Overseas players
Overseas players
I want to make a comment about our "Star"overseas players, that
continually come up with all the excuses you can think of, for not
playing for the AWs. I know there are genuine reasons
sometimes,however, it seems,they are running out of options now,
when are we going to see these guys playing for NZ, i think the
fans are keen, but what about the players!!! Maybe NZ football
should look closer to home for players!!, a good example is Daniel
Ellensohn being bought into th AWs today, there are many more
around the country, if they will only give them a go!!!
I was at the Phoenix game on Sunday, with a well known Ex-AW player, we had a great night, but it was a pity about the ref and the football that followed. Not many Fever fans there either, we sat them in the second half behind the Goal, hoping for one in the net!!!!!!. The QLD fans were a bit anti NZ, so i hope you guys give them stick in the return match.
I was at the Phoenix game on Sunday, with a well known Ex-AW player, we had a great night, but it was a pity about the ref and the football that followed. Not many Fever fans there either, we sat them in the second half behind the Goal, hoping for one in the net!!!!!!. The QLD fans were a bit anti NZ, so i hope you guys give them stick in the return match.
Its never going to change i guess. I am not going to talk about
club loyalties, the standard of All white opposition etc
as we have gone over this a number of times. I am just going to
mention about the geographic issue.
Geographically it is a nightmare. I live in London. Travelling
back to Nz for a holiday is a 23 hour flight. Add on the stop over
time. Time allowing to get to the airport and from the airport etc.
You are looking at about 30 hours one way. Thats nearly a weeks
work for some people. Then you have the 30 hours on the way back.
That makes it 60 hours. Add on the fact that you are going to be
kanckered with about a 12 hour time difference. It takes about a
week to really settle in to the new time zone. But lets just say
you have to sleep an extra 8 hours than normal to recover. There
and back that is costing you an extra 16 hours. 76 hours in total.
Add a trip over to vanuatu and airport travel time etc. another 4-5
hours each way.(10hours) 86 hours in total. Thats about 2.5
weeks work for most of us. Long haul flights stuff your body
up too, any niggling ankle injuries etc, even if minor. Your ankles
can swell up for upto 2 days after, depending on the climate of
your destination. The warmer it is the less chance the swelling
will go down.
So basically they are mentally and physically tired, their
body will be suffering 5% or more. So they are not going to be at
100% anyway.
For this reason alone. I don't blame them for
avoiding call ups over the smallest issues. I am not
saying it is right, I just don't blame them.