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Sarpreet Singh

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about 8 years ago

theprof wrote:

Colvinator wrote:

As well as the goal which was obviously outstanding, he also set up AK in the first half who should've scored. A couple of other good attacking plays as well. A couple of slightly sloppy touches as well which is to be expected at this stage.

you forgot to mention his stellar work on defence. Several times he was back in our box stealing the ball off an attacker and starting an attack from deep,

Yep, some of his defensive work was brilliant I thought. Probably extra motivation because it's his first start.

a.haak

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about 8 years ago · edited about 8 years ago · History

martinb wrote:

Should we thank Darije for protecting him? I mean could he cope with the kicking that Burns/Krishna/Roy/Roly gets?

But hoping to see him win us many more!

No! Blame Darje (Mark Hammett version 2) for not being able to realise that this kid has the goods and blame him for playing substandard players while Singh hardly got a look in.

Singh only got on the field because of a last minute injury to someone who had a total shocker last week. 

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about 8 years ago

Remind us all just how old Singh is? Showed a maturity and confidence.

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

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about 8 years ago

he's 18

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 8 years ago

theprof wrote:

he's 18

That's what he tells pub bouncers anyway


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about 8 years ago

Doloras wrote:

theprof wrote:

he's 18

That's what he tells pub bouncers anyway

He just tells them he's the singher

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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about 8 years ago

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

Annual finals disappointment enthusiast.

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about 8 years ago

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

So so right but that's only step 1 as far as I'm concerned. Step 2 is doing what other A-League clubs do: show faith in your youngsters, provide them with an opportunity to actually make a mark for themselves in the league or even in the world.

I can think about a lot of young Aussies who were only in their teens who had the chance to showcase their talent (often taking us apart) and whose career really took off.

As far as we're concerned, there's Rojas and partly Barba.  I'll chuck in Smeltzy as his career was going nowhere at the time, but he doesn't really fit the mold.


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about 8 years ago

newzealandpower wrote:

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

So so right but that's only step 1 as far as I'm concerned. Step 2 is doing what other A-League clubs do: show faith in your youngsters, provide them with an opportunity to actually make a mark for themselves in the league or even in the world.

I can think about a lot of young Aussies who were only in their teens who had the chance to showcase their talent (often taking us apart) and whose career really took off.

As far as we're concerned, there's Rojas and partly Barba.  I'll chuck in Smeltzy as his career was going nowhere at the time, but he doesn't really fit the mold.

You'd expect there to be nine times as many Aussies who have had this happen to them in the A-League than Kiwi's though, since there are nine times as many teams.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 8 years ago

newzealandpower wrote:

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

So so right but that's only step 1 as far as I'm concerned. Step 2 is doing what other A-League clubs do: show faith in your youngsters, provide them with an opportunity to actually make a mark for themselves in the league or even in the world.

I can think about a lot of young Aussies who were only in their teens who had the chance to showcase their talent (often taking us apart) and whose career really took off.

As far as we're concerned, there's Rojas and partly Barba.  I'll chuck in Smeltzy as his career was going nowhere at the time, but he doesn't really fit the mold.

Exactly right about needing to show faith in them, and how could you not with Singh's performance. I expect next season we will se a lot of Ridenton and Singh, Cacace is still only 17 so obviously he's not ready to be chucked in the deep end. In saying that I still want to see him get minutes here and there, Ridenton starting getting little patches of game time at the same age and its all starting to pay off now. I don't think Singh will or should start every game next season, but would like to see him play a decent amount of minutes in at least 15 games. 
Annual finals disappointment enthusiast.

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about 8 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

newzealandpower wrote:

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

So so right but that's only step 1 as far as I'm concerned. Step 2 is doing what other A-League clubs do: show faith in your youngsters, provide them with an opportunity to actually make a mark for themselves in the league or even in the world.

I can think about a lot of young Aussies who were only in their teens who had the chance to showcase their talent (often taking us apart) and whose career really took off.

As far as we're concerned, there's Rojas and partly Barba.  I'll chuck in Smeltzy as his career was going nowhere at the time, but he doesn't really fit the mold.

You'd expect there to be nine times as many Aussies who have had this happen to them in the A-League than Kiwi's though, since there are nine times as many teams.

On this point your logic is sound but you forgot to consider the FFA. They should be producing more candidates for "national service" but they are not really. I personally think the Nix do well in trying to "blood" Australian players. Pav, Troy were two examples at the start of the Nix career.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

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

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about 8 years ago

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

newzealandpower wrote:

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

So so right but that's only step 1 as far as I'm concerned. Step 2 is doing what other A-League clubs do: show faith in your youngsters, provide them with an opportunity to actually make a mark for themselves in the league or even in the world.

I can think about a lot of young Aussies who were only in their teens who had the chance to showcase their talent (often taking us apart) and whose career really took off.

As far as we're concerned, there's Rojas and partly Barba.  I'll chuck in Smeltzy as his career was going nowhere at the time, but he doesn't really fit the mold.

Exactly right about needing to show faith in them, and how could you not with Singh's performance. I expect next season we will se a lot of Ridenton and Singh, Cacace is still only 17 so obviously he's not ready to be chucked in the deep end. In saying that I still want to see him get minutes here and there, Ridenton starting getting little patches of game time at the same age and its all starting to pay off now. I don't think Singh will or should start every game next season, but would like to see him play a decent amount of minutes in at least 15 games. 

 15 games? All that should matter is whether he is good enough and so far he has shown he is well ahead of the tried and failed.

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about 8 years ago

Young players are always prone to burn-out; but to be honest, the A-League season isn't exactly long and arduous. If he can cut it, let him play.

a.haak

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about 8 years ago

Oi Oi Edgecumbe wrote:

Doloras wrote:

theprof wrote:

he's 18

That's what he tells pub bouncers anyway

He just tells them he's the singher

It's nice to see we're all Singh-ing from the same song sheet for once

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about 8 years ago

whatever wrote:

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

newzealandpower wrote:

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

Singh, Ridenton, Smith, Cacace. I like where this is all going, at a time when we've been losing our identity. All Kiwis, all show a load of promise, all in different positions. It's been the first time in a while where there have been multiple young Kiwis garnering genuine excitement from the media and the public at the Nix, fudgeing love it

So so right but that's only step 1 as far as I'm concerned. Step 2 is doing what other A-League clubs do: show faith in your youngsters, provide them with an opportunity to actually make a mark for themselves in the league or even in the world.

I can think about a lot of young Aussies who were only in their teens who had the chance to showcase their talent (often taking us apart) and whose career really took off.

As far as we're concerned, there's Rojas and partly Barba.  I'll chuck in Smeltzy as his career was going nowhere at the time, but he doesn't really fit the mold.

Exactly right about needing to show faith in them, and how could you not with Singh's performance. I expect next season we will se a lot of Ridenton and Singh, Cacace is still only 17 so obviously he's not ready to be chucked in the deep end. In saying that I still want to see him get minutes here and there, Ridenton starting getting little patches of game time at the same age and its all starting to pay off now. I don't think Singh will or should start every game next season, but would like to see him play a decent amount of minutes in at least 15 games. 

 15 games? All that should matter is whether he is good enough and so far he has shown he is well ahead of the tried and failed.

I'm not saying I want to see him play at least 15 games regardless of his form, I'm saying I'd like to see him play as well as he did on saturday often, and keep progressing at the rate that he has been already. 15 was an arbitrary number, it wasn't some quota. could be 14, could be 16, the main point is I want to see him deserve to play more, which he did on saturday
Annual finals disappointment enthusiast.

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about 8 years ago

If we sell Singh in the future sell him to a non A-League club for a decent price.

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