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Posted April 12, 2023 07:38 · last edited April 12, 2023 07:39

Big Pete 65
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Riley is not our number 1 right back..Neville is. Jitka won't sort out because Riley sorted her out. Typical NZF shambles.

NZF acted years ago and got Heraf out because a couple of the old guard got upset when they got dropped. Absolute player power " no one upsets our family"...girls cant travel and be with their girlfriends anymore! fact.

some of us at the time said it would come back to bite us in the bum. Proof has been in the pudding.

NZF are an absolute embarrassment. I actually don't blame some of the players because in fairness i think the effort is there and they just arent good enough at this level. BUT the least we can do is get a coach in with some professionalism and some new ideas and provide some kind of hope n spark. 

I don't buy in thats its too late. Get a Leon Birnie or Sam Wilkinson in there now and change it up. 

Jiktka has already come out and said she wants to win a game at the world cup...ie. beat the phillipines to become NZs most successful coach at a world cup. You watch Pragnell come out and blow it up if it happens!!..to justify his 6 year deal for her. you could write the script now.

Seriously had enough. 


I can back up your comments about the "old guard" of players having too much power. I was told in late 2021 by a parent of a young player brought into her first Ferns camp that the experience put her off ever wanting to play for NZ again. The senior players were very unfriendly and seemed mostly interested in protecting their own postion in the squad.
That was a player named in Klimkova's first squad back in October 2021 to face Canada.  
I don't know if things have improved regarding welcoming new players into the squad since then - maybe they have.
I also heard from the mother of an older Ferns player, a striker, when the Ferns played in Christchurch against Korea last year, that her daughter didn't always find Klimkova's coaching methods all that satisfying as a striker - Klimkova was always shouting "defend!, defend!, defend!" at the strikers which her daughter thought somewhat inhibited her attacking impulses.


Well that's just glaringly poor stuff. No wonder we can't string any type of performances together - We're not only battling the opposition, but it seems we're battling ourselves...

All the classic signs of a slow moving trainwreck this is.

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Big Pete 65
Showtime Nixie
Riley is not our number 1 right back..Neville is. Jitka won't sort out because Riley sorted her out. Typical NZF shambles.

NZF acted years ago and got Heraf out because a couple of the old guard got upset when they got dropped. Absolute player power " no one upsets our family"...girls cant travel and be with their girlfriends anymore! fact.

some of us at the time said it would come back to bite us in the bum. Proof has been in the pudding.

NZF are an absolute embarrassment. I actually don't blame some of the players because in fairness i think the effort is there and they just arent good enough at this level. BUT the least we can do is get a coach in with some professionalism and some new ideas and provide some kind of hope n spark. 

I don't buy in thats its too late. Get a Leon Birnie or Sam Wilkinson in there now and change it up. 

Jiktka has already come out and said she wants to win a game at the world cup...ie. beat the phillipines to become NZs most successful coach at a world cup. You watch Pragnell come out and blow it up if it happens!!..to justify his 6 year deal for her. you could write the script now.

Seriously had enough. 


I can back up your comments about the "old guard" of players having too much power. I was told in late 2021 by a parent of a young player brought into her first Ferns camp that the experience put her off ever wanting to play for NZ again. The senior players were very unfriendly and seemed mostly interested in protecting their own postion in the squad.
That was a player named in Klimkova's first squad back in October 2021 to face Canada.  
I don't know if things have improved regarding welcoming new players into the squad since then - maybe they have.
I also heard from the mother of an older Ferns player, a striker, when the Ferns played in Christchurch against Korea last year, that her daughter didn't always find Klimkova's coaching methods all that satisfying as a striker - Klimkova was always shouting "defend!, defend!, defend!" at the strikers which her daughter thought somewhat inhibited her attacking impulses.


Well that's just glaringly poor stuff. No wonder we can't string any type of performances together - We're not only battling the opposition, but it seems we're battling ourselves...

All the making of a slow moving trainwreck this is.