and that's the reason they get a great crowd. They've played good football for some time. Fans could expect a challenge and a bit of enterprise .
The widespread unified criticism of Heraf is completely justified.
Is real pity that now that they can fly business class, and so undoubtedly be better prepared, they have been lumbered with this awful coaching style.
Also big kudos to the Wellington football community turning up, and creating record crowd for Football Ferns game in NZ. They deserved better.
However as a little foot note, the FF have been disappointing for a year or two now, at least performance wise. They barely fired a shot at 2016 Olympics - only beating Colombia 1-0.
Of course having Heraf as coach, could lead to a real downward spiral in performance - but just don't think FF group are as talented as some may think. They must just about have softest qualifying path to major tourneys in world football. Oceania qualifying 2015 WC, was 3 games GF 30 & GA 0.
That of course is beyond their control, but being brutally honest the depth in women's football is a lot weaker than in the men's game - esp true for Oceania. Many poorer countries almost completely ignore resourcing sport for women.
Is great that so many of FF now have overseas contracts, and the FFDP seems to be working - but just seems FF have been stagnating for couple of years (I think Readings acknowledged as much when he resigned after 6 years as coach) - well before Heraf turned up.
But yes at least they need to be set up to try to win within their talent limitations, not just trying to keep the score down.