I've listened to this week's football fever ep on this topic.
Piney and Bonnie and Rosie White have more or less strongly compared the Klimkova situation with the Heraf situation, despite stressing that the "incidents" are not the same.
Also, bizarrely, Bonnie talks about feeling bad about being part of media criticism of the poor performances of the Ferns in recent times, not knowing about these off field issues that the Ferns were dealing with. But her own reporting chronology suggests the problems only started with the incident directed at a single player which happened after the Ferns were eliminated from the World Cup, and I don't think there has been much in the way of criticism towards the Ferns after the World Cup? So is she suggesting that things have been bad under Klimkova for years, and the "incident" was something of a straw that broke the camel's back?
Obviously, it's hard to know what to think when specifics still haven't been (and maybe can't be) reported. But I think back to Pragnell's interview with Piney about Klimkova's exit the other week. I thought, and commented here at the time, that it was annoying to me that Pragnell was doing his very best to suggest that nothing at all had gone wrong, no mistakes had been made, it was absolutely the right call to appoint Klimkova for 6 years, and results had been good enough, etc etc, and how it was the same old story from NZF, they always seem obsessed with making themselves look good and spinning things in the most positive way and never accepting mistakes had been made or things could have or should have been done better. Anyone who ever listened much to Andy Martin or Anthony Hudson will know what I mean.
It seems I'm not the only person who feels this way, it seems the Ferns are also quite annoyed about it. They are not feeling sufficiently "heard" and I'm not surprised given the way Pragnell sounded in that interview. It would have been so refreshing for Pragnell to have shown a bit more humility and paid at least lip service to the idea that some minor mistakes have been made.
But on the podcast Bonnie suggests there may be more reporting in the coming days, so stay tuned...
Piney and Bonnie and Rosie White have more or less strongly compared the Klimkova situation with the Heraf situation, despite stressing that the "incidents" are not the same.
Also, bizarrely, Bonnie talks about feeling bad about being part of media criticism of the poor performances of the Ferns in recent times, not knowing about these off field issues that the Ferns were dealing with. But her own reporting chronology suggests the problems only started with the incident directed at a single player which happened after the Ferns were eliminated from the World Cup, and I don't think there has been much in the way of criticism towards the Ferns after the World Cup? So is she suggesting that things have been bad under Klimkova for years, and the "incident" was something of a straw that broke the camel's back?
Obviously, it's hard to know what to think when specifics still haven't been (and maybe can't be) reported. But I think back to Pragnell's interview with Piney about Klimkova's exit the other week. I thought, and commented here at the time, that it was annoying to me that Pragnell was doing his very best to suggest that nothing at all had gone wrong, no mistakes had been made, it was absolutely the right call to appoint Klimkova for 6 years, and results had been good enough, etc etc, and how it was the same old story from NZF, they always seem obsessed with making themselves look good and spinning things in the most positive way and never accepting mistakes had been made or things could have or should have been done better. Anyone who ever listened much to Andy Martin or Anthony Hudson will know what I mean.
It seems I'm not the only person who feels this way, it seems the Ferns are also quite annoyed about it. They are not feeling sufficiently "heard" and I'm not surprised given the way Pragnell sounded in that interview. It would have been so refreshing for Pragnell to have shown a bit more humility and paid at least lip service to the idea that some minor mistakes have been made.
But on the podcast Bonnie suggests there may be more reporting in the coming days, so stay tuned...