Pre-season v All White XI Rotorua 22 Sept 2013

Hearing there'll be three youth internationals. Rest are pretty easy to pick....

is there a prematch venue?

New Zealand ‘A’: 1 – Glen MOSS; 2 – Aaron SCOTT; 3 – Tony LOCHHEAD; 4 – Andrew DURANTE; 5 – Adam MITCHELL; 6 – Cole PEVERLEY; 7 – Jason HICKS; 8 – Jeremy BROCKIE; 10 – Matthew RIDENTON; 11 – Leo BERTOS; 12 – Tamati WILLIAMS; 14 – Ian HOGG; 15 – Ivan VICELICH; 16 – Aaron CLAPHAM; 17 – Jake BUTLER; 18 – Stuart HOLTHUSEN

Surprisingly little impact on the Phoenix there.

Would have liked to see Chettleburgh get a run out again, but he's not one of Ricki's favourite people.

Glad to see some of the u17's getting a run. This might be the closest they get to a competative run before the u17 judging by the fact the team is yet to be announced and no friendlies prior to the tournament have been announced yet.

Perhaps NZF looked at our draw and said, too tough. Best to save our money... or asking for an extra 500 was maybe taking things too far.

siggy for the nix then?

Tamati Williams in over Spoonley?

surely siggy's suspension is only from FIFA international games not some warmup gimmick......I'm suprises ricki has selected any nix players given it's an 'a' team selection and the nix guys would probably benefit more from playing in the nix squad.

well duh, hence the confusion, this isn't a warm up for the AW's its a preseason warm uo for the nix......my question is more around why the nix players were even available for him to select. They are after all not NZ 'A' plers they are already in the starting lineup for the top team.

I would expect Ernie is keen to see what options he has when the AW's are away so he's happy for RH to pick whoever he likes.

Interesting the youth guys who knows about holthusen. Striker from mem. Mitchell CB?

which he is which?

which which is which?

Whichy Which?

@1:30

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I've just tweeted this for us, so hopefully they have the internets in Rotorua.

cool. are they doing any food/drink specials for the day?

set up tansport from there to the stadium aswell?

I'm sure you can find your own way there.

Transport already sorted as was the bar.

Fenton's never played a professional game at full back - I think it's fair enough to wait and see how he goes.  I suspect siggy stays with phoenix because Merrick wants to run shadow side that will play in round one, which will include him

agree with that - fenton is yet to play a pro game at FB - you can't expect him to be picked there at an international level before he plays a league game.

You can't say that. There have been plenty of calls for him in the WC play offs and those people are always right *facepalm*

Looking forward to this game. Football in Rotorua, yay!

The last time I saw football in RVegas was when the Kingz had a preseason game at the International Stadium. That's a long time ago!!

Like me the phoenix are stuck in the tron airport the 8 20 am flight to Vegas being redirected

Sorry if this has been mentioned earlier but is this game being televised at all? 

Iffil, Sigmund, and Cunningham weren't on the plane.