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Galaxy coming back?

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Galaxy coming back?
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Interesting article but wtf?? dragging out Whinnington Rufer yet again? FFS, NZ Football cant run their own accounts and they want to fork out 2 mill for the galaxy in Auckland? 15k turnout to see players coming out in wheel chairs. Steve Sumner warm up pal, you're playing. John Adshead to coach? Sam Malcolmson to play and back up how brilliant he was and to justify his critisms of the Phoenix/
 
Sorry if this sounds sour but let's see it like this
 
1] NZ FA can't addord it.
 
2] Why use players who's used by date expired 10 years ago. (Beckham is only 33), Whinnington Rufer is 46! hang on, I'll get me own boots out, I'm 48.
 
3] Auckland is reknowned for not showing up to football games. A hardcore 500 will.
 
4] NZ FA trying to cash in on the Nix and their initiative. Shame they didn't come up with an original idea.
 
5] Another financial disaster after a year of financial disasters for the NZ FA??
Lonegunmen2008-05-03 14:15:34
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
hang on, I'l get me own boots out, I'm 48.
 
I'd make the trip purely for this!
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
And how can they claim Tim Cahill to play for an Oceania XI when he plays for Australia?
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Sounds like a balls up to me!
 
Galaxy rejected an offer to play the Phoenix in Auckland and want to play an Oceania All Stars team. Good luck to them....I suppose the Jaffas will get out to watch Becks, they could get a good crowd. The Phoenix should just concentrate on the a-League and forget this circus.
David Beckham.....been there, done that!!!!
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Get them playing a proper Oceania XI, not digging up the festering corpses of yesterday's men. Imagine Krishna, Totori, Neil Emblen, all playing in the same side.
Oh, hang on....
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
chocnut wrote:
And how can they claim Tim Cahill to play for an Oceania XI when he plays for Australia?
Because Tim Cahill is the f**king man, thats why. What other reason do you need? Hell, if it goes ahead, they should call it:

The Tim Cahill game
(featuring some washed up Oceania "stars" and a past it English guy)

Anyway, you're right though, any ties he has to Oceania are clutching at straws at best - He was born and raised in Australia. He did play for Samoa at age group level though I believe as his mother is Samoan... still.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Wikipedia:

The midfielder only made his debut for the Australian national team in 2004, as a result of his having played for Samoa at Under-20 level at the age of 14.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
Interesting article but wtf?? dragging out Whinnington Rufer yet again? FFS, NZ Football cant run their own accounts and they want to fork out 2 mill for the galaxy in Auckland? 15k turnout to see players coming out in wheel chairs. Steve Sumner warm up pal, you're playing. John Adshead to coach? Sam Malcolmson to play and back up how brilliant he was and to justify his critisms of the Phoenix/
 
Sorry if this sounds sour but let's see it like this
 
1] NZ FA can't addord it.
 
2] Why use players who's used by date expired 10 years ago. (Beckham is only 33), Whinnington Rufer is 46! hang on, I'll get me own boots out, I'm 48.
 
3] Auckland is reknowned for not showing up to football games. A hardcore 500 will.
 
4] NZ FA trying to cash in on the Nix and their initiative. Shame they didn't come up with an original idea.
 
5] Another financial disaster after a year of financial disasters for the NZ FA??


To be fair, this doesn't have anything to do with New Zealand Football (you are right though, it would be completely stupid for them to take a punt on something like this).

It's the Auckland Regional Council and the Oceania Federation who are reported to be interested in putting it on.

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I would not even consider going up for this. As far as I am concerned it will flop and it will make the Phoenix occasion look even better than it was (if thats possible)
 
 
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
the way 3 news covered it, made it out to be a game to finish rufers playing career. parkz152008-05-04 16:22:11
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm all for the idea if the OFC and Auckland Regional Council are willing to put the majority of the money into it, and if Karembeau and Rufer don't play.  We'd want our strongest team.

What I am unable to fathom, however, is why oh why did they have to pick Auckland?  Why can't they come down to Christchurch?
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Logistics, LoyalGunner, pure and simple.
 
OFC is based at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, for starters.
 
As well, if OFC is bringing folk in from far and wide to play in this match, it's a lot easier for them financially and logistically to have them congregate in Auckland, rather than sort out connecting flights, etc., in order to effectively shift an entire organisation to another location, solely for the purposes of playing in an exhibition match.
 
And if Auckland Regional Council is committing itself financially to this exercise, then it would be rather dumb not to play the game anywhere else but Auckland, don't you think?
 
BTW, LoneGunmen, your rant is out of order where this topic is concerned, given NZF aren't even in the picture re this issue. The fact that Wynton Rufer is set to play a part further underlines the national body's non-involvement.
 
NZF and the NZ game's most feted international aren't exactly common bedfellows, haven't been for some time, and sadly, it's a situation which I don't envisage will ever change. There are too many philosophical differences between the parties concerned for a harmonious long-term relationship to become a reality, no matter how much we'd like to see such a thing happen.
 
 
Cheers,
 
JR
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Fair points Scousekiwi.  I suspect Auckland has the biggest Pacific Island population in NZ, and the fact that the OFC team will have Pacific Island players will attract a lot of them to the match. loyalgunner2008-05-04 15:27:19
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