Speaker 1: Football Fever with News Talks, Enby's Voice of Football Jason
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Speaker 2: Hello, Bonnie, Jason Pine.
Speaker 1: How are you very good? Thanks? Very good? Here we
Speaker 1: are again. We seem to keep on being invited back
Speaker 1: to the Football Fever studio to produce another episode. There's
Speaker 1: actually quite a bit to get through today in various
Speaker 1: sort of layers of for walk. Can we start with
Speaker 1: the All Whites at the Oceanian Nations Cup in Vanuatu
Speaker 1: safely through Paul play wins over the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Speaker 1: They'll play Tahiti at midday on Thursday in the semifinal,
Speaker 1: Fiji Vana two in the other semi and the final
Speaker 1: is on Sunday. Relatively comfortable for Darren Baisley and his
Speaker 1: men in the first couple of games, Any anything stand
Speaker 1: out from those two matches.
Speaker 3: I think the first thing to point on that stood
Speaker 3: out to me as the crowds. Obviously they have to
Speaker 3: play over there because it's it's a lower cost. I
Speaker 3: think it is the reason anyway for those Oceania teams.
Speaker 3: But I've just been so impressed with the with the
Speaker 3: people turning up to the to the matches. I think
Speaker 3: if you were to have the all whites here playing
Speaker 3: those Oceania teams over in Auckland or summer here in
Speaker 3: New Zealand, you wouldn't get you wouldn't get turnedouts like that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, very very impressed with the with the Yeah,
Speaker 3: the environment over there, and in terms of the all whites, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're doing all right. They're holding their own. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: say they've amazed me or wowed me, but I guess
Speaker 3: it's just what we'd expect at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they've just done what they needed to
Speaker 1: do right. And they had one less game because New
Speaker 1: Caledonia pulled out, of course, because of the political unrest
Speaker 1: in their country. So just the two group games, which
Speaker 1: you know you're always fancy that they would win. Okay,
Speaker 1: a couple of goals with Ben Wayne in the first
Speaker 1: game against the Solomon Island's good to see him score
Speaker 1: some goals, his first goals for New Zealand since his deboo. Actually,
Speaker 1: and skipper for the day, Costa Barbarusis getting the third one,
Speaker 1: his first goal for New Zealand since twenty seventeen. It
Speaker 1: seems like a very long time between goals for Costa
Speaker 1: Barbarusis then against Vanuatu and you're right. The crowd was
Speaker 1: terrific at Port Villa, which obviously it's a home crowd,
Speaker 1: so you'd expect that it would be, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was tremendous. Max Marter his first two goals for
Speaker 1: New Zealand, Eli Justin ben Old with his first New
Speaker 1: Zealand goal. Everyone's just about got a game. I quite
Speaker 1: like that. The only ones who haven't in the twenty
Speaker 1: one man squad who haven't got on the field at
Speaker 1: some stage are Olie Sayle, who presumably now is the
Speaker 1: third choice goalkeeper, and Tommy Smith, who really he was
Speaker 1: always going to miss the first two games anyway because
Speaker 1: he was best man at Chris Wood's wedding. So I
Speaker 1: quite liked the way that Darren Baisley has rotated it around,
Speaker 1: given out day boos. He gave out He gave out
Speaker 1: the day boos to the uncapped players, all six of
Speaker 1: them in the first game. Alex Paulson Samsu and both started,
Speaker 1: can't she Randall, Kelly Hill Van Haddam. I just I
Speaker 1: think he's he's managed it pretty well across the first
Speaker 1: couple of games, giving everybody some minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the perk about us being in
Speaker 3: this confederation. As you know, we go into this tournament,
Speaker 3: as you know these kind of tournaments as major favorites,
Speaker 3: and yes, there's reasons why that's not ideal for us,
Speaker 3: but when you can get players on and get them
Speaker 3: wearing the fern for the first time and you know,
Speaker 3: get that first cap game under your belt, it's it's
Speaker 3: a real confidence booster. So if they're going out and
Speaker 3: doing it at the Olympics or at a World Cup there,
Speaker 3: they're surely less less nervous to do so. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: always a bonus to see Darren Baizley kind of rotate
Speaker 3: the squad like that. It'd be interesting to see whether
Speaker 3: he does that for the knockout stage. I'd say, again,
Speaker 3: we would still kind of, you know, be hot favorites
Speaker 3: and should convincingly, convincingly come away with a win. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it'd be interesting to see how he lines up his team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't see the semi final being too much
Speaker 1: of an issue, you know, without wanting to get too
Speaker 1: far ahead of ourselves. Tahiti should be relatively comfortable for
Speaker 1: the team on Thursday, but Figi have had a pretty
Speaker 1: good tournament. Three wins from three in the other group
Speaker 1: five one against pm G nine, one against Samway and
Speaker 1: a one that'll win over Tahiti. Roy Krishna's in that
Speaker 1: team and we all know how dangerous a player he
Speaker 1: can be. Look, I'm not suggesting that Fiji would be
Speaker 1: favorites to beat the All Whites, not not at all,
Speaker 1: but that that final, provided of course New Zealand and
Speaker 1: Fiji both progress to it, should be should be quite
Speaker 1: a good game on Sunday afternoon. It's also been a chance,
Speaker 1: as we've talked about on previous pods, that to give
Speaker 1: the under twenty three players in the team some game
Speaker 1: time together. Really interesting to see Tyler Binden and Finn
Speaker 1: Sermon both start both games. Get a feeling that'll be
Speaker 1: the center back combination we see for New Zealand in
Speaker 1: Paris in a month or so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, And I want to touch on Libby
Speaker 3: Cacace as well, who's played alongside those two guys. And
Speaker 3: it just makes me really really want to see Libby
Speaker 3: be that overage player name named for the Olympics. I
Speaker 3: think he's I kind of I think both of US
Speaker 3: Piney had Libby named on our over overage player going
Speaker 3: to the Olympics, and for me, anyway, I kind of
Speaker 3: wanted it because I see Libby as being the next
Speaker 3: up and comer for New Zealand, being the next captain
Speaker 3: or he is the captain now. But you know, I
Speaker 3: think he is one of our best players at the moment.
Speaker 3: He's just he's stood out completely at this tournament and
Speaker 3: I would like to see him going to the Olympics.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he works really really nicely alongside Tylerbandon and
Speaker 3: Finn Sermon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think he may well become that because
Speaker 1: he may become the Chris Wood of the Olympics, if
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. When Chris Wood's been available
Speaker 1: for the Olympics as an overage player, he's been almost
Speaker 1: an automatic selection. I agree. I think Libby is now
Speaker 1: in that category. I think the only reticence about picking
Speaker 1: him as an overage player is actually, you've got a
Speaker 1: bit of If I got a bit of talented left back,
Speaker 1: we saw Sam Sutton play there in the first game
Speaker 1: when Libby was suspended. Lucas Kelly healed obviously, is also
Speaker 1: under twenty three and could potentially play there too, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I would still take Libby. I think I might change
Speaker 1: my original pick. I think I had Sarprech Singh. I
Speaker 1: actually would now take Tim Payne because I just don't
Speaker 1: think there's anybody else really who stands out right back.
Speaker 1: Tim Payne's been being very solid for the Phoenix and
Speaker 1: in these two games of this Nation's Cup. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I'd be taking Tim Payne, Libby Kacacci, and Chris
Speaker 1: Wood now and it might be a bit hard on
Speaker 1: Sarprech Singh. Not that I'm choosing the team, of course,
Speaker 1: this is just my opinion, but yeah, I just think
Speaker 1: would be a lot more solid against some really good
Speaker 1: teams with a first choice solid right back there in
Speaker 1: Tim Payne.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you think, No, yeah, I was
Speaker 3: thinking this before coming on the pod, and you know,
Speaker 3: I wonder if that's what Darren Baizley is thinking with
Speaker 3: that back four, and whether he'll continue to play that
Speaker 3: back for throughout the tournament or at least maybe in
Speaker 3: the final against VG. It's it's a very good point
Speaker 3: you make that that you know there's not too much
Speaker 3: strength on that that right side. But then who who
Speaker 3: would you have in the midfield? Who does that leave
Speaker 3: We've got Marco Staminich, We've got Ben Old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt Garbett as well as over there, and there's
Speaker 1: also Matt Dibley ds out of Fulham. He hasn't he's
Speaker 1: come into an all whites environment but got injured, so
Speaker 1: he's in there as well. Because if you if you
Speaker 1: do line it up as if you take let's say
Speaker 1: you take Libby and Tim Payne as two of your overage,
Speaker 1: then the back five Paulson, Payne, Sermon Bind and Kakacci
Speaker 1: are all at the Nation's Cup, as Ben Old and
Speaker 1: Ben Wayne you know so and all the other guys
Speaker 1: we've mentioned who are you know, probably more like your
Speaker 1: your fringe players, like your Finconchi and Kelly Heild and
Speaker 1: Van Haddam. But all of a sudden you've got you know,
Speaker 1: these guys getting a lot of games together before they
Speaker 1: get to powers, which has to be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly one hundred percent, and you know it's obviously
Speaker 3: going to be a huge, huge step up at the
Speaker 3: Olympics compared to the matches they're playing now. But just
Speaker 3: to be in the environment together and get the vibes going,
Speaker 3: get the banter going, and everything that kind of makes
Speaker 3: a team a good team is a real advantage that
Speaker 3: we've got over other nations heading into the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Just on Marco Staminich news last week that he has
Speaker 1: joined Nottingham Forest in the Premier League a five year contract,
Speaker 1: which is an outstanding piece of business. Outstanding piece of
Speaker 1: business for Marco. He'll go on loan of course to
Speaker 1: Olympia Coss next season. You weren't that keen on this
Speaker 1: when you first heard the NOME.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize. It was a shock.
Speaker 3: But then as you told me, Piney and other guys
Speaker 3: in the office they were like, no, it's good. They're
Speaker 3: a really good team and it'll be okay. So yeah,
Speaker 3: who knows if he stands out there enough and now
Speaker 3: he'll be back before you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they won the Europa Conference League last year
Speaker 1: Olympia Coss. Of course, Marco Staminch's just played champions the
Speaker 1: last two seasons with Savna Vesta in Serbia and Copenhagen
Speaker 1: and Denmark before that, so I think we'll be okay,
Speaker 1: and I guess it's all part of a plan. I
Speaker 1: remember when Alex Paulson signed for Bournemouth on a four
Speaker 1: year deal a few weeks ago, that's the thing he said,
Speaker 1: They've got a plan for me. And it might be
Speaker 1: that Alex Pulson goes out on loan somewhere as well.
Speaker 1: But I think the eventual aim is to have them
Speaker 1: playing in the Premier League. And imagine having Marco Staminch
Speaker 1: alongside Chris Wood and the Nottingham Forest team up against
Speaker 1: Alex Paulson then golf for Bournemouth. How good.
Speaker 2: It's just so cool.
Speaker 3: Like the fact we have three kiwis kind in that
Speaker 3: league or will be in that league eventually is just awesome.
Speaker 3: And I hope we can kind of keep trending that way,
Speaker 3: and we certainly have the potential to do that. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you look at the Phoenix and how many of
Speaker 3: them are now in the all White squad or the
Speaker 3: under twenty three squad, it's certainly very exciting.
Speaker 1: Football fever with Jason Vine and Bonnie Jensen. The other
Speaker 1: a League men's club and soon to be a league
Speaker 1: men's and women's club now is Auckland FC. Of course,
Speaker 1: they last week unveiled six scholarship players Lewis to me,
Speaker 1: Liam mc gillian, Finn McKinlay A Dama Kulabali, Oliver Middleton
Speaker 1: and John T Bidoir. I know you had Lewis to me,
Speaker 1: I think in your Olympic squad. Didn't You've seen him
Speaker 1: play a little bit for Eastern Suburbs. He's been very
Speaker 1: good for them, hasn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Louis's really good. He's a really good player.
Speaker 3: He's super intelligent and just really really creative on the ball. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I used to play for Eastern Suburbs, so I followed
Speaker 3: him a little bit, and yeah, I can see. I
Speaker 3: was surprised that he was just a scholarship player. I
Speaker 3: wondered if maybe he would be on a full contract.
Speaker 3: I thought the same for Liam Gillian as well. He's
Speaker 3: been another standout that I've followed for Auckland City. I
Speaker 3: get those two mixed up now, Auckland City and.
Speaker 2: Auckland f C.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of I'm excited for them, and you
Speaker 3: know you compared them to those two guys and the
Speaker 3: other ones, of course, to their scholarship players who have
Speaker 3: stood up for the Wellington Phoenix this season and it
Speaker 3: just makes you excited. And I'm the most excited because
Speaker 3: there's Auckland based players that finally have an opportunity to
Speaker 3: play professional football and it's really really promising for the future,
Speaker 3: as we've just obviously talked about. But yeah, Louis Toomey's
Speaker 3: unbelievable player and I'm excited for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think we need to worry too much
Speaker 1: about the scholarship thing. I remember Mickey Foster was a
Speaker 1: scholarship player, which you've just signed for Wellington Phoenix and
Speaker 1: look there how that turned out. So yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing Lewis to me sam a bit
Speaker 1: at the Wellington Phoenix Academy. But as I say, he's
Speaker 1: been terrific for Euston Suburbs. Liam Gillian, his brother Fergus,
Speaker 1: is at the Phoenix at a couple of games off
Speaker 1: the bench actually in the A League last season and
Speaker 1: the others so those were a little bit older, still
Speaker 1: not old, I think Toomy's an O one and Liam
Speaker 1: Gillian's and two. Finn McKinley is a central midfielder. He
Speaker 1: was at Birkenhead for joining Eastern Suburbs season the Under
Speaker 1: nineteen New Zealand side for the upcoming ofc Under nineteen Championship.
Speaker 1: As is a Dama Kola Bali. He is from Western Springs.
Speaker 1: A utility player. Oliver Middleton is out of Auckland United.
Speaker 1: He started every National League game last season and is
Speaker 1: also in that Under nineteen squad. He's an five and
Speaker 1: johnsy Bidwah He's the younger brother of Riley Bidoirh, formerly
Speaker 1: of the Phoenix and now of Loudune over in the
Speaker 1: United States. He's out of Todonga City and has been
Speaker 1: very prolific in the last couple of seasons. So good
Speaker 1: to see those six players rewarded, joining Michael valdcam Howis
Speaker 1: and Jesse Randall, Francis de Verreez, Maxmutter and Tommy Smith.
Speaker 1: Now we just need some imports Bonnie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I should also say Piney as well. It is
Speaker 3: a bit of a family affair in football for Liam
Speaker 3: Gillian and the Gillian family. Emily Gillion, who is the
Speaker 3: older sister of Fergus and Liam. She grew up playing
Speaker 3: football and played for Auckland. I actually played on the
Speaker 3: same team with her and she's now a futsal Ferm.
Speaker 3: She's an unbelievable foot sal player, so just a little
Speaker 3: fun fact for you. But yes, we do need some
Speaker 3: imports for Auckland.
Speaker 1: Good jeans and the Gillian family.
Speaker 3: I know Jeeves they've got one more brother, so I'll
Speaker 3: be interested to see what he gets up to.
Speaker 1: All right, Well yep, well what are we now? We're
Speaker 1: sort of coming to sort of the endish of June.
Speaker 1: I guess they'll go into pre season soon. New season
Speaker 1: will start back into September October, so yeah, hopefully the
Speaker 1: next announcements we hear out of Auckland City. Sorry Auckland
Speaker 1: f C. Now I'm getting them mixed up. Auckland f
Speaker 1: C will be some import players and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: news is certainly to come. This is football. Just on
Speaker 1: Mickey Foster. I see she signed with Auckland United. That's
Speaker 1: that's just over the winter though, right, is that your understanding?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is my understanding.
Speaker 3: I hunts he committing to that team, especially when yakkm
Speaker 3: cover the Football Firms coach has quite a strict rule
Speaker 3: on her players needing to play professional football. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's just to keep her fitness up. Although
Speaker 3: I have had a cheeky look on the kind of
Speaker 3: the social media's and the forums of the NRFOL League,
Speaker 3: the Auckland League.
Speaker 2: Up here, and I don't think people are too happy
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, for Auckland United, they've got a
Speaker 3: lot of really good juniors coming through, So to have
Speaker 3: a professional footballer come in and potentially steal someone's spot,
Speaker 3: I think it's a touchy subject.
Speaker 1: I think she was at Northern Rovers for a while,
Speaker 1: Mickey Foster. In fact, I think in her last full
Speaker 1: season at Northern Rovers she won every single club award
Speaker 1: at the end of the awards and then she did
Speaker 1: the same with the Wellington Phoenix. Actually, so as I
Speaker 1: understand it, you'll probably know a bunch of her former
Speaker 1: Northern Rovers teammates I think are at Auckland United, are they.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 3: When a coach moves in the Northern League, a lot
Speaker 3: of the players tend to follow, and that's what Ben
Speaker 3: Bate did, so he was with Northern Rovers and yes,
Speaker 3: you're right, coach Mickey Foster, and she was so good there.
Speaker 3: I remember playing against her in that league and thinking
Speaker 3: this girl needs to go and play professional and I mean,
Speaker 3: look what she's gone on to do. But yes, so
Speaker 3: she's playing with a bunch of her former teammates and
Speaker 3: they're killing it in the Lotto n RFL at the moment.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess it's nice for her to be
Speaker 3: back with her with her old clubmates and kind of
Speaker 3: remember her roots a little bit. But I mean it
Speaker 3: won't be long till she's surely off to the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed. And I guess back at the Phoenix because
Speaker 1: I don't think she's been confirmed as re signed yet Mickey.
Speaker 2: I know she's not.
Speaker 3: She's still unattached, and I don't reckon she's coming back
Speaker 3: well really, yeah, I don't know. I've just got this feeling.
Speaker 3: You know, all these players are starting to head off
Speaker 3: from the Phoenix, and I think other players are kind
Speaker 3: of looking at the big wide world and going, where
Speaker 3: could I go? If maybe it's to another to another
Speaker 3: A League team, I'm not sure. But if you look
Speaker 3: at the little detail that Auckland United put on their
Speaker 3: kind of signing announcement, they said former Wellington Phoenix player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought they would just being I thought they
Speaker 1: might have just been trolling. But do you reckon that
Speaker 1: is do you reckon that actually means, well, I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess if your contract comes to an end and
Speaker 1: you're not immediately re signed, then in theory you are
Speaker 1: a former Wellington Phoenix player in Mickey Foster's case. Imagine
Speaker 1: though that wouldn't Paul Temple and Sean Gilby very keen
Speaker 1: to have her back?
Speaker 3: I think they would, But I think also a lot
Speaker 3: of other teams would be keen to have her. Surely
Speaker 3: she was part of that All Stars team that played
Speaker 3: against Arsenal and Arsenal Woman, and yeah, you'd think that
Speaker 3: she would have also had a lot of other clubs calling.
Speaker 2: So who knows?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Indeed, hey, we had a discussion last week
Speaker 1: about the football ferns and we didn't know about annale
Speaker 1: Longo's current playing status. For one of our many tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of listeners, I got in touch and told
Speaker 1: me that she is playing for Kashmere Tech. The women's
Speaker 1: first team at Kashmere Tech even sent me a screenshot
Speaker 1: of their game in the Kate Shepherd Cup against Nelson Suburbs,
Speaker 1: where she was a goal scorer twice, actually in a
Speaker 1: seven nerl win for Kashmere Tech over Nelson Suburbs. So
Speaker 1: clearly Annale Longo is playing some football at the moment,
Speaker 1: so I guess that does make her in theory anyway
Speaker 1: available for the Olympics, doesn't.
Speaker 3: It It does, I guess it just depends how strong
Speaker 3: Yick is on her rule that players need to be
Speaker 3: playing professional football. But at the same time she was
Speaker 3: playing professional football but the season's end, same ended, same
Speaker 3: case as Mickey Foster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be interesting.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of good players that have kind of
Speaker 3: cemented themselves in the midfield, obviously Kate Taylor, Daisy Cleverly,
Speaker 3: Milia Seinmetz, Katie Kitchen. So yeah, to just be depend
Speaker 3: whether Yika wants to you know, fresh bring fresh blood
Speaker 3: in or go.
Speaker 1: For ex Indeed, well, at least she's playing, which I
Speaker 1: guess is better than the alternative when selection would be
Speaker 1: far far more into the future. Then the fact that
Speaker 1: she's actually playing for Kashmir Tech right now. Thank you
Speaker 1: Eric for sending through that information. Football for Football Fever.
Speaker 1: Let's just finished with Kiwi's overseas. A few of our
Speaker 1: female players are still in and around the action bomb yep.
Speaker 3: Malia Steimetz has just kind of done the Danish Double
Speaker 3: Cup League thing, her FC nordaland have just beaten bronby
Speaker 3: two one in their league cup finals, So good on
Speaker 3: Malia Steimetz.
Speaker 2: It's the second.
Speaker 3: Start as well for Macy Fraser for her Utah Utah
Speaker 3: Royals and they played Orlando Pride and had a sexnel defeat.
Speaker 2: Poor team. But how cool was it that Macy got
Speaker 2: to play against Marta.
Speaker 1: And Martha got one of those goals, didn't she She
Speaker 1: might have got more than one, but so Macy had
Speaker 1: a pretty good view of it. You and I think
Speaker 1: we're both watching at the same time. You've given me
Speaker 1: all the instructions is how I can now log on
Speaker 1: and watch the NWSL, which I've been doing quite regularly
Speaker 1: actually since she gave me the coaching on how to
Speaker 1: do it. It's just awesome to see Macy Fraser out
Speaker 1: there starting as well.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's what she would have hoped I'm sure when
Speaker 1: she signed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It's super promising.
Speaker 3: And obviously we're still waiting for Millie Clig to get
Speaker 3: her debut for Racing Louisville. It looks like she's been
Speaker 3: dropped from the squad the last couple of weeks, so
Speaker 3: fingers crossed. She I reckon the best thing for Millie
Speaker 3: will be to get good minutes at the Olympics and
Speaker 3: kind of make more of a statement and then can
Speaker 3: kind of come back into that Louisville team and hopefully
Speaker 3: hopefully kit up and get on.
Speaker 2: But you know, really really promising for Macy.
Speaker 3: Also, vick Essen has signed a contract extension at Rangers
Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty four to twenty five season coming up.
Speaker 1: Have you come to a conclusion about who the New
Speaker 1: Zealand number one goalkeeper is for the football films yet?
Speaker 3: I just think they've got to go with Analyte because
Speaker 3: it's the future. Yes, we know what that can do,
Speaker 3: and I just don't think there's enough between them that's
Speaker 3: kind of going to make your break their Olympic campaign,
Speaker 3: if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My question is more whether they bring a third goalkeeper
Speaker 3: into the traveling reserves or whether they just stick with
Speaker 3: the two, because realistically, I'm not being pessimistic here, Piney,
Speaker 3: but realistically they're not going to get out of the
Speaker 3: group stage. It means they're only going to play three games.
Speaker 3: Do you need to bring an extra keeper? But at
Speaker 3: the same time, the keepers are probably going to get
Speaker 3: a lot of action, so maybe you did well.
Speaker 1: Also, I guess you're only one injury away from not
Speaker 1: having a reserve goalkeeper, right, So I mean, any you know,
Speaker 1: injuries happen, one of analytesal vic Esen could turn their
Speaker 1: ankle or pull a muscle or I don't know, do
Speaker 1: anything that would rule them out. So I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you have to have somebody in that traveling
Speaker 1: fem You probably do. Yeah, And because also being over
Speaker 1: an Europe already, it's not like you could say to
Speaker 1: Brianna Reribards, for example, hey just be on standby. You know,
Speaker 1: she'd have to get there. So yeah, I get the
Speaker 1: feeling when they name it, they'll probably name a third goalkeeper.
Speaker 1: Who it'll be, I'm not sure, and you know it's
Speaker 1: quite likely they won't be needed, but yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they probably have one there. But yeah, the Vickis and
Speaker 1: Analyte thing is interesting to me. It's a bit like
Speaker 1: the Max Crokham, Alex Paulson Olie Sail conundrum that Darren
Speaker 1: Basley's got, which are all good problems to have. Of course,
Speaker 1: as far as the menic concerned, I found that I
Speaker 1: found Riley Bidwa's scoring highlights online. This past week, he
Speaker 1: scored for Loudoun United in their two to two draw
Speaker 1: with my EFC in the us L, that's the second
Speaker 1: tier below m LS in the United States. He is,
Speaker 1: of course, the brother we mentioned before of newly signed
Speaker 1: Auckland FC scholarship player Johnty Bidoa. So a good week
Speaker 1: for the Bidwah family goals and contracts. Doesn't get much
Speaker 1: better than that. Yeah, I think that's us for football
Speaker 1: fever for today, Bonnie. By the time we Chatnicks, hopefully
Speaker 1: the All Whites would have secured the OFC Nations Cup.
Speaker 1: No doubt there'll be some more transfer news here and there,
Speaker 1: it seems to pop up. I've heard some pretty strong
Speaker 1: mail on Ben Old and his move. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: might be that by this time next week we have
Speaker 1: further clarity on that. But we'll keep our red to
Speaker 1: the ground as always and make sure that everybody knows
Speaker 1: everything that we know. Thanks as always, Bonny. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next Monday.
Speaker 2: We'll see it then the FFV with Bonny and Bonny