Yeah this annoyed me a bit, find a club whos going to play their top side or dont play at all. Wouldve been better organising a game against Upper Hutt or Island Bay or someone, you wouldnt get any excuses from those guys.
Remembering that of Miramar's first team Tom Doyle was playing for the Phoenix. Justin Gulley is injured, as is Patrick Fleming. The club is playing a lot of second team players in the first squad due to injury and suspension so that may have been the best they had.
A game against Upper Hutt on their new turf would be great - I assume they have lights
That's the last one for a while anyway as they leave for Aus/India later this week and aren't back until early September.
Will any of the pre season games be televised?
Almost certainly not. A-League vs A-League friendlies aren't normally and last I heard India were trying to arrange some but it didn't look likely.
Wonder if the club could sort out a live stream for us? At least get someone filming so we can watch highlights or something.
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A game against Upper Hutt on their new turf would be great - I assume they have lights
I went down there a few weekends ago and its pretty sweet - they have a small training area with goals that can be moved around which was pretty cool.
Didn't realise it wasnt open yet - but what a great way to make an official opening - plus could be a good time before Upper Hutt's promotion game seeing as they have a big break before they play it I understand
Who is our whipping boy this season now that Timmy has gone?
Vinnie, Leo? Or one of the young ones?
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The new shirt number font looks pretty nice. Ignore the tard colours:
Didn't realise the tickets for the Christchurch game were on sale...Fever zone already sold out.
Who is our whipping boy this season now that Timmy has gone?
Vinnie, Leo? Or one of the young ones?
surely Leo gets that tag, he was next in line behind Tim last season.
Queenslander 3x a year.
Didn't realise the tickets for the Christchurch game were on sale...Fever zone already sold out.
Really?! I didn't realaise either! Total BS! I was looking forward to getting in there!
Where's the next best place/closest to the fever zone?
The Nix defense was weird and unnecessarily stretched at times in the first half. Bertos and lochead were pushed way up,almost like wingbacks. That left siggy and dura getting sucked apart and out wide.
But they weren't put under much constant pressure,so wasn't much of an issue in the game. Just an observation of some odd positional play (or formation experimentation?).
Yeah deffo playing like wingbacks for the first part of the match. I can't see them adopting this though come the season.
I thought the youngests were great charging around really fearless - Enjoyable night.
Didn't realise the tickets for the Christchurch game were on sale...Fever zone already sold out.
Really?! I didn't realaise either! Total BS! I was looking forward to getting in there!
Where's the next best place/closest to the fever zone?
I rung up and they said the aisle next to it has heaps of seats left so I will probably be going there...although I could imagine being yelled and for standing and such
Didn't realise the tickets for the Christchurch game were on sale...Fever zone already sold out.
Really?! I didn't realaise either! Total BS! I was looking forward to getting in there!
Where's the next best place/closest to the fever zone?
I rung up and they said the aisle next to it has heaps of seats left so I will probably be going there...although I could imagine being yelled and for standing and such
Surely if someone got in touch with the stadium authorities about 'expanding' the fever zone beacuse there are more people interested (I am not sure how many though), they might look into it?
[quote The Leo to RB article]The club also needs to sign two under-21 players and all seven Phoenix academy members will board the plane today for the pre-season tour of Australia and India.[/quote]Isn't there 9 of them? Have a couple of them been grounded because they stayed up past their bed times?
[Edit: also, I assume Pav will be meeting up with the squad in Newcastle?]
Yip there are 9 - a few maybe unfit though.
Its great so many are going, as originally they said maybe 2 or 3 would go. But I guess the number of injuries are having a part to play.
Fever Zone has been made bigger at the Christchurch game
A game against Upper Hutt on their new turf would be great - I assume they have lights
Really? Theyve used the turf often already this preseason, played games on it last preseason too
A game against Upper Hutt on their new turf would be great - I assume they have lights
Really? Theyve used the turf often already this preseason, played games on it last preseason too
Fuck this stupid game
A time for the match against Newcastle?
A fan is a fan.
[quote The Leo to RB article]The club also needs to sign two under-21 players and all seven Phoenix academy members will board the plane today for the pre-season tour of Australia and India.[/quote]Isn't there 9 of them? Have a couple of them been grounded because they stayed up past their bed times?
Did someone mention a couple of them playing in the Chatham Cup instead of going on the tour of India?
Wonder if the club could sort out a live stream for us? At least get someone filming so we can watch highlights or something.
A twitter feed? God I wish they'd bring the pre-season cup back!
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A 21-strong group left for Australia, where they will play A-League rivals the Newcastle Jets on Saturday night.
They then travel on to India for matches against four I-League opponents.
Veteran goalkeeper Mark Paston will return to New Zealand following the Newcastle match ahead of the pending birth of his third child.
Four injured players are unavailable for the tour - Vince Lia, Jimmy Downey, Dani Sanchez and Lucas Pantelis - while Mirjan Pavlovic is still on loan in Australia.
Phoenix tour squad:
Mark Paston, Glen Moss, Manny Muscat, Tony Lochhead, Michael Boxall, Alex Smith, Leo Bertos, Paul Ifill, Benjamin Totori, Jeremy Brockie, Cameron Lindsay, Ben Sigmund, Andrew Durante, Scot Basalaj, Justin Gulley, Luke Rowe, Tom Doyle, Tom Biss, Alec Solomons, Tyler Boyd, Louie Fenton
So no Hamish Watson, and Pavlovic staying in Aussie. Very surprised about Pav, if we loaned him out to get match fitness surely we would want him travelling with us. Maybe we are hoping he impresses the Wanderers?
Maybe part of the loan deal was that they wanted him for a certain amount of time. Ideally he would be with the squad thoug.
Reports of bomb blasts in Imphal...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/7501641/Wellington-Phoenix-defy-the-bombs
This is my favourite bit:
Wonder if the club could sort out a live stream for us? At least get someone filming so we can watch highlights or something.
A twitter feed? God I wish they'd bring the pre-season cup back!
https://twitter.com/newyboys & https://twitter.com/NewcastleJetsFC
Not 100% sure if the newyboys one will have commentary, they were asking on their forums for someone to do it tonight.
Reports of bomb blasts in Imphal...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/7501641/Wellington-Phoenix-defy-the-bombs
This is my favourite bit:
The major cities like Delhi and Mumbai have terrorist incidents but the risk is acceptable. I visited Delhi two months after the High court was bombed last year killing a dozen and injuring sixty, including a foreign tourist, and although there's armed soldiers and sandbags all over town you don't feel threatened. Security remains tight in all major Indian cities.
The Imphal blasts happened on Indian Independence Day and most were in the area around the parade ground where official celebrations were occuring. A young girl died and the Chief Minister was hospitalised from shock after collapsing during the blasts.
The authorities can't absolutely guarantee security in situations like the Phoenix will be facing. Times of India on the blasts:
"... the blasts, suspected to be triggered by militants, which took place despite elaborate security arrangements in view of militants' call for a boycott of the celebration."
By the way, despite what the Phoenix and the NZ media have been saying about it being a four-team tournie, it's in fact a three team tournament with the Nix guaranteed two games and the top two teams playing in a final.
Indian media release:
FIXTURES
August 24: United Sikkim FC vs Wellington Phoenix (Guwahati, Assam)
Venue – Nehru Stadium
August 26: Shillong Lajong FC vs Wellington Phoenix (Imphal, Manipur)
Venue – Khuman Lampak Main Stadium
August 30: Shillong Lajong FC vs United Sikkim FC (Shillong, Meghalaya)
Venue – JN Stadium, Polo.
September 1: FINAL (Shillong, Meghalaya)
Venue – JN Stadium, Polo.
- Shillong Lajong Media Release
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
From Nix FB
Phoenix are in Weston (outside Newcastle) to play the Jets in a friendly tonight. Kick off 7pm NZT. Starting line up Paston Lochhead Durante Sigmund Bertos Muscat Smith Brockie Totori Boyd Ifill. Half time and full time score here more regular updates over on Twitter @wgtnphoenixfc. Come on the Nix!
1-0 phoenix after about 20 minutes smith the scorer
3 players sent off after scuffle 2 wellington and 1 jet
Things seem to be getting heated, red cards for Moosekat, Siggy and a Jest player with punches thrown after Moosekat was fouled twice.
muscat and sigmund red carded!!!
Tiago as well. A fight apparently.
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Goal. Woodward scores for Jets down the left- good finish to bottom right across Paston. Numbers helping. 37' 1-1.
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As a friendly - it would be nice if the teams could return to 11 v 11 at half time
Grrrrr Rrrrrrivalsssssss!
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Boyd apparently hurt, coming off, Boxall on.
Surprised he hasnt come on anyway.
Also interesting that Brockie is apparently playing holding role. Thought Smith would do that
