We wont stand for racial abuse, warns Keinzley

Gary Caffell
Wairarapa United coach Phil Keinzley warns his team will walk off the field if they are subjected to more "over the top" vocal abuse in their return central league promotion-relegation soccer match with Stop Out at Hutt Park, Petone this coming Saturday.
Keinzley could never be called a prude but he was shocked to learn from his players after the first of the promotion-relegation games at the Pugh Sports Bowl last Saturday at the type of comment being made by some of the Stop Out team.
"From what they said a lot of the talk had racial overtones and we won't tolerate that," Keinzley said. "If it happens again and nothing is done about it we will walk off, simple as that."
Wairarapa United have three Fijans- Pita Rabo, Waisake Sabutu, and Sakeo Valevou- in their squad along with Vanuatu striker Seule Soromon although a broken collarbone kept skipper Rabo out of the Sports Bowl match.
His absence was sorely felt, especially on attack, but Sabutu, Valevou and goal scorer Soromon all starred in Wairarapa United's 1-0 win.
As it happens Stop Out will be without one of their defenders for the crucial return fixture after he was sent off about midway through the second half of last Saturday's game for alleged dissent.
It came after the intervention of a assistant referee who obviously heard something he didn't like from the player, who was on a warning after being penalised for a similar "infringement"earlier in the game.
While delighted his side will go into the return match with a one goal buffer Keinzley is adamant they will need to improve several aspects of their play if they are to attain their dream of central league status by beating Stop Out on goal aggregate over the two games.
"They (Stop Out) were always going to be a handful at home and that one goal advantage won't be enough to do the trick," he predicted. "We'll have to lift another couple of notches, that's pretty much guaranteed".
The electrifying attacking skills of Soromon caused panic stations in the Stop Out defence on numerous occasions last Saturday but Keinzley believes more goals should have come from the deficiencies he exposed in that area.
"It wasn't Seule's fault, he created the openings but too often became isolated because the support wasn't there," he said. " We can't rely on him being a one-man band, we have to work harder to help him out.".
Keinzley also considered that Wairarapa United lacked their usual assertiveness on the tackle, especially in the last quarter when Stop Out, even though a man down, mounted a series of likely-looking attacks. "We were holding back a bit, it was like we didn't want to risk getting whistled up. It's not our usual style at all.".
The loss of Miriek Tvaroh in the closing stages after he was inadvertently kicked in the leg showed just how important the Czech hard man is to the Wairarapa United game plan with the organisation in midfield becoming somewhat haphazard in his absence.. Happily however, Tvaroh, was moving freely again by Sunday and his availability this coming weekend is not in doubt.
Keinzley said there was "no chance" of Wairarapa United going into the return game with anything other than their usual attack-orientated game plan.
They have the remarkable record of having scored at least one goal in each and every game this season and making the continuation of that trend so important at Hutt Park is a rule for the promotion-relegation series which says the first goal scored by the away team is actually worth two on the scoreboard.
"Scoring the first goal would be huge, absolutely huge," Keinzley said. "Rather than have them having to score twice to get their noses in front they would have to score three times, and,mentally that's a big difference, isn't it?".