Kingz and Bloc 5: Those Were The Days

Some more games from Season 1 - including these two, which I was lucky enough to attend while home from Otago during Uni holidays...

Great match from season 2, featuring one Dennis Ibrahim...

Wow what a volley that was! Ibrahim was terrific. Shane Smeltz! Julio Cuello!

Nick Meredith...

...ew... and me.

Evening all - all the footage I have from Season 1 is now uploaded, so I've created a playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRwEXY7QJ2F...

This is all the games in order, so if you're ever really bored you can relive the whole season (except the 2 matches I don't have, sorry)

Hope you enjoy it :)

Morning all, have added some more footage from Season 4 to my Kingz channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMq7HmbTZnVg4obxz...

Games include this effort in Hamilton:

and this result v Parramatta:

Enjoy :)

Ahhh I have missed these greatly. 

how about a first ever win over Melbourne...

How was that Kovacic challenge on Almendra in the first one not a red?

How was Jackson able to keep a straight face when he said, "I didn't step on him on purpose, it was the only place I could put my foot"... true story...

Wynton's dozen for the Kingz:

Ran into CT around a month ago - you forget just what a bloody good guy he is.....we were talking about his days at Manurewa (I was always keen to go to Gallaher Park as a young'un in the early 80s, and stand up on the embankment), and his time at Papatoetoe. We chatted about the Kingz, and he said "it was a lot of fun, wasn't it?"....and it was. For CT, it probably wasn't all that fun at the time, but time and distance erases the bad memories.

Good guy, done more for NZ football than 99.9% of others

Yeh it was fun, lots.

Whatever happened to Ken Dugdale? Did he coach again post-Kingz?

Linkedin says he is the sporting director/junior coach at Norwawigen 3rd division side, Lommedalen

Car door was related to Con Boutsianis - he did the dirty on the Kingz with his contract. Before that though he'd been the getaway driver in the armed robbery of a restaurant for which he got off really lightly. I think the car door was at the game where everyone dressed as robbers or cops - there were people running up and down the sideline with cap guns and Bloc 5 even produced a song sheet just for the game with all Con songs " Oh when the Greeks, rob the restaurant, oh when the greeks rob the restaurant, I wanna be the getaway driver when the greeks rob the restaurant - to "when the saints" was one I remember

"Bootsie's gonna drive our car....  Bootsie's gonna be a star... beep, beep, beep, beep yeah!"

Car door thing was the preseason game Riccardo, against Chile - the Con the convict game was last home match of that season v South Melbourne, but a damn fine evening in the Bloc, with one H. Ngata Esq in amongst leading the chants :) even though we got monstered on the scoreboard...

I remember M Utting in the Bloc one game too

Not one scrappy goal there and so many were his first touch.  As good as Ryan was and Winston and Chris are now, Wynton still overshadows them hugely.  Such a pity we rearly saw him in White/Black/in NZ when he was at his peak.

That first goal just amazing. Classiest Kiwi goal ever imo.

Those goals are just WOW! The touch - superb, the composure, reactions. Simply the best.

Would be great to have a full DVD of all his goals released. I mean from his German and Swiss career if possible.

Below a pic of the Sitter fanzine (No 45) that "covered" the car door episode in 2000...

Also a short article about Ericsson that night here....

http://sitterfanzine.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/1/0/15...

Would be great if the Nix could honour CT, Wynton, Harry and Jacko in some way......if there was a Phoenix Hall of Fame, they should be in there (as the licence moved on to them) along with their own legends like Sigmund, Brown, Durante.....

Auckland football could too.

c'mon Muss, Jacko?? time must've altered your memory :)

The great thing about the Kingz was when they were bad they were really FUNNY bad and when they were good they were so so good

I would definitely have Jacko in there. Ivan too.

sorry, have I missed something - you're meaning Chris Jackson??

To be fair Milts, I think Jacko played like a steaming pile of shark. But he's either number 1 or 2 in terms of appearances, isn't he?

definitely in fouls conceded...

Another perfect Kingz player, he was bad - but he was funny bad

Aaran Lines.....

a Kingz "funny bad" XI would be a thing of majestic beauty... captained by John Lammers...

Cuello for keeper

re: Chris Jackson...if my records are correct, then he played 99 times for the Kingz, scoring 1 goal and picking up 1 red card and 28 yellow cards.

Only Harry Ngata made more appearances (128) and no-one else came close with bookings (Che Bunce with 12 is next on that list).

Bit on Miyazawa and Donoso here - both coaching in finals today;

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/domestic/96...

you're being a bit harsh on jacko lads... he was good enough to wrack up heaps of caps and captain new zealand