November 30, 2024 • 11 mins
The streak carries on for Auckland FC.
The new football team's first season continued with another victory, having beaten the Newcastle Jets 2-0.
Former All White Jacob Spoonley joined Elliott Smith to discuss the win.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Go back to talking football on News Talk z BE
searching for goal to break the deadlock.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Degrees in in front of them, one man mana mano,
We're the finished in quality.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So Neil, what was against the Newcastle Jets yesterday at
Mount Smart Stadium? Call in the game for Sky was
from Raal White. Jacob Spoonley. He joins us now on
Newstalk ZBB. Good afternoon, Jacob.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Good afternoon, Elliott. Look before my time's coming on this
wonderful show. Today feels different. I don't want to say better, Elliott,
but it's hitting that way. I can't put my finger
on what exactly it is. Domte.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh look I can't put my finger on it either,
but let's see what we can do in this chatter.
Five in a row. Who would have picked that, Jacob?
I mean, what world would you have expected an expansion
team to bank fifteen points from their first five games.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
It is absolutely remarkable, Elliot. But I think it is
an indication as to the quiet work that's gone on
in football over the last ten years. The player development
side of things has been there and we know we've
got this young cohort coming through. We also know that
we've been underrepresented in the A leagues as Kiwi's in
(01:41):
Auckland is this wonderfully wonderful sporting market. It seems that
we've got a confluence of all those things and they've
come together perfectly so that we've got this Auckland airc
team that has not only been great, Elliott, but is
historically great. They have surpassed so many records now and
the one that is really remarkable is last night they've
(02:04):
brought they broke a forty seven year old record that
has stood since nineteen seventy seven and that belonged to
Western Suburbs in Sydney. So Auckland has now bone the
longest without conceding a goal and as they've joined the
top tier in the Australian competition.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's remarkable, isn't it. I mean, how have they done
it on the park? You mentioned that defensive stat there.
They've obviously banged in goals at the other end as well,
but it seems like the whole team is in sync
at this point of the season, which is remarkable given
how late some players come in to the A League.
It just seems like everything has clicked.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, And I think one of the things that is
overlooked is that there's the key we contingent the fact
that this team is built on a foundation of local players.
So if we look at this squad, there's eighteen new
Zealanders in this team. That is absolutely stark contrasts to
what we had with the Knights. And also I think
with the Kings as well, Elliott of the eighteen and
(03:05):
the squad eleven have seen game time this season, and
there were eight new Zealanders that were on the field yesterday.
So these are all players that have grown up together.
They're not familiar to the audience, but they are familiar
with each other. You then compliment that with a coach
that has won numerous titles, both championships and then also
playoffs in the A League and Steve Coriker, Terry mcflynn
(03:27):
the director of football. He's somebody that knows this league
inside out, both as a player and then as an administrator.
And you add on to that as the last factor,
they're well resourced and highly motivated ownership group that is
expanding at this point in time, obviously led by Bill Foley,
but then and am Moobray, Ali Williams, Tim Brown, Winston reed.
(03:51):
These are all people that are very passionate about football,
and at the moment the alchemy is beautifully balanced.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but
they seem to have scored a lot of their goals.
L I mean, that's in itself quite remarkable, isn't.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
It, Elliott, I have the number.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's what brilliance.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Look. The one thing, the one criticism that can be
made of the team is that they haven't gone ahead
necessarily early, Elliott, so they were crossly get last night.
They were wonderful chances to haul Brimmer and my but
they did persevere and they have done throughout the course
of their five games so far. So six of the
eight goals that they have scored have come after the
(04:36):
seventy five minute marks on the last stanze of the game.
But the remarkable thing, and this is where I think
you get into, is that they've scored three times beyond
the ninety And as Steve Parker said last night, although
he wants improvement and he doesn't want the kind of
heart attack kids giving them that each week, the character
(04:56):
that this team has demonstrated, and the kids, the togetherness
that they have been able to put and so into
each ninety is the thing that is probably the most
promising as we see them really start to get into
the grind of the A League season.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's interesting what you mentioned about that the foundations for
this club off the field as well and the ownership,
because I've just come back from five weeks abroad following
rugby and come back to an Auckland city where there
are people on Queen Street wearing Auckland if C jumpers.
Yesterday I saw them going to the game. But on Thursday,
Friday and the lead up as well, Auckland if season
now got a coffee shop, they've got a couple of bars.
It seems like in the space of about five weeks the
(05:34):
city's gone a little bit football mad.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And the thing that I think people need to be
mindful of is that we've got that direct pathway into
the twenty twenty six World Cup, so I think we
have the ability to turn it up to eleven as well, Elliott.
But the important part of this is that Auckland has
always been a footballing city. We've got wonderful clubs on
the North the west, the south and the east of Auckland.
(06:02):
What we needed is a unifier and I think in
the blue and the Black representation and been part of
the conversation alongside the likes of Melbourne and Sydney. We've
got a shirt that people can get behind. Now. I
think people were absolutely frothing for this. They wanted it.
It was just a case of giving it to them
(06:22):
and making sure that it was executed in a way
that reflected Auckland. Because at the end of the day,
that's what a football club is, Elliott. It is a
representation of the community. It is part of the tapestry.
And when you think about the big pubs in the UK,
because that's always our reference point for a lot of parquier,
the likes of Liverpool, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham, they've got
(06:43):
histories that extend beyond one hundred years. What Auckland needed
to do is at the accelerator and get that awareness,
get that feeling that they're part of the furniture of
the city and they needed to do that quickly and
I think in a lot of respects they have done that.
May and then your company that of course with the
slide at the ground, Elliott, And I'm not sure if
(07:04):
you're aware, but I Jason pine owes me a trip
down that slide at some point.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, can we make it next weekend of the derby?
That would really cap things off, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
If you were to put it out there that if
Wellington wins, I'll go down the slide and if Auckland wins,
Piney's going to be at the top of the south
the north end of Mount Smart Stadium. I'm all for that, Elliott. Well,
I am feeling the people were promised.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That I am filling it on the show, so I
guess I'm sort of a surrogate in some ways, so
I'll accept that on his behalf.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Oh fantastic, mate. But look, that's the weekend that we've
got coming up, Elliott. And we've had the first iteration,
we've now got the second coming of the derby. They
haven't confirmed it yet, but the whispers are that they
have sold out of tickets, and they did so two
weeks ago. So Auckland is see not only performing on
the field, but definitely putting investment off the field. And
(07:59):
the thing that we've reready got to manage is the
influence of the man that you are filling in for
the Wealentonians, the ones that he hit north to be
part of Go Media. Mount Smart Yellow Fever. Around about
one thousand will show up to Mount Spark Stadium next
weekend and we'll get to see not only the fireworks
on the field, but also the port and Yellow Fever
(08:21):
going back and forth at each other. Because that is
the thing that separates football from everything else in this country,
is that wonderful vibrancy, the color, the noise, the chance,
the enthusiasm, the expression of your city. And that is
the one thing that I'm absolutely pumped for next weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, I was thinking about that yesterday because we've had
big football matches that the World Cup qualifiers and everything
like that. But to have a domestic derby where these
two teams are going at it is something that we
haven't had on this scale before in New Zealand. Obviously
there's been one already this season, but in terms of
having this rivalry, it hasn't been replicated previously.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
No, it hasn't. It is very novel and it's almost
like a new toy. You know, you get it at Christmas,
you're not quite sure what you can do it, but
then you spend the days honing it. Maybe it's like
a cricket bat elliot and you have to knock it
in a little bit. And that's what we're doing at
the moment. We're trying to figure out what this thing is.
But we know that it represents us as a football community.
(09:19):
We know that it's exciting, we know that we want
it to stay, and we know that it's going to
be valuable on the long term. So we are hearing
that the fans themselves are trying to figure out how
they're going to create the noise and make sure that
they've heard. Obviously, the Port's going to be their number,
but Yellow Fever will want to be heard as well.
So they've got t fots, which are the banners that
(09:40):
they're roll up for the game. There might be some
smoke flares at some point as well, which obviously aren't
flares themselves, but that adds to the color as well.
It adds to that kind of that South American Europeans
vibe that so many fans want to take but also
make their own.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Have we got a name for the starby yet?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Jacob Oh, you're winding me up on your Elliott because
you know, you know, you know most feelings, so everybody.
Last night the producers at Sky decided to go with
the Kievy Classico, which has been imposed on us by
the Australians because they didn't quite understand the vibe. So
I had in my ear laughing Kingsley Hockley as he
(10:18):
put that up on screen because he knew he was
going to get a reaction. But I am rejecting the
Kiwi Classico, as I know Jason Pine does. At the moment,
I think we've got a placeholder in the India Derby.
There has been some other suggestions like the Tika Derby,
so Tika Amali after the North Island. I love that
type of vibe. But I think what will happen, Elliott,
(10:39):
is it's going to be a spark point. At some stage,
there's going to be something that happens. There's going to
be a reaction and I think that's when the name
will be established organically.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We look forward to finding out what that Derby will
eventually be called. Jacob Spoonley, thank you very much for
your time. It's been a great chatting with you, and
next time look, I look forward to the slide next week.
Either way, whether it's yourself or Jason Pine, who I've nominated,
I'll look forward to that happening.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
So as long as you get it back to me
by the end of the day, I'll have to contract
across to you and I'm sure we can lack Piney.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
End done, Jacob Spoonley, thank you very much for your
side this afternoon on news Talk ZMB formor allwide. Jacob Spoonley,
skysport commentator, joining us on the program. There are a
great duo, Jason Pine and Jacob Spoonley in the Skysport
commentary box calling all the New Zealand football games and
I very much look forward to them on next week's derby,
going back and forth out wait.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Pine. Listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Go back to talking football on News Talk z BE
searching for goal to break the deadlock.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Degrees in in front of them, one man mana mano,
We're the finished in quality.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So Neil, what was against the Newcastle Jets yesterday at
Mount Smart Stadium? Call in the game for Sky was
from Raal White. Jacob Spoonley. He joins us now on
Newstalk ZBB. Good afternoon, Jacob.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Good afternoon, Elliott. Look before my time's coming on this
wonderful show. Today feels different. I don't want to say better, Elliott,
but it's hitting that way. I can't put my finger
on what exactly it is. Domte.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh look I can't put my finger on it either,
but let's see what we can do in this chatter.
Five in a row. Who would have picked that, Jacob?
I mean, what world would you have expected an expansion
team to bank fifteen points from their first five games.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
It is absolutely remarkable, Elliot. But I think it is
an indication as to the quiet work that's gone on
in football over the last ten years. The player development
side of things has been there and we know we've
got this young cohort coming through. We also know that
we've been underrepresented in the A leagues as Kiwi's in
(01:41):
Auckland is this wonderfully wonderful sporting market. It seems that
we've got a confluence of all those things and they've
come together perfectly so that we've got this Auckland airc
team that has not only been great, Elliott, but is
historically great. They have surpassed so many records now and
the one that is really remarkable is last night they've
(02:04):
brought they broke a forty seven year old record that
has stood since nineteen seventy seven and that belonged to
Western Suburbs in Sydney. So Auckland has now bone the
longest without conceding a goal and as they've joined the
top tier in the Australian competition.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's remarkable, isn't it. I mean, how have they done
it on the park? You mentioned that defensive stat there.
They've obviously banged in goals at the other end as well,
but it seems like the whole team is in sync
at this point of the season, which is remarkable given
how late some players come in to the A League.
It just seems like everything has clicked.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, And I think one of the things that is
overlooked is that there's the key we contingent the fact
that this team is built on a foundation of local players.
So if we look at this squad, there's eighteen new
Zealanders in this team. That is absolutely stark contrasts to
what we had with the Knights. And also I think
with the Kings as well, Elliott of the eighteen and
(03:05):
the squad eleven have seen game time this season, and
there were eight new Zealanders that were on the field yesterday.
So these are all players that have grown up together.
They're not familiar to the audience, but they are familiar
with each other. You then compliment that with a coach
that has won numerous titles, both championships and then also
playoffs in the A League and Steve Coriker, Terry mcflynn
(03:27):
the director of football. He's somebody that knows this league
inside out, both as a player and then as an administrator.
And you add on to that as the last factor,
they're well resourced and highly motivated ownership group that is
expanding at this point in time, obviously led by Bill Foley,
but then and am Moobray, Ali Williams, Tim Brown, Winston reed.
(03:51):
These are all people that are very passionate about football,
and at the moment the alchemy is beautifully balanced.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but
they seem to have scored a lot of their goals.
L I mean, that's in itself quite remarkable, isn't.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
It, Elliott, I have the number.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's what brilliance.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Look. The one thing, the one criticism that can be
made of the team is that they haven't gone ahead
necessarily early, Elliott, so they were crossly get last night.
They were wonderful chances to haul Brimmer and my but
they did persevere and they have done throughout the course
of their five games so far. So six of the
eight goals that they have scored have come after the
(04:36):
seventy five minute marks on the last stanze of the game.
But the remarkable thing, and this is where I think
you get into, is that they've scored three times beyond
the ninety And as Steve Parker said last night, although
he wants improvement and he doesn't want the kind of
heart attack kids giving them that each week, the character
(04:56):
that this team has demonstrated, and the kids, the togetherness
that they have been able to put and so into
each ninety is the thing that is probably the most
promising as we see them really start to get into
the grind of the A League season.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's interesting what you mentioned about that the foundations for
this club off the field as well and the ownership,
because I've just come back from five weeks abroad following
rugby and come back to an Auckland city where there
are people on Queen Street wearing Auckland if C jumpers.
Yesterday I saw them going to the game. But on Thursday,
Friday and the lead up as well, Auckland if season
now got a coffee shop, they've got a couple of bars.
It seems like in the space of about five weeks the
(05:34):
city's gone a little bit football mad.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And the thing that I think people need to be
mindful of is that we've got that direct pathway into
the twenty twenty six World Cup, so I think we
have the ability to turn it up to eleven as well, Elliott.
But the important part of this is that Auckland has
always been a footballing city. We've got wonderful clubs on
the North the west, the south and the east of Auckland.
(06:02):
What we needed is a unifier and I think in
the blue and the Black representation and been part of
the conversation alongside the likes of Melbourne and Sydney. We've
got a shirt that people can get behind. Now. I
think people were absolutely frothing for this. They wanted it.
It was just a case of giving it to them
(06:22):
and making sure that it was executed in a way
that reflected Auckland. Because at the end of the day,
that's what a football club is, Elliott. It is a
representation of the community. It is part of the tapestry.
And when you think about the big pubs in the UK,
because that's always our reference point for a lot of parquier,
the likes of Liverpool, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham, they've got
(06:43):
histories that extend beyond one hundred years. What Auckland needed
to do is at the accelerator and get that awareness,
get that feeling that they're part of the furniture of
the city and they needed to do that quickly and
I think in a lot of respects they have done that.
May and then your company that of course with the
slide at the ground, Elliott, And I'm not sure if
(07:04):
you're aware, but I Jason pine owes me a trip
down that slide at some point.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, can we make it next weekend of the derby?
That would really cap things off, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
If you were to put it out there that if
Wellington wins, I'll go down the slide and if Auckland wins,
Piney's going to be at the top of the south
the north end of Mount Smart Stadium. I'm all for that, Elliott. Well,
I am feeling the people were promised.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That I am filling it on the show, so I
guess I'm sort of a surrogate in some ways, so
I'll accept that on his behalf.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Oh fantastic, mate. But look, that's the weekend that we've
got coming up, Elliott. And we've had the first iteration,
we've now got the second coming of the derby. They
haven't confirmed it yet, but the whispers are that they
have sold out of tickets, and they did so two
weeks ago. So Auckland is see not only performing on
the field, but definitely putting investment off the field. And
(07:59):
the thing that we've reready got to manage is the
influence of the man that you are filling in for
the Wealentonians, the ones that he hit north to be
part of Go Media. Mount Smart Yellow Fever. Around about
one thousand will show up to Mount Spark Stadium next
weekend and we'll get to see not only the fireworks
on the field, but also the port and Yellow Fever
(08:21):
going back and forth at each other. Because that is
the thing that separates football from everything else in this country,
is that wonderful vibrancy, the color, the noise, the chance,
the enthusiasm, the expression of your city. And that is
the one thing that I'm absolutely pumped for next weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, I was thinking about that yesterday because we've had
big football matches that the World Cup qualifiers and everything
like that. But to have a domestic derby where these
two teams are going at it is something that we
haven't had on this scale before in New Zealand. Obviously
there's been one already this season, but in terms of
having this rivalry, it hasn't been replicated previously.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
No, it hasn't. It is very novel and it's almost
like a new toy. You know, you get it at Christmas,
you're not quite sure what you can do it, but
then you spend the days honing it. Maybe it's like
a cricket bat elliot and you have to knock it
in a little bit. And that's what we're doing at
the moment. We're trying to figure out what this thing is.
But we know that it represents us as a football community.
(09:19):
We know that it's exciting, we know that we want
it to stay, and we know that it's going to
be valuable on the long term. So we are hearing
that the fans themselves are trying to figure out how
they're going to create the noise and make sure that
they've heard. Obviously, the Port's going to be their number,
but Yellow Fever will want to be heard as well.
So they've got t fots, which are the banners that
(09:40):
they're roll up for the game. There might be some
smoke flares at some point as well, which obviously aren't
flares themselves, but that adds to the color as well.
It adds to that kind of that South American Europeans
vibe that so many fans want to take but also
make their own.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Have we got a name for the starby yet?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Jacob Oh, you're winding me up on your Elliott because
you know, you know, you know most feelings, so everybody.
Last night the producers at Sky decided to go with
the Kievy Classico, which has been imposed on us by
the Australians because they didn't quite understand the vibe. So
I had in my ear laughing Kingsley Hockley as he
(10:18):
put that up on screen because he knew he was
going to get a reaction. But I am rejecting the
Kiwi Classico, as I know Jason Pine does. At the moment,
I think we've got a placeholder in the India Derby.
There has been some other suggestions like the Tika Derby,
so Tika Amali after the North Island. I love that
type of vibe. But I think what will happen, Elliott,
(10:39):
is it's going to be a spark point. At some stage,
there's going to be something that happens. There's going to
be a reaction and I think that's when the name
will be established organically.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We look forward to finding out what that Derby will
eventually be called. Jacob Spoonley, thank you very much for
your time. It's been a great chatting with you, and
next time look, I look forward to the slide next week.
Either way, whether it's yourself or Jason Pine, who I've nominated,
I'll look forward to that happening.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
So as long as you get it back to me
by the end of the day, I'll have to contract
across to you and I'm sure we can lack Piney.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
End done, Jacob Spoonley, thank you very much for your
side this afternoon on news Talk ZMB formor allwide. Jacob Spoonley,
skysport commentator, joining us on the program. There are a
great duo, Jason Pine and Jacob Spoonley in the Skysport
commentary box calling all the New Zealand football games and
I very much look forward to them on next week's derby,
going back and forth out wait.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Pine. Listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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