thing the team needs is people creating unnecessary divisions. Although the Irish lads aren't superstars, it's hard to deny they're probably the best 5-6 guys in the team at the moment. And they seem like top blokes to boot that are genuinely helping lift the standards of the team. It doesn't happen overnight unfortunately.
The other things that irks me is people forgetting that other than the Irish, ALL of our squad are locally based players. In the past we would always get a massive bunch of fly-by-nighters from Canterbury & North Island. And they were almost all bloody average and the first to disappear when the going got tough. We are actually playing at least 5 or 6 genuinely local players every week - is there any other team in the league that can say that? (I think Tasman United have 2).
Everyone knows that PJ Park isn't ideal, but it seems like they're making the best of a bad situation. Where the hell is Malcolm suggesting they play? Tonga fudging Park? "Dodge the dogshark" de Carle? Just goes to show how much we need our Home of Football.