Rufer isn't exactly impressing as coach of PNG U20s (and doesn't have a great coaching record as a whole), and he has a history of rubbing people the wrong way. Not ideal if that happened with key players.
Don't know where the idea that Ricki was ambitious for NZ Football or himself comes from. Refusing to change formations so playing Killen as a DM, or picking Christie for the Mexico game, don't smack of ambition to me. And as for his ambition for himself, wouldn't he have taken one of those big money offers after the WC if that was the case? Wouldn't he have gone overseas to find a job after he left the Nix?
I still think that Emblen is our best option. It's not like we've got millions of dollars floating around to pay a coach. I'd guess the Nix pay more than the AWs.