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WPM 2023/24 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination

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Posted May 10, 2023 12:33 · last edited May 10, 2023 12:38

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Names thrown around on the kiwi football fix tonight: Francis De Vries, Niko Kirwan, Nathan Lobo, Marco Rojas, Jack Henry-Sinclair, Cam Howieson, Stefan Marinovic. I'd be stoked with Marinovic, Kirwan and Rojas. Don't watch enough national league to make a call on those local guys. De Vries looked a little shaky when I saw him for the all whites before he did his knee, don't see him as an upgrade on Sutton, while I think Kirwan looked the business for the national team and I'd love for Payne to be banished to the bench. Hasn't been good enough in the past season, a couple years back he looked more than good enough for a starting RB in the a-league but don't know where that player went. 
I watched Auckland City FC a couple times this year and last. Cam Howieson absolutely bosses every game he plays. Obviously it's hard to know if that translates to good performances at the level of the A-league. But domestically, every time he plays he looks a good head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. I'd be stoked if Wellington went for him. But it's a big jump to the a league ...

With Howieson.
He. Doesn't. Want. To. Live. In. Wellington.

Actually he explained it briefly last year that he can't move south, without divulging anything more. Family. Business. Who knows. But he ain't a Nix option.

May of changed in the last year? He's lived in Wellington before albeit a while ago and maybe that's why he doesn't want to move from his previous time here. 

When we approached him last year he would've been joining fairly down the pecking order so would've been a rotation role whereas now he'd be looking at probably a starter so an increase in wages and more appearances bonus likely with a new offer may be more tempting for him. Although I wouldn't want us to be paying way over for what he's worth just to come down.

I don't think the Nix approached him, it was just his name was being bandied about here as he returned to the AWs last year for that March OFC tourney (maybe even earlier for the January Jordan/Uzbekistan friendlies). At the time the Nix were seriously seriously down on midfield options. Lewis & Rufer both injured. Guys like Sutton getting chucked in at midfield. If Howieson played for the Nix then, he would have been straight into the starting 11.

I remember Goran P interviewed Howieson around that time, and though he was a bit flattered by the attention, there had been no contact from the Nix (they were still stuck in Aussie then), and he just said it wasn't possible for him to leave Auckland (even short term for Aussie), without elaborating. He ain't an option.


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wilbaker
coochiee
manny_delgato
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Names thrown around on the kiwi football fix tonight: Francis De Vries, Niko Kirwan, Nathan Lobo, Marco Rojas, Jack Henry-Sinclair, Cam Howieson, Stefan Marinovic. I'd be stoked with Marinovic, Kirwan and Rojas. Don't watch enough national league to make a call on those local guys. De Vries looked a little shaky when I saw him for the all whites before he did his knee, don't see him as an upgrade on Sutton, while I think Kirwan looked the business for the national team and I'd love for Payne to be banished to the bench. Hasn't been good enough in the past season, a couple years back he looked more than good enough for a starting RB in the a-league but don't know where that player went. 
I watched Auckland City FC a couple times this year and last. Cam Howieson absolutely bosses every game he plays. Obviously it's hard to know if that translates to good performances at the level of the A-league. But domestically, every time he plays he looks a good head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. I'd be stoked if Wellington went for him. But it's a big jump to the a league ...

With Howieson.
He. Doesn't. Want. To. Live. In. Wellington.

Actually he explained it briefly last year that he can't move south, without divulging anything more. Family. Business. Who knows. But he ain't a Nix option.

May of changed in the last year? He's lived in Wellington before albeit a while ago and maybe that's why he doesn't want to move from his previous time here. 

When we approached him last year he would've been joining fairly down the pecking order so would've been a rotation role whereas now he'd be looking at probably a starter so an increase in wages and more appearances bonus likely with a new offer may be more tempting for him. Although I wouldn't want us to be paying way over for what he's worth just to come down.

I don't think the Nix approached him, it was just his name was being bandied about here as he returned to the AWs last year for that March OFC tourney (maybe even earlier for the January friendlies). At the time the Nix were seriously seriously down on midfield options. Lewis & Rufer both injured. Guys like Sutton getting chucked in at midfield.

I remember Goran P interviewed Howieson then, and though he was a bit flattered by the attention, there had been no contact from the Nix (they were still stuck in Aussie then), and he just said it wasn't possible for him to leave Auckland (even short term for Aussie), without elaborating. He ain't an option.