November 6, 2024 • 6 mins
Piney talks us through the All Whites squad named for the next two FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To the rotary shed. It's the Country Sport Breakfast with
Brian Kelly on Gold Sport.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Talking soccer football now on the show. The All Whites
got a couple of home World Cup qualifiers coming up.
In an all but full stringth squad has been named
for games against Vadawatu on November fifteenth and Summer on
November eighteenth. Joe Bell, Callum mccowitt, Suprep Singh and Finn
Sermon all return after missing the October victories against Tahiti
(00:27):
and Malaysia, joining us on the show this morning to
look at the squad. The voice of New Zealand Football
on Sky and host of Weekend Sport on News STI
exambe Jason Piemonty Poney.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hello, BK.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Your first thoughts mate on the squad.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Very strong, very strong. He's named twenty four, which I
mean he's not going to need twenty four across two games.
That I thought that was interesting to start with. The
last squad was twenty one players, So I take from
that that he just wants to have as many of
his players spending time together as often as possible. That's
how it feels to me. Yeah, there's and even in
(01:02):
the twenty four. There's still a couple of players on
the outside of that twenty four who you know will
probably be rightly disappointed. But that's where we are now
with this all white cohort. There are a lot of
good players and the name in coming back in. Excited
to see sarthbreaks thing back in the mix. I think
Finn Sermon was always going to come back in. There's
no Ben Old he's injured, so there's there's one that's missing.
(01:23):
But yeah, a squad that will have far, far too
much for the Pacific Island Nations in these in these
upcoming matches.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Bekay well a touch on Chris Woods as well, achieving
feats that will go down in New Zealand football folklore.
Captain of the national team and he's second on the
Premier League goal scoring charts after ten games. Took us
through just just how well Chris is playing at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, incredible, just you know, and I think what we
what we mustn't do is become immune to what he's
doing because he's doing it so often at the moment.
I mean, scoring a goal in the Premier League. Scoring
one goal Premier League is a massive feat and a
feat that most footballers will never ever experience the fact
(02:06):
that he's now in the mid to high seventies in
terms of the goals that he scored. As you say, Bka,
he's second this year, just behind or only behind Early
Harland with eight goals and ten games. He's just worked
his game out and I think in Nottingham Forest he's
found a team that will will deliver to his strengths.
He's so humble. I think that's probably typically KEI we
(02:28):
but he says in his postmatch interviews and things like that,
I'm not the kind of guy who's going to beat
three or four men and put the ball in the
top corner from twenty five yards. But what I will
do is if you give me opportunities in an around
the six yard area or in the penalty area, I'll
hit the target and you know, and more often than
not that that will result in the goal. So he
is so comfortable with his game, so well aware of
(02:51):
what his strengths are, what he brings to a team,
and the Nottingham Forest fans just absolutely adore Chris Wood
and why wouldn't you. I mean he's got them up
into the you know, this is a team that I
think a lot of people thought would be relegation fodder
this year in the Premier League. They're up in the
top six, they're you know, they're having a great time
of things. Obviously it's a long season, but what he's
doing at the moment for club and hopefully the country
(03:14):
as well, will continue to be excellent.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So for the All Whites, the job ahead summer in Vanuatu.
What would be the goals heading into those games for
Darren Baisley the coach side, is it school line of
say five goals plus for each game?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Convincing? I think convincing wins. I think, okay, you know,
you don't want to sort of you know, stumble and
bumble along to a two nil win or a three
to one or something like that, even though those are
good school lines, and really they just have to win
these games to progress to the semi finals of oceanny
A World Cup qualifying which is in March of next year.
But I think what this All Whites team has to do,
(03:50):
because there are such quality nours is kind of as
be the big fish in Oceannya. They always have been
since Australia left. But prove it. Go out there and end,
and you know, just really show where this team is now,
because as I say as well, they don't have that
many opportunities to spend time together. It seems almost inevitable
now with Oceanny, you're having direct entry that New Zealand
(04:12):
will play in the next World Cup. So every chance
they have to spend together to build combinations to play
football with one another needs to be taken. And that
goes for the players who start the matches, the players
who come off the bench during these matches and even
in training sessions. Competition for places in the World Cup
squad is going to be red hot in a year
(04:33):
or so. So every player who comes into camp with
the All Whites knows that they have an opportunity to
impress and that might not be in the games. It
might just be the way they are around training, around
the team, everything else that they do. That' says to
Darren Baisley, that's a guy who I want coming to
the World Cup with me.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And last weekend party, you were on the call for
the first ever home derby between the Nicks and Auckland FC.
How special was that? Made?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Great occasion? Yeah, unbelievable occasion. VK I never thought it
the day when two New Zealand's football teams would draw
a crowd of twenty six thousand people, But that's what happened,
and the energy in the crowd, the traveling Auckland FC
fans adding to it, I thought they were terrific. The
game was good. It was cagey at times, but it
always had a bit of a pulsing energy about it
(05:18):
and just took a couple of moments at the end
to settle it. We said in commentary, the longer the
game wins it it felt like it was going to
be either a moment of brilliance or a mistake that
would that would you know, blow the game open. And
as it happened, it was a mistake by Phoenix goalkeeper
Josh all Away and me giving the ball away in
his own penalty area, Jake Brimner pouncing and scoring the
goal and then getting another one late on. Look, Auckland
(05:40):
FC have started with a with a hiss and a roar.
I haven't seen you know, three games, three wins, haven't
let a goal and yet you know the new boys
on the A League block are making a bit of
a statement and I think what that's doing is. It's
just elevating, you know, the conversation around the game of
football over the year to a new level. So look,
I can't wait for the next derby, which is in
(06:01):
early December, but Mount smart, as I understand it, tickets
for that are just about sold out, so you know
we're talking a rivalry that's only just started but is
really starting to bubble along.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Looking forward to it mate, Nice to catch up mate,
have a great day.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thanks BK. You two
To the rotary shed. It's the Country Sport Breakfast with
Brian Kelly on Gold Sport.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Talking soccer football now on the show. The All Whites
got a couple of home World Cup qualifiers coming up.
In an all but full stringth squad has been named
for games against Vadawatu on November fifteenth and Summer on
November eighteenth. Joe Bell, Callum mccowitt, Suprep Singh and Finn
Sermon all return after missing the October victories against Tahiti
(00:27):
and Malaysia, joining us on the show this morning to
look at the squad. The voice of New Zealand Football
on Sky and host of Weekend Sport on News STI
exambe Jason Piemonty Poney.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hello, BK.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Your first thoughts mate on the squad.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Very strong, very strong. He's named twenty four, which I
mean he's not going to need twenty four across two games.
That I thought that was interesting to start with. The
last squad was twenty one players, So I take from
that that he just wants to have as many of
his players spending time together as often as possible. That's
how it feels to me. Yeah, there's and even in
(01:02):
the twenty four. There's still a couple of players on
the outside of that twenty four who you know will
probably be rightly disappointed. But that's where we are now
with this all white cohort. There are a lot of
good players and the name in coming back in. Excited
to see sarthbreaks thing back in the mix. I think
Finn Sermon was always going to come back in. There's
no Ben Old he's injured, so there's there's one that's missing.
(01:23):
But yeah, a squad that will have far, far too
much for the Pacific Island Nations in these in these
upcoming matches.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Bekay well a touch on Chris Woods as well, achieving
feats that will go down in New Zealand football folklore.
Captain of the national team and he's second on the
Premier League goal scoring charts after ten games. Took us
through just just how well Chris is playing at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, incredible, just you know, and I think what we
what we mustn't do is become immune to what he's
doing because he's doing it so often at the moment.
I mean, scoring a goal in the Premier League. Scoring
one goal Premier League is a massive feat and a
feat that most footballers will never ever experience the fact
(02:06):
that he's now in the mid to high seventies in
terms of the goals that he scored. As you say, Bka,
he's second this year, just behind or only behind Early
Harland with eight goals and ten games. He's just worked
his game out and I think in Nottingham Forest he's
found a team that will will deliver to his strengths.
He's so humble. I think that's probably typically KEI we
(02:28):
but he says in his postmatch interviews and things like that,
I'm not the kind of guy who's going to beat
three or four men and put the ball in the
top corner from twenty five yards. But what I will
do is if you give me opportunities in an around
the six yard area or in the penalty area, I'll
hit the target and you know, and more often than
not that that will result in the goal. So he
is so comfortable with his game, so well aware of
(02:51):
what his strengths are, what he brings to a team,
and the Nottingham Forest fans just absolutely adore Chris Wood
and why wouldn't you. I mean he's got them up
into the you know, this is a team that I
think a lot of people thought would be relegation fodder
this year in the Premier League. They're up in the
top six, they're you know, they're having a great time
of things. Obviously it's a long season, but what he's
doing at the moment for club and hopefully the country
(03:14):
as well, will continue to be excellent.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So for the All Whites, the job ahead summer in Vanuatu.
What would be the goals heading into those games for
Darren Baisley the coach side, is it school line of
say five goals plus for each game?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Convincing? I think convincing wins. I think, okay, you know,
you don't want to sort of you know, stumble and
bumble along to a two nil win or a three
to one or something like that, even though those are
good school lines, and really they just have to win
these games to progress to the semi finals of oceanny
A World Cup qualifying which is in March of next year.
But I think what this All Whites team has to do,
(03:50):
because there are such quality nours is kind of as
be the big fish in Oceannya. They always have been
since Australia left. But prove it. Go out there and end,
and you know, just really show where this team is now,
because as I say as well, they don't have that
many opportunities to spend time together. It seems almost inevitable
now with Oceanny, you're having direct entry that New Zealand
(04:12):
will play in the next World Cup. So every chance
they have to spend together to build combinations to play
football with one another needs to be taken. And that
goes for the players who start the matches, the players
who come off the bench during these matches and even
in training sessions. Competition for places in the World Cup
squad is going to be red hot in a year
(04:33):
or so. So every player who comes into camp with
the All Whites knows that they have an opportunity to
impress and that might not be in the games. It
might just be the way they are around training, around
the team, everything else that they do. That' says to
Darren Baisley, that's a guy who I want coming to
the World Cup with me.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And last weekend party, you were on the call for
the first ever home derby between the Nicks and Auckland FC.
How special was that? Made?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Great occasion? Yeah, unbelievable occasion. VK I never thought it
the day when two New Zealand's football teams would draw
a crowd of twenty six thousand people, But that's what happened,
and the energy in the crowd, the traveling Auckland FC
fans adding to it, I thought they were terrific. The
game was good. It was cagey at times, but it
always had a bit of a pulsing energy about it
(05:18):
and just took a couple of moments at the end
to settle it. We said in commentary, the longer the
game wins it it felt like it was going to
be either a moment of brilliance or a mistake that
would that would you know, blow the game open. And
as it happened, it was a mistake by Phoenix goalkeeper
Josh all Away and me giving the ball away in
his own penalty area, Jake Brimner pouncing and scoring the
goal and then getting another one late on. Look, Auckland
(05:40):
FC have started with a with a hiss and a roar.
I haven't seen you know, three games, three wins, haven't
let a goal and yet you know the new boys
on the A League block are making a bit of
a statement and I think what that's doing is. It's
just elevating, you know, the conversation around the game of
football over the year to a new level. So look,
I can't wait for the next derby, which is in
(06:01):
early December, but Mount smart, as I understand it, tickets
for that are just about sold out, so you know
we're talking a rivalry that's only just started but is
really starting to bubble along.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Looking forward to it mate, Nice to catch up mate,
have a great day.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thanks BK. You two
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