Has he got citizenship yet? his wonder goal aside, he looks like a player that can step up , maybe needs to be a bit more physical, but he has reasonable technique

Doesn't qualify as a mature age rookie because of his loan stint at AU?

NZ leading 2 nill against Solomon Islands, both goals to Wood.

Showing the Aussies how its done!

3 nill, Barbarouses.

4-1 

Dive from Solomon Islands, converted a pen, 4th goal for NZ Thomas.

5-1 McGlinchey

6-1 Hatrick to Woodsy

6-1 that's pretty good going into the 2nd leg away.

Pretty much wrapped up, the lead is just too much for Solomon catch up. 

Awesome win over a quality opponent.

Thanks, seems on par with what Australia could get against them.

Call me when you win 31-0 

lol. I don't think that's a metric that counts. Have you seen the membership numbers??

As long as our membership hits 3k in time, we are meeting the metrics. Just like crowd numbers anything above 4k is ok metrics meet!!.

@ nomates

I think you're way out on your numbers there, not to mention tv revenue and viewership. However I think you'll be negotiating with an independent A league by then, not the ffa, so hopefully your lot are building lots of alliances and making friends lol

Not the same team though, American Samoa. Can only face the teams put in front of us, hell I even think Vanuatu beat American Samoa like 15 nill so your 31 nill is not that impressive. 

I'm sorry, I'll talk about last years OFC cup which I attended, where you guys scraped home 1-0 against new Caledonia and were completely out played before winning in penalties against PNG, in one of the worst displays I have ever seen by the all whites. (0-0 full time) Australia was too good for Oceania, new Zealand should really be putting in similar scorelines as we did too.

You can't even beat Thailand :laugh:

TV revenue money $$ and viewership have all gone up which are the main metrics that count everything else is a squat, It was leaked that the FFA wanted crowd numbers above 4k and membership above 3k something we will achieve. 

lol "crowd numbers above 4,000" ... you do know nix's average crowd has never been that low don't you? 8k is typical so if ffa we're looking for an improvement on 8k they're not likely to set an acceptable metric of half that lol

But the FFA don't really care about our crowd numbers, it's the TV revenue that counts. $275k soon to be around $300k next season irons out other low metrics.

Seriously $300k is nothing. That works out at around $7.5k per club and the ffa get $225k which would barely cover Gallops corporate expense card lol. It needs another zero on the end

I'm no expert of Nix's woes but I thought the ffa metrics were crowds, membership, tv viewing and revenues

Please tell us the tactics to beat Thailand? Maybe we should just boot the ball upfield aimlessly for 90 minutes like you lot? Pretty sure the last time Australia played you guys (with a C or D strength squad) we beat you lot 3-0 easily.

I don't know how anyone can defend the NZ football team. We could have a bit of a golden generation with plenty of players in top flights around Europe instead we have a miss-managed mess which performs far worse than the sum of its parts.

Need to sack everyone from Hudson up and bring in a new crew. The problem is we did this already a few years ago and just replaced like for like.

I'm hopeful that the new technical director Andres Heraf who starts officially in a few days will sort things out.

Blacktown City FC smashed Nixs 2-1 last night, playing there reserve side Blacktown were never really in any trouble of losing the match.
Nix Fielded a full strength side that ran around like headless chickens.

The nix side was: Sail; Lowry, Fox, Rossi, Abbas; Ridenton, Rufer, Marowa, Tongue, Parkhouse; Rogerson according to Twitter, so only Rossi was a starting player (and he was subbed off at half time) - still even the second string squad should be smashing semi-pro opponents. Running around like headless chickens doesn't sound good.

Looking forwards to the game against the Mariners and especially the in form Jets.

You should have been there to see it for your self, Nixs were all over the place - looked fit but just so uncoordinated it was shambles. Blacktown passed the ball better and looked the more dangerest side with Nixs contempt on sitting back countering the NPL team.

Lost 1-0 to CCM the other day and today lost 2-1 to the Jets. We got lucky with our goal and hacked our way through out the match giving away to many free kicks and lacking any mobility going forward creating chances. This is the worst Nixs side in years - we will be wooden spooners this season if we keep this shit up. Don't expect anyone to turn up to watch this crap being played in Wellington - 3k crowds tops with spoon in hand.

Another signing to be announced tomorrow. My guess is that it will be Mandi, Callan Elliot or Josh Wilkins from Heidelberg.

https://twitter.com/pineyzb/status/1050244496582012928

I just noticed that the Nix Instagram account follows Elliot as well as Calvin Harris (not that Calvin Harris) who may have trialled for them.