Oliver Sail

The Auckland FC boys get underway on Saturday, as well as the Kiwis tonight, taking on the Kangaroos.

Scotty and Izzy got us started this morning, catching up with Auckland FC goalkeeper Oli Sail, a man coming off a pretty brutal injury last year, who won't feature until potentially the derby.

He talks about new head coach Pedro Moreira and how he's going in camp.

It's certainly fresh ideas and, and a fresh take on things.

... on the award.

Ollie Sail of Auckland FC is gonna join us today.

Back in the saddle, Ollie Sail.

Good to see him back too.

Remember, injured last year for Auckland FC and then missed out on the World Cup too, so lovely to see Ollie back and raring to go.

So we'll get to that in a moment.

But it's also all on for the A-League, and, uh, Auckland FC with a home assignment this weekend to kick off their season.

And, uh, they'll be boosted by the return of one Ollie Sail, who we're going to get up on the line in just a moment's time.

Like I say, the first 11's still pretty good, Burge.

You know, there's Michael Woud and Oli Sail, you know, I, who I think is almost back to, uh, back to full fitness down ba- battling it out for the, the goalkeeping spot.

Um, you know, Kellen Elliott's still there.

Hiroki Sakai, Nando Pijnaker, Francis de Vries, Jake Brimmer, Cam Howieson, uh, Felipe Gigos.

We lost, in that off-season, we lost, uh, Josh Laws, Callum Elliot, Clayton Lewis, uh, Steven Ugarkovic, Jan Sas, and Ben Wain, I think left in the January.

Um, and we only replaced those play- uh, Oli Sail also came here for Perth, and we only replaced those players with Jack Duncan and Mo Al-Tayeb initially.

Mm.

So on the face of it, you'd, you know, you wouldn't be a fool to think, "Oh, the Phoenix l- seem to be a lot weaker here." But in reality, our starting 11 was actually probably stronger because, you know, no one probably would have predicted the emergence of Finn Surman, Ben Old, and Alex Polson that year.

And the games, the couple of games he did play, he made a couple of, not high-profile mistakes, but he was, he was in...

I wouldn't even say it was his fault, but he was involved in a couple of...

Melbourne Victory away, Springs Tomorrow, where he had a mix-up with Oli Sail.

And everyone, you know, football is very, very guilty of short-term memories and short-term reactions.