Club statement
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) July 3, 2023
Young midfielder Fin Conchie has been stood down from the Nix reserves team indefinitely, pending disciplinary action from Capital Football
Conchie, has admitted to verbally abusing a Petone FC player in the reserves’ Central League match on Saturday
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So that'll mean no Conchie getting promoted to first team? Such a waste of talent from being so stupid.
Could not agree more. They could have improved a little more though by saying that a communication had also gone to the Petone club and to CF on Finn's behalf.
There is cliche that applies here. In any facet of life, you can survive this sort of publicity once, but not twice. So, I hope that whatever punishment comes his way, he (and only he) makes sure it never happens again.
It says something to is character though that he made a full admission to the club. It would have been very easy to have used "the ref didnt hear it, so nothing was said" model. I doubt without a confession, CF could have done anything either. They have to rely on the ref's report.