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R1 vs Brisbane Roar 5pm Sun 13th Oct ROF

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over 12 years ago
Gooner 4 Life wrote:

Am I the only one putting Bathurst before the Nix? My excuse though is that I don't live in Wellington otherwise I would watch the race until game time. I will be in Napier though. Ticket already obtained.


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over 12 years ago

Right now we've signed Riera, Manny to Fullback?

Normo's coming home

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over 12 years ago

Surely

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over 12 years ago
james dean wrote:

Right now we've signed Riera, Manny to Fullback?


JD volunteered to go tell him


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over 12 years ago
Seb wrote:
Gooner 4 Life wrote:

Am I the only one putting Bathurst before the Nix? My excuse though is that I don't live in Wellington otherwise I would watch the race until game time. I will be in Napier though. Ticket already obtained.

Whats Bathurst?


Bratwurst?


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over 12 years ago
james dean wrote:

Right now we've signed Riera, Manny to Fullback?

Manny & Lia to start this game, but long term Manny & Reira with Vinnie on the bench.
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over 12 years ago

can someone positively confirm what time the game will be according to Central European Time UTC + 1??

I will be in Liechtenstein on the weekend - and don't even get me started on how pissed off at the fact that the Liechtenstein national team is playing two qualifying games away from home in a row - so I won't be able to go watch them!! [If you think it's weird, read Charlie Connelly's "Stamping Grounds].

Anyway, according to my calculations, the game will be on at 6am (13.10.2013) - can anyone confirm this pretty please??


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over 12 years ago
newzealandpower wrote:

can someone positively confirm what time the game will be according to Central European Time UTC + 1??

I will be in Liechtenstein on the weekend - and don't even get me started on how pissed off at the fact that the Liechtenstein national team is playing two qualifying games away from home in a row - so I won't be able to go watch them!! [If you think it's weird, read Charlie Connelly's "Stamping Grounds].

Anyway, according to my calculations, the game will be on at 6am (13.10.2013) - can anyone confirm this pretty please??


Right now its 4.25 pm, here in France and 3.25 am in NZ. So its 11 hours different. So when the Nix play on Sunday at 5 pm NZT it is 6 am Central European time on Sunday morning. Wot you doing in Liechtenstein? Only been there once and it was bat shiite boring.....makes Invercargill seem like Las Vegas
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over 12 years ago

Hicks and Spoonley on 3-4 week contracts, McPeake and Watson on one week contracts. No Gulley, Merrick said he wasn't ready.

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over 12 years ago

Car racing. I honestly could never understand the appeal. THRILL as the participants turn left repeatedly!


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over 12 years ago
Ryan's Rovers wrote:
james dean wrote:

Right now we've signed Riera, Manny to Fullback?

Manny & Lia to start this game, but long term Manny & Reira with Vinnie on the bench.

that's what I'd expect to see.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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over 12 years ago
rjmiller wrote:

Hicks and Spoonley on 3-4 week contracts, McPeake and Watson on one week contracts. No Gulley, Merrick said he wasn't ready.


Harsh on gulley. Adams out of position there and shermy who doesnt sound flash. Guessing gulley did something wrong


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over 12 years ago

Great for hicks though


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over 12 years ago
TV wrote:
rjmiller wrote:

Hicks and Spoonley on 3-4 week contracts, McPeake and Watson on one week contracts. No Gulley, Merrick said he wasn't ready.


Harsh on gulley. Adams out of position there and shermy who doesnt sound flash. Guessing gulley did something wrong


Guessing Ernie doesnt see it that way
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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

That's a bit of a surprise when you consider that every man, dog and media hack had Gulley as a certain. 

Glad Hicks is there. Haven't been proven wrong on that one yet.

Grumpy old bastard alert

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over 12 years ago
Jeff Vader wrote:

That's a bit of a surprise when you consider that every man, dog and media hack had Gulley as a certain. 


Not sure which one of those three the podcast punters are, but we had Gulley in too. Shame for the young fella. 

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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over 12 years ago

Definitely sounds like it. 'Not ready' is probably a little ambiguous when you consider that he has played significant minutes there this season. Either Ernie has tried to give him bulk minutes in the hope a lot of game time gets him up to standard or (the extremely less likely) something has gone wrong in the last week for him injury, conflict whatever...

Grumpy old bastard alert

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over 12 years ago

Brisbane -1 was paying $5 I think.

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over 12 years ago
Hard News wrote:

Adams is not a solution at full back from what I've seen.

Agree with that based on last Sunday.
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over 12 years ago
Jeff Vader wrote:

Definitely sounds like it. 'Not ready' is probably a little ambiguous when you consider that he has played significant minutes there this season. Either Ernie has tried to give him bulk minutes in the hope a lot of game time gets him up to standard or (the extremely less likely) something has gone wrong in the last week for him injury, conflict whatever...

He went down just before half time, looking in a bit of pain. Not sure if it was an injury or the ball hitting him in an awkward place.

I would have thought he would have been our RB. Really worried if we play Adams there, he looked quite poor for Nix White on Sunday. Would rather play Riera and move Manny to RB.
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over 12 years ago

This isn't looking good. I'll make the "" banner.



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over 12 years ago
Hard News wrote:

Adams is not a solution at full back from what I've seen.

Anyone got TAB odds yet?



Nix paying $3.40, Roar $2.40

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over 12 years ago
Ryan wrote:

On the Au Four Four Two podcast this morning Merick said that Iffil and Cunningham are injured.


Edit: although this article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9264129/Short-term-deals-with-Kiwis-prop-up-Phoenix says that they are match fit.

Who knows.

So we'll be starting with Watson, Huysegems and Boyd?? Bit of a worry if this our starting front three. I think Huysegems is a quality player with good players around him but I'm not too sure about Watson and Boyd..
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over 12 years ago

Boyd maybe. But would say Ifill will be starting ahead of Watson.

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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Is it because siggy is there now? Merrick thinking louis is back by rnd 3 and i should use the two other yng defenders i signed?


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over 12 years ago

guess someone else has fished out this gem on Hernandez:

"He's lost 4kg and I saw him tackle the other day. I had to put it on replay because I wasn't sure but he definitely tracked someone and put in a tackle."




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over 12 years ago
Ryan wrote:

On the Au Four Four Two podcast this morning Merick said that Iffil and Cunningham are injured.


Edit: although this article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9264129/Short-term-deals-with-Kiwis-prop-up-Phoenix says that they are match fit.

Who knows.

 
Ifill tweeted today:
"Waited so long buzzing that the @ALeague starts 2moro I'm like a kid on Xmas eve big season ahead! Roll on Sunday I'm ready to go are you?"
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over 12 years ago
number8 wrote:
Ryan wrote:

On the Au Four Four Two podcast this morning Merick said that Iffil and Cunningham are injured.


Edit: although this article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9264129/Short-term-deals-with-Kiwis-prop-up-Phoenix says that they are match fit.

Who knows.


 

Ifill tweeted today:

"Waited so long buzzing that the @ALeague starts 2moro I'm like a kid on Xmas eve big season ahead! Roll on Sunday I'm ready to go are you?"



That's positive.

The guys on 442 seemed to think that Hernandez was going to be highly motivated because he wants to break into the world cup squad.

Lets hope everything fires and we outscore Brisbane on the weekend.
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over 12 years ago

Would Sunday please hurry up and arrive. This adrenaline rush is going to kill me!! Really pumped for this season and hope things pan out better than last year. Looking forward to seeing Ernie's chosen style of team play. NO MORE ROUTE ONE !!

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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 12 years ago

First up games can go any which way regardless of pre season form. Whatever the result this is the most positive I have felt about the team for a good few years now. If the weather holds and we get a good walk up crowd, I reckon it will be enough to get the result. Cmon the Nix !

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over 12 years ago

I asked Jason Pine on twitter about RB slot:


@chemikills I'm hearing Adams, but not 100% on that

7:07 PM - 10 Oct 13



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over 12 years ago
Ryan's Rovers wrote:

Referee: Tim McGilchrist

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/Hyundai-ALeague-Round-1-Ins-and-Outs/76870

Only reffed 4 games, but 3 of them were Nix ones. Our record is W0 D1 L2.

http://www.ultimatealeague.com/referee_detail.php?referee_id=32


The clown from last seasons Newcastle preseason when it went all in brawl. I think it was Ifill that said something like "he was so bad that we played on in spite of him" Not good 

Grumpy old bastard alert

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over 12 years ago


Sunday, 13 October 2013
Wellington Phoenix v Brisbane Roar
Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Kick-off: 5:00pm local (3:00pm AEDT)
Referee: Tim McGilchrist
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Hendrik Hintz
Assistant Referee 2: Ryan Gallagher
Fourth Official: Adam Gehrig

TV Broadcast: 3.00pm (AEDT) Live and exclusive broadcast on FOX Sports 1HD and Sky Sports 2 (New Zealand).

Radio Broadcast: 3.00pm (AEDT) Live coverage on 612 ABC Brisbane 

Join the conversation on Twitter using the hash-tag #WELvBRI To purchase tickets visit www.aleague.com.au/tickets 

 Wellington Phoenix Squad: 2. Manny MUSCAT,  3. Reece CAIRA; 4. Luke ADAMS, 5. Michael BOXALL, 6. Josh BRINDELL-SOUTH, 8. Paul IFILL, 9. Kenny CUNNINGHAM, 10. Stein HUYSEGEMS, 12. Tyler BOYD, 13. Albert RIERA, 17. Vince LIA, 18. Ben SIGMUND,  21. Carlos HERNANDEZ, 24. Hamish WATSON, 25. Jason HICKS, 30. Jacob SPOONLEY (GK), 40. James McPEAKE (GK). *One to be omitted.

Unavailable: 1. Glen MOSS (international duty), 7. Leo BERTOS (international duty), 11 Jeremy BROCKIE (international duty), 14. Alex RUFER (under-17 international duty),  16. Louis FENTON (shoulder injury 3-5 weeks), 20. Lewis ITALIANO (GK, ankle injury 4-6 weeks), 22. Andrew DURANTE (international duty).

Brisbane Roar Squad: 1. Michael THEO (gk), 2. Matthew SMITH (c), 3. Shane STEFANUTTO, 5. Ivan FRANJIC, 7. Besart BERISHA, 10. HENRIQUE, 11. Liam MILLER, 13. Jade NORTH, 14. Diogo FERREIRA, 15. James DONACHIE, 18. Luke BRATTAN, 19. Jack HINGERT, 29. Matthew ACTON (gk), 22. Thomas BROICH, 23. Dimitri PETRATOS, 26. Corey BROWN, 28. Brandon BORRELLO, 29. Kwame YEBOAH *two to be omitted*

Unavailable: Matt McKAY (International duty), George Lambadaridis (knee - season)

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