Appiah without the pace
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over 16 years

Bet it is some kind of Kiwi/LOTR cross.

No global football tournament would be complete without a mascot and the LOC is currently auditioning for co-ordinated extroverts to fulfil the role for the FIFA U-20 World Cup NZ 2015. 

While details surrounding the mascot are top secret at this stage you can take our word that it will definitely become a tournament favourite. 

This is Your One Chance to be part of history when the next global football superstar is discovered right here in New Zealand! As a tournament Mascot you will be centre stage when the global football spotlight shines on our nation in 2015. So, if you think you’ve got what it takes to sparkle in front of millions, then please enter your details in the form below and upload your audition video. http://fifau20.co.nz/mascotdancer/register.html  [/quote]

a.k.a AJ13
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Or kiwi/Lorde cross

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almost 17 years

preparing to cringe. 

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over 11 years

AJ13 wrote:

Or kiwi/Lorde cross

Kiwi/Lorde/hobbit cross... still in infancy -

Listen here Fudgeface
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about 14 years

Needs more Flight of the Conchords

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over 14 years

Guess this is what is in the box..

Marquee
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over 11 years

Guess this is what is in the box..

sydney opera house

Stage Punch
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over 11 years
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over 11 years
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over 11 years
First Team Squad
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almost 17 years

Calling it now. I'm picking Fred. 

Just like Fred the Red from Man Utd.

Marquee
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over 11 years

otagofan wrote:

Calling it now. I'm picking Fred. 

Just like Fred the Red from Man Utd.

Yeah but we're All White right? So I'm picking a plump white pilled-up-looking birdy thingy with a mohican. Probably a penguin. With a patch. Hemi the Penguin.

Marquee
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almost 17 years

otagofan wrote:

Calling it now. I'm picking Fred. 

Just like Fred the Red from Man Utd.

Fred West would be more fun

LG
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over 16 years

Inline with Uncle Sepps findings of no corruption within FIFA, I reckon this guy would make a great mascot...

LG
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over 16 years

Guess this is what is in the box..

Sonic the Hedghog?

Marquee
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Lonegunmen wrote:

[quote=George Costanza]

Guess this is what is in the box..

trendy "footballer style" hobbit.


WeeNix
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510
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almost 10 years

Sorry but this to me is a poor choice of Mascot 

Stage Punch
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11K
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over 16 years

Darkhorse you should be pleased. Cos it looks like, well, a dark horse...

LG
Legend
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over 16 years

I've seen it somewhere before!!

Marquee
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over 11 years

Sorry but this to me is a poor choice of Mascot 

Jesus wept!

Cock
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over 14 years

Is that a horse, cow or sheep? Looks like a cow to me. Could have also been in Pulp Fiction too with that Gimp mask.

*snigger* LG. I hate Timmy Time.

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over 13 years

Its a funking mascot of course its going to be a bit lame. Seems on par with every other mascot to me.

Marquee
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over 11 years

Ryan wrote:

Its a funking mascot of course its going to be a bit lame. Seems on par with every other mascot to me.

"Looks like a funking nightmare to me darling."

Stage Punch
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over 16 years

Ryan wrote:

Its a funking mascot of course its going to be a bit lame. Seems on par with every other mascot to me.

 

I agree.

I was pretty sceptical of Nixie when they launched it, but now I'm pretty fond of him/her/it.

Hilarious that it looks exactly like the sheep from Wallace and Grommit though.

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Smithy wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Its a funking mascot of course its going to be a bit lame. Seems on par with every other mascot to me.

 

I agree.

I was pretty sceptical of Nixie when they launched it, but now I'm pretty fond of him/her/it.

Hilarious that it looks exactly like the sheep from Wallace and Grommit though.

they'll probably sue NZF....  Or Fifa - Yeesss!

Phoenix Academy
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about 13 years

Pretty sure Cavalier Bremworth have been using a sheep named Wooliam in their marketing already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6IJppKlX6k&list=PLqMYI_D0-04LvCeaKlgx8r4mbmMZiKDfr

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almost 17 years

who comes up with this sh*t?

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New chant?.....Baa Baa black sheep have you any goals?

Takes me back a year or two to the AB or Super 12? sheep jokes triggered by something?  Baa Nonu and Mils Wooliana

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over 14 years

Mehhhhh but whatever  it is it needs a bigger shirt or to loose some weight!

Starting XI
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over 15 years

Maybe Wooliam is one of the desperate sheep mascots made redundant by the British military who featured in this 2001 Steve Coogan Xmas Special:

COMBAT SHEEP (BBC2, Christmas 2001) 

An adult Christmas special centring on Commander Harris (Steve Coogan), a deluded ex-army sheep mascot. It is a heart warming Christmas story of four army mascots who have been made redundant due to army cutbacks and are jettisoned into the cold to face civvie life and its bleak options on offer.

Redundant Scottish navy sheep mascot intent on blowing himself up at Christmas nativity play: "I'm good enough for Jesus, but not the British navy..."

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/63701609/u20-football-world-cup-mascot-wooliam-unveiled

looks better in cartoon form

"Wooliam will be busy making public appearances at schools, shopping malls and other major functions from now until the end of the tournament next June."


LG
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The silence on the chanting dished out to this "thing" is deafening from whomever came up with it and or FIFA U-20 World Cup Local Organising Committee chief executive David Beeche. "It was very satisfying to see the crowds enjoying him as much as we do," Beeche said.

Obviously he missed the long chorus of "WTFen hell is that?"

But it was pretty obvious it received a rather negative reception from pretty much everyone - Kids under 5 exempt.

Can someone take it to Taylor Prestons and have it put out of it's misery??

FIFA marketing director Thierry Weil said mascots were a fantastic tool to present the values and qualities of a country to the world.

"Wooliam is a great character who embodies New Zealand and its people," he said.

Thierry, if you get off on Australians & UK residents bombarding us with sheep jokes then good on you (Village Idiot). We have been trying to get away from the Sheep conotations for some 40 years.

LG
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Someone has read my peice. Please note the time I posted it and now this appears at 5am this morning...

Smith: Sheep mascot for Fifa under-20 World Cup is baa-low the belt                               

TONY SMITH

                                    Last updated 05:00, December 2 2014

OPINION:

What the bleep, a freaking sheep? Ewe must be trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

If opposition fans suddenly start waving inflatable sheep at West Ham's Winston Reid, then the Fifa under-20 World Cup football tournament organisers are to blame.

Whatever induced them to select a cloven-footed cove called Wooliam as their mascot for Fifa's second largest tournament, to be held in New Zealand from May 30 to June 20?

Was Fred Dagg not available?

It took the Australians roughly six nanoseconds to start baa-sking in our inglory. The Sydney Morning Herald gleefully posted some mickey-taking mischief from AAP about "a black sheep who goes by the name of Wooliam - which some could argue is how Kiwis pronounce William."

Their jibe followed a Sunday evening tweet from Australian sports columnist Richard Hinds, who was clearly in despair, at the Wellington Phoenix's 5-1 flogging of his beloved Melbourne Heart. "This is so bad not even a Kiwi commentator saying @MelbourneCity are at 'sixes and sevens' can cheer me up."

Australians like nothing better than winding Kiwis up. Sheep jokes have been tripping from their lips for 150 years, often in ignorance of the incontrovertible evidence around sheep numbers on either side of the Tasman. Australia has 85 million at last count, we have a mere 30 million - still a mass of merinos in anybody's language.

Did the Fifa under-20 tournament local organising committee have to perpetuate the cruel stereotype? They should be feeling a little sheepish.

Yet committe chief executive Dave Beeche said: "We appreciate that around the globe, New Zealand is associated with sheep, so we thought why not embrace that, but add an extra twist by making him the coolest black sheep ever - a young Kiwi with cheek and attitude?"

Granted, our four-legged friends do have footballing form. The all-conquering Christchurch United national league team in the 1970s were nicknamed the Rams before the Canterbury basketball franchise swiped the sobriquet.

Then there was Fred, the football playing ram, from Southland who became social media clickbait last October when video footage was posted of his heading prowess.

Kyle McLellan, 11, and brother Sam, 7, were playing football in their Makarewa backyard when they discovered Fred's hitherto-hidden skill.

"We kicked the ball over the fence into the paddock and he headbutted it back," Kyle told the Southland Times.

Selecting a sheep as a Kiwi sporting mascot amounts to a failure of imagination. Surely, New Zealand is known now for more indigenous fauna. Couldn't we have had a kiwi, a kea or a kakapo, or any endangered species?

It isn't too late. There's still six months to go till kickoff. Poor Wooliam could be crated up and marched off to the works so an altogether more appropriate icon could be pressed into service.

But at least it's allowed the tournament some time in the spotlight, if not to hog it.

                 - The Press

 
Legend
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over 15 years

Spinning a yarn...

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a.k.a AJ13
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Even some kind of Tiki would have been good. The ever-obvious kiwi wouldve been better than this. Sh!t even a giant walking whittakers peanut slab wouldve sufficed. 

LG
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Temuera the Plastic Tiki has a good sound about it.

Legend
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over 15 years

Nasty Wally Weta

LG
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Cory Ro ? Would be a good name. Especially if you think about it like this....Korero.

Wooliam is just plain stupid.

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