That's as clear as mud.
Huawei Wellington United Phoenix Academy Football School of Excellence - WeeNix
Boyd Curry & Kieran Richards heading to the USA + Dino Botica heading back to Auckland to deal with his injury issues
ACADEMY | A couple of our @WgtnPhoenixAcad players depart to pursue US scholarships after the culmination of the @ISPSHanda Premiership season.
Read more here ? https://t.co/lepK156baB#StandUpWithYourNix #CreateHistory #ISPSHandaPrem pic.twitter.com/zllngpBCrn— Wellington Phoenix (@WgtnPhoenixFC) March 20, 2019
Nice little story. Be even better if she progressed to Nix ALW team one day.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/127654188/refugee-to-train-with-phoenix-academy-after-fleeing-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan
Fahima Yousofi’s tutors from the English Teaching College in Lower Hutt put in a call to the Wellington Phoenix after she revealed her talent at a school picnic. From February, Yousofi will begin training with the club’s academy team.
Maybe she can follow in the inspiring footsteps of Nadia Nadim.
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/nadia-nadim-from-afghan-refugee-to-danish-footballer-2470610
Issac Hughes, Dan Mckay, Noah Karunaratne, Charlie Beale & Matthew Sheridan.
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2023/2/17/five-standout-prospects-from-the-wellington-phoenix-academys-class-of-2022
https://wellingtonphoenix.com/news/inaugural-maori-development-scholarship-awarded-to-tuhoe-teen
Carlos is a young defender who was part of the NZ U17 team for the recent Oceania tournament. Previously in the Melville United youth set up.
Reserves assistant coach Steve Coleman has been appointed to the role after six years with the club, most recently as the academy’s head of performance.
Read more https://tinyurl.com/utmf2c45 #COYN!
Petone put all their games up on YouTube and here is the incident by the looks of it (Start at 1:33:52) https://www.youtube.com/live/AXZ53yiRhAg?feature=share&t=5632
I assumed by reading the Stuff article that there would have been an all-in brawl, but the "ruckus" seems to have been restricted to some hot words and a bit of shirt-fronting. Very interesting that the game was stopped for 7 (not 10) minutes and the ref didn't hand out any cards. The Stuff article says "the player who was subjected to the abuse was substituted shortly after the incident", so that'll be Samuel Wall (sp?)
Needless to say, I'm not doubting at all that someone in the WeeNix trotted out the homophobic abuse and that can't be tolerated.
Number 6 for the Nix is Fin Conchie. It was him having words first with Petone 10 (Sam Pickering) and then it was Petone 8 (Amir Mandalawi) that got fired up. Nix number 5 (Isaac Hughes) then came over and shoved the Petone player. When they kind of separated and Petone was coming together as a group, Nix 12 (Kaelin Nguyen) decided to go to them and say something, getting him a shove for his efforts before the Ref pulls him away.
As this happened about the 71st minute, the sub who came off before play restarted was Petone 20 (Samuel Wall) in the 73rd minute. Petone did make another double substitution in the 82nd minute that saw Petone 8 come off then (along with Petone 24 - Jack O'Connor)
So that'll mean no Conchie getting promoted to first team? Such a waste of talent from being so stupid.
And with that, his chances of elevation to the first team go to zero.
I'll never forget about 10 years ago, one of the wilder members of my team suggested intimidating the young ref by calling him a "f****t". When I objected on behalf of the queer members of our team, she responded by saying "oh, I didn't mean it in a *gay* way". ???
Not so sure. He's young, he's made a bad mistake, and been rightly suspended. But ALM doesn't start for over 13-14 weeks.
He seems apologetic. Players have been kept on at clubs for worse.
I'll never forget about 10 years ago, one of the wilder members of my team suggested intimidating the young ref by calling him a "f****t". When I objected on behalf of the queer members of our team, she responded by saying "oh, I didn't mean it in a *gay* way". ???
As an aside, a friend of mine (not a 'Nix regular) recently found out that fans are shouting 'sea gull' and pointing at a bird/plane and not 'sieg heil' while doing the salute.
Club statement
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) July 3, 2023
Young midfielder Fin Conchie has been stood down from the Nix reserves team indefinitely, pending disciplinary action from Capital Football
Conchie, has admitted to verbally abusing a Petone FC player in the reserves’ Central League match on Saturday
Read more:
So that'll mean no Conchie getting promoted to first team? Such a waste of talent from being so stupid.
Club statement
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) July 3, 2023
Young midfielder Fin Conchie has been stood down from the Nix reserves team indefinitely, pending disciplinary action from Capital Football
Conchie, has admitted to verbally abusing a Petone FC player in the reserves’ Central League match on Saturday
Read more:
So that'll mean no Conchie getting promoted to first team? Such a waste of talent from being so stupid.
100% disagree, it would be maniacal of the club to waste likely its best first-team prospect right now considering his evident remorse
Club statement
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) July 3, 2023
Young midfielder Fin Conchie has been stood down from the Nix reserves team indefinitely, pending disciplinary action from Capital Football
Conchie, has admitted to verbally abusing a Petone FC player in the reserves’ Central League match on Saturday
Read more:
So that'll mean no Conchie getting promoted to first team? Such a waste of talent from being so stupid.
Could not agree more. They could have improved a little more though by saying that a communication had also gone to the Petone club and to CF on Finn's behalf.
There is cliche that applies here. In any facet of life, you can survive this sort of publicity once, but not twice. So, I hope that whatever punishment comes his way, he (and only he) makes sure it never happens again.
It says something to is character though that he made a full admission to the club. It would have been very easy to have used "the ref didnt hear it, so nothing was said" model. I doubt without a confession, CF could have done anything either. They have to rely on the ref's report.
Can I ask why this was not dealt with privately?
We are talking about a 19 year old kid (yes kid), who said something wrong, has apologised, and is deeply remorseful.
Why do you have to go to the media?
Club statement
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) July 3, 2023
Young midfielder Fin Conchie has been stood down from the Nix reserves team indefinitely, pending disciplinary action from Capital Football
Conchie, has admitted to verbally abusing a Petone FC player in the reserves’ Central League match on Saturday
Read more:
And with that, his chances of elevation to the first team go to zero.
Not so sure. He's young, he's made a bad mistake, and been rightly suspended. But ALM doesn't start for over 13-14 weeks.
He seems apologetic. Players have been kept on at clubs for worse.
Can I ask why this was not dealt with privately?
We are talking about a 19 year old kid (yes kid), who said something wrong, has apologised, and is deeply remorseful.
Why do you have to go to the media?
You have to do a media release. In this age of camera phones everywhere, the footage and news is a bad look for the club. They have handled it very well today. Apologetic but also it seems looking after Conchie, who is yes still young at 19. I did & said plenty of dumb things as a 19 yr old, all well before iPhone 1.
Though sounds like the Nix Reserve coaches at the game itself, didn't cover themselves in glory or take ownership of Conchie's actions.
Can I ask why this was not dealt with privately?
We are talking about a 19 year old kid (yes kid), who said something wrong, has apologised, and is deeply remorseful.
Why do you have to go to the media?
Just the way it is nowadays any entertainment/known entity is expected to make a public statement about any controversy whether it's genuine or damage control you've got to make it or else you're getting herds of people upset about trying to push it under the rug or ignoring it. I'm not necessarily opposed to how this is but there are definitely some cases of it where it can be ridiculous.
Let alone, in the heat of the moment in a very competitive environment.
Those in glass towers.
Just because something use to be accepted doesn't mean it should still be ok.
Society moves, it changes and people need to adapt to those changes.
Simple rule to live by...
You control your arms, your legs and your mouth. No one else does Ultimately you are in control of how you respond and what you do in every moment.
Only question that really counts, is are we proud of ourselves and how we act in those moments.
The point is, you make mistakes as a kid (yes I still call a 19 year old a kid, because you are still a kid as a teenager).
Everyone here, including Shaun Gill, has made an offensive/inappropriate/unacceptable comment as a teenager. For Shaun Gill, a 40-something year old man, and every other adult on this forum, to berate, blast, and potentially ruin the life of a teenager for a comment that they have all made at one point in their life, is hypocritical and wrong in my opinion.
While I don't support the comments that were made, nor accept them, I'm willing to stand by my view. If the kid is genuinely apologetic and remorseful, don't attempt to ruin his life.
Let alone, in the heat of the moment in a very competitive environment.
Those in glass towers.
She just said that it was already in the media straight away at the end of the game and in the online media cycle it wasn’t waiting for 6 pm.
No time to do any kind of clemency or mediation between the teams or clubs.
This has been handled way better than a certain international team that then claimed their accusers were the offending party.
Let alone, in the heat of the moment in a very competitive environment.
Those in glass towers.
2) You don't know me, you don't know what I did or what I didn't do as a teenager, so let me fill you in: I did worse in my day than calling someone a homo or whatever Finn Conchie said. And you know what? I faced consequences for my bad behaviour, and as a result cleaned my act up to the best that I could. I am glad that Finn is facing consequences - public consequences - and I hope he won't let this derail his football career, but instead come back stronger and better.