It also depends on whether or not you consider the under 23s and the senior team as the same under the banner "New Zealand" or not.
A lot of people would consider those results as seperate and therefore shouldn't be lumped together simply because it makes a win ratio look better. Also why is our national team coach applying for jobs just a year out from the intercontinental playoff, six months out from the confederations cup, and two years out from the world cup?
Is he going to leave us in the lurch if he does get a job?
I'm trying to think from his perspective, lets say your a young coach that has an ambition to one day coach in one of the top leagues in the world. You happen to accept an international role to tick off on the CV with an expectation that you will be playing regular opposition every year. The job starts getting really boring as you only get to be a coach for 3 weeks of a whole year and your peers are getting more coach time than yourself. You realise the coaching CV is only going to get so far being a coach in such a weak confederation. Then you accept the fact that you need to be ready to move onto bigger and better things for you to progress when the opportunity is available.
I agree, which is why I said that the fault lies with Martin. But surely if you have confidence like you say you do you don't leave when the end is in sight and lots of good games are on the horizon. Unless you think that you're going to get killed in all those competitions, and therefore you want to leave before that happens.
I also see where he's coming from combining all his coaching results into one. They are all New Zealand after all. But it is disingenuous.
I can also imagine he's getting pretty pissed off with 2ndbest, lucky he has time on his hands to reverse the edits.