Kingz and Bloc 5: Those Were The Days

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It's not that I want your left nut or anything.. but, I've got a lot of Kingz shirts at home Guym that I might be willing to part with. Not that one, but a good selection. Maybe we could drink some scotch sometime and review if any of them take your fancy?

Yes, yes we should do all of that. Also I want to interview you for 15 Years AND we need to talk about chants and stuff...maybe this week?

There are a few more.

Were you there? It was against Qld i remember that much. Think we lost 2-0.

...in Brisbane.

Not the first season - but I've got the programmes for 1st and last games 2006/7

.... and on the back of the final programme is Brockie's signature! Tragic.

Suspect I have those as well.  That last one was Junior News' first A-League game.

His first - and Auckland's last.

Apart from Phoenix visits.

You're Brockie's mum?

JBM!

Are you going to include AW support ie South Africa, Bahrain, Melbourne etc

What?

actually yeh, I'd include the fans who went to Confeds in France in 2003 in your storyline Smithy... was a number of Bloc 5 crowd, and a huge bunch of rabid Wharfies fans also appeared at the France game in Paris... results were awful, but it was a great week

Shane Pryce!

What a player!

You in there HN? Anyothers of the current YF crew?

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Nope.  There are a couple of earlier ones I was involved with but not that one.

On first look I thought that guy on the right of the back row had a shocking mohawk.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0vcAh2ZQAMY/Sxdumd_VQGI/AAAAAAAAAFc/ncOGIJ8vX2A/s1600-h/kingzshirt.jpg

http://www.gfdb.com/Club.3362.NZ-Knights.aspx

16 minute BBC piece from 2010 about the Kingz and Bloc 5 here on Ric Le Roc's Bloc 5 blog:

http://bloc5.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/bloc-5-live-at-bbc_25.html

Who played for the Kingz each year?

http://bloc5.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/kiwi-kingz.html

I was at Suncorp  and there  was a pretty good crowd and you are right they were far slower than the Roar. Knights had a goal disallowed.

So that's why no one went

Lots of people went.

Smithy,

Some interesting information you could gleen from interviews

Rex Dawkins sponsorship years 2 -5 (wore canterbury strip the 1st season).

Mr G's shirt collection (Auckland guys cold help you track him down)

If the players ever wondered if they would be stranded in OZ with not enough money to get home due to clubs lack of $$

What really went on at the pondrosa - house shared by Utting, de gregorio and Stu Jacobs

Bloc 5 song book, yes they had one they gave out at a Wgtn game.

How good of a coach/player was Wynton.

Dennis K thoughts on Kids Kingz  tv programme.

I'm not really going for the hard hitting expose..."the truth behind the Kingz" or anything like that.

More capturing the vibe of it, the emotions, and getting a few of the key people on camera to share their stories. It won't be investigative journalism that's for sure.

But, some good points in there and I'll keep them in mind for sure. Harry Ngata said at one point that Wynton and Shane were coaches who were light years ahead of what he'd had elsewhere.

All right than

I do suggest you talk to Mr G, he's a legend

When you see some of the stuff Wynton did as a player at the Kingz it's obvious why he was Oceania player of the century

Agreed, huge impact when he put himself on the field

I remember interviewing Ivan Vicelich when he was at Roda - he said it took him less than a week there to realise everything the Rufers were doing was exactly what happens in Europe... whereas back in NZ they were getting slagged off...

Who remembers the first ever Kingz game when Wynton had the pitch marked out extremely narrow on both sides?  Corners were nearly going out on the other side on the full

Malik Buari!  (Probably best ever Knights goal)

Great times...

yeah but it wasn't REAL sponsorship..

He's the man.

If Ric and Michael weren't so very low profile on the internets they would be first on our list for a chat.  Trying to get hold of them.

He passed away in the last 12 months unfortunately.

This thread is seriously good read. Interesting to hear some of the history that I had forgotten.

possibly.