History for Jeff Vader

You are right - in context. The AWs were the only undefeated team in WC2010 but its about context. Which goes back to the point I made before, are they are 3-4 week team or a team that's outstanding across x games of quality opposition. If they played those 7 teams on a rotational basis across 4 rounds, how would they go? Its not about that though. They won on their day and they get deserved credit for that. The Phoenix can't do that and are finding out through crowd numbers that NZ people do not support losers. This year they look to be finally getting a hold of themselves and playing at a level which is good but they are still inconsistent and not a team that does it 27 weeks across a competition - yet.

To put it another manner and back to the point I made about NZ supporting this, if the competition they play in, the ASBP was really of outstanding quality and ACFC (and others) did that every week, we'd have decent coverage and patronage at this competition. I mean the Weenix WaiBOP game on TV was yet again, another televised pile of.......