Manaf Alshamsi

Free agent, anyone know about this player?

he last played two years ago in the emirates for al nasr

Is he a NZer?

Yes

Mmmm.... interesting career so far and only 24 - from Bay Olympic to the Paulista Second Div. in Brazil 2008- 2010 before signing for Al Nasr, UAE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaf_Alshamsi

Must be the first NZer to play professionally in Brazil - (or the UAE for that matter)?

A former Dunedin lad (Dunedin Tech) and also played for Central and Three Kings. 

Where is he now then?

Trialling??

Off the reservation

Fixed!

Happy?

ban stick for the above twat please....

Ban stick for your lack of a funny bone?

yawn

 yeh, gee Valeo, why would you get annoyed about some lazy racial stereotyping??  cos questioning it obviously makes you boring...

but then again, us Kebab Makers are a sensitive lot...

Hopefully by fixing it I didn't upset any of our native american posters

Your hole is only moderately deep.  Maybe stop now before it gets any bigger?

i think people just need to lighten up

Some person's 'lighten up' is another person's 'too far'.

I didn't see it so I don't know what was originally said but a couple of people have raised it with me as inappropriate.  Please tone it down TV.

It was hardly inappropriate but it's your show HN

Stop acting like a twat

This coming from you...

you would've made it in your 'early days'

we all know JV would top that poll.

anyway back to manaf alshamsi shall we?

Steve - O might scrape in.

Be a bit of a laugh, we could look at having a higlights wheel of their different posts.

Hmmm nostalgic moment.

Congrats on this thread dickheads

tripvincent I don't recall paying attention to your posts in particular in the past so I have no agenda here - your post and the followup behaviour have been equally poor though.

Oh please. It hardly deserves everyone getting high and mighty. Bad joke for some or most. Fine but people constantly having a dig just exasperates things. It was removed. How about moving on? Good

 best.thread.ever.

I bet you $10000000000000 today that Manaf Alshamsi will soon be on NZF's radar, he will play in the upcoming friendlies, be involved in the intercontinental play off and score the winner in stoppage time of the return leg with a scorpion kick from inside his own penalty box in a full-to-the-brink Palmy "Ring of Dirt"

have we jumped to the off-season already?

 Aside from the bickering going on here, is this bloke a REAL kiwi or just someone who hung out here for a while like ACFC's Spanish players. 

If he is class (and I'm not sure that he is as he's never popped up on FM or here before), is eligable and is actually passionate about the Fern (personally not sure that he is), might be worth scouting out a bit more.

The league here in the U.A.E is quite indifferent. Some talented players mixed with experienced pros getting a final pay check and some real crap aswell.

However, they generally don't sign foreign players unless they are generally pretty decent, so the boy musn't be too bad.

I notice that no one from his NZ teams have popped up to offer an opinion.