Terry Maddaford...

Terry Maddaford...

...is a dick. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/soccer/news/article.cfm?c_id=86&objectid=10589109

What is with calling Milson "Dos Santos", i had to google that, and is at this stage not going to start games. Going on about Vaughn Coveny and 10 kiwis that can help the Phoenix crap, sure I would love Ryan Nelson but I dont get the list - why those 10? why not others? does he know the availability or likelihood of those players coming the 'Nix? Nothing about Phoenix new star recruits. EXTREMELY SHODDY! 

dickhead.

Most of the guys on here could write a more knowledgeable article. He actually got paid for doing that? The statement that the 'Loss of Nick Carle is huge' for the Jets is just hilarious.
valeo2009-08-07 14:44:22

.... is a numpty

no wonder Akld teams fail with the Herald up there

That was one of the oddest articles i've read in a while.  What do the Knights have to do with the upcoming season?  Jets missing Nick Carle?  10 Kiwis to help Phoenix? Jets to finish 6th?  Weird.

I guess it's true, a room with 100 monkeys and 100 typewriters can write a fotball article

That has to be the most saddest piece of football journalism for a long time. Worse than his last work on the Confederation Cup. I think he has the longest losing football streak in this country. Why isn't he fired from the football page?! He's ruining the image of football in this country by his writing alone. Why don't he write about the All Blacks instead, I'm sure he would help soccer that way.

I always tell people not to read his article and read Fred Woodcock article instead. Fred is usually more informative and does his research as well as his love of the game is easily shown through.

what a plonker - "7. Newcastle Jets. Loss of Nick Carle is huge."

He can't be fired by the Herald because he isn't employed by the Herald... he works freelance these days and submits articles to them as part of that - if they like it they publish, if they don't they don't...

I heard Terry Maddaford on Dewhursts Total Football Hour immediately after he got back from the Confeds Cup.His summary of the NZ team performances actually made sense.

Seems this article has either had the chop from sub-editors, (probably based in Mumbai!) to make it fit...
or Terry had too many drinkies at the Herald offices Friday night and had to rush it through to make deadline.
RedGed2009-08-09 23:58:44

Well he has some points clear in his confeds cup but I have a problem with some of his scathing remarks that subtly hints at NZ's "total" failure at football such that he leaves out any good points and dwells on doubting whether NZ should be even be playing at all because the odds are against them. The way he writes articles gives the ordinary Joe in the street an ill formed opinions that will damage football rather than promoting it. Sometimes it is best to say very little with encouragement than to heavily weight in half hearted details that say "Noone in NZ knows what to do in this game?" when that is not entirely true.

Yes I heard that interview and he was very frank, but his pen of his has a poison bias to it and an agenda of it's own. He loves the game but no idea when not to paint a doom and gloom picture to the non-football public. What's the point? Does he knows his audience? And why does he not pick up on the latest news carefully as well as being aware of the needs of the football public? Why feed rubbish opinions to the non-football public and make football look silly? I just don't get him.