Named and Shamed - The New Zealand Knights

Due to my heavy workload I put this together:

The 49 players thjat pulled on a New Zealand Knights shirt.

Campbell Banks
Darren Bazeley
Roy Bell
Kris Bright
Jeremy Brockie
Malik Buari
Ronnie Bull
Che Bunce
Zenon Caravella
Matt Carbon
Adam Casey
Jeremy Christie
Ben Collett
Fernando de Moraes
Sean Devine
Gregory Duruz
Neil Emblen
Steve Fitzsimmons
Jeff Fleming
Leilei Gao
Scot Gemmill
Dean Gordon
Danny Hay
Noah Hickey
Naoki Imaya
Sam Jasper
Richard Johnson
Sime Kovacevic
Joshua Maguire
Alen Marcina
Danny Milosevic
Hamza Mohammed
Glen Moss
Steven O'Dor
Franco Parisi
Mark Paston
Jonti Richter
Dani Rodrigues
Joshua Rose
Jonas Salley
John Tambouras
Cole Tinkler
Michael Turnbull
Frank van Eijs
Dustin Wells
Michael White
Li Yan
Simon Yeo
Xiaobin Zhang

Some comedy gold in that list.

Sean Devine  still running around the Auckland football Scene......Should have got deported

Malik Buari......Never forget that 25m wonder strike to beat Adelaide....Did nothing else though

Now player coach for Chessington and Hook in the Combined Counties Premier League....finally hit the big time!!

Interesting that Hamza Mohammed now has 28 caps for Ghana.  I can remember Noah or someone saying he was superb in training but for some reason he never got a chance.

Ben Collett....went back to the UK and won a compensation case for close $8 million for lose of earnings when he broke his leg playing for Man Utd prior to the Knights. 

Simon Yeo.... Is now a baggage handler at Manchester Airport

 Yes,

ALthough by all accounts he was less of a cock and certainly played better for the Knights.

Who was the bank robber?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/2006-Select-A-League-054-Darren-Bazeley-NZ-Knights-/360489941031#ht_1400wt_932

Con Boutsianis. But that was the Kingz in the old NSL. Not the Knights in the A-League.

Danny Milosevic- I sincerely hope this guy isn't coaching youngsters how to be a sweet goalkeeper.

wasn't Shannon Cole one? And also  a Nigerian striker called Dennis or Denny, something like that. Might have been the Kingz though. 

Apologies, Dennis Ibrahim is who I meant and he was Kingz. First post for a while, and a fail at that. Oh well back to the Coro replay.

 There were some very poor signings and John Adshead should have known better. I watched the first game in Brisbane in 2005 and the Knights were played off the park by Brisbane. One of the worst players in the Knights team was Neil Emblen. It defies belief that anyone would sign a player  of 34 years of age. I followed the Knights and this guy was a joke.

He is now supposedly one of the top coaches in NZ.

get this on wikipedia

Emblen was fine, shame the Australians didn't give a shit like he did.

So who's in your best and worst XI out of that lot?

Neil Emblen was a leader on the field, a very good player

 Heskey. Del Piero.

Both awful signings.

Hardly in the same class though!