Without trying to troll the writer may have gone over the top however the premises around which the article is based IMO is very true...
In Australia for the past 7 years we have been constantly reading similar articles from a number of writers and TV folk... to the point were many football folk questioned the 80 % negative technical articles and rather than discuss a game discuss how poor or how well from a technical level a team played..
The reasoning is with good football that is a joy to watch then new people will not come and over time with ugly football you will loose those who are coming... however good technical play will hold and increase crowds...
Some time ago [this year I think but cannot find] I wrote a thread on YF asking whether you would rather win ugly or loose in style... I was almost blasted off the screen . winning is everything no matter how ugly ....
Personally I think that playing style will both win games and get crowds ...
Comments to date seem to see the article as an attack on the Nix's and NZ football .... I don't see it that way I see it like the thousands articles written in Australia over the life of the A-League which broken down to the simple say .... Style will win more games than no style .. and style gets people in...
Chill guys ... also what he said was the Nix are now playing with style.... remember also we had a national coach in Pim who only lost one game in qualifying for the WC and he was the most criticized coach in our history because of the style of play he used....