All Whites (plus 'K' clubs) where are they now ?

His first season, and it was more a half after he came back during the season.  Best player in the league for that period though.  He was okay in V2 as well, but then he was tied up in the Petersen/SKY  shambles.  He was last seen in regional leagues in Spain somewhere.
Jason Batty - Was coaching at Dartmouth college, but he's not listed there now.
David Mulligan - Port Vale
Gavin Wilkinson - Coach of the Portland Timbers
Chris Zoricich - Retired, but still in the UK ?
Gerard Davis - Last seen at Waitak but perpetually injured.
Glen Collins - Canterbury United, although I don't think I've seen him this season.
Lee Jones - Retired (great man)
Ivan Vicelich - Waalwijk
Noah Hickey - Retired
Chris Jackson - Regional Aus last I heard, so pretty much retired.
Aaron Lines - Richmond (for now)
Brent Fisher - Sweden somewhere
Vaughan Coveny - We're not worthy, we're not worthy.

Jones ywas player coach at Glenfield last year I just remembered.

Petersen/SKY shambles sorry? I must have a massive (what little I have) brain fade cause its not familiar

So, he'll be enjoying US1 Premier Action then now ?

Mike Peterson, Sky Appointed coach in V3 who ran out on the club dumping us with a stack of overpaid, under-performing Australians despite the fact that anyone with any knowledge knew he had previously run out on three clubs as a player or a coach.
Hard News2008-04-13 23:16:55

We had an inkling things were wrong when we lost to Perth at home 7-2.

He was gone the next morning...

Oh yeah thats right. The guy from South Melborne. His attitude was that he wasn't changing his attacking style so best to leave. I didn't realise that SKY apppointed him coach.

Didn't he leave after 3 rounds or something?

The memories come flooding back. I think I'm going to be sick

While we are puling names out the Riddler, Stu Riddle, where is he now?

He lasted 4 games.  Then Shane Rufer took over for two matches (a draw and a win) and then Sky threw Fallon at the problem... we can all guess how that went.

Sky bought the club towards the end of the season before, then dumped it once the new board that was all about Rugby took over.  Basically totalled it and then said if someone else doesn't take it we're closing it down.

Interestingly the Kingz didn't finish last the following season, there were two sides below them.  Normal service was resumed in the final year of the NSL though.
Hard News2008-04-13 23:28:58

Buffon II2008-04-13 23:31:10

Its interesting searching back through some articles of the Kingz. Tim 'the gasman' Stevens.... Mark Beldham (give me a break). I would love to get every single name that played for the Kingz and do a 'where are you now' game.

Yes... and the jumping up and down in the middle of the pitch giving us two fingers afterwards.

If the NSL had any balls he shouldn't have been playing, instead the Kingz lost money to him despite him walking, because the NSL were spineless when confronted with the PFA and couldn't afford the legal fight.

Thieving c**t.

PM me tomorrow... I have an Excel sheet (or acquaintances do), might have the Knights in it as well.   From memory it has everyone who had a deal with them, even if they didn't play, like Vas Kalogeracos and Con.
Hard News2008-04-13 23:35:53

Oh yeah Con the crim, now we are pulling out some names, crickey.

sh*t yeah. I know some mates that would find some comedy gold in that... Cheers H N

What ever happened to our next big thing from a few years back, Gareth Rowe?

Knights :

Banks, Campbell
Bazeley, Darren
Brockie, Jeremy
Bull, Ronnie
Bunce, Che
Buari, Malik
Caravella, Zenon
Carbon, Matt
Casey, Adam
Christie, Jeremy
Collett, Ben
Crossley, Nick
Devine, Sean
Duruz, Gr�gory
de Moraes, Fernando
Emblen, Neil
Fitzsimmons, Steve
Fleming, Jeffery
Gao, Leilei
Gemmill, Scot
Gordon, Dean
Danny Hay
Hickey, Noah
Imaya, Naoki
Jasper, Sam
Johnston, Richard
Kovacevic, Sime
Yan, Li
Marcina, Alen
Maguire, Josh
Milosevic, Danny
Mohamed, Hamza
Moss, Glen
O'Dor, Steven
Paston, Mark
Parisi, Franco
Richter, Jonti
Rose, Joshua
Rodrigues, Dani
Salley, Jonas
Tambouras, John
Tinkler, Cole
Turnbull, Michael
van Eijs, Frank
Wells, Dustin
White, Michael
Zhang, Xiaobin
Simon Yeo


Hard News2008-04-14 14:53:01

Kingz - Note, not all of these players actually played, but they were all 'signed' by the Kingz at some point:

Patricio Almendra
Con Anthopolos
Mark Atkinson
Campbell Banks
James Bannatyne
Jason Batty
Mark Beldham
Scott Bishop
Andy Bluhm
James Bryce
Con Boutsianis
Vinko Buljabasic
Che Bunce
Mark Burton
Jeff Campbell
Michael Cartwright
Jeremy Christie
Glenn Collins
Chad Coombes
Julio Cuello
Gerard Davis
Raf de Gregorio
Fred de Jong
Paul Dempsey
Mauro Donoso
Sean Douglas
Daniel Duke
Simon Eaddy
Lance Eeson
Mark Elrick
Sean Fallon
John Foundalakis
George Goutziolis
Paul Harries
Danny Hay
Nick Haigh
Noah Hickey
Robbie Hooker
Dennis Ibrahim
Chris Jackson
Lee Jones
Vas Kalageracos
Leigh Kenyon
John Lammers
Aaran Lines
Edmilson Maciel
Fabio Macolino
John Markovski
Chris Marsh
Tallan martin
Dino Menillo
Robbie Middleby
Aleksander Midtsian
Hiroshi Miyazawa
David Moya
Harry Ngata
Ross Nicholson
Levent Osman
Jonathon Perry
James Pritchett
David Rayner
David Richmond
Stu Riddle
Jason Rowley
Wynton Rufer
Espen Shjerven
Brad Scott
Paul Seaman
Ben Sigmund
Aaron Silva
Marcus Stergiopolous
Tim Stevens
Batrim Suri
John Tambouras
Johnathon Taylor
Michael Theoklitos
Kaz Townsend
Steven Turner
Paul Urlovic
Michael Utting
Riki van Steedan
Ivan Vicelich
Andy Vlahos
Michael Williams
Tamati Williams
Rob Ward
Craig Wylie
Darren Young

woah, that's some list

Whats even more disturbing is that 47 played for the Knights over 2 seasons. Thats changing a full squad for the 2nd year and you still have 1 player spare. Disturbing....

HN you missed Campbell Banks and Hamza Mohammadfor the Knights.

seems like a throwback to Muldoon's  PEP (job creation) schemes of the late 70's 

Cheers Buffy. 

Russ the Muss has the full list but he's overseas for a month so I had to go back to one before the last season and update it.

I remember interviewing Fallon for work back then and asking him if they were going to offer players contracts longer than a year so we didn't have to completely rebuild every season and lose some of our better players for nothing. He gave me some bullsh*t about players getting lazy on 2 year contracts and that it was done to keep them hungry.

Is Kevin Fallon actually New Zealand Crickets former High Performance Manager Rick Charlesworth in disguise?

martinb2008-04-14 18:35:33