Player profile - Nick W

Position:
Midfield (in theory; in practice I tend to be all over the place)

Stallion Hall of Fame:
Season MVP in debut year for Stallions. Downhill ever since.

How many seasons as a Stallion?
4, I think.

Are you a dual Stallion? If so what game are you best at?
Am extraordinarily bad at cricket, so have avoided being a Cricket Stallion for everyone’s sake.

Greatest Stallion Moment?
Being awarded season MVP.

Great moments for me are when we scored an end-to end goal from a free flowing passing movement among the team. Those are rare moments.

Goals wouldn’t qualify here, because any goal I’ve ever scored for the Stallions is a distant, distant memory and would be difficult to distinguish from rose-tinted fantasy.

Worst Stallion Moment?
The worst moment would have been moment of the final (early, and only) whistle-blow of the referee in the loss to Uni Terrace last year. Dismal.

Describe your last goal for the Stallions.
My last goal for the stallions will be a right foot strike, travelling low above the ground from 3 metres inside the 18 yard box and two metres right of the right-hand post of the goal, after a layoff pass on the deck from Rob, who will be wearing the incorrect uniform and be fined later that evening for it.

Complete the sentence - As a player I am susceptible to ...
Overzealous celebration of my rare goals. And underzealous celebration of my rare goals.

Most under-rated Stallion?
To me two people stand out: Aaron, and Nick Goodall. The Stallions team has developed a strong culture with a good mix of off-field enjoyment and on-field teamwork. That mix is very important and is complementary: one feeds the other.

Both Aaron and Nick have put heaps into leading that culture this year and made the team great to be part of. Aaron’s doing an outstanding job producing the blog, and goes about his work as finemaster with an unparalleled enthusiasm. Nick G is really leading the team well in organising players before matches, communicating to everybody the team approach on the field and reflecting afterwards on how we can get better. All with good humour which is ultimately what this team is all about.

Great team culture this year lead by these two guys and it’s no accident that the results on the field back it up.

Finish this sentence. The Stallions need more?
Patience to retain the ball in our possession.

Which international player is most like you?
I wish: Graeme Bachop
In reality: Caleb Ralph – mediocre in first season for All Blacks and worse every year thereafter.

Where will the Stallions finish in 2008?
Where we deserve.

photo: Is this the wrong Nick White, sorry about that. Please nobody do an google image search for Nick White with no search filters. Especially anybody at work. How much amateur gay porn can be made by one guy (well, lets be fair - he and all of his friends).