December 13, 2025 • 13 mins
Matt Vandenberg's a superfan of the Newcastle Jets, and he's got multiple trips across the Tasman to catch the football action.
He joined Piney to discuss his journey with the team.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
There are sports fans and then there are super fans.
Matt Vandenberg supports a Leaen football side, the Newcastle Jets,
paced two hours aware from where he lives in Sydney,
as well as being a season ticket hold of a
home match as he travels to every away game as well,
which means this season he'll make three trips across the
Tasman in the space of a month. He was in
(00:34):
Auckland to watch the Jets beat Auckland FC two one
a fortnight ago. He'll be back there on New Year's Day,
and today he's in Wellington to watch his beloved Newcastle
take on the Wellington Phoenix. He's popped into the study
on his way to the game. Welcome mate, great to
see you.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Finally, they say never meet your heroes, but with you,
I think it's the complete opposite.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Ah Well, I could almost say the same thing. When
and how did your love affair with the Newcastle Jets begin?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So this was season two when the a LaGG had
just just started, Like you'd say, somewhat the glory days
and I'm a Dney Roosters fan in a West Coast fan,
and during those the periods of the two thousand and
they were a very very they're very very good clubs
and Sydney of C one and I was a bit
of on the fence about whether I should support SYNEYFC,
and they ended up winning, so I said, no, we can't,
we can't go for the winners three teams in a row.
(01:22):
Season two I was, I was an observer, keen observer,
and then Nikki Carl scored that fantastic solo goal against
Adelaide on a Friday night at Energy Australia Stadium and
they were the team for me. And people have said
it's a bit of a curse that I would have
had a lot more success and a lot more less.
Columbus traveled supporting Sydney, but Newcastle threw and through my friends.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And so win. So have you always you've always gone
to home games? But have you always traveled to awayne games?
Or when did the sort of trend of yours of
going to pretty much every away game begin?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So I didn't, As every Sydney sider, I did a
gap year in England in twenty twenty twelve and twenty
thirteen and I moved to a team moved to a
suburb called Layton, and the home team Late and Orient
and there are about fifty or sixty faithfuls that would
go up and down the country each week via train
which is a lot more easier, and go and watch
their team win. And I felt like a massive connection.
(02:16):
So when I came home, I kind of felt a
responsibility to see how I'd go one season just flying
solo traveling. The problem is in Australia and New Zealand
you have to fly everywhere to get to where you
go to go. So I felt a responsibility and I
just thought, you know what, we'll keep it up for
as long as we can. And my parents somehow still
love me, they're happy for me to do it. I
(02:38):
don't have a lot of responsibility in my life yet,
so yeah, it's I've been lucky enough to do what
I do. And there's a lot of great A League
supporters and I feel feel very blessed to be able
to support the league as well as I can.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, as you say, in the UK, there are trains
and they take you pretty much everywhere, but this is
an entirely different story. In the A League. There are
four other teams in New South Wales, the Mariners, Oh
I know you hate Sydney FC, Western Sydney MacArthur pretty accessible,
but teams in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth two over here. Now,
So how do you fund this passion of yours?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So a great question. I'll reveal the secret. My mum
is a dedicated thirty nine year international flight stewards wonderful.
So the words of staff travel does work. It has
sent me stranded a couple of times. But no, I'm
very very fortunate and lucky to to get cheap flight
(03:34):
tickets when I can. But no, also there's like I
will credit myself, there are I do have to go
around New South Wales and there's a lot of trips
up the Hunter which is our M one motorway which
is known as the F three as well. I think
it's a lot of dedication. And look, the club has
been very very good to me, and so is the
league in a way. But no, the Jets do recognize
(03:55):
the commitment I go through and I am I do
credit for them to credit me, I guess, but no,
it's just a dedication, like and you know what, I
get to meet so many fans has the individuals and
there just there are. You could write a book about
the legends of a leagues and I think maybe one
day I might have to do that, but not now.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, let's talk about your experiences when you travel. Are
you ever the only traveling fan or do you normally
have one or two others with you? I know here
in Wellington today, for example, you've got a couple with you.
Are you ever the only traveling fan?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I can't pinpoint a on a way day that I've
just been the only solo because you get a lot
of ex pats. For example, Perth you have a lot
of miners. I think Adelaida, Bribone you have a lot
of beer and wine drinkers. So I'm sure they migrate
north and south. But no, I'm sure there's been Maybe
I'll tell you what. There was one a in twenty thirteen.
We played at Westpac Stadium or the Cake Tin or
(04:55):
whatever you want to call it, and it was a
Tuesday night game Michael Bridges and Adam Taggett scorad We
won two to one, which is it's like Hen's teeth
winning in New Zealand for US, but yeah, there's been.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
One or two.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But if you're ever thinking about doing Await Day, whether
you live in Auckland or New Zealand, or if somehow
you stream in Australia, do it because if you win,
it's great, and if you lose, you just want to
go home and cry. Well.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm going to ask about the other fans and you
mentioned meeting other people in the UK again, sometimes you
take your life and your hands going into the wrong
place in the stadium. If you're away fan, do you
typically mingle with opposition A League fans before and after games?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's it's a bit of not really a touchy subject
anymore because back in maybe ten years ago, there was
all about that I want to be the top guy,
the hoogan who loves who. But no, look you'll find
I think ten eighty percent you get good, good people,
and like when you go to the old Bailey and
(05:50):
Wellington and you meet Wellington, you just feel loved, You
feel home. Everyone wants to buy you a drink, they
appreciate you coming over. I would put on record that
I think Wellington is the best await to a purely
for the hospitality. If you ever want to go to Perth.
You had a great sun set at rottenest Codslow Beach.
But no, most of the times you have some great
(06:10):
away fans. And you know what, I don't hate the Marrors.
I love to beat the absolute living piss out of them,
if I can say that, But when, when, before and
after the game? I'll always have a drink with the
Mariage fans because they're just souch lovely people and they're
hard workers. They're just like Novacastrians. They know what it's
like to go through the good and bad times. But
(06:30):
there are some absolute legends. I think I'll stop saying
how good this league is and how the people are
around it. But no, now you get some really good eggs.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You've been to Auckland as well a couple of times
now new addition to the A League. How do you
compare a trip to Auckland to a trip to Wellington?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
First of all, on record, Wellington's a better city, but no,
look what Auckland are doing at the moment. The club,
the city has gotten right around their supporters and good
on them. I'm heading there for New Year's Eve. If
you've got any your suggestions, call through on the line
right now, but no like the Awkland's are credit to
the league, and obviously was. It was a shame the
Kings and the early Auckland A League team never really
(07:10):
worked out. But what they're doing, they're fantastic and they
deserve their flowers. I hope they never win the league
because I think their fans are a bit a bit
on the high horse about it, and I know Wellington
fans would never hear the end of it, so something
I think. I think Auckland's a very very good club
to have around and their fans are a credit.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I think football fandom. Sports fandom is a roller coaster, right.
There are ups and downs, there's thick and thin, and
there's been a lot of thin in recent times. For
Newcastle it's been slim pickings. Look you you know well,
I remember when you won the A League. I think
Andrew Durenty won the he got the men of the J.
Marsen Master Middle in the final, then came straight to
Wellington the following season. But and your hosted a Grand
(07:50):
Final a few seasons ago. But it's been pretty slim pickings.
Do you just accept that fandom is a roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I told my parents about eighteen months ago. I don't
think the Jets will ever win another trophy and it
disappoints me to say that, however, like I know, I
don't know if it was Eric Cantona or someone someone
said famous. You can you can cheat on you miss
so you can cheat on your workplace. Obviously, don't cheat
on your partner please, but you can never cheat on
your football team. And you know what, I feel such
(08:17):
a responsibility and I feel very grateful, like the Jets
will always be my number one, but I'm very lucky
and to win the Australia Cup this year, even though
we might have had an easy draw but Auckland couldn't
beat Hardelberg for the record, No, I was. It was
awesome to see, you know what. I hope we win
many more trophies and my kids can see them hopefully
(08:39):
one day.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But I don't think it will matter to you will
because you'll go regardless. When was the last time you
missed a Newcastle game?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I missed one actually this year from Perth because I
played cricket and Newcastle the day before and I got
hate strokes, so I sat on the couch and I
was like, I'm not going when was last time I
missed an away day. I couldn't tell you. I honestly
couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So it's been years.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'd say it's been over five that I've missed an
away day. It's just a cracking experience, like you feel
once again a responsibility to be there. And everyone knows
Redwig Steve, who's the greatest A League away supporter on record.
He's always at every game. He wears his red suit.
He wears his red red wig and when he's on
TV he deserves his flower as well. When I get
(09:27):
on flowers, I think, please take me off screen less
you're saying good things about me. But no, you know,
I don't mind a bit of air time as well.
It's always good to play back and put on the
Facebook or the Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What would you do if there was a significant family
occasion which clashed with a Newcastle game? What say one
of your close family members was getting married, for example,
on the day of a Newcastle Jets game. What would
you do?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Depends how good of a friend this person is. I'd
say if it was a first family relative, I think
the Jets would have to take a back seat. But no,
I've missed second cousin's weddings and I don't think I've
missed a funeral touch Wood, but no, I miss it's
my sister's twenty first birthday. To fly to napier in
I think it was twenty thirteen for a nil draw. Yeah,
(10:14):
it wasn't the best experience and I got ridiculed on
the way home. But no, look, I as you get
grow older and wise, there obviously there will be responsibility,
but it's just not happening yet.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You flew in yesterday, you're out tomorrow. So a couple
of nights here in Wellington for this one. Do you
often or ever just fly in and out on the
same day. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You know what, I think the best away to is
a fly and fly out because over past years the
jets don't normally pick up the result we're looking for
and to be so far away from your bed, it's
not fantastic. Two weeks ago in Auckland, I actually did
a fly and fly out, which was crazy. I wake
up at four am, got home at eleven. It I
(10:54):
don't know, I can say it pissed, but it pissed
down with rain and I got the middle seats sitting
between two larger individuals and they felt soaked on their
arms and I apologized and they were good about it.
But yeah, honestly, it's a great experience. But next time
I might take a change of clothes.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We've just been talking about World Cup and New Zealand
fans traveling to watch the All watch. Will you go
and watch the soccer as the World Cup? Does your
fandom extend to that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't feel a responsibility of the soccer is and
I I was there in two thousand and five when
Bresciano and Mark Schwartz and John Alissi, but and that
was kind of awesome. That was before the A League.
I've always thought club over country. And once again, I
hope you know what, I don't really care how the
soccer is go this year is sorry next year, but
(11:40):
I hope we beat America. That's all I care about it.
I don't need to get political. But it is a
shame what's happening over there with the ticket prices and
accommodation prices. So for me, I think you could do
for two weeks over there. You could probably could fund
a couple of A League away seasons, So for me,
and obviously the Jets are playing an Asia this year
next year, which is great. So now three away days
(12:02):
in Asia, maybe Bali New Hong Kong. I'd rather do that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I fear four you. I feel for the good people
of Balley of Us as well. No, man, it's great
to see You've aiden you talked about Redwig Steve Adelaide United.
It's most passionate fan. I think you're in the same
issule or mate. It's been awesome to get the chance
to know you, to see you over here so often,
and to see you in the studio today. Mate. I
hope the Jets get the result you're after this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Do you have a score prediction, pony, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Have a score prediction for you. Do you have a
score prediction?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know what, I'm actually really confident. I think at
the moment, with Wellington's injuries, they don't necessarily have the
power up front. I know they've got a great, great player,
but I don't think he's gonna have the SIPs. And
for us, I think it's we're a bit weaker in defense,
so I think it's going to be who blinks first.
I will say Jets three to one, but I'm sure
this will come back to bite me.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, I don't know. It may it may do, it
may not. You never you can never predict predict anything.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Can I just say? Have you got the greatest family
of all time? Have you got the most your daughter
and your wife, great dancing partners, your son's on his
way to the NBA, and you're just you've got a
head for radio. But you do a bloody good job.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm certainly the I'm certainly the underachiever of my family.
Matt put it that way. Mate. Great to see you.
Thanks for stopping in all the business.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Afternoons, same time next year?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Why not? Why not? Well, I know you're going to
be here. Matt Vandenberg one of the greats, one of
the A League's super fans.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
There are sports fans and then there are super fans.
Matt Vandenberg supports a Leaen football side, the Newcastle Jets,
paced two hours aware from where he lives in Sydney,
as well as being a season ticket hold of a
home match as he travels to every away game as well,
which means this season he'll make three trips across the
Tasman in the space of a month. He was in
(00:34):
Auckland to watch the Jets beat Auckland FC two one
a fortnight ago. He'll be back there on New Year's Day,
and today he's in Wellington to watch his beloved Newcastle
take on the Wellington Phoenix. He's popped into the study
on his way to the game. Welcome mate, great to
see you.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Finally, they say never meet your heroes, but with you,
I think it's the complete opposite.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Ah Well, I could almost say the same thing. When
and how did your love affair with the Newcastle Jets begin?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So this was season two when the a LaGG had
just just started, Like you'd say, somewhat the glory days
and I'm a Dney Roosters fan in a West Coast fan,
and during those the periods of the two thousand and
they were a very very they're very very good clubs
and Sydney of C one and I was a bit
of on the fence about whether I should support SYNEYFC,
and they ended up winning, so I said, no, we can't,
we can't go for the winners three teams in a row.
(01:22):
Season two I was, I was an observer, keen observer,
and then Nikki Carl scored that fantastic solo goal against
Adelaide on a Friday night at Energy Australia Stadium and
they were the team for me. And people have said
it's a bit of a curse that I would have
had a lot more success and a lot more less.
Columbus traveled supporting Sydney, but Newcastle threw and through my friends.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And so win. So have you always you've always gone
to home games? But have you always traveled to awayne games?
Or when did the sort of trend of yours of
going to pretty much every away game begin?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So I didn't, As every Sydney sider, I did a
gap year in England in twenty twenty twelve and twenty
thirteen and I moved to a team moved to a
suburb called Layton, and the home team Late and Orient
and there are about fifty or sixty faithfuls that would
go up and down the country each week via train
which is a lot more easier, and go and watch
their team win. And I felt like a massive connection.
(02:16):
So when I came home, I kind of felt a
responsibility to see how I'd go one season just flying
solo traveling. The problem is in Australia and New Zealand
you have to fly everywhere to get to where you
go to go. So I felt a responsibility and I
just thought, you know what, we'll keep it up for
as long as we can. And my parents somehow still
love me, they're happy for me to do it. I
(02:38):
don't have a lot of responsibility in my life yet,
so yeah, it's I've been lucky enough to do what
I do. And there's a lot of great A League
supporters and I feel feel very blessed to be able
to support the league as well as I can.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, as you say, in the UK, there are trains
and they take you pretty much everywhere, but this is
an entirely different story. In the A League. There are
four other teams in New South Wales, the Mariners, Oh
I know you hate Sydney FC, Western Sydney MacArthur pretty accessible,
but teams in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth two over here. Now,
So how do you fund this passion of yours?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So a great question. I'll reveal the secret. My mum
is a dedicated thirty nine year international flight stewards wonderful.
So the words of staff travel does work. It has
sent me stranded a couple of times. But no, I'm
very very fortunate and lucky to to get cheap flight
(03:34):
tickets when I can. But no, also there's like I
will credit myself, there are I do have to go
around New South Wales and there's a lot of trips
up the Hunter which is our M one motorway which
is known as the F three as well. I think
it's a lot of dedication. And look, the club has
been very very good to me, and so is the
league in a way. But no, the Jets do recognize
(03:55):
the commitment I go through and I am I do
credit for them to credit me, I guess, but no,
it's just a dedication, like and you know what, I
get to meet so many fans has the individuals and
there just there are. You could write a book about
the legends of a leagues and I think maybe one
day I might have to do that, but not now.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, let's talk about your experiences when you travel. Are
you ever the only traveling fan or do you normally
have one or two others with you? I know here
in Wellington today, for example, you've got a couple with you.
Are you ever the only traveling fan?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I can't pinpoint a on a way day that I've
just been the only solo because you get a lot
of ex pats. For example, Perth you have a lot
of miners. I think Adelaida, Bribone you have a lot
of beer and wine drinkers. So I'm sure they migrate
north and south. But no, I'm sure there's been Maybe
I'll tell you what. There was one a in twenty thirteen.
We played at Westpac Stadium or the Cake Tin or
(04:55):
whatever you want to call it, and it was a
Tuesday night game Michael Bridges and Adam Taggett scorad We
won two to one, which is it's like Hen's teeth
winning in New Zealand for US, but yeah, there's been.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
One or two.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But if you're ever thinking about doing Await Day, whether
you live in Auckland or New Zealand, or if somehow
you stream in Australia, do it because if you win,
it's great, and if you lose, you just want to
go home and cry. Well.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm going to ask about the other fans and you
mentioned meeting other people in the UK again, sometimes you
take your life and your hands going into the wrong
place in the stadium. If you're away fan, do you
typically mingle with opposition A League fans before and after games?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's it's a bit of not really a touchy subject
anymore because back in maybe ten years ago, there was
all about that I want to be the top guy,
the hoogan who loves who. But no, look you'll find
I think ten eighty percent you get good, good people,
and like when you go to the old Bailey and
(05:50):
Wellington and you meet Wellington, you just feel loved, You
feel home. Everyone wants to buy you a drink, they
appreciate you coming over. I would put on record that
I think Wellington is the best await to a purely
for the hospitality. If you ever want to go to Perth.
You had a great sun set at rottenest Codslow Beach.
But no, most of the times you have some great
(06:10):
away fans. And you know what, I don't hate the Marrors.
I love to beat the absolute living piss out of them,
if I can say that, But when, when, before and
after the game? I'll always have a drink with the
Mariage fans because they're just souch lovely people and they're
hard workers. They're just like Novacastrians. They know what it's
like to go through the good and bad times. But
(06:30):
there are some absolute legends. I think I'll stop saying
how good this league is and how the people are
around it. But no, now you get some really good eggs.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You've been to Auckland as well a couple of times
now new addition to the A League. How do you
compare a trip to Auckland to a trip to Wellington?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
First of all, on record, Wellington's a better city, but no,
look what Auckland are doing at the moment. The club,
the city has gotten right around their supporters and good
on them. I'm heading there for New Year's Eve. If
you've got any your suggestions, call through on the line
right now, but no like the Awkland's are credit to
the league, and obviously was. It was a shame the
Kings and the early Auckland A League team never really
(07:10):
worked out. But what they're doing, they're fantastic and they
deserve their flowers. I hope they never win the league
because I think their fans are a bit a bit
on the high horse about it, and I know Wellington
fans would never hear the end of it, so something
I think. I think Auckland's a very very good club
to have around and their fans are a credit.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I think football fandom. Sports fandom is a roller coaster, right.
There are ups and downs, there's thick and thin, and
there's been a lot of thin in recent times. For
Newcastle it's been slim pickings. Look you you know well,
I remember when you won the A League. I think
Andrew Durenty won the he got the men of the J.
Marsen Master Middle in the final, then came straight to
Wellington the following season. But and your hosted a Grand
(07:50):
Final a few seasons ago. But it's been pretty slim pickings.
Do you just accept that fandom is a roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I told my parents about eighteen months ago. I don't
think the Jets will ever win another trophy and it
disappoints me to say that, however, like I know, I
don't know if it was Eric Cantona or someone someone
said famous. You can you can cheat on you miss
so you can cheat on your workplace. Obviously, don't cheat
on your partner please, but you can never cheat on
your football team. And you know what, I feel such
(08:17):
a responsibility and I feel very grateful, like the Jets
will always be my number one, but I'm very lucky
and to win the Australia Cup this year, even though
we might have had an easy draw but Auckland couldn't
beat Hardelberg for the record, No, I was. It was
awesome to see, you know what. I hope we win
many more trophies and my kids can see them hopefully
(08:39):
one day.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But I don't think it will matter to you will
because you'll go regardless. When was the last time you
missed a Newcastle game?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I missed one actually this year from Perth because I
played cricket and Newcastle the day before and I got
hate strokes, so I sat on the couch and I
was like, I'm not going when was last time I
missed an away day. I couldn't tell you. I honestly
couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So it's been years.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'd say it's been over five that I've missed an
away day. It's just a cracking experience, like you feel
once again a responsibility to be there. And everyone knows
Redwig Steve, who's the greatest A League away supporter on record.
He's always at every game. He wears his red suit.
He wears his red red wig and when he's on
TV he deserves his flower as well. When I get
(09:27):
on flowers, I think, please take me off screen less
you're saying good things about me. But no, you know,
I don't mind a bit of air time as well.
It's always good to play back and put on the
Facebook or the Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What would you do if there was a significant family
occasion which clashed with a Newcastle game? What say one
of your close family members was getting married, for example,
on the day of a Newcastle Jets game. What would
you do?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Depends how good of a friend this person is. I'd
say if it was a first family relative, I think
the Jets would have to take a back seat. But no,
I've missed second cousin's weddings and I don't think I've
missed a funeral touch Wood, but no, I miss it's
my sister's twenty first birthday. To fly to napier in
I think it was twenty thirteen for a nil draw. Yeah,
(10:14):
it wasn't the best experience and I got ridiculed on
the way home. But no, look, I as you get
grow older and wise, there obviously there will be responsibility,
but it's just not happening yet.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You flew in yesterday, you're out tomorrow. So a couple
of nights here in Wellington for this one. Do you
often or ever just fly in and out on the
same day. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You know what, I think the best away to is
a fly and fly out because over past years the
jets don't normally pick up the result we're looking for
and to be so far away from your bed, it's
not fantastic. Two weeks ago in Auckland, I actually did
a fly and fly out, which was crazy. I wake
up at four am, got home at eleven. It I
(10:54):
don't know, I can say it pissed, but it pissed
down with rain and I got the middle seats sitting
between two larger individuals and they felt soaked on their
arms and I apologized and they were good about it.
But yeah, honestly, it's a great experience. But next time
I might take a change of clothes.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We've just been talking about World Cup and New Zealand
fans traveling to watch the All watch. Will you go
and watch the soccer as the World Cup? Does your
fandom extend to that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't feel a responsibility of the soccer is and
I I was there in two thousand and five when
Bresciano and Mark Schwartz and John Alissi, but and that
was kind of awesome. That was before the A League.
I've always thought club over country. And once again, I
hope you know what, I don't really care how the
soccer is go this year is sorry next year, but
(11:40):
I hope we beat America. That's all I care about it.
I don't need to get political. But it is a
shame what's happening over there with the ticket prices and
accommodation prices. So for me, I think you could do
for two weeks over there. You could probably could fund
a couple of A League away seasons, So for me,
and obviously the Jets are playing an Asia this year
next year, which is great. So now three away days
(12:02):
in Asia, maybe Bali New Hong Kong. I'd rather do that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I fear four you. I feel for the good people
of Balley of Us as well. No, man, it's great
to see You've aiden you talked about Redwig Steve Adelaide United.
It's most passionate fan. I think you're in the same
issule or mate. It's been awesome to get the chance
to know you, to see you over here so often,
and to see you in the studio today. Mate. I
hope the Jets get the result you're after this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Do you have a score prediction, pony, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Have a score prediction for you. Do you have a
score prediction?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know what, I'm actually really confident. I think at
the moment, with Wellington's injuries, they don't necessarily have the
power up front. I know they've got a great, great player,
but I don't think he's gonna have the SIPs. And
for us, I think it's we're a bit weaker in defense,
so I think it's going to be who blinks first.
I will say Jets three to one, but I'm sure
this will come back to bite me.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, I don't know. It may it may do, it
may not. You never you can never predict predict anything.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Can I just say? Have you got the greatest family
of all time? Have you got the most your daughter
and your wife, great dancing partners, your son's on his
way to the NBA, and you're just you've got a
head for radio. But you do a bloody good job.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm certainly the I'm certainly the underachiever of my family.
Matt put it that way. Mate. Great to see you.
Thanks for stopping in all the business.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Afternoons, same time next year?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Why not? Why not? Well, I know you're going to
be here. Matt Vandenberg one of the greats, one of
the A League's super fans.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
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