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And three debutantes have been named in the all-white squad for this month's two-match home series against India, with Wellington Phoenix trio Corbin Piper, Matthew Sheridan and Nathan Walker called up for the first time.

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And tonight, once again, we've got two shows waiting for you, ladies and gents.

The first game is the match between Newcastle Jets and the Wellington Phoenix.

And the second game is the preview...

Sorry, the second show is the preview between the Newcastle Jets and Shanghai Port in the Asian Champions League Elite.

So let's start off with the match against Wellington Phoenix on Saturday.

Unfortunately, it was a disappointing 3-0 defeat for the Jets.

But we're going to start off here with the starting 11s.

The Jets went into the game with a 4-1, 4-1. formation and the Wellington Phoenix they went in with a 4-4-2 straight 4-4-2 formation so let's start off here with the Jets in goal number one James Delianoff and the right bank was number 64 Jess Hill center halves number five Joe Shaughnessy and number two Alex Grant and the left back number 23 Dan Wilmering in midfield on his own was Nicholas Badalato, and the attacking quartet in front of him were Alexander Nunez, Zach Clough, Will Dobson, and Ethan De Bono.

Focusing on the rest of the round, and we'll go through the scores quickly, and then we'll have a chat about some of the storylines that come out of it.

On Saturday afternoon, the early game saw Wellington Phoenix beat the Premiers in Newcastle 3-0.

So that kind of continues what has been a not great...

Time for the Jets right now.

I think that's just a gentle reminder to Tony Popovich that he is finally formed, that he is putting his hand up to be picked.

ahead of the two friendlies against Qatar and Jordan coming up in a couple of weeks' time.

And finally, back to the start on Saturday afternoon, the early game, Look, if you had Wellington Phoenix on your bingo card as being 3-0 and having the perfect nine points after three games, I would have said, you're absolutely kidding yourself.

But look, they had two good wins at home, but then they went to the home of the premiers and absolutely gave them a very, very lesson in football.

This is going to be an ongoing conversation that we continue to have and continue and it will, at some point, it'll bite us on the bum internationally as well as it has been at the club level.

Now, you mentioned that Wellington Phoenix result.

They continued their strong start to the A-League men's campaign with what you mentioned was a 3-0 defeat, a shock 3-0 defeat over the Premier's Newcastle on Saturday.

But a chance for Wellington to kill it dead.

Could it be the impact from Bidois? You bet it is.

And now Walker... has slipped in.

Could they add more pain here, the Wellington Phoenix? Walker! Yes! Brilliant! Everything is coming up Wellington Phoenix this season.

And as we noticed, the unfancy, Chris Cranach's unfancied side were leading into this season unexpected, but the only side to have won their first three matches, so outstanding effort.

Yeah.

Sticking with the A-League, two clubs that are on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of how they're doing is Wellington Phoenix and Auckland.

Now, Auckland did extremely well last year.

This year, I think they're a couple points from two losses in their last two games and they're not doing too well.

Like begs to differ that, you know, that salary cap.

What was that salary cap last year? They are struggling a little bit.

Whereas Wellington Phoenix seem to have, you know, risen and they want to be the team that's on top.

Okay.

Make sure you enjoy it.

And Chris Greenacre will also join us on the show tomorrow out of the Wellington Phoenix.

That and much, much more.

And there's bound to be another headline out of netball.

Yeah, they've just announced Aaron Baisley's final squad as All Whites coach as they play two games against India later this month.

And there are three debutants amongst the 22 men named all out of the Wellington Phoenix as a reward for their start to the season.

Corbin Piper, Matthew Sheridan and Nathan Walker have all been called up for the very first time in total of the 22 men named, 13 applying their trade in the A-League.

So a few of the bigger names left back in Europe, but Chris Wood will be here and this is all too playing India

Two.

The Wellington Phoenix at two.

Three

wins from three and top of the A-League.

golfing quality is just there and it's huge.

And as I said in my review show for Wellington Phoenix, Shanghai Port have had a whole week to rest and come over to Newcastle and acclimatise and get themselves ready.

What the hell? Seriously? A whole week?

They actually bumped into each other on the way back to Newcastle from Japan.