Reorganising this forum

 

I am considering reorganising into 8 major threads and would like some feedback:

 

- Kiwi Players in the UK (Senior): players playing at senior level in league football

 

- Young kiwis in the UK: all guys playing at academy, youth, reserve etc.  They don't all need their own threads.

 

- Kiwis in the rest of Europe (Really this is just Reid, Henderson and the young guys in Germany I think)

 

- Kiwis in the A-League (self explanatory)

 

- Kiwis in the Australian State Leagues (if required)

 

- Kiwis in the US: MLS and level below

 

- Kiwis at College in the US

 

- Kiwis in Asia (this can cover both Senior and Youth/Reserve as there aren't that many)

 

- Kiwis on trial/unsigned: guys who don't have a club trying their luck overseas

 

If you are happy with the current system let me know as well, but I am mindful to change this as I don't think it lends itself to very good discussion

I like having individual threads for most senior players. Bc i can immediately see which players have had some additional comment or news posted.

 

But i think all youth players could be grouped according to region as you suggest.

 

Instead what I think we should do, is to organise a series of sub-forums as per the topics you have suggested - and then within those subforums we can list individual players. I think this would be the best structure (if we can still do that)

 

 

 

Was just astarting point really as I find all of this stuff interesting, but this forum I don't think really works

 

which one would I fit into?  I am a senior player playing at a senior level, but I am also young and playing for a reserve team (when I can be bothered shaking off my hangover and turning up).

 

Didn't really think this through, did you?

 

+1 enjoy this forum...it's like having headlines with players names- you go -oh Fallon, Smeltz and Moss are in the news...

 

We have two sub-forums:

1.) Overseas All Whites (and in the sub-forum we have threads for foreign based senior and current AWs)

2.) Other Overseas NZ Footballers (and here we can have threads for groups of players along the lines of what JD suggested - young Kiwis in Europe, College Kiwis in US, women etc)

 

The grey area will be players like Steven Old. NOt currently an AW but people will still be interested in his progress at Kilmarnock. On reflection, i think individual senior players with a profile like Old should be permitted their own thread, but in sub-forum 2????

 

you should eat less cheese before going to bed.

 

Generally, I think its best to think of this forum as a source of info rather than a place where there's lots of banter. And that's why I am in favour of keeping individual threads, so you can quickly work out who's got some new news (although agree that academy and youth types could be merged by region).

 

Sam, I think you're right, this is a place for info source rather than lots of banter.  Some good feedback here.  I think we'll keep individual threads for the majority of senior AWs.   Everyone seems to like that and most do get fairly regular hits.

 

I think then we should have, like we used to, a young kiwis in the UK thread which can include all guys below senior level, triallists, academy etc etc because we're really not getting a lot of info on them and they just drop away shortly after being started (by Abris, who does an excellent job keeping track).

 

Aside from that I think we should have a young kiwis everywhere else, same but for all other regions.

 

Final thoughts?

Could have a "Young Kiwis in North America" thread too- there are probably more at US varsities, Portland Timbers etc. than we have in the UK.

Agree this forum is a really useful source of info on NZ players around the world -after all, otherwise the only sources of info here are the daily papers or the TV news (which only generally cover the higher profile players). So you guys are providing a great service to us keen fans who want to keep up with news on players. I like the fact fans post info you wouldn't find anywhere else on players (e.g stuff from Kiwis living overseas such as last year, before Rory Fallon pledged his allegiance to NZ when a Kiwi in the UK posted how he'd met Rory after Plymouth played a pre-season friendly in his area and asked him abouit his plans) or stuff found on obscure foreign language websites.

I know even the country's top football journalists keep an eye on this forum to glean info (I know one of these journos from a major daily paper). A few days after I posted some info on Winston Reid from a Danish  site, the NZ Herald (a different journo to the one I know) mysteriously used the same info word-for-word!

Andrew Gourdie from TV 3 and his TVNZ counterpart even post on Fever Forums.