https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/nz-teams/122378286/ryan-nelsen-heaps-praise-on-chris-woods-epl-success
"[Wood] is worth £25-30 million now," said Nelsen.
"It's $NZ50 million Kiwi to just have a talk to him. [Strikers] don't grow on trees; you need to pay a sh*t ton for that type of output, and I don't think he gets the credit he probably deserves from the New Zealand football public."
Well said Nellie. His thoughts that we may not see another Kiwi scoring goals in a big league regularly in our lifetimes (depending on how old you are!), on the money.
Back to that Halberg discussion, to me NZF need to nominate Wood every year he is scoring goals in the EPL.
Yeah he may never win the award (judging criteria being what it is), but nominating him every year he's doing what he's doing now, would be an annual statement/reminder, that ours is the World Game and for a Kiwi to be doing what he is doing in maybe the world's top league deserves far more kudos.
See Vicelich is on the Voting Academy. Fred Woodcock also.
https://www.halbergawards.co.nz/about/voting-academy/
In many similar sized countries in the world Wood would be a superstar. In China or India he would be demigod, his image plastered everywhere. If he was a native of pretty much any Asian country he'd have a huge profile.