Dan Keat (Unattached FC)

how is he not ahead of unattached Payne?

I thought his performance against SA was questionable, but thats just me.

he was horrible v SA, but has done ok previously

He was, and given he's not played since I think he'll play like that again. Keat should be there over him.  Payne needs to find a club and start playing again.

Played 90 mins today in a 1 nil loss - Falkenberg second bottom - 2 points off safety.

Four points off safety - they are 15th on the 16 team table - 14th place side goes into a relegation play-off. The 13th place side has a much better goal difference than Falkenberg, so they'd have to get four points to jump above them and avoid the play-off.

Were doing okay until mid-August but have lost five league games in a row and been knocked out of the cup since their last win on August 17.

Only five games left in the season:

http://int.soccerway.com/teams/sweden/falkenbergs-...

Hacken 1 - 2 Falkenberg

Keat scoring his third goal of the season in the process.

Falkenberg inching towards safety. Very important win, anything less than 3 points and they'd be second last with 3 games to go.

Key matchup will be on the last day of the season at home to another relegation threatened side - Mjallby. Could well decide who stay's up and who drops down. 

Two wins in a row with the weekend's away win following the previous weekend's crucial 4-2 thrashing of the team now one place below them on goal difference, Norrkoping.

Falkenburg now sit in 13th place, above the relegation play-off spot only on goal difference.

Table:

http://int.soccerway.com/national/sweden/allsvensk...

Full 90 for Dan in the 2-0 home win over Helsingborg, one of Sweden's biggest clubs.

Now twelfth on the table on 32 points, three more than the team on 14th place in the relegation play-off spot.

Two more games to go.

http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2014/10/20/sweden...

Dan's Falkenberg finished thirteenth on the sixteen team Swedish table in their first-ever season in the top flight, narrowly avoiding the fourteenth place relegation play-off:

http://int.soccerway.com/national/sweden/allsvensk...

Dan played 26 games and scored four goals:

http://int.soccerway.com/players/dan-keat/110775/

Including a goal in their last game a week ago which secured a 1-1 draw against Mjallby and insured Craig Henderson's former club were directly relegated. So Craig got out at the right time when he went to Norway...

Good solid season will be interesting to see if he has other offers in the break

26 games and 4 goals is a very good season.....Dan is a good experianced pro playing Div 1 in an OK European league. I really hope he can step up and do a solid job as a DM for the AW's. Because he's about it as far as experianced AW DM's are concerned. I don't think him and Ricki saw eye to eye......hopefully he will thrive working with Hudson

As far as DM there must be something that OM see in Bill Tuiloma that we do not?

Perhaps Tuiloma is a better DM for club than country because his club has better players... and get themselves in better positions, don't make as many mistakes putting him under pressure etc.

Or they've got him for his potential and he hasn't necessarily delivered yet; much like his time with the AW's so far. He needs consistent time playing first team football before you can comment on his ability ceiling really.

Bill T has played one game as a DM for the AWs. We had a new coach, were away against a team who play together often and are extremely well organised, and he ended up completely isolated by our more advanced players not tracking back. Seems like a bit much to write him off as a future AWs DM on the basis of that one match.

Stop making so much sense Conan... people will get confused by it.

The first time a team promoted to the Swedish Div 1 for the first time have stayed up - Henrik Larsson in charge - he'll have a handy contacts book.

Henrik Larsson has left Falkenberg to manage the larger Helsingborg club.

Former manager Hans Eklund who gained them promotion in 2013 returns after a season away managing the larger Kalmar club:

http://falkenbergsff.se/detailarticle.aspx?id=275

Right now they are playing pre-season friendlies with the league commencing the first week of April.

Latest news on friendlies, signings etc.:

http://www.falkenbergsff.se/news.aspx

Dan has been featuring regularly for 90 minutes in Falkenberg's pre-season friendlies in Turkey against sides like Dynamo Minsk:

http://www.falkenbergsff.se/news.aspx

League kicks off April 6 NZT

No place for him in Hudson's All White selection though. Off radar?

Would be a bit under done I would say can't see why Van den boek would be selected but not him given our lack of out and out quality DM's who are playing regularly / proffesionally

Hudson explained this. He's trying to find at least 2 or 3 players for every position. Probably he knows what Keat is capable of, but is just looking for someone else who can do the same so as to have a couple of DMs available

Played 90 in their first league game yesterday - 2 nil defeat.

A hectic start to the season with three games in eight days for a loss to Gefle, a draw away to mighty Helsingborg and a home win against Orebro.

Dan has played every minute of every match:

http://int.soccerway.com/players/dan-keat/110775/

3-1 away defeat for now 11th placed Falkenberg to 13th placed Atvidaberg. Full 90 for Dan again:

http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2015/04/19/sweden...

full 90 in a 3 all draw with top of the table Malmo

Great game with intense, noisy atmosphere in the small ground (Falkenberg in yellow):

Being a ginger makes Dan easy to pick out...he pushes up right into the box at times, such as for the third goal when he's right up there next to the goalscorer (in the image above).

Up 2-0 at half-time, then 2-1 early into the second half, then 2-2, then 3-2, finishing 3-3

One win, two draws and two losses sees Falkenberg lie 11th on the 16 team table.

Kalmar 4 - 0 Falkenberg

Not going according to plan for Falkenberg in the Allsvenskan of late. Sitting in 14th on the table having picked up only 2 points in the past 6 games.

Keat still an ever present in the side however, started 15 of 16 games this season with a solitary goal to his name.

Surely has to be in the back of Hudson's mind for next AW's squad, still only 27 and is one of the few kiwi's playing football abroad to be playing week in week out for his club side.

He played for U20s in 2007 WC before the "5 years after turning 18" regulation was introduced so yes he's still eligible.

Good result over the weekend 1 nil over IFK top of the league. Dan played the full 90

Dan has played in 19 of Falkenberg's 22 league games this season but not as much the last month - didn't appear in their last game on 29 August, was a 76 min sub in the one before that, unused in the game before that.

http://int.soccerway.com/players/dan-keat/110775/

Falkenberg are 13th on the Swedish top flight table after 22 games with 8 to go.

Two points above the relegation play-off spot (14th)

Places 15th and 16th are automatically relegated.

Falkenberg have won only two of their last 14 matches.

They are still in the Cup however and made the "Group Stage" of the final 32 teams (they play in 8 groups of 4 and Falkenberg are one of the sole seeded teams in each group) The group winners make the quarter-finals

Dan played the full 90 in Falkenberg's 4-0 away Cup win over Assyriska BK on 20 August in the second round.

Came on as a 77th min sub in a 1-0 win in the "Hallands Derby" match at Halmstads BK.

Played the full game in a 1-2 loss at Örebro SK.

That result leaves them in 14th, the relegation playoff spot, and 5 points adrift of 13th with 3 games left.

Falkenberg can't avoid the relegation play-off spot now with one game left in the regular season and are five points off thirteenth place and safety:

http://int.soccerway.com/national/sweden/allsvensk...

Dan came on as a 77th minute sub in the 6-0 rout of last-placed Advitaberg:

http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2015/10/18/sweden...

In Falkenberg's last game, a 2-0 home defeat vs. sixth placed Djurgarden, Dan was an unused sub.

Dan has started 20 games and come on three times as a sub this season.

Full game against Elfsbork (lost 4-2). 

Subbed in at 76 in the away leg of the relegation play-off against Sirius (2-2)

Dan Keat scores a screamer of a goal to equalise on the night and keep Falkenbergs FF in the Allsvenskan on away goals after the first leg against Sirius IK was drawn 2-2.