WEBVTT - Football Fever: Records, rebounds and regular service 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.480 Football Fever, the podcast keeping you up to date with 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.760 the beautiful game with the voice of football Jason Paine 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.360 and Insid heralds Michael Burgess, powered by News Talks hebby. 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.200 Welcome and a very merry Christmas to you. The Fest 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.079 of season is, I guess you'd say, upon us, and 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.840 a pretty festive weekend and a successful weekend for the 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.480 three New Zealand sides involved in the A League's competitions. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.080 I'm Jason Pine, Michael Burgess is here. Win win, win, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.239 three WS three up, three down. Bird's not bad for 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.240 the three teams and the A leagues across the weekend 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:35.960 from New Zealand. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.199 Triple treaty was perfect. Wasn't it a great way to 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.520 start the fest of season? And I don't imagine it's 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.920 happened all that often since Auckland came into the league 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.159 that we've had all three teams went on the same weekend, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:49.960 so pretty special. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.800 Absolutely. I don't know that the Wellington Phoenix men and 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.480 women have won very often on the same weekend. I'll 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.440 get my statisticians onto it, but you're right, please do 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.560 It was a very very rare thing, but a very 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.480 pleasing thing as far as football on this side of 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.040 the Tasman is concerned. We might jump straight to Saturday 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.480 afternoon where we had a record breaking game at Pottydoor 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.720 Park the Wellington Phoenix Women's seven Sydney FC nil at 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.520 Pottydoor Park, most goals scored in a game ever by 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.400 the Phoenix women, biggest winning margin in Phoenix club history 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.760 by the men's or the women's team, and Sydney FC's 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:29.200 biggest ever A League women's defeat. BF Priestman said during 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.200 the week that someone's going to get a hiding from us. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.240 Surely she couldn't have expected that it would be that 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:34.800 emphatic though, seven nil. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.360 You hear coaches say that quite a bit, that we're 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.959 do a big game, and often you think, oh, they're 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.840 just saying it to sort of to sort of make 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.560 things sound good or to give everyone confidence. But sometimes 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.560 they're saying it because they can see it coming, they 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.240 can see something in the inside and you know they 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.800 had been playing well. But that was that was what 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.720 you dream about, wasn't it. That's what you dream about 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.840 when you set up this woman's team, and especially with 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.360 the investment this season, to win like that, but to 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.120 win like that against the big team like Sydney there, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.160 one of the biggest clubs in Australia. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.880 Yeah, incredible really, and for so many reasons. It was 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.960 an important game, the fact that that had those two 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.960 games on the road and hadn't got a goal or 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.440 a point in either of them. I also heard birds 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.560 that before the weekend, off the back of last weekend's 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.600 results for the men's and the women's teams, that Rob 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:33.079 Morrison was absolutely apoplectic when he spoke with the club's 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.720 football department. They've invested a lot of money in the 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.840 women's team, as we know, the men you know, losing 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.600 at home to the bottom team. Rob Morrison was most displeased, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.560 I understand, so he would have had a brighter smile, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.000 I'm sure after the weekend. Certainly, Bev said to me 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.840 on the radio yesterday, I put a smile on the 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:53.640 chairman's face. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:54.840 We certainly did. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.440 It just looked good from the start though getting an 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.600 early goal I think is always a thing to do, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.320 isn't it. It sounds so obvious, but having not scored in 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.520 the previous two for Mania Elliott to score in the 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.079 third minute, it kind of takes that pressure off and 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.200 and just you know, allows you to breathe a bit 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:12.200 easier from the start. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.120 It's the here we go moment, isn't it. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.160 They had been unlucky, like I don't want to be 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.760 sound like a hindsight hero like Mike Costing likes to 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.799 talk about. But the previous the previous two matches, we've 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.359 been saying, Piney, they had played well, you know, they 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.440 had played well. They were desperate and lucky against Perth 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.359 to lose that match, and they had way more opportunities 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.600 against Melbourne City. So they had been playing well, but 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.960 it just hadn't hadn't happened for them, and there must 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.520 have been doubts. So to start so well and to 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.200 go on with it in the first half must have 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.720 been such a lift and they're thinking, Okay, this is 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.480 what this is what's supposed to happen, this is what 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.800 we've been doing in training and it's finally coming off. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:53.720 Maybe or that that. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.960 Shooting and finishing practice you suggested as well was definitely 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.240 helpful because it was spot. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.680 On, wasn't it. It took the goals. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.680 Yeah. The other thing you said last week, which which 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.800 has sort of resonated with me and I've been thinking about, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.000 is that you said that you thought this would be 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.800 a team that was better in the second half of 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.320 the season than they have been in the first half, 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.160 or will be in the first half. Look, here we 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.400 are about six or seven games in, and I think 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.279 that's that's starting to look, you know, like a very 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.200 accurate prediction. Maybe it just does just take a bit 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.200 of time for a new coach, a new bunch of players, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.359 a few injuries, just you know, lots of factors. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:28.520 You know. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.039 It wasn't like they've been playing poorly either, they just 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.080 hadn't been getting the results. I don't think that their 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.080 performance has perhaps deserved. Look this, this feels like a 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.080 watershed moment. Will we look back at the end of 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.240 the season and say, look, that was it the seven 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.760 mill against Sydney FC. Is where this season actually began? 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.120 Possibly? Yeah, Like it's the old turning point, isn't it. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.200 They had to win. But to win like that and 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.880 to have the clean sheet, I mean, that's a pretty 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.680 good foundation for what's coming. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.400 And they've they've got good players, They've got a good squad. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:04.599 You know. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.480 I'd started to hear over the last week a bit 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.320 of criticism of Samba and saying that, oh, it's great, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.279 she's got all the support and you know, it's amazing 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.400 that the Nepalese that had come out everywhere they play. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.039 But she's got to start producing. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.400 But my argument was, well, she has actually looked quite good, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.320 so someone like her, what a boost. And also think 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.279 of the young players in that team ay that like, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.120 imagine how they'll be feeling. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.240 Yeah, incredible. It must just be such a boost to 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.560 have a result like that and to know, okay, we 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.000 are actually a team that can score goals. Samba's first 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.160 two goals for the club. Grace Charlie got a couple 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.039 as well, the early one from a Nia Aliat those 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.800 two late own goals. Incidentally, the third goal was Wellington 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.359 Phoenix's one hundredth A League women's goal. But what I 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.400 really liked Birde was they didn't sit back at three 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.040 nil or four nil or five nil even you know, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.960 they kept going, but also retain that defensive base because 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.240 when you're five nil up, it's easy to let one 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.440 in because it doesn't matter, right, five nil, five to one, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.680 you still get the three points. But it seemed as 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.799 though they were still very very keen on that clean 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.279 sheet even though the points were well and truly secure 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.120 by that stage. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.960 Yeah, it's a good point, mate, Like the hunger was there, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:19.840 wasn't it. You see other games real ends up, you 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.400 know six two or six three even, you know, because 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.800 everything gets a bit loose and you just start going 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.760 for things and forget about defending. But it wasn't the case. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:34.680 You know, they stayed on their assignments but still wanted more. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.560 So very positive signs. I mean, they know they've dropped points, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.560 that's the thing. Though. They know they've dropped points. We 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.520 talked about it last week. There should be another four 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.760 or five points up the table. But now the chance 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.360 comes to make those points up in the coming weeks. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.200 And it actually doesn't matter too much because the table 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.400 is so tight. Yes, of course, they would have loved 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.159 to have had those points, and they'd be probably well, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.200 they would be in a better position than they are. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.680 But as this win has taken them to eight points, 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.520 they're in eighth position. But they're you know, there are 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.440 only two points behind the third placed Central Coast Mariners, 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.640 and they've got a game in hand because of the 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.400 uneven nature of the competition where there's a bye, so 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.360 you know they're they're there or thereabouts. Can we talk 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.080 about the away form because they go away next to 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.760 second bottom Western Sydney on Tuesday night. Huge chants this 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.480 to claim a first away win of the season and 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.360 jump into the top six. But I don't know what 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.640 you think whether the whether the the away day blues 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:43.080 of previous teams can be you know, automatically assigned to 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.960 this team because they have played well, haven't they away 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.520 from home against Melbourne City against Perth could have easily 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.240 got something out of both of those games. So maybe 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.240 the away day blues are something from seasons past. I 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:54.000 don't know what you think. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.280 I think so yeah, I think it's unfair to tarnish 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.280 them with that the club has struggled away. We all 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.560 know that the clubs women's teams struggled away, but this 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.520 team feels different. It felt different just in those two performances, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.160 like to do what they did against City restrict their 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.960 chances have so many of their own chances, Perth played 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:17.280 them off the park. This is it's definitely a new 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.680 beginning and let's hope that starts to show through away 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.720 from home. They're much more professional, They've got much more 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.600 resources behind them, so you think that would pay off 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.320 and it has to, doesn't it, because if they're going 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.760 to be contenders, they can't just rely on their home form. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.360 No, exactly right, they do have to win their away 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.120 games or certainly get points away from home, and like 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.640 I say, it feels as though away at second bottom 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.400 Western Sydney on Tuesday night is a massive chance to 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.360 capitalize on the momentum that they would have gained from 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.640 the winover over Sydney FC. Just a word on Grace 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.840 jarla second goal as well her tenth for the club. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.199 She is now the equal top scorer in the club's 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.880 women's history with ten, alongside Maddy Ana Spekma. So you'd 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.640 have to think that she will at some stage take 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.480 that mental interesting and we've talked a bit about Grace 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.240 Jarlay and where her best position is just sitting a 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.640 bit deeper with you know, c J. Bott, I guess 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.599 the deepest of the midfielder. Is Grace still able to 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.880 sort of you know, play a bit further forward but 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.880 make her impact in central positions. Maybe that is the 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.239 place for her. Maybe we've finally landed on Grace Charlie's 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.160 best position, Birch. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.360 It's taking a while and we've discussed this, you know, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.679 whenever we were catching up around the Ferns and Woman's 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.319 World Cup and everything. I just I think you felt 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.760 the same. Just always felt she was wasted out wide. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.800 So as long as she's central, whether it's further forward 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.400 or striker or a bit deeper, but as long as 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.040 she's central, I think she can make an impact. And 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.880 by the way, I love that story about Rob because 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.719 he's such a busy guy. You know, he doesn't get 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.280 involved that much. But when he's coming down and banging 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.760 his fists on the table, you know that, you know 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.760 that something's happened. I don't know something to change. You know, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.760 he's a pretty how would you describe him. He's a 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.920 pretty understanding and patient guy. You know, he's not one 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.680 of those owners that flies off the handle that you 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.839 see in Europe. But they're obviously there had come a time. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.520 Yeah, I'm not sure i'd want to be on the 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:22.440 end of a displeased Rob Morrison. But look it's obviously 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.920 worked because both teams pulled their socks up and got 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.720 the results they were after. So the Wellington Phoenix Woman, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.360 as I say, next away against the Western Sydney Wanderers 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.840 on the thirtieth of December. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.439 The Football Fever Podcast with Jason Vine and Michael Burgess. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.600 Let's jump back to Friday night, Western Sydney Wanderer's nil 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.360 Auckland f C two at Combank a third straight win 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.400 for Auckland f C. They reclaimed top spot for the 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.240 first time since round four. This felt like a quintessential 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.320 game of two halves to me, birds not particularly inspiring 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.760 in the first half, a reset at halftime. I'm second 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.079 half very good, a functional Auckland FC two nil win 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:06.480 away from home. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.760 Good performance, really. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.480 Good performance and really good result. I mean you're right 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.480 about the first half. But Western Sydney were playing well. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.480 They looked like the team that they can be and 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.040 that you were hoping them to be when we did 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.920 our pre season predictions. I mean, they're a good side. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.960 They were playing well and Auckland just were very sloppy. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.280 They couldn't keep the ball. They were killing themselves with 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.760 some bad passing and it looked like the Wondrous press 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.680 is really good, didn't it. So they were pressing, putting pressure. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.760 Auckland couldn't put their own pressure on but as we've seen, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:44.560 it gets repetitive. But they found a way to stay 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.560 in the contest rather than be too kneel down. You know, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.000 they defended pretty well and then it was still game 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:50.760 on at halftime. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.520 Yeah, Boja cry hitting the post in the first half 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.960 would have been the closest that Western Sydney came to 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.880 opening the scoring and year they just haven't haven't found 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.160 what they're after in the first eight or nine games 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.040 of the season. They've got the talent, there's absolutely no doubt, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.480 they've got the roster to be a lot better off 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.520 than they are. And the tables so tight and I'm 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.760 sure they will climb into the upper echelons, you know, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.920 perhaps in the early part of the new year. But 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.520 I just the all Auckland FC again just controlled the 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.800 game so well in the second half. They scored after 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.480 fifty seven minutes. Now on that goal that's been given 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.840 to Jesse Randall, that goal officially by the A League. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.480 How has Jesse Randall been credited with that goal? If 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.920 I'm Sam Cosgrove, I'm writing a very very stern letter 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.559 and I'm sure he won't because he's not that kind 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.440 of guy to the questionable goals panel if such a 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.000 thing exists, and asking them how on earth it's been 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.600 credited to Jesse Randall. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.520 I mean Jesse was lying on the ground. He could 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:51.199 have been asleep. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.000 It could have been asleep, and it just sort of 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.240 hits his ankle, Like in what universe does that become 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.840 his goal? I just this kind of thing really bugs 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.400 me because it must really bug the players even though 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.040 they never say it. And I'd just love to know 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.040 who makes this decision. Have they ever played football? Do 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.559 they understand, you know, what what what a vital deflection 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.440 is and what's not. I just i'd like to see 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:20.880 I don't know, maybe a sort of media briefing. They 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.160 can do it occasionally, like the NRL do where they 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.120 came out on Monday and they explain the different things, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.760 because it's just nuts. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.600 We'll put it this way. If that's a defender on 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.920 the ground and Sam Cosgrove takes the shot and it 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.200 flicks up off the ankle of the defender and into 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.640 the net, a shot that's already on target. You've seen 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.920 it from behind. He's shot, it's on target. It's obviously 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.679 taking the deflection and gone up into the into the 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.360 upper part of the goal. But if it's a if 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.880 it's an opposition player, is that an own goal? Is 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:51.800 that called an own goal? 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:53.800 Not normally? 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.800 Not normally, like I think we all we're all overthinking 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.760 things in this sage and we sent to find things 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.800 that aren't there. I mean, even the way they gave 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.280 Cosgrove the goal in Wellington. Maybe he'd touched it just 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.600 before the line. I don't know, I haven't seen the footage. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.520 That kind of makes sense, but it's still blood annoying. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.080 But this one was just just nuts. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.319 Imagine if you had money on Sam Cosgrove as the 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.560 first goal scorer, and I'm sure people would have, you know, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.960 how does that get explained? I mean, I know that's 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.280 not the main thing here, but anyway, we're probably dwelling 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:26.680 on it a bit much. And as you say, maybe 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.120 justice for Jesse Randall after Costrove kind of did steal 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.000 that goal off him in Wellington. If it had been 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.720 given to Cosgrove, he'd be top of the Golden Boot 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.960 now with five. As it stands, he's on four with 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.640 about five or six other players. But yeah, look, I 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.520 think the most important thing is that the ball went 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.600 in and Auckland had their one nill lead, and from 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.240 there it felt very much like the previous weekend that 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:48.920 they were in control of the game, weren't going to 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.160 lose it just a matter of whether they score another goal, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.760 which they did. Lockey Brook play broken up by the 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.800 excellent Louis via Strata. In midfield, Brook cuts inside scores 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.640 against his former club. Gee. I like the way he's 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.520 playing at the moment Burge. I know it's early, but 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:09.400 he is starting to creep into Johnny Warren Metal consideration. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:10.200 Lachland Brook. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.120 I just love the way that he has adjusted the 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.040 life at Auckland FC in a couple of different positions 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.040 and impacts every game of football that he plays. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:19.640 He does. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.200 Yeah, he's he came back with something to prove, didn't 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:28.120 he because the MLS hadn't really worked. But everyone knew 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.120 he's a good player. That's what makes it such a 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.080 such a smart signing. And it's obvious he has adjusted 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.280 so well to Croaker's system, which probably isn't easy for 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.960 someone like him because he's an attacking player who wants 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:45.000 to He's more focused on stuff in the final third, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.400 adjusted well, gets on well with the group and as 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.720 you say, I mean it's quite it's quite unusual to 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.560 be able to play two positions so well, isn't it 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:57.240 the way he has? 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:57.640 Yeah? 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.440 And he may have to as well revert to where 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:04.200 he was because we had really good bench impacted from Kazuma, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.720 Mai and Felipe Guy Goss who came on ten minutes 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.480 after the break. Hiroki Sarki joined them in the sixty 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:16.280 third minute. Rogerson, Brummer, Elliott are all replaced. How will 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.680 Steve Corriker manage this burge? Because much as all the 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.880 players will say, we want what's best for the team, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.880 and whatever's best for the team, those players all want 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.240 to play. They all want to play, and they can't 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:32.280 all play. You can't play Cosgrove, Randall, Brook, Rogerson and Mai. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.160 Let alone start thinking about Francois and Gillian. You can't 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:41.000 really play both Sarki and Elliott. You can't really play Verstrata, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.920 Brummer and guy Goss. How is he going to do this? 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:45.360 Yeah? 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.160 I think it's one of his biggest challenges because one 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.600 of the best things about auckland see last year was 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.880 that Okay used He used his player as well, and 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.000 he gave them more time when he could. But people 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.400 accepted their roles on or off the you know, on 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.080 the field, or on the bench really kicking stones. The 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.400 culture was good and you don't always see that, you know, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.320 So his challenge in the second season will be can 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.800 he keep everyone happy or is there going to start 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.960 to be a bit of dissatisfaction because, as you say, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.400 all those players would expect and be entitled to think 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:20.880 they're good enough to start My will be a will 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.080 be an ongoing one, and that they're not going to 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.680 risk anything because he's so important. So he might continue 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.359 to be an impact player with his knee. But the 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.679 other two, I mean, Felipe was a regular last season, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.280 wasn't he was? He was one of the first pick. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.280 Broom has been going well, but I don't know, does 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.920 it Does it become a thing where you replace the 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.680 midfielder after sixty five seventy minutes for the extra energy? 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:44.000 I don't know. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.640 I personally don't like it, but maybe it's the way 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.920 the game. The game's going, especially the A League because 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.880 it's so fast, so transitional. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.680 What about Sarkai? He comes back, doesn't he when he's fit. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.439 Elliott's been good, very very good, good player. But if Hiroarki, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.639 Sarki can play ninety minutes or certainly if he can 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.480 start a game. He starts the game, doesn't he's club captain, he. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:07.960 Does, he does, He can't leave him out. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.560 And Callum was really good on that last week in 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.119 the media session, he said, you know, look, Hierroki's a 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.479 club cap, then he's a legend. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:15.880 I still think I'm good enough to. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.280 Play, and i still want to play, but I'm also 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.080 realistic with the situation. So I love that attitude. I mean, 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.080 what Couraker can do is bring Callen on sometimes with 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.600 tend to go if the game looks and also he's 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.960 an option to bring on further forward as well, so 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.560 there are ways to skin it. But yeah, Hiroki, he's 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.199 got to be there because he brings so many other layers, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:37.639 doesn't he. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.800 Yeah, it was just great to see him out there. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:41.960 And he made one run down the right hand side 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.520 which almost suggested right on back my hamstrings fixed. You know. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.000 He set off down the right and you don't often 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.239 really see it from haruky sark guy. He doesn't get 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.240 forward as much as Devrees on the other side, but 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:54.760 he just sort of it was almost like he was 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.320 making a point. He carried on with the ball for 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.159 about forty fifty meters all the way up to the 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.440 attacking half, and so maybe he was saying to Steve Corrick, 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.000 all right, I'm I'm ready, I'm And it would not 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.760 be a surprise at all if he starts against Sydney 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.359 FC on Saturday, massive game which will get to in 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.480 a moment. But just even talking about the selection problems, 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.760 wouldn't some other coaches love the problems that Steve Gorrick has. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.520 Wouldn't chief he love love some issues like this? So 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.879 do I play? Do I play Guy Goss or Brummer? 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.679 Do I play Elliott or Sarkai? Do I play my 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.680