I base my opinion on what i have seen him do with age group sides. Colin Tua with the under 17's did get beaten but atleast they looked to play.
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When has a national team of footballers ever looked to play under his watch. The all whites use to be the same and then Ricki came, all of a sudden we tried to actually play football and guess what we did ok.
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Jacobs has no faith in our players, if he did he would as them to try passing it to each other other tha hoofing it forward.
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You must have been watching a different u17s than I did then because the team I watched got embarassed 7-0, 5-0 and 1-0.�
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U17s, U20s, Olywhites, 1st team - they all play the same way and style - its just the same old same old.....
Not sure what happened but the 17s had a different format leading before the world cup and then reverted to playing our best striker (Costa B) in midfield behind a lone Centre Forward - go figure that one...and people wonder why he did not perform.....but hey its all been said before.....
Until Ricki implements his UEFA licence coaching material then we may need put up with it a lil longer I suspect...having said all of that, I hope the boys play well at least and fight!!!!chareimos2008-08-14 00:49:06