Tony Readings
Buffy said that 3 months ago. It won't happen as i see Emblem the obvious choice.
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Tony Readings
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David O'Leary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scoop from the Waitakere v Auckland commentary on Sommet Sports last night (courtesy of OFC TV man Gordon Glen Watson):
Ramon Tribulietx is "the interim All Whites coach" for the game v Japan.
Sorry Big Pete. You heard wrong. He was talking about Neil Emblem who was at the game being a strong candidate for the interin role.
Sorry, You are dead right - says that at 59 mins into the You Tube clip of the full game. I left the room and my mate who came around to watch the preceding Liverpool game and stayed on for this game told me when I got back "They just said about the new All Whites coach - it's going to be the Auckland City guy." Obviously had his wires crossed. Also a few beers had been consumed....
Full game here - nothing conclusive, just speculation at 59 mins into the clip (soon after second half kicked-off) that Emblen ,seen on the touchline, might be a candidate....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud7O-jwwqxc
Be funny if it turned out to be Tribulietx in the end though - I'd have to credit Greg with mystic powers!
Emblen would be more available to take the AW's short-term in March since Tribulietx would be involved with Auckland City in the ASB Premiership semis. Seems to me Emblen is the favourite (though Tribulietx is keener on the long-term job with Neil focusing on the u-23's)
Anyway, both Tribulietx and Emblen use Twitter if anything eventuates:
https://twitter.com/neilemblen
https://twitter.com/RamonTribulietx
There's an interview with Emblen in Britain's Daily Telegraph 30 December on his ambitions with NZ u-23's and football in NZ:
FORMER WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERER NEIL EMBLEN AIMS TO TAKE NEW ZEALAND'S FOOTBALLERS TO RIO 2016

Big Pete 65, Christchurch
David O'Leary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David O'Leary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
ACFC 2 Al-Ahli 0 (World Club Cup 2009)
Al-Ahli also went out after their first game the following year after which they brought in O'Leary. But under O'Leary they never even qualified from the UAE domestic league.
"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...
I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...
Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...
Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."
Correct.
"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...
I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...
Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...
Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."
Maybe someone should ask Danny Hay if he thinks O'Leary would take the job.
Mr Positive
He's been working for Sky UK and has said on TV that he is involved with Ireland in some capacity.
Surely it's gotta be Emblen????
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.
Surely it's gotta be Emblen????
A dog with a bone :)
Surely it's gotta be Emblen????
I think not.
New Zealand should be signing a coach with way more experience than Emblem has. It's our national team and if we want to progress we need a coach with proven international experience. Someone who can Emblem can learn from.
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.
If it was Emblem surely he would have been appointed by now?
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.
Or perhaps waiting for this review to finish that been mentioned a few times already?
Grumpy old bastard alert
Does anyone know about the statement made preJap match on TV3 that Emblem currently does not have the tickets to be AW coach?
I was impressed with Emblen when he took the Olympic side to the UK. They played some great football.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
He has no qualifications. I have heard a couple of stories around this and the reasons why but nothing I am prepared to print.
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so he wouldn't meet selection criteria then?
A small town in Europe........looking to bounce straight back up....well that aint going to happen
if we're not going to spend big bucks, embleN would be ok by me
I guess if you look at all variables of
- Not much of a budget to pay
- Not many games a year so hard to justify full time unless another role wrapped around it
- ideally to know the player environment both locally and internationally
- understanding of how NZF 'do their thing' and the culture of organisation there
- the want and desire for a fulltime, credentialed coach on a low budget
The answers really are Emblen and Ramon. Most likely as a duo but I would think that if either of them got the job, they would ask the other on board. Emblen may take Bazely with him knowing their history.
I know the standard answer is always 'you know never what is out there until you look' (much the same convo as Ricki with the Phoenix) I really think that for all those variables, those two tick more boxes than potentially others may do. I know Emblen has no tickets and not sure about Ramon and how that fits in with NZFs criteria...
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I would support a Emblen - Roman duo. I mean the current players seem to speak highly of Emblen and younger players also mention him regularly as being a great mentor (Burfoot interview on ASB Prem. website.) Roman on the other hand does play a very attractive and winning style of football which New Zealand can certainly benefit from. He also knows how to win in the Pacific as he has shown with Auckland City in the O-league. We may not be in Oceania for much longer but we are for this upcoming WC qualifying campaign so it would be ideal to have him on board. He also has the reputation of being extremely studious by putting the hours in to study the opposition which has certainly helped Auckland City in their Club's World Cup campaigns.
So if they partnered up we would have a winning combination of a coach who the players respect and a tactician who has the ability to win in our confederation. Brazerly is a solid and safe choice, but Roman is a better one.
I would support a Emblen - Roman duo. I mean the current players seem to speak highly of Emblen and younger players also mention him regularly as being a great mentor (Burfoot interview on ASB Prem. website.) Roman on the other hand does play a very attractive and winning style of football which New Zealand can certainly benefit from. He also knows how to win in the Pacific as he has shown with Auckland City in the O-league. We may not be in Oceania for much longer but we are for this upcoming WC qualifying campaign so it would be ideal to have him on board. He also has the reputation of being extremely studious by putting the hours in to study the opposition which has certainly helped Auckland City in their Club's World Cup campaigns.
So if they partnered up we would have a winning combination of a coach who the players respect and a tactician who has the ability to win in our confederation. Brazerly is a solid and safe choice, but Roman is a better one.
The name is Ramon
"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...
I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...
Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...
Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."
Any player with half a brain and a desire to continue playing is, of course, going to speak highly of any coach with half a chance of getting an upcoming job. Moss for example was never going to say "I am happy to be captain, but really don't think Emblen is up to the job. A rather career limiting move I would have thought.
I am not saying that is anything like what he or others think, but what a player says about a coach in public can, in many ways be totally disregarded.
Valid point Jeff. The amount of Phoenix plays that have given the appearance of doing that with Ricki is actually screamingly obvious
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Valid point Jeff. The amount of Phoenix plays that have given the appearance of doing that with Ricki is actually screamingly obvious
Valid point Jeff. The amount of Phoenix plays that have given the appearance of doing that with Ricki is actually screamingly obvious
I dont think you can just say it is an all whites or nix thing, the only recent example I can think of where players have openly knifed the incumbent coach publically is probably Perf. The rest of the time it is "we have full confidence blah blah blah"
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
I would support a Emblen - Roman duo. I mean the current players seem to speak highly of Emblen and younger players also mention him regularly as being a great mentor (Burfoot interview on ASB Prem. website.) Roman on the other hand does play a very attractive and winning style of football which New Zealand can certainly benefit from. He also knows how to win in the Pacific as he has shown with Auckland City in the O-league. We may not be in Oceania for much longer but we are for this upcoming WC qualifying campaign so it would be ideal to have him on board. He also has the reputation of being extremely studious by putting the hours in to study the opposition which has certainly helped Auckland City in their Club's World Cup campaigns.
So if they partnered up we would have a winning combination of a coach who the players respect and a tactician who has the ability to win in our confederation. Brazerly is a solid and safe choice, but Roman is a better one.
The name is Ramon
Damn! Autocorrect!
Who would those players be? Surely we here on this forum are already aware of every semi decent kiwi possibility out there whether eligible or not.
Did any of his foreign ring-ins pick up kiwi citizenship while at AFCF?
Ramon said on TV that they aren't necessarily kiwis but are eligible.
I hope he NZ Football give him a hard look.
Does anyone know why he is in NZ and has stayed here? Seems talented enough to be making a go of it elsewhere.
Ramon Tribulietx has definitely proved that he knows what he's doing with Auckland City, but I agree that some of the comments he's made about "eligible" NZ players abroad are a bit suspicious.
Cute.
"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...
I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...
Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...
Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."