why is Robbie Slater very Anti kiwi

he is the voldamort to your order of the phoenix

When they previewed the Wellington v Adelaide game Andy Harper was trying to get Slater to make some Anti Wellington comments. They all know he can't stand us being in the league. Hill was laughing  when Slater said he picked Adelaide only because he didn't want to pick a draw.

Having just been in Oz - I didn't hear any abuse by anyone relating to New Zealand my whole time there. Didn't hear much about rugby either - in fact I heard much more about the A League. Robbie Slater is paid to have an opinion and stir a reaction - seems to be doing his job pretty well. 

Agreed.  Most Aussies are stoked we've got our act together.  Forget Kiwi Hater.

There will always be an element of the Australian footballing public (and NZ footballing public for that matter) that wants everything to stay in Australia.  The fact is Australia isn't big enough for the type of competition that is desired and as such NZ is needed (I'm still an advocat for Singapore, however that is another story).  Some commentators do not have the structural management understanding to grasp this concept and as such are cynical.  There will always be at least one, so let it be.  Welly's recent peformances on and off the field is rapidly thinning their ranks.

If there did come a day when there was a team from Singapore (or Papua New Guinea, I mean it's a lot closer than Singapore), I think Slater would leave us alone completely and start pestering them - he'd hate it even more if one of those countries got an a-league team.loyalgunner2007-10-05 21:30:35

He is actually calling the team WELLINGTON PHOENIX !!!

He's actually said some nice things about us tonight. He's up to something.....

We never seem to see the pre-match here but he does seem to have a go at a lot of teams in the build up to the games - we're not the only ones.

I can respect his view that NZ teams shouldn't be in the A-League. I don't agree with him, but I can see the logic of his viewpoint and concede that it is unusual in football. The only other one I can think of are the Welsh teams in the English league. In similar fashion to here, that only came about because there was no Welsh leagues at the time those clubs entered the league in the 1920s. (There is now, but it the three Welsh clubs would be too big for it now.) It would not have been a stretch for there to have been a British league, but Scotland have always been fiercely independent (good on them).

Michael...

Berwick, Monaco, Toronto (as a starting bid - there are more).

Puerto Rico Islanders

Same league,

Bermuda Hogges, Vancouver Whitecaps, Montreal Impact.

So, just the Phoenix then

Monaco are an interesting point. They have a national team, but are one of the few countries not to have joined FIFA. Hence, they play very rarely. As a trivia question, does this mean Monaco nationals play (or are eligible to play) for France? I don't know - I'm not playing quiz-master.

Don't forget Toronto in the MLS.

Lichtenstein, play in Switzerland.  Until 1994 Singapore fielded a side in the Malaysian League until differences forced them out.

I mean, did you hear yesterday's comment when O'Dor pushed that kid right against the ads banners?? The commentators picked on that straight away, and talked about 'border line challenge' etc, but they said very little about Felipe being targeted...

Was it me or did we get called the "Knights" on at least 3 occassions and the biggest surprise, it was NOT Robbie Slater who did it. I could believe my ears when I heard it. Lonegunmen2007-10-08 18:01:34

I think Robbie Slater just sums up the Australian mentality.....plain biased & racist....nothing ever lives up to there standards .....And Robbie if you are reading this give Messiah a shout out on total football tomorrow night...if we beat Australia Jets on the weekend maybe you can wear a yellow fever shirt on the next show

i hate andy harper. seems to believe that the footballs just not up to a standard he happy with. or maybe its just his annoying aussie twang accent

I think Robbie Slater is hard on all the teams, not just the Phoenix.  He's an ex-pro from the Premier League and thinks he knows it all and the plebs in Australasia need the benefit of his great wisdom.  Maybe he's right?  Some of his comments are pretty sharp (especially when he talks about where the constantly misfiring A-league strikers should have aimed their shots for maximum chance of scoring) but I find some of his comments on "body positioning" a little odd.  Wonder how popular he was in the showers? 

When we were kids we used to mine slater* holes with double happy or tom thumb firecrackers and blow the nasty things to smithereens.  Perhaps, unbeknownest to us, we were in training for our life's work.  Bring me the Robbie...

The A-League would benefit from making sure its commentators are up to scratch. At least Slater has the technical knowledge to talk sense - like a lot of the English Premier League commentators.  That itself is worthy of some respect.  Contrast that with the Tommy Smyth with a Y stupidity.  I'm not so sure about Andy Harper either, who reminds me of Smyth constantly with the opinionated crap he comes out with. Like Smyth, perhaps he just likes to hear his own voice and fill us with his self-importance. I don't care for it personally.

not much was said about the Nix on tonights Oz total football...quite disappointing really ...here is a pic of the total football boys getting into the swing of things on vaction in Kazakhstan   MESSIAH2007-10-12 00:57:05

maybe I should have added this to the look a like thread

Got the shock of my life when in the game yesterday Robbie Slater said something like congratulations to the Wellington Phoenix and to Terry Seripisos for getting a truly competitive team in an Australian football league.

I am surprised that none has commented on the total football vaction shot it took me ages to get that done as a novice

He said it in the first half, so you probably missed it because of the baseball.

I thought Slater did the CCM game. Wasn't Harper the one who said it in between talking about how much he is in love with Joel Griffith.

It wasnt Slater, as he didnt do that game. Harper and someone else, cant get his name just now, did the honours and were quite praising of Wellington early on

It was Harper. Talked about the good job that we'd done getting the organisation sorted and getting a comptetitive team on the park. Mentioned the support from the people of Wellington, talked about Terry and Ricki. Very positive stuff, almost fell off my chair when I heard it. Auckland Jag2007-10-16 07:03:31

UberGunner2007-10-16 08:50:29

My mistake, must have been Harper not Slater.

I just figured as he had a filthy Aussie accent that he was the infamous Robbie Slater.