Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind
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@Chester-Draws said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
But we have a decent basketball league, so people like Adams and Marks have a path. Like football, the problem isn't the lack of quality, but the lack of teams because Oz and NZ together are still a small market.
The main problem with football in NZ, is a lack of opportunities at international level, particularly for the men. That mainly comes down to a lack of funding as NZ Football is so reliant on qualifying for the Confederations Cup or WC to make any money. The Confed Cup was disbanded so there goes one major revenue stream.
The good news is that the current NZ U20 team has the potential to be a golden generation (by NZ football standards) who are skillful and play possession-based football. Many of them are now playing in lower leagues in Europe. Winston Reid started there in Denmark.
I was reading this in the newspaper yesterday:
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@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa I don't really follow soccer - so can officials influence a result as much in the A league as they do in the ARL i.e do the Phoenix really have a chance?
My sense is that the Phoenix have a sightly better chance with the refs than the Warriors given the way the two respective games flow, but I’m not much of a football expert!
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@Donsteppa said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa I don't really follow soccer - so can officials influence a result as much in the A league as they do in the ARL i.e do the Phoenix really have a chance?
My sense is that the Phoenix have a sightly better chance with the refs than the Warriors given the way the two respective games flow, but I’m not much of a football expert!
Great call. Only reason the Warriors lost 46-12 was terrible reffing.
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@MN5 said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa I don't really follow soccer - so can officials influence a result as much in the A league as they do in the ARL i.e do the Phoenix really have a chance?
My sense is that the Phoenix have a sightly better chance with the refs than the Warriors given the way the two respective games flow, but I’m not much of a football expert!
Great call. Only reason the Warriors lost 46-12 was terrible reffing.
Yeah, that’s what I said...
I think for either team to win a title, they’d have to have a great season and be good enough to get past losing the occasional 50/50 call. Problem for the 2019 Warriors is that they need to worry about making the tackle first before worrying whether they’ll get pinged for being offside. They’re nowhere near good enough to profit from a siege mentality.
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@MN5 said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa I don't really follow soccer - so can officials influence a result as much in the A league as they do in the ARL i.e do the Phoenix really have a chance?
My sense is that the Phoenix have a sightly better chance with the refs than the Warriors given the way the two respective games flow, but I’m not much of a football expert!
Great call. Only reason the Warriors lost 46-12 was terrible reffing.
I did also mention in another post that are also shit. Great being a Warriors fan that you get to choose on the day - shit or robbed?
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Sorry - this was a soccer thread... @Stargazer is going to be all over us for this.
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@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@MN5 said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa I don't really follow soccer - so can officials influence a result as much in the A league as they do in the ARL i.e do the Phoenix really have a chance?
My sense is that the Phoenix have a sightly better chance with the refs than the Warriors given the way the two respective games flow, but I’m not much of a football expert!
Great call. Only reason the Warriors lost 46-12 was terrible reffing.
I did also mention in another post that are also shit. Great being a Warriors fan that you get to choose on the day - shit or robbed?
We don't get to choose ... it's usually one or the other, the choice is made for us, then there's the occasional good win to fool us into watching for another couple of weeks.
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Interesting that the Phoenix has been a much better going concern since the Kings/Knights left Auckland for Wellington. It’s curious the way that professional franchises have worked out in Auckland over the last 15 years (Breakers excepted...)
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@Nepia said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Magpie_in_aus said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
The only football player I follow overseas (or anywhere) is Laura Merrin.
I really am at grumpy old man stage (and with the I'm no oil painting etc etc coda) - checked out her instagram, she looks plastic, I really don't like that look. Surprised to discover that she's a Kiwi as she looks like the typical fake-tan over made up Pom.
Also checked out that Ferns captain Ali Riley's instagram, she's an odd one, looks really good in some pics and then not so good in others, expect she'd be quite hot in real life.
Good to see this young Kiwi player doing well, I'm no fan of soccer but always want Kiwis to do well in whatever sport they choose.
Good to hear, I hate bandwagon jumpers.
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@Donsteppa said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@MN5 said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Snowy said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
@Donsteppa I don't really follow soccer - so can officials influence a result as much in the A league as they do in the ARL i.e do the Phoenix really have a chance?
My sense is that the Phoenix have a sightly better chance with the refs than the Warriors given the way the two respective games flow, but I’m not much of a football expert!
Great call. Only reason the Warriors lost 46-12 was terrible reffing.
Yeah, that’s what I said...
I think for either team to win a title, they’d have to have a great season and be good enough to get past losing the occasional 50/50 call. Problem for the 2019 Warriors is that they need to worry about making the tackle first before worrying whether they’ll get pinged for being offside.They’re nowhere near good enoughto profit from a siege mentality.I got rid of all the unneeded words in this post for you.
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@mofitzy_ said in Sarpreet Singh - NZ's football wunderkind:
Would he be the most successful person of subcontinental descent in pro football?
Almost certainly not. Lots of people from Suriname are of ethnic subcontinent origin. Rudi Gullit looks quite Indian. Frank Rikjaard perhaps. Certainly someone from there will have made it big.
