Cause the competition are better, see the various Reid, Smith, Boxall etc who have played there in the last few years.
Hasn't featured for the AWs since around 2009 - something tells me that narrowly avoiding relegation out of League 2 isn't necessarily the required standard these days.
Good on him for carving a career in Europe - big fan, but he's not AWs material in my opinion.
Cause the competition are better, see the various Reid, Smith, Boxall etc who have played there in the last few years.
Hasn't featured for the AWs since around 2009 - something tells me that narrowly avoiding relegation out of League 2 isn't necessarily the required standard these days.
Good on him for carving a career in Europe - big fan, but he's not AWs material in my opinion.
Seems a good bloke, but doubt he's even close to the AWs. As above plenty of experienced CBs playing at a much higher level.
Same probably also now for Themi, who seemed to really enjoy his late career taste of international football.
You might as well bring in the youth as your backup CBs, like Pjinaker as they are the future.
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These are tough leagues and quite mechanical. You simply do not survive in these environments without a decent level of ability and the know how to apply it consistently.
It's not so much about dismissing his ability, but more to the fact that at any point since 2009, there have been 5 or 6 better options at CB for the All Whites, so it's not exactly shocking that he hasn't been called up since then.
Morecambe (22nd/3rd last) were actually 2-0 up. They are a comfortable 9 pts clear of last placed Stevenage - remembering only bottom team is relegated in League Two this season.
Full game in 1-0 loss to Newport County (16th) in Wales.
Morecambe still look safe from relegation. A comfortable 10 points above the drop zone (Stevenage in last spot - only 1 team being relegated) with 9 games to go.
Lancashire Police said officers were called to reports of a sudden death at a property in Greenfinch Avenue, Cottam in Preston around 1.30pm on Tuesday, and they are not treating it as suspicious.
"Down the divisions, there aren’t too many kiwis out there at the moment. Steven Old’s Morecambe were in a relegation battle most of the EFL League Two season but they did enough to finish third to bottom after the shakeout. The league was abandoned and the table decided on a points per game basis. Only one team was relegated instead of two as well so Morecambe were fine."
Thanks to all the fans, players & staff @ShrimpsOfficial for the last 3 seasons. It was a hard decision to decline a guaranteed contract with Morecambe, but it's time to move back up north of the border, and play closer to home. #shrimps4ever
Alrighty then. Old had been offered a new single-year deal to remain at the club he’s spent the last three seasons with, keeping them in the football league each time despite some frisky relegation battles, but ultimately he chose to decline that offer for family reasons. Wants to move back to Scotland where he played earlier in his career and be closer to the rellies and all that. Which in turn was the major reason why he moved to England from Sweden three years back too. Fair priorities, dude’s 34 years old with a young family, gotta do what you gotta do. Old played 128 times for Morecambe in all competitions, scoring 10 goals.
Now we just need to hope that Tommy Smith lands on his feet, Nik Tzanev comes back from his loan and snaps up the starting gig for AFC Wimbledon, or someone else pops up from out of the woods because otherwise there’ll be no regular kiwi presence in the EFL next season. Championship, League One, or League Two. Plenty of time left for that to change though."
Wow fifth tier of Scottish football. Must be close to home. I guess he's had a good career and it's probably time to concentrate on other things, like family, maybe coaching or further education
Sadly I understand his dad ex AB Geoff Old is a bit in la la land these days. Early onset dementia, and I think part of that multi million dollar class action bought against World Rugby by former players.
