2014/15 Pre-Season - v Canterbury United | 2:30pm | Sun 28 Sept | RoF

U20s played in China. He was with them.

If he had been released you would expect that news to have made it through the grapevine.

KENNY: ¿Qué?

BROCKIE: ¡Tienes que ser consciente de esa mierda!

Woo hoo! I'll be there. 20 degrees plus. Followed by booze & band at 'Beaches' in Thirroul. Life is sweet on the NSW south Coast.

www.beacheshotel.com.au

A sign was sent by the footballing gods to Upper Hutt in the cold of a Thursday night

Number of players left on pitch at end of match?

Deliberately not doing overtime Tuesday night.

Is tonight going to be on a stream or blogged somewhere?

Tomorrow:

Twitter your best bet.  Follow the Fever.

I cant wait for this game. OK only a preseason kick about but hey, The Phoenix playing in Upper Hutt!! Never thought I'd see that day. Might have to park the car at 4pm, fish and chips dinner, Tee shirt for Autographing at the ready!

standing room only?

Tom doyle and andrew blake might be up for contract. Not seen Blake but great turnaround from Doyle

No Nimby's to worry about.

Can you ask Gorrin to try saying "Whose keys are these?" and jangle your set in front of him?

#couldhavebeenbornamackem

oki doki will do if I get the chance, might try and record it on my phone. ;)

So not Harcourt Park which for some reason I thought it was on at but Maidstone Turf in the industrial area?

Yes.  Upper Hutt football now based at Maidstone.

you there tonight HN?

50/50

Was out last night and have things on all week so need to gauge the reaction on the home front.

She who must be obeyed! Must get a permanent marker this arvo. Rieralution tee shirt needs signing.

Cheers..sort of like Middlesbrough then...some little football pitch in a big indistrial city. ;>)

Party animal.

Fact.

Looking forward to this tonight, biggest thing to happen in Upper Hutt for like ever.

You got that right. Since the Ascot closed its gone back to the stone age. Should be a good night. 

Are they also playing Petone tomorrow or did I invent that? Two games in two days seems unlikely?

Any updates for us non twitter people?

I second this

Phoenix 4 nil up with just under 10 minutes to play according to twitter. Goals all scored in the first half.

So the nix twitter just confirmed the game in Petone tomorrow. 2 games in 2 days. Pitty I can't be there

Melbourne are spending 17 days with Manchester City training under supervision of medical anf sports science teams and plsying three games.

What a shame you wont be able to enjoy all those nice green spaces!

Gawd how I have missed seeing Riera play.

Ok, tonight, crowd of between 2,000 to 2,500? Anyone else concur? Brockie, Boyd, Brockie, Rufer were the scorers. Decent enough game. Played with a definate plan. I thought the first half was 2 touch  instructions, 2nd half was closer to e or 4 touch. No high ball route 1 shit. Upper Hutt did fairly well I thought.

Was behind the Nix bench, Ernie was constantly yelling at Gorrin for getting too far forward when we had the ball. He also spoke to the guys on the bench about wanting Rufer dropping into the hole between the defence & midfield, feeding the ball wide for Boyd & Brockie to run onto it. Very much how the 2nd and 3rd goals were scored.

Were you beside me with the two girls?

Player!

Not sure what Ernie was trying with Watson in the second half. He was almost in a #10 role, with Hicks in front of him.