Lack Of Quality Kiwi Strikers

 

Clearly we can see this in the AWs but even here in the NZFC most of the decent talent are from the Islands, UK or SA. 

 

This worries me quite abit and has for awhile.  Even Daniel is not really a Kiwi leaving Brockie and Pearce as the only true quailty NZ born and bred strikers in the country.

Both him and Pearce strike me as being players who will always appear to be decent NZFC players who are worth a look at at international level, only to prove a little short of what's required. I'd probably put Daniel Koprivcic in the same group. Ellensohn might just have that litle bit extra, so it's worth finding out.

 

Two words - Colonel Halstead

...and one has converted into a centre back

 

No, you've got me wrong, he will probably be ok, just won't set anything alight like Jarrod Smith (over rated in my eyes). 

 

What I was arguing is that NZ needs to develop more attacking players, we're well off for defenders and OK for mids but really up front we only have Killy, Smeltz, and probably James (true he is really a mid).  as for the rest (read b players) we have Brockie, Smith, Ellenson and Fisher (Urlovic is passed it and always looked out of his depth at the Kingz). 

 

I think the NZFC coaches/clubs/youth set ups, should be looking hard in their regions for some decent striking ability and help develop it.

 

It is the strikers who do it week in week out at the highest level that should get more respect than someone who has a good season and then two bad ones.

 

 

Costa might have a bit of potential but he's been playing midfield a bit lately hasn't he?

 

Hopefully with Rufer's coaching clinic's, some more strikers will emerge within the next five years or so. The u17 team, despite the opening two losses, actually had a few players with a lot of potential to be very good all whites

 

for some reason, christian bouckenhooghe popped into my head.  i had never heard of him when he played in the 1999 confed cup as a striker and won NZ player of the year.  turns out that he was actually this guy who used to be known as kris boucken.

 

man, i'm way off topic.  but it's because i'm perplexed by what happens to our attacking players...

 

brocken-noodle is now a belgium div 2 defender.  the colonel halstead is now a centre back, allan pearce plays on the wing, urlovic prefers to sit down every sunday for the last four years, his brother's lost in australia, colin walker's now a  barnsley scout, billy wright went home, wynton played in goal for hamilton wanderers reserves, fred's on telly, elrick needs to come out of retirement again to get off the telly, harry retired at 30 to sell shoes, burton took his hair loss as an indication that it was time to quit at 28 and forgot that fellow chernobyl victom victor onopko managed to play into his 30s, and i guess fisher's now playing left back for bodens in sweden?

 

I saw him score from half way with no keeper during half time at a Kingz game. It earned him 1000 bucks.

 

Top goal scorer for the Kingz season 3. He had to score those against some pretty good opposition.