Sad to see it so quiet on here…maybe people won’t show up even if we did get a home final.
The Ricki years that lead to the home finals were a constant buzz of good vibes with the Nix- Smeltzy, Browny and Paul Ifill. Daniel! Club players, icons. And the All Whites run in the WC. I mean our RB is better now, but…
Getting that buzz back means either not losing Oli and Clayton or finding players who will be the cheerleaders and play football with joy. I know, I know, Terry money, living in dreamland and well into credit. And we’re guna be happy after a run of wins and goals.
But the home finals run was boosted as one of the pinnacles of the heady days for the whole football community in NZ. Perhaps the AWs are guna start helping us or at least holding up their end with a few games, even if none of them is a sold out home playoff.
It’s hard to know how to get that buzz back. We had parts of it with Davila. It sounds like an Auckland team might be a thing and that could be part of it, but that could be a disaster too. Though I’d love a pre-season mini tournament with Aucks, the Nix and a couple of PL teams. Expensive pageantry! Entertainment!
We’ve said a lot of what if this year. It makes it even worse. What if Sasse finds the net or Ugarkovic provides the goal threat from midfield fans said he possessed? 3-0 maybe even 4-0…Why is Zawada so deadly for one goal only? But we need some real success now. A parade through town. Some new heady days.
Also Reddy>Wrexham. Make it happen!