China Tour

Is it possible for any of this to be put up on youtube?  

Also dived to his near post for some reason on the first goal. Was savable thought it's harsh on him to say it was his fault (wasn't - it was Siggy's if anything. Poor defending)

All I know is that we need to settle on a settled CB partnership. Some very encouraging play from the likes of Hearfield, Leo and even Rojas when he came on has me reasonably confident we'll score goals this season. I like the look of Greenacre too. Nothing flashy but you can tell he will be very reliable.

Potty is goneski, but what about the asian kid anyone?

Yeah, he was obviously unfit but I think he showed a few signs of promise in difficult conditions. We were long balling to him and he never really had the ball to feet many times. Worked hard tracking back. Not sure we need a player like him though.
valeo2009-07-22 01:41:52

Potty training is over, and Paston between the sticks please.

Otherwise some good signs. They played for 90mins much better than in Tianjin, where they faded after 70.

I still dont get why hearfields goal wasnt counted? diegos ball swung out and then in?

asian guy looked lazy and moody...

no false dawns this pre-season so far thank goodness - actual signed up team members showed plenty of promise in this game for the season ahead (which is when we actually want to win some games this time around!). Great to see some action at last, and I say it again, great to see us playing in proper football shirts as well - don't think the names in Chinese on the back will catch on though (but would make good collectors item!).  Roll on the season - go the nix!  

Really I won't mind either way if we sign asian guy. I think he has the skill at this level so its up to ricki to assess weither he can get fit enough to be a valued player.

Sounds familiar!

 I know that the score is what happens on the day, but in terms of creating opotunities we should have won, bertos' and herfields would have made it 4, which we couldnt ever get last season in the league. 3 was the most if I recall correctly. Im definetly more cofidence than I was after watching the mainland game. sh*t that was bad.

will "asian guy" be touring to dubbo?

Agree that he was a bit moody. Probably due to the fact he was getting long balls but yeah, if he's moody during a trial it's probably a safe bet he'll be worse during the actual season.

This is my concern about Chinese players. They tend to prefer going to karaoke and partying than training properly (and I guess you can add playing with PSP's as well). I hope ricki has a look at this guys attitude off the pitch as well as what he did tonight and in Dubbo (assuming he is making the trip).

Missed the game and can't be bothered going back in the thread ... Who scored our goals ?

and what was the score?

3-2 to the Chinese team, Greenacre and Durante with our goals.

3-2 loss apparently. Just read through.
Greenacre and Durante.
Hearfield goal disallowed.

And Potty was sh*te

There should be no way that Potty comes back. Hopefully we look at this Chinese kid properly, but take the same steps we did with the other players, and take our time to fill this last gap

I'd like to think lessons have been learn't... and we're beginning to see the evidence of that also, ie: no talk about 'targets' until signing and trialling players who aren't of demonstrated ability/capability of performance... I would imagine if there's any questions over the chinese player they'd let him go and wait until the right player comes along - and not take the punt with the possible negative impact that the wrong player can have, as we saw last year - and are still seeing fallout from now.

Sounds like the Potty training didn't quite work either... though again, that adds to the experience of the management team when looking at potential recruits so can't be a bad thing!


Jeezuz I'm positive this morning

Impressive effort last night....from everyone on here I mean.
Jeez... after midnight on a week night and 60+ people on the Nix Forum, watching the game..
and buzzing from the Ifill announcement.
After nearly 6 months cold turkey it feels a football season coming on.. bloody marvellous!

RedGed2009-07-22 11:15:59

is there anyway of seeing highlights/replay of the game last night?

is there any way of seeing highlights/replay from last nite

Melb lost 2-1 to Tianjen and also lost 2-1 to Guangzhou btw. Funnily enough Langerak made a howler of a mistake in the Guangzhou game too. valeo2009-07-22 11:23:43

Guangzhou is not bad in China Football Super League. Promoted first division 1 the year before, good construction on the team. Formal China U23 head Coach Xiangfu Shen, dad said he was a excellent Wing player so his team never conservative. 

So doesnt matter about the loss, good warm up for nix

Any youtube videos??

Anyone know if this weekend's friendly will be televised?

u right mate. When Leilei G** came I talked to one of the staff inside phoenix about China got more than 1000 players had the footy level which is similar as G**. But I means nothing on the football level of the counrty. We developed our professional football15 yrs b4, this is the result means have to be or must be. At the same time, quailty players means not only professional on the ground and changing room, also after the game. Talented player need to orgainze himself well to improve after he or she getting old (Like after 23 yrs old the football potential getting lower comparing with the yrs he was 18).

Its meaningless to compare other contries football to NZ football. Different situation and different system. We play our football

PS we still need a target man up front

There are plenty of very very talented footballers in China, but the issues with the game here are well documented already. I won't go there! SC032009-07-22 15:47:38

Youku

u might find something reallllllly interesting there. if u can read chinese

Spill the beans Terry ..for those of us that can't read Chinese...what's the goss?

Does anyone know if the preseason game vs CCM will be broadcasted on TV at all so that we can watch on iraqgoals etc? (And Yes, i do realise there is a very slim possibility.)

Chances of Fernando Morientes signing for the Phoenix 1%
Chances of Samuel Eto'o signing for the Phoenix 0.001%
Chances of TV coverage of a pre-season game in Dubbo against the Mariners 0.000000001%

So theres still a chance? Sweet.