Billy Harris: a thread of mediocrity

 

 

Thats not how I remember it, more like we didn't have enough doleros in the bank to secure him after promising him good money, so he left

 

Some if it is true though.....Coaches around the globe are regularly sacked with a record like Rickies.

 

The NIX greatest success has been what it has done for the profile of the game across the country... this would of happened regardless of whether Herbert was coach or not and it will continue to be the main focus of the game in NZ for the foreseeable future whoever owns / manages / coaches the team.

 

Harris does pose a good question, is Ricki too big to be fired? He can pick and choose his roles within NZFC and when to join in e.g Olympic campaign etc.His record is not flash in terms of wins and losses etc / finaly positions and he has shown an inability to retain our best local talent (Smeltz / Kosta / Marcos) which i find the most worrying.

 

It would be hard to fire him after what he has gone through this season with Terry.

 

 

 

Yeah, he is.  No-one who was coach of an A-League side at the start of Phoenix's life is still coach now, apart from GVE at Jets, who has only just returned after a long time away.

 

 

I personally am not that happy that in the off season while other A-League coaches are fine tuning their recruitment, working on their preseason plans etc our coach will be away with the AW's and then a possibly long spell in London coaching the Olympic team. IMO he has too much on his plate. I want the guy coaching the Nix to focus on thet job 100% 

You all might not like what Billy Harris says but he supported his opinion with facts. People on here resort to personal insults. It's what people do when they have lost the argument.

 

Not really.  People on here throw insults at Harris not because they lack facts to support their arguments, but because those facts are so lamentably obvious to anyone who actually follows the Phoenix that to re-state them would sound inane.

 

It's not surprising that there is a bit of anti-Ricki sentiment out there.  After all, this is New Zealand, where everyone automatically assumes that other peoples' success is not just.

 

However, if I was Ricki I wouldn't be losing any sleep over Billy Harris and Danny Hay having a pop at me.

 

I'll give him this, it's more accurate than Sam Worthington's piece but again leaves gaping holes in the situation and the facts of Ricki's re-appointment.

 

 

Go on Rob.  Get the wax out.

 

I really get pissed off when I hear the argument that football is full of cheats and eggball is manly and virtuous. What crap. The only difference is that most of football cheating is out in the open an is easily seen. The cheating in eggball happens all the time. Most eggball games have about 20 to 30 penalties issued....what for? .....cheating. If everyone played within the rules there would be no need for all those penalties. Illegal scrumming, killing the ball in rucks, offside etc....the eggball rule book is 100 times thicker than the football rule book. What for? to control the cheating.

Just when you think that Harris has had a spell of sanity he has another brain explosion.