I actually feel sorry for Andy Martin in this case and I have added my own guestimations below based on what I read.
I think some people would be well advised to take pause and think for a moment before calling this a shambles, swept under the carpet or another NZF fix up. There has largely been a clean sweep out after all this. Ricki and BT are gone, McNumpty is gone along with FVH and while FDJ is there, I wonder how much input he had into the national team and all that. Yes he was the mouthpiece in the media but was he the decision maker? I'm inclined to cut him a little slack for that considering he was not long in the role either. Martin has to own the mistakes of a previous regime that he has no idea about and then promise to learn from them. Hard to learn from something when you don't know about it but also the guys that have made them have all gone!
I also think that in order to get the full picture of what was happening, Martin had to promise absolute anonymity otherwise how was anyone ever going to know the full story of what everyone said, felt, saw? He is a new CEO and if he got the half baked version with everyone pulling punches, how is he expected to fix things. I think what he has done has been the right move especially at a time when its been quite known that people have been getting off board the NZF train for a while so he needed to get the absolute truth about the state of his national side.
It does seem from what is being put out there that there is a blame at Ricki for the preparation, BT for the warm ups and lead ins and the board for letting this happen all unchecked. It seems the players wanted a voice and it got ignored and really, it all points back to a fucked up culture that had no checks and balances. It would appear that everyone left Ricki to his own way because 'well he got us there last time so......' I hate to harp on about it but you have to wonder how much of this would have happened on Ryan's watch (being a big time player, reputation and also the desire to speak out) and when you think about that, how much did he stop some of that crap with WC2010? The stories have been about for a while about how he got some Blackburn staff on board to help with some things and whether its true or not, taking into account Honiara horror, it does point to being a bad culture for quite a long time. I think if Martin works on fixing that, a few problems will come into line on there own.
I wonder if there was any comment in there at all about how it was probably a mistake with hindsight to keep Ricki on after Honiara. Be intrigued on the players thoughts on that one.