Welkom Roly! - Never to be an All White

Be an HAL legend or another footballer in Europe....

He could do that by earning twice as much as marquee player in Australia.

from casual chats with nix backroom staff, they think we will be lucky if he's even here next season, and we were very lucky he arrived on our doorstep for us.

Such a beast of a player

I may cry whenever he does leave.

Roly goes where he think it's best for his career and family. Even if he leaves after this season, I'm OK with it, he gives everything, every game, we can't expect more from a player. Imagine we still had to watch Carlos instead of him?

I think the best we can hope for is a reasonably sizeable transfer fee.

Hopefully his success here will attract others to come here.

I just hope he doesn't decide to join another A-league club

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Dear Roly....if you stay 5 years you can play for the All Whites

No he can't. Has played for Dutch youth sides.

He has a two year deal so he won't be going to another A-League club next season.

Dear Roly.  If you stay for another 5 years you will be my 2nd favourite imaginary-yet-hetero-boyfriend (after Ifill).

Make him wait 5 years for number 1 position? Tough love

Did Roly just get fan zoned. 

I really like you Roly.....but...Ifill scored THAT goal and did THAT celebration......and it was in the play offs too

Just going to put this out there. Roly is our best player. The end.

Really? How did we get this guy?!

He thought he was coming to Zeeland?

Passed me by too.

On transfermarkt

It's still quite depressing that we can't believe that anyone who plays for us can be at all decent. :-/

To be fair in this instance we were pretty lucky to sign him. He could easily be playing somewhere Europe. I think its more stunning that he is in this league at all rather than with us.

So where are these sources that he is unsettled in welly?

Not sure anyone has said that.

Dura said in on interview that Roly is a family man, drives home for lunch to be with wife and kid.

..and the best midfielder in the A league, and the main reason the Phoenix are doing so well.

Great strength, fitness, spirit, vision and passing, and a powerful shot.

Get him, Burns, Krishna and McGlinchey working together and good things happen.

It's called realism and appreciating the fact that we are still a footballing backwater in the large scheme of things.

so he doesn't like spending time with the other players - interesting.

ignore...

In the same sentence, he said that A-Rod talks much more and that he could clearly see's why he was the captain in the youth team.

Interesting, Frankie Mac?

Nothing wrong with spending your time with your family when you are in a foreign country. Hopefully gone are the days when players spent their time out on the piss .

Dun dun dunnnn..

Is he a spy? 

looks like we're trying to turn him kiwi. Pity he'll never be an All White.

Contract Extension Offer

Interesting that they attribute David dome's quote as follows:

"We're definitely looking at Roly now and what we can do to keep him, in fact we're looking at the whole gamut, in terms of can we naturalise Roly," he told Yahoo Sports NZ

When those are, in fact, the EXACT words he used on In The Zone 148

Forgive my ignorance but why can he not be an all white? I know he played youth for another nation but so did winston. Does it have something to do with where they are born?