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Posted October 05, 2022 11:39 · last edited October 05, 2022 11:46

This week's Flying Kiwis. Greive is from Auckland so maybe he just personally chose to have an extra day(s) in the 09.

"Before the international break, St Mirren broke a 38-game unbeaten league streak of Celtic’s as they beat the perennial reigning champs 2-0 in a thrilling upset. But Alex Greive didn’t play, an unused sub on that occasion. After the international break, which he missed the first game of due to a late arrival and then played off the bench in Auckland in the second (including getting a set of sprigs to the ribcage from St Mirren teammate Keanu Baccus), Greive was apparently then late getting back to Scotland.

Weird one there because the two Aussies at the Buddies both arrived back on Wednesday local time. On the other hand, Greive didn’t get there until Friday which his coach Stephen Robinson wasn’t too chuffed with – ominously saying that he plans to have a word to NZ Football. Good luck with that, bruv.

SM coach Robinson: “Look, I’m a big supporter of international football and boys getting called up. I’ve worked at that level so I know how hard it is. But it’s been a bitty week. We haven’t had a full squad together to work with. But you can’t have everything. You can either have lads missing out on international squads and moan about it or you can see them get called up and moan about the travelling when they come back. The Aussie boys were back on Wednesday and trained that day. I’ll be speaking to Alex and New Zealand. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for it but I want to find out why he’s just [now] arriving back. That’s because I want everybody available and fit. We run with a small squad. We’ve got a couple of knocks with our strikers.”

It does seem odd that there’s a two day diffo between when the Aussies arrived and when Greive arrived – although if Danny Hay gets an angry voicemail then he can rightly point out that Greive was late in joining the All Whites squad as well so it goes both ways."

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Unknown editor edited October 05, 2022 11:46
This week's Flying Kiwis. Greive is from Auckland so maybe he just personally chose to have an extra day(s) in the 09.

"Before the international break, St Mirren broke a 38-game unbeaten league streak of Celtic’s as they beat the perennial reigning champs 2-0 in a thrilling upset. But Alex Greive didn’t play, an unused sub on that occasion. After the international break, which he missed the first game of due to a late arrival and then played off the bench in Auckland in the second (including getting a set of sprigs to the ribcage from St Mirren teammate Keanu Baccus), Greive was apparently then late getting back to Scotland.

Weird one there because the two Aussies at the Buddies both arrived back on Wednesday local time. On the other hand, Greive didn’t get there until Friday which his coach Stephen Robinson wasn’t too chuffed with – ominously saying that he plans to have a word to NZ Football. Good luck with that, bruv.

SM coach Robinson: “Look, I’m a big supporter of international football and boys getting called up. I’ve worked at that level so I know how hard it is. But it’s been a bitty week. We haven’t had a full squad together to work with. But you can’t have everything. You can either have lads missing out on international squads and moan about it or you can see them get called up and moan about the travelling when they come back. The Aussie boys were back on Wednesday and trained that day. I’ll be speaking to Alex and New Zealand. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for it but I want to find out why he’s just [now] arriving back. That’s because I want everybody available and fit. We run with a small squad. We’ve got a couple of knocks with our strikers.”

It does seem odd that there’s a two day diffo between when the Aussies arrived and when Greive arrived – although if Danny Hay gets an angry voicemail then he can rightly point out that Greive was late in joining the All Whites squad as well so it goes both ways."
Unknown editor edited October 05, 2022 11:40
This week's Flying Kiwis. Greive is from Auckland so maybe he just personally chose to have an extra day(s) in the 09.

Before the international break, St Mirren broke a 38-game unbeaten league streak of Celtic’s as they beat the perennial reigning champs 2-0 in a thrilling upset. But Alex Greive didn’t play, an unused sub on that occasion. After the international break, which he missed the first game of due to a late arrival and then played off the bench in Auckland in the second (including getting a set of sprigs to the ribcage from St Mirren teammate Keanu Baccus), Greive was apparently then late getting back to Scotland.

Weird one there because the two Aussies at the Buddies both arrived back on Wednesday local time. On the other hand, Greive didn’t get there until Friday which his coach Stephen Robinson wasn’t too chuffed with – ominously saying that he plans to have a word to NZ Football. Good luck with that, bruv.

SM coach Robinson: “Look, I’m a big supporter of international football and boys getting called up. I’ve worked at that level so I know how hard it is. But it’s been a bitty week. We haven’t had a full squad together to work with. But you can’t have everything. You can either have lads missing out on international squads and moan about it or you can see them get called up and moan about the travelling when they come back. The Aussie boys were back on Wednesday and trained that day. I’ll be speaking to Alex and New Zealand. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for it but I want to find out why he’s just [now] arriving back. That’s because I want everybody available and fit. We run with a small squad. We’ve got a couple of knocks with our strikers.”

It does seem odd that there’s a two day diffo between when the Aussies arrived and when Greive arrived – although if Danny Hay gets an angry voicemail then he can rightly point out that Greive was late in joining the All Whites squad as well so it goes both ways.