The WaiBOP United Thread
Jonsey9...firstly i never put the players name up but as part of the footballing public i just questioned who it was after i heard James McConie mention it on the show Crowd Goes Wild..also im sure turning up to a hotel 20mins after they were told too isnt the same as getting tackled to the ground and being handcuffed and escorted to a paddy wagon in front of 36000 people is quite the same. and to your issue of a City player im not aware of that. I just thought after waikato's arrests in napier a few years back i thought the club may have clamped down on such incidences. But no worries good on the lad...
Hear it Here
Waikato FC go top for Christmas
Waikato FC top the festive football table after a solid 2-0 New Zealand Football Championship win over Team Wellington in Ngaruawahia on Sunday
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TEAM P W D L For Ag GD Pts
Auckland 4 3 1 0 8 1 7 10
Waitakere 4 3 0 1 5 3 2 9
Manawatu 4 2 1 1 6 2 4 7
Canterbury 4 1 2 1 3 2 1 5
Otago 4 1 1 2 4 4 0 4
Hawke's Bay 4 1 1 2 5 8 -3 4
Wellington 4 1 0 3 2 7 -5 3
Waikato 4 1 0 3 5 11 -6 3
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The players have to do the business on the pitch, that much is clear. The flip side is that Bunce has picked that team and as a few people have intimated, he is entitled to pick who he likes.
I am loathe to put the boot into the guy when he is doing the job that a few others may not want to touch. While his team may not be doing it on the pitch, it is his team that he picked, not the board. If not Bunce in this scenario, then whom?
The team is not doing that well, the website hardly seems to get updated, noone even seems to comment on here anymore, has everyone lost interest, or is this purely the result of a very fickle waikato support?
Unfortunately I could not make the game this weekend but a 3-2 loss to Waitakere doesn't sound too bad, can anyone comment? Also hear the young lad, Carr? played in goal, a positive move, with another local (Ham Boy's) in the team..
The team is not doing that well, the website hardly seems to get updated, noone even seems to comment on here anymore, has everyone lost interest, or is this purely the result of a very fickle waikato support?
Unfortunately I could not make the game this weekend but a 3-2 loss to Waitakere doesn't sound too bad, can anyone comment? Also hear the young lad, Carr? played in goal, a positive move, with another local (Ham Boy's) in the team..
I think its a case of lost interest of everyone involved Mr Waikato. Even Bruce Holloway/Bunce has gone into hiding, possibly due to the fact his son Steven quit the circus early on. Your right about the website its nearly as bad as the results on the field. 3-2 against waitak still accounts to zero points im afraid Mr Waikato, although i would have loved you to beat the Scum. I think Bunce has conceeded defeat in his ability to coach at this level, he chucked in a few kids over the weekend so he can at least walk away saying he was promoting youth in the region. I dont know much about Edmunsen but im sure you'd love him to come back and fix things in the window! Seems he has been a bigger loss more so than the 10 or so quality players lost from last season.
Hope you can pick up a couple of wins! but wooden spoon seems the prize this year!
C'mon City
I have been having some computer issues since returning from Holiday website will be updated tomorrow sometime
Bruce how can that be a good move from Bunce, Playing inexperienced teenagers isnt goint to win you matches or get you off the bottom of the table!! the fact is, that they are the only players he can get to play for him! No one decent wants or will play for Bunce, even your best players from your region are drinking corona on the beach.
Bunce has very little coaching experience so why Waikato would take such a risk after last years great season, where to be fair when you came up against us and the Scum you played some very good attractive football at times.
Bruce your right it has been a tough season, but the franchise has made it alot tougher because of the decisions they have made.
You can walk away saying you gave it a go bringing up a few youngsters late on, but thats not going to cover up the excuses for recieving the wooden spoon at the end of the year.
However despit what ive said above, i do hope you beat The Bay this weekend, they wernt much chop up here last weekend, if you cant beat them...then i dont know you can do...goodluck!
C'mon City!!
Im all for youngsters coming through the ranks, its good to see young talent mixing it with the older heads, but i dont think at this time of the season is right to throw them in the deep end when the team is somewhat of a disatser. Sure play them when the team is on a high...
Teenages recent scorers?? Wasi Mauri is nearly 30 and im sure Dan Peat is not a teenager. your right about Dowling. He couldnt catch a baloon in a phone box!
I think the club has got unlucky with players not wanting to play under such a coach, maybe they wernt to know this. recruitment is a massive part of the game. 2nd string aucklanders like McGwyther, Munday, Wasi and The Fridge(Beard) of course are not going to perform to the level of last years players but it concerns me that you play 2nd string Hamilton players.
Bruce i appreciate your views, they do challenge mine! Fustrates me that a franchise not far away from us in a location sense cant put out a competitive side, especially when last year was so promising and even took the scalp of the scum!!
C'mon City
2 short? youve been about 16 short all season!! also been short of a coach.
Curtains are nearly closed for the season..
The fact that coaches have turned down the opportunity to take over in the past month doesnt help, but the board only has themselves to blame.
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Who has turned it down?
After last season's huge success, including as has been mentioned a few times a win against a much stronger Waitakere than is being seen currently, this year has been a massive step backwards! Hopefully the board will do its all to get Edmonson, Pearce etc back for next season????
2 sending offs, a missed penalty and another heavy loss today. Wooden spoon seems very likely now.
Oh Che BunceThe board has backed Bunce in today's paper....
There is talk of Strom, Sean Devine, Pearce and Wylie...?????
All just rumour though
Of course the paper is going to say they back Bunce, they cant get anyone into replace him.I dont think it would be fair to mention those who have turned the job down.
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Who has turned it down?
After last season's huge success, including as has been mentioned a few times a win against a much stronger Waitakere than is being seen currently, this year has been a massive step backwards! Hopefully the board will do its all to get Edmonson, Pearce etc back for next season????
This thread is seriously dead, with last years coach self promoting and some detached Auckland supporter with a personal hatred of the coach.
There is very little factual information being posted here, anyone with anything constructive to say departed ages ago.
This forums is meant to be for fans of football right? This isn't the place to find out whats going on, shame really. Empty cans rattle the most.
There is very little factual information being posted here, anyone with anything constructive to say departed ages ago.
This forums is meant to be for fans of football right? This isn't the place to find out whats going on, shame really. Empty cans rattle the most.
+1
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/3351859/NZFC-breaks-a-joke-says-Che-Bunce
Bunce thinking that teams can play midweek at 5pm is totally unrealistic. These guys have jobs and take enough time off as it is. There are also players that travel from the Waikato to Auckland as well, so his justification for travel is pretty short sighted.
I don't know what he thinks his comments to the press are going to generate?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/3351859/NZFC-breaks-a-joke-says-Che-Bunce
Bunce thinking that teams can play midweek at 5pm is totally unrealistic. These guys have jobs and take enough time off as it is. There are also players that travel from the Waikato to Auckland as well, so his justification for travel is pretty short sighted.
I don't know what he thinks his comments to the press are going to generate?
Personally, I can't see how NZF could do it any other way - happy to hear suggestions though.