Huawei Wellington United Phoenix Academy Football School of Excellence - WeeNix

 

I disagree 2nd Best. Now that the Nix reserves have put in such a good showing against the 5th Best Club Side in the WorldTM we can expect to see a lot more Kiwi lads in the Nix first team in the future. After all, if you can draw with 5th Best Club Side in the WorldTM then you must be easily as good as anything in the A-League.

 

he's been playing for nix reserves is that right? Any word regular ressies attendees?

 

They have an average age of about 17 and have drawn with most ASB Premiership sides.  I'd say it's going pretty well.

 

Think Adams only played in the Auckland game because he's been with the Under-17s for most of the rest of the time.

 

Hook, Line, and Sinker Termy.

Luke Adams had trails but couldn`t get an international clearance until he turned 18

Luke Rowe is English but has a Kiwi Father therefore is entitled to a Kiwi Passport 

 

Sigmund

 

but thats it

 

the rest of them suck

 

Can someone who knows something give us a rundown on whether this looks to have been a useful exercise.  I'm torn...

 

On the positive it's good to have young players playing and training and good to have some decent run arounds for the stiffs.  Results haven't been amazing but that's by the by.  We're getting younger guys used to working with pros, all positives.

 

However, on the other side, these guys are 16/17 - are they the best players in their age groups in the country.  I know that the Phoenix have said they won't cannibalise the NZFC teams but is that actually a good thing, shouldn't they be after the best players?  Not much point having a group of youngsters playing if they aren't any good.

 

Who have been the standouts and has anyone put their hands up for cntracts for next season?

 

Aaah, no, that's not really what I am saying at all.

 

What I am saying if you're good supposedly enough to play for the phoenix in the future at 16/17 you should be able to play NZFC.  But if we're not going to stop players playing NZFC for their home clubs then are we in fact getting the best players at the phoenix youth?  I.e. if there are better 16 year olds at Auckland City then what is the point of all of this??  At 16 you should be training and playing with men in NZ - it's not ideal but it's the reality, if you're still playing with school boys then you're going to struggle to maker it to the pro leagues at 18 and you'll be too far behind the 8 ball.  That's my opinion anyway...

 

 

 

"Gould said he had invited All Whites defender Ben Sigmund to help with the team in his Christchurch hometown while he is serving a suspension for accumulating eight A-League cautions. But he said Sigmund would be travelling to Adelaide instead because head coach Ricki Herbert "wants to keep the first-team squad together".