I bet Red Maga hats would be very popular at AFC, communist "Make Auckland Great Again" hats.
not sure if this a joke that I'm missing, but maga is very much not communist. According to young Republicans, they have an admiration for an Austrian painter and vegetarian later in life.
I bet Red Maga hats would be very popular at AFC, communist "Make Auckland Great Again" hats.
not sure if this a joke that I'm missing, but maga is very much not communist. According to young Republicans, they have an admiration for an Austrian painter and vegetarian later in life.
I bet Red Maga hats would be very popular at AFC, communist "Make Auckland Great Again" hats.
not sure if this a joke that I'm missing, but maga is very much not communist. According to young Republicans, they have an admiration for an Austrian painter and vegetarian later in life.
Ot was a political joke. Irony. Red being communist, Red also being republican. Maga hats upsetting Liberals and referral to making Auckland great again instead of America
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
I bet Red Maga hats would be very popular at AFC, communist "Make Auckland Great Again" hats.
not sure if this a joke that I'm missing, but maga is very much not communist. According to young Republicans, they have an admiration for an Austrian painter and vegetarian later in life.
Ot was a political joke. Irony. Red being communist, Red also being republican. Maga hats upsetting Liberals and referral to making Auckland great again instead of America
Could we have a K-pop demon hunter supporters group mash up?
Or an only fools and horses ultras?
Why not?
A lot of people seem to want to be the fun police.
Like Amy Pond in Dr Who?
It feels odd to have that combination of overt politics and sport, but even weirder the nutty switch it sets off.
What’s the problem with communism? Well, whatever the dreams are it usually ends up with a few people running the country, often using the military and aligned media to intimidate and control opposition, unfairly siphoning off wealth into their personal projects and profits and accountable to almost no one. Obviously why it’s unpopular amongst MAGA supporters…
It’s hilarious that no one would ever call Caesar or postwar Japan communists, but they started by breaking oligarchal control on wealth so that the promise of most conservatives and frankly everyone- work hard and you can get ahead, for you and for your children- could be realised.
While the 1980s in Japan is a crazy time, and economic success, like NZ selling produce to the UK, is in part hitching yourself to a rich wagon and grabbing the scraps, very few books in the art of Japanese management of the 80s point out their miracle was like the US’s own: people could own a home (or in the States some land) and their hard work got rewarded. In Japan the oligarchies were broken up, as they were by Caesar.
I mean comparatively.
Economic growth needs everyone to have a bit to get spending. Giving a trillion to Elon shouldn’t be the canary in the coal mine.
Anyway! Free Liam Gillion! Power, power to the food trucks! And the phone chargers!
Can't we just focus on football, and not politics?
Welcome to 2025 bud. It's everywhere. You can't even enjoy a cup of tea without being told the leaf was harvested by slave labour, the milk is via Big Bad Fonterra, the sugar by even worse Tate & Carlyle... and the water is probably unfit to drink without boiling... and who's sitting opposite you anyway, and why are you affiliated...
Have i joined the MAGA camp by saying there are two many foreigners in the AFC starting 11.? Are we allowed to say that anymore? Only two kiwi outfield players before Sakai got injured My only positive take on AFC last year was that at least they gave lots of kiwi boys a start. It was my only reason to watch them. I now find them boring to watch this season. Its efficient but its dull football
Hilarious the guys who just want to focus on the football spent a page having a laff about Dolores’ group with fifty year old references and inanities like Luxon, whose government is burning up climate change progress for the hell of it and indicating an intention to bail on their Paris commitments (and attempting to Americanize our healthcare while they do), is a centrist like Dame Jacinda who was at the COP 30 as a special representative for Oceania as we power past 1.5 degrees.
Believing those two are the same sounds a bit like being a nihilist and believing in nothing, Lebowski.
And Fonterra sold the milk and the cheese right?
I mean sure. We’re talking about it I assume cos there’s not a lot of football happening…I only talk politics when I’m pissed off, and as someone who has followed the international climate response since 1992, I’m far from a happy chappy and sometimes the steam valve comes off.
I probably should make some time to kick a football around too as well as just talk about it. I remember when I was a kid you could do that at the local school grounds, but these days everything is locked up and security monitored. And I want to wear kangaroo leather, not these synthetics. Makes amazing boots and I don’t care that much about an Aussie species!
But yeh football as LG was saying is a place to get together over things we enjoy. And the stakes are both higher and lower. As we were.
Lachlan Brook is either being used wrong or hasn’t delivered for them yet. He looks good, but it isn’t happening for some reason.
Also Cosgrove isn’t on de Vries’ wave length and that was one of their main weapons last season. Mata and a midfielder dragging defenders front stick, and either Rogerson scoring back stick or some type of clearance finding May who bangs them home from anywhere.
Fidel Castro famously sailed back into Cuba with only 80 men, and within a week just 20 of them were still alive. Yet he downed the Batista Fascist military regime a touch over 2 years later. Someone in T-AFC just needs to grow a luscious beard, and take up cigar smoking.
Tbf, the long-term strategy is to sail into The Port and take over.
/s
Assuming you’re joking haha. The Port are prettt massive in numbers
Fidel Castro famously sailed back into Cuba with only 80 men, and within a week just 20 of them were still alive. Yet he downed the Batista Fascist military regime a touch over 2 years later. Someone in T-AFC just needs to grow a luscious beard, and take up cigar smoking.
Tbf, the long-term strategy is to sail into The Port and take over.
/s
Assuming you’re joking haha. The Port are prettt massive in numbers
Interesting interview with Woud on the unused subs podcast.
Think he may be a somewhat polarising chap so many Nix fans may find it a hard listen but he had some very interesting comments about the Nix’s high line and how tough that is for a goal keeper,
He's not wrong, the high defensive line requires your keeper to sweep, so he has to be mobile, good with his feet and be able to make the usual saves. It can be very tough to work out where you should be placing yourself when defending in the oppositions half, if you sit in the 18yd box, then an attack has way too much space, if you sit outside the box and close the gap a bit you need to be confident that a defender is coming with the attack or you're quick enough to back track and close the attack down yourself. I think Josh O. is a decent enough shot stopper, but he's a little awkward and not as mobile as Italiano wants him to be. He's also still figuring out his positioning as a sweeper keeper too.
Interesting interview with Woud on the unused subs podcast.
Think he may be a somewhat polarising chap so many Nix fans may find it a hard listen but he had some very interesting comments about the Nix’s high line and how tough that is for a goal keeper,
We forget sometimes that Woud is a much more experienced keeper than Oli with two seasons playing in the Eredivisie (iirc?) and a couple more training and being a number two in that environment.
Lol. Lots of amazing people for him to learn off here, but he had the yips completely when I saw him play in some cup competition, and was terrified of mistakes and the defenders didn’t want him there. It can be unforgiving and lonely here if you’re not achieving the required level. Often with the competition and environment you can get a one and done situation. You screw up and you instantly lose people. Not sure how much that would have helped him to be honest.
There’s stories about guys getting frozen out at places like Nintendo and elsewhere, but they trusted their talent and had a strong ego and were able to get through it.
Interesting interview with Woud on the unused subs podcast.
Think he may be a somewhat polarising chap so many Nix fans may find it a hard listen but he had some very interesting comments about the Nix’s high line and how tough that is for a goal keeper,
We forget sometimes that Woud is a much more experienced keeper than Oli with two seasons playing in the Eredivisie (iirc?) and a couple more training and being a number two in that environment.
Plus an Olympics and under age World Cups.
He's not much more experienced than Oli. I can't be bothered checking but I'm sure Sail has played more games of senior club football.
Woud had maybe one full season in the Dutch 2nd tier at Almere City? He barely played in Japan at all, and is a few games into his first A League campaign.
Yipe he had the Olympics and U20s, but Sail had big games with the AWs, no bigger than the Costa Rica playoff heart breaker.
Edit - 26 yr old Woud 61 senior club league games (50 at Almere in the Dutch 2nd tier) and 29 yr old Sail 116 ALM matches. So Sail basically double the games.
According to Wikipedia: So he had two or three seasons at Willem II, an Eredivisie club, where he was on the bench.
He then played 50 Eeriedivisie games for Almere. Both were relegated in 2024-2025 it says.
Let’s be fair that’s no 7th placed Nix and last Perth Glory. That’s a better club record in his young career than most of our current group.
Edit: lol. The English website introduction is wrong. Thought I would have remembered that! Translated the Dutch site and it agrees with you. Promoted in 2023.
So yes, both with plenty of miserable experiences, I’d still say being contracted by an Eeridivise side and playing in Europe in the febrile football atmosphere there envisioned in the most recent Ted Lasso series, probably Woud slightly shades it. With no disrespect to Perth or the honour fans seem to place on him captaining the Nix! Oli deserves more respect, even if it’s just for that.
Craig Gordon, the Scottish keeper who played their last 2 WC qualifiers (v Greece, v Denmark) is 42. He's the Hearts reserve keeper, yet to play a game in the league this season. Just thought I'd throw that in....
Craig Gordon, the Scottish keeper who played their last 2 WC qualifiers (v Greece, v Denmark) is 42. He's the Hearts reserve keeper, yet to play a game in the league this season. Just thought I'd throw that in....
Craig Gordon, the Scottish keeper who played their last 2 WC qualifiers (v Greece, v Denmark) is 42. He's the Hearts reserve keeper, yet to play a game in the league this season. Just thought I'd throw that in....
Craig Gordon, the Scottish keeper who played their last 2 WC qualifiers (v Greece, v Denmark) is 42. He's the Hearts reserve keeper, yet to play a game in the league this season. Just thought I'd throw that in....
Gaelic Wikipedia or I don’t believe you…
Was on the commentary this a.m.
He must be doing something right! They’re top of the league
The Unused sub with Woud was quite interesting. Hes right about AFC, they do have an amazing depth of talent as well as being super confident. He came across as quite cocky, to the point of arrogance but thats what you expect from serial winners. The most interesting bit was when they asked Ifill if he was a Nix supporter. After fudging the question he said he would only answer off air. I would love to
Craig Gordon, the Scottish keeper who played their last 2 WC qualifiers (v Greece, v Denmark) is 42. He's the Hearts reserve keeper, yet to play a game in the league this season. Just thought I'd throw that in....
Gaelic Wikipedia or I don’t believe you…
Was on the commentary this a.m.
He must be doing something right! They’re top of the league
He’s slowing down big time but this morning he was throwing back the years. Superb performance and I dare say he’d still do a job in the a league.
Interesting interview with Woud on the unused subs podcast.
Think he may be a somewhat polarising chap so many Nix fans may find it a hard listen but he had some very interesting comments about the Nix’s high line and how tough that is for a goal keeper,
We forget sometimes that Woud is a much more experienced keeper than Oli with two seasons playing in the Eredivisie (iirc?) and a couple more training and being a number two in that environment.
Plus an Olympics and under age World Cups.
... and Haaland is 0-1 against him too. (as he pointed out in Auckland FC Insta during the week)
Obviously got the Ole and Danny Hay antipathy towards the Nix, or he’s a weak minded fool who thinks Auckland FC sprang up fully formed into a void because Nick Becker said so.
Was interested in his story, but would file this under Oli and Toomey moments as someone revealed their character. Such a dickhead move to ask a Phoenix legend that.
And for Iffy not to say he supported the team. Weak sauce, from inside the AFC support bar.
And his main answer about why they are succeeding: they’ve got two senior players in each position. Duh. That’s money. There’s no special training montage to have Pijnaker, Gallegos and Howieson on the bench.
And when they want a better keeper, that’s more people unimpressed to add to those who remember your 4-5 years of performances pre-AFC.
Interesting interview with Woud on the unused subs podcast.
Think he may be a somewhat polarising chap so many Nix fans may find it a hard listen but he had some very interesting comments about the Nix’s high line and how tough that is for a goal keeper,
In amongst some stiff competition, he comfortably came across as the biggest knob in the AFC doco.
"You can never get a bloody tradesman at Easter, it's a wonder Jesus got crucified" - Karl Pilkington
I would love to hear Ifills honest opinion on the Nix and how they are managed....
Could he be bit bitter towards them i mean he has been all around the traps coaching but dont think at any time he has landed back at the Phoenix. As for Woud early days in the season still plenty of time for him to drop his normal clangers.
Maybe Iffil as someone who works on A-League broadcasts has been instructed by Sky or the APL that he is not to state explicitly that he supports a particular side, even if everyone knows that he is obviously going to be partial to his former team? That's the most charitable spin on it I can make.
Or maybe he is still mad that the Nix withdrew the contract offer for Callan when he was angling for a negligible buyout clause (I believe Iffil was advising him at the time).
