In the light of recent developments - the Nix trying and failing at 'total football'; City displeasing sections of the crowd with too much 'tika taka', it has been announced that as of this coming weekend Ramon Trib is taking over the reigns at Wellington Phoenix (short-term contract, length dependent upon results and Gareth's whim); and Ricki Herbert will be warming the dugout at Kiwitea St. (long-term contract: he wants to see some Auckland sunshine again before he dies).
Sorry mate, Herbert has already coached at Kiwitea Street for Central United and they don't rate him. However I'm sure Ramon would love to coach a fully professional club in the A League. Expect a blizzard of off contract CV's from Spanish professionals if he does.
I was going to suggest Angel Berlanga as a good capable full back for the Phoenix but now he's taken up a lucrative offer from the Indian I-League and has left City anyway. We miss him already. Too many good players have departed the club this season - Hogg, Berlanga, Corrales. I fear we're going to struggle to overhaul a rampant Waitakere, especially with our overly defensive tiki taka style and our strikers being a bit off form.