It's a big night for Kiwi football fans, as Auckland FC heads into one of the most anticipated matches of the season.
Sky Sports analyst Jacob Spoonley joined Piney to look back on the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from news Talk Zedbah.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, I'm pretty pleased.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
The show finishes up three actually after three no chants
and here absolutely no chants and here at Tyler Street Sport.
The lafty hearing is Skysport commentator, former Phoenix goalkeeper, former
All Whites goalkeeper Jacob Spoonley.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A year ago, could you have imagine being here doing this?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
No short answer, No, this has taken off and exploded, pony,
But I'm more interested. I've been texting you throughout the week,
you and our director Blair Dainty, who will be sitting
in the truck pointing cameras in the right direction this afternoon,
and we've been going around giving our fizz levels.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Where are you at right now?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What I went out twenty to three, so just over
three and a quarter hours away from kickoff? Pretty first,
Pretty first. You know, occasions like this don't come along
very often. And I think players talk about wanting to
play in the big games.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I think if you're in the meat, yeah you want
Pinnacle events as well done?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I mean, how you feeling.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'm the same as I was when I was playing,
so you wake up with that kind of anxiety.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I got to say, evening kickoffs are horrible for players.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You've got the whole day to phil, You're waiting for
the pre match meal and then you get the runway
are in about three hours in before kickoff, you got
your shower, you start getting ready and that's when the
process takes over. But before then you are looking for
something to do. And that's kind of how I feel
right now, Poney. Speaking of big moments, we had one
last year, ninety ninth minute oscars. I've arta puts the
ball in the back of the net. I've brought this
(01:41):
one up with you before I thought you left the room. Haha,
I thought you left the room, but you were at
the back composing yourself, and then you drop the three
greatest lines of commentary I have heard, Poney.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
They were sublime.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Are you expecting a similar moment like that today or
is this going to play out in a bit more
of a consistent fashion with what we've seen so far?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Great question. The short answer is, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Von Nill is a slim deer lead when you obviously
last week that it was only halftime when the final
whistle Blue in Melbourne. I don't know how this is
going to play out, but can I take you back
to what you were just talking about with the players.
So here we are now just over three hours out.
What do these three hours look like for a player?
You know, when do they get to the ground, when
(02:28):
do they eat all that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
It depends on whether your home or away. So for Victory,
it's going to look very different. They're going to be
in the hotel and it adds to us versus the
world mentality. For them, it's them in their tracksuits. They're
surrounded by blue and black shirts which are unavoidable. Today
we went to West Coast Ranges this morning. Kids were
playing in the Auckland if SA shirts and not the
West Coast Ranges Cat's that's how it's changed over the
(02:53):
course of twelve months. So Victory, they're going to be galvanized.
They are going to be a fortified unit that will
step into Mount Smart today a very strong sense of
overcoming the deficit, changing chasing.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
The result for Auckland's slightly different.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
They're going to be at home, they'll be with their partners,
they might come together for a pre match meal.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
At a hotel.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We've heard that the staff andiamo at the moment, but
from there it's then about listening to some music, getting
yourself into the moment. We've heard from some of the
all Whites recently that they do meditation, they look at
highlight reels to remind themselves of what they want to do.
There might be some clips that Doug Cause has put
together for the players just to tell them about the
(03:33):
big moments, to start getting them familiar with thought they're
going to experience on the field.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But at the end of the day pointing this is
not a familiar situation. This is new.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's new business in Auckland, and it's going to be
new because I think this is going to be incredibly rouded.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I think this will be boisterous.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
From when the players step out onto the field for
the warm up, so three hours in yep, cool, They've
got their routines, their protocols, whatever, They're still going to
need to be an adjustment and that's going to come
I think the warm up and then when they're in
the tunnel, and then the first five ten minutes. The
first five ten minutes are probably the most critical because
(04:09):
I think that's when victory you are going.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
To have a real hard run at Auckland.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
What about just before they leave the change of room
to get into the tunnel to walk out. Who is
the last voice? Is it Steve Coriker, is it Hiroki Sakai?
Is it somebody else who speaks last before they go
into battle?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Look, I don't know about Auckland. I can only comment
on the teams that I've been involved in. Typically, the
manager will have his last say in the team huddle,
so they'll come back in shim pads will go on,
goalkeepers will get changed into the kit, shirt goes on,
you've got your armor on.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That's when the manager might say something. It's going to
be short and sweet.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I think, knowing Steve, he'll realize that the work's been
done all throughout the week, the message has been the same.
This is about the final delivery of it. That's when
I think hierarchy, Saki and Tommy Smith take over, and
I can imagine Tommy Smith.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
That's when he will hold court.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
That's when he steps up and delivers a play message
two and on.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Behalf of the playing group with authority.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Now, once you step out into that tunnel, I don't
know what everyone else is, Like Paul Eifel, who joins
us in a couple of hours, might be different. For me,
that was purgetry because you're in between preparation and execution.
You can hear the noise, you're trying to push it away,
you can feel the lights. You just want to start,
and you've been held back from the thing that to
(05:30):
your point, you've waited perhaps all your life for to do.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Amazing. I'm getting goosebumps even thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Any chance, Melbourne Victory smash and grab this and tonight
is Auckland, the FC's last game of the season.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I've got three situations that I've been discussing with you
all week. The first is that this is a wrestle.
This is the blue bloods up against the new money.
This is where we see the broad shoulders, the broad
navy blue shoulders of Melbourne Victory square out to Auckland's
and engage them to directly and we go down to
(06:07):
the last minute, the last second. We have no idea
where this is going to go. Who go any number
of which ways. It could be a shootout, it could
be a nil law. The second is Auckland simply suffocate
victory to the point that they are demoralized and it
becomes a two or a three kneel, it becomes a
procession in the second half the third This is the
one that you're touching on that our Auckland audience will
(06:29):
not want to hear, is that victory hit them hard
and early. They go full just inder oar dur and
they get an early goal and victory, as they have
done over the course of their nineteen wins in playoffs football.
Let's not forget the pedigree here. They follow up one
goal with another very very quickly, and that I think
is unnerving. It's unsettling because Auckland have been in control
(06:50):
for the course of the season from the get go.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
They've asserted themselves, they've had a point of dominance.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
This will put them on the back foot with a
huge crowd and massive expectations on their back.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
That'll compound things. You'll need very strong leadership in that situation.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, let's finish with the crowd and those behind us
here at Tyler Street Sport. Just a cacophony of noise
now and this is just a small percentage of those
who are going to be there tonight. But how much
have Aukland FC's support base contributed to the narrative of
their first season.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
They have been part of the identity of the club
and the Port have in large part become self defined.
They've been very clear about the narrative that they want
to be projected.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
You can also point to their influence on the field.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Let's go back to round two, the first time that
Auckland came up against proper A League Royalty and Sydney
of Sea Steve Croker's old club.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Just to add the cherry on the top, there.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Var Interven's disallows a Sydney goal in the eighty fifth minute.
From there you could feel the energy in the state
and the Port created gravity and grabbed a hold of
the ball and sucked it over the line as Nando
Pineker put us on our way to the first goal
that Auckland's scored. Beyond the nineteen minutes, they then went
on the score or another thirteen over the course of
the season. I think that is started by the Port
(08:11):
in combination with the players.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
You can't have one.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Without the other, and that speaks to the influence of
the Port of the course of the season.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What a night in prospect, all right, Jacob, Hope, you
e havenon used up all your good stuff in this
seven or eight minute chat. You've still got plenty of
plenty of lignes to regardless on the Sky coverage.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Later, mate, I only follow you set the furtherom you
set the pace.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Piney on your shoulders.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We said, oh, well, before this becomes too much of
a mutual admiration society, let's get.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Your mic going.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Let's get your mic off. Great to see you, mate.
Jacob Spoonley, skysport commentator, a former All Whites and Phoenix
goalkeeper and very shrewd analyst of the game and everything
wrapped around it, including the unique emotions of a day.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Like For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen
live to news Talk said B weekends from midday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from news Talk Zedbah.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, I'm pretty pleased.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
The show finishes up three actually after three no chants
and here absolutely no chants and here at Tyler Street Sport.
The lafty hearing is Skysport commentator, former Phoenix goalkeeper, former
All Whites goalkeeper Jacob Spoonley.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A year ago, could you have imagine being here doing this?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
No short answer, No, this has taken off and exploded, pony,
But I'm more interested. I've been texting you throughout the week,
you and our director Blair Dainty, who will be sitting
in the truck pointing cameras in the right direction this afternoon,
and we've been going around giving our fizz levels.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Where are you at right now?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What I went out twenty to three, so just over
three and a quarter hours away from kickoff? Pretty first,
Pretty first. You know, occasions like this don't come along
very often. And I think players talk about wanting to
play in the big games.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I think if you're in the meat, yeah you want
Pinnacle events as well done?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I mean, how you feeling.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'm the same as I was when I was playing,
so you wake up with that kind of anxiety.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I got to say, evening kickoffs are horrible for players.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You've got the whole day to phil, You're waiting for
the pre match meal and then you get the runway
are in about three hours in before kickoff, you got
your shower, you start getting ready and that's when the
process takes over. But before then you are looking for
something to do. And that's kind of how I feel
right now, Poney. Speaking of big moments, we had one
last year, ninety ninth minute oscars. I've arta puts the
ball in the back of the net. I've brought this
(01:41):
one up with you before I thought you left the room. Haha,
I thought you left the room, but you were at
the back composing yourself, and then you drop the three
greatest lines of commentary I have heard, Poney.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
They were sublime.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Are you expecting a similar moment like that today or
is this going to play out in a bit more
of a consistent fashion with what we've seen so far?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Great question. The short answer is, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Von Nill is a slim deer lead when you obviously
last week that it was only halftime when the final
whistle Blue in Melbourne. I don't know how this is
going to play out, but can I take you back
to what you were just talking about with the players.
So here we are now just over three hours out.
What do these three hours look like for a player?
You know, when do they get to the ground, when
(02:28):
do they eat all that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
It depends on whether your home or away. So for Victory,
it's going to look very different. They're going to be
in the hotel and it adds to us versus the
world mentality. For them, it's them in their tracksuits. They're
surrounded by blue and black shirts which are unavoidable. Today
we went to West Coast Ranges this morning. Kids were
playing in the Auckland if SA shirts and not the
West Coast Ranges Cat's that's how it's changed over the
(02:53):
course of twelve months. So Victory, they're going to be galvanized.
They are going to be a fortified unit that will
step into Mount Smart today a very strong sense of
overcoming the deficit, changing chasing.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
The result for Auckland's slightly different.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
They're going to be at home, they'll be with their partners,
they might come together for a pre match meal.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
At a hotel.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We've heard that the staff andiamo at the moment, but
from there it's then about listening to some music, getting
yourself into the moment. We've heard from some of the
all Whites recently that they do meditation, they look at
highlight reels to remind themselves of what they want to do.
There might be some clips that Doug Cause has put
together for the players just to tell them about the
(03:33):
big moments, to start getting them familiar with thought they're
going to experience on the field.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But at the end of the day pointing this is
not a familiar situation. This is new.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's new business in Auckland, and it's going to be
new because I think this is going to be incredibly rouded.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I think this will be boisterous.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
From when the players step out onto the field for
the warm up, so three hours in yep, cool, They've
got their routines, their protocols, whatever, They're still going to
need to be an adjustment and that's going to come
I think the warm up and then when they're in
the tunnel, and then the first five ten minutes. The
first five ten minutes are probably the most critical because
(04:09):
I think that's when victory you are going.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
To have a real hard run at Auckland.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
What about just before they leave the change of room
to get into the tunnel to walk out. Who is
the last voice? Is it Steve Coriker, is it Hiroki Sakai?
Is it somebody else who speaks last before they go
into battle?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Look, I don't know about Auckland. I can only comment
on the teams that I've been involved in. Typically, the
manager will have his last say in the team huddle,
so they'll come back in shim pads will go on,
goalkeepers will get changed into the kit, shirt goes on,
you've got your armor on.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That's when the manager might say something. It's going to
be short and sweet.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I think, knowing Steve, he'll realize that the work's been
done all throughout the week, the message has been the same.
This is about the final delivery of it. That's when
I think hierarchy, Saki and Tommy Smith take over, and
I can imagine Tommy Smith.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
That's when he will hold court.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
That's when he steps up and delivers a play message
two and on.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Behalf of the playing group with authority.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Now, once you step out into that tunnel, I don't
know what everyone else is, Like Paul Eifel, who joins
us in a couple of hours, might be different. For me,
that was purgetry because you're in between preparation and execution.
You can hear the noise, you're trying to push it away,
you can feel the lights. You just want to start,
and you've been held back from the thing that to
(05:30):
your point, you've waited perhaps all your life for to do.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Amazing. I'm getting goosebumps even thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Any chance, Melbourne Victory smash and grab this and tonight
is Auckland, the FC's last game of the season.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I've got three situations that I've been discussing with you
all week. The first is that this is a wrestle.
This is the blue bloods up against the new money.
This is where we see the broad shoulders, the broad
navy blue shoulders of Melbourne Victory square out to Auckland's
and engage them to directly and we go down to
(06:07):
the last minute, the last second. We have no idea
where this is going to go. Who go any number
of which ways. It could be a shootout, it could
be a nil law. The second is Auckland simply suffocate
victory to the point that they are demoralized and it
becomes a two or a three kneel, it becomes a
procession in the second half the third This is the
one that you're touching on that our Auckland audience will
(06:29):
not want to hear, is that victory hit them hard
and early. They go full just inder oar dur and
they get an early goal and victory, as they have
done over the course of their nineteen wins in playoffs football.
Let's not forget the pedigree here. They follow up one
goal with another very very quickly, and that I think
is unnerving. It's unsettling because Auckland have been in control
(06:50):
for the course of the season from the get go.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
They've asserted themselves, they've had a point of dominance.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
This will put them on the back foot with a
huge crowd and massive expectations on their back.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
That'll compound things. You'll need very strong leadership in that situation.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, let's finish with the crowd and those behind us
here at Tyler Street Sport. Just a cacophony of noise
now and this is just a small percentage of those
who are going to be there tonight. But how much
have Aukland FC's support base contributed to the narrative of
their first season.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
They have been part of the identity of the club
and the Port have in large part become self defined.
They've been very clear about the narrative that they want
to be projected.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
You can also point to their influence on the field.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Let's go back to round two, the first time that
Auckland came up against proper A League Royalty and Sydney
of Sea Steve Croker's old club.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Just to add the cherry on the top, there.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Var Interven's disallows a Sydney goal in the eighty fifth minute.
From there you could feel the energy in the state
and the Port created gravity and grabbed a hold of
the ball and sucked it over the line as Nando
Pineker put us on our way to the first goal
that Auckland's scored. Beyond the nineteen minutes, they then went
on the score or another thirteen over the course of
the season. I think that is started by the Port
(08:11):
in combination with the players.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
You can't have one.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Without the other, and that speaks to the influence of
the Port of the course of the season.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What a night in prospect, all right, Jacob, Hope, you
e havenon used up all your good stuff in this
seven or eight minute chat. You've still got plenty of
plenty of lignes to regardless on the Sky coverage.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Later, mate, I only follow you set the furtherom you
set the pace.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Piney on your shoulders.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We said, oh, well, before this becomes too much of
a mutual admiration society, let's get.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Your mic going.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Let's get your mic off. Great to see you, mate.
Jacob Spoonley, skysport commentator, a former All Whites and Phoenix
goalkeeper and very shrewd analyst of the game and everything
wrapped around it, including the unique emotions of a day.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Like For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen
live to news Talk said B weekends from midday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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