R9 v Western Sydney | Sat 7th Dec | 7:00pm | Eden Park/SS7

Does anyone know how to get your tickets to the Auckland game if you hold a season ticket?

Looking for 4 tickets for the game, adults. Anyone not going but can get their tickets, please PM me this week please.

Travelling up with 8 others. First the races, then the NIX... a gooday day ahead!

I GOT MY TICKET GUYZ

Is there a 'password' for discounted tickets?

So with no Fenton or Hooper again I don't think we can win this.

Wow, predicting results for games 2 weeks away - why don't you just set up a bot to post this in every match thread and save yourself some time?

I saw Gary Hooper after Saturday night’s Nix game. Asked how his quad was. Fine, he said, I’ll be good for next weekend. ??@ALeague

— Jason Pine (@pineyzb) November 25, 2019

Would be cool if he completed the game and scored 1 or 2 for us.

Sadly the 7th is the night of my final work do before retirement. I will have to miss going to the game. C'mon you Nixxxx

Travelling up with 7 guys. Races first, then the game.

Should be a horrible Sunday!

Congrats on the retirement!

A few of us old feverites flying over from Melbourne for this. We cannot wait!

Disappointing that work isn't hiring a bus and buying everyone tickets!

Don't they know any who did the player ratings for so many years?

Got a group of 8 of us going. See y'all there

Flying straight in from England.  From AKL Int straight to the match, C’mon you Nix.

I am unable to go and have 2 season tickets if anyone else would like to go?

Now he's retired he'll have plenty of time to start doing the player ratings again!

I was hoping something like this was happening again but if not then anyone can have them!

If anyone wants to help coordinate this for this season, let me know. 

Coming in off the back of two wins playing a WSW side with three losses and a draw in their last four. I'm feeling a bit optimistic...

I wish this game was at the westpac. Gutted to not be able to go and cheer them on. Regardless, hope there's a decent crowd for it. 

Cmon Nix boys. Let's give WSW the run around.

Then this is the one we normally lose, innit? ?

Would love these 2 tickets if still avliable 

If Hooper can start I have absolutely no idea what our best lineup for this game is.

Given that:

A) Hooper and Uffy both talked a lot about how he works best in a strike partnership

B) Ball would be hard done by to be dropped and

C) Uli has been so much more effective in the centre (and his defensive shortcomings when wide)

Does anyone have any clue how we'll line up (if Hooper starts)?

For me it's much as it has been, just Ball dropping back to Piscopo's role last week.

           Hooper

  Ball     Davilla      Sotirio

    Steinmann   Rufer

Cacace                 Payne

         Devere Taylor

            Marinovic

Tough on Piscopo, McCowatt, Waine but they all make the bench with Sail, McGing and Devlin +1 on the U23 rule, I think?

But can't see Hooper starting yet.

TAHW or Sutton probably the other bench options. Largely agree though, not sure if we'll be able to play 2 up top with Davila playing 10, will be interesting to watch.

I'm okay with continuing to ease Hooper into it. I don't think he'll start; but who knows? 

Considering how good our performance was, I expect to see the same XI.

You're getting sacked in the morning!

Same as at 66' v Adelaide.  Steinmann off for Hooper, 4-1-3-2 with Ball and Hooper up top, at that point still Piscopo and Sotirio in the three.

Goal at 67', goal at 71', then Piscopo off for Devlin at 72'.

At 66' we put Davila wide, which to me just isn't viable given how that went defensively in the first games of the season. Hooper also went really deep but that could've been just game situation. 

If it was FIFA I might look at something like this but in real life I don't think one CDM in front of those two battleships is workable. 

Gotta be the same 11 as last week, just bring Hooper into the game slightly earlier in the second half depending on how the game is going.

Technical question.

I'm travelling back from overseas on Saturday and might not be able to watch the game live.

Does the MyFootball channel show replays of the games the next morning [without spoilers]?