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@booboo said in All Whites:
On track so far but I did imagine we'd be able to deal with Tahiti better than 1-nil.
Should have won 3-0 or 4-0. Some goal-line clearances, good saves from the GK and a couple of bad misses in front of goal meant that the final score was not a true reflection of the game. The Solomon Islands will pose a totally different threat than Tahiti as they have speed whereas Tahiti relied on being physical, often too physical. But in a one-off game anything can happen.
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This is sad. He was one of my favourite players in that '82 team along with Woodin and Rufer. He was tough and fearless
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@canefan said in All Whites:
This is sad. He was one of my favourite players in that '82 team along with Woodin and Rufer. He was tough and fearless
My first thought reading your post was that goal against Aussie
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@Higgins said in All Whites:
@canefan Thanks for posting that link, it brings back great memories and shows Grant Turner in a much different light to what I generally thought.
Obviously a very different man off the pitch. Because he was a tough uncompromising bastard on it
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I've just been watching a replay of this mornings NZ-Peru game played in front of 32,000 Peruvian fans in Barcelona. As this is the main warmup game before the WC playoff game against Costa Rica, the interest was to see what formation Hay used and who started. He went with a 3-5-2 formation. Peru dominated possession in the game but didn't create too many chance so NZ would have been reasonably pleased with their defending. NZ did have some luck with the crossbar and upright saving them but Peru needed a mistake from Sail to score their only goal. On the flip side, NZ didn't create much on attack except the shot from Greive which was straight at the GK, and a late goal disallowed for offside. No corners until the last minute of the game as I think set pieces might be the best chance of goals.
A behind closed doors game against Oman to be played later in the week.
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There is actually another trans- Ta$man game tonight from Brisbane. Unfortunately NZ doesn't have a World Cup to look forward to, but these clashes aren't very common in recent years. The last time NZ and Australia played was in 2011.
All Whites squad named for homecoming game at Eden Park
All Whites head coach Danny Hay has named a full-strength squad for the team s long-awaited return to Aotearoa New...
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Yep, a common story for NZ teams against non-Oceania countries. I only watched the 1st half from Brisbane but thought NZ were the better team and should have taken at least one of those chances. Today was less impressive but good to see 35,000 turn up for Winston Reid's last game for the All Whites.
I like what Hay has done with this team but there needs to be an end-product from the good play.
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It will be interesting to see where things go from here. The majority of players clearly wanted Hay to stay, despite his coaching style, so there is a disconnect between the team and NZ Football HQ/High Performance staff.
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I'm not too worried that Hay has gone - the team has been playing a good style of football but no end product. I also think the style is more down to the quality of players getting produced and more and more of them playing pro football at a decent level. Would love to see Des Buckingham get the job. Key thing before the next world cup is getting them playing more regularly.
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NZF shoot themselves in the foot again. Firstly, they could have matched Des Buckingham's contract with Mumbai City but choose to move in another direction. Then CEO Andrew Pragnell seemed confident John Herdman would accept the contract he had in front of him, but he has now chosen to remain as the Canadian coach. One of the final unsuccessful candidates was Phoenix coach Ufuk Talay, but he is no longer interested.
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@canefan wow that would be cool, I think that would have significant interest too, probably big question is how many players released at this time of year?
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