The Dominion Post

The DomPost are scaring me now because they've proved to me that they can be diabolical as well as informative and accurate...

I see that the Doom Post have said they are "100% behind the Nix". As some wit has already posted " yeah! with a knife"

Until someone forgets to pay a bill...

Anyone able to tell me the Dompost free kids code b4 I go to book online?

Cheers!

Kewell

Cheers - doubted it would be Judas!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5870994/World-record-for-socks-on-a-line-confirmed

"Former Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand and Lady Susan worked alongside Wellington Phoenix players and coach Ricki Herbert, volunteers and local school pupils in helping to peg up the socks."

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"The failure to identify and then retain the exciting New Zealand talents of Kosta Barbarouses and Marco Rojas is a huge black mark"

Feverish2011-11-14 08:57:03

I liked this:

Young talent?  Makes it sound like they had a bunch of home-developed 19 year-olds out there rather than the Albanian, German, Canadian-Japanese and Brazilian imported frontline they actually had.

Ange cant hold on to young talent either

My favourite was:



Maybe because Melbourne Victory famously (and arrogantly) already did that and came up with... wait for it... wait for it... their own assistant coach!

...and exactly who was going to conduct the search seeing as the owners admit they have little to no football knowledge, have yet to appoint a board that has football knowledge and had every chance they would have pissed Ricki enough that he would have walked leaving us with no manager at all seeing as he was contractless.

Why is he allowed to write about football?

He's just trolling, at least it's actually marked as opinion for once.

But yeah, there's pretty obvious answers to most of his points.

from his copy of Hay, when he writes

Is that Sam on the right behind the portable urinal?

I'm guessing he had to have a scathing review of drawing away with the team he rates so highly due to the fact he had already written his opinion piece

Yep! More positivity from the Doom Post today.

I have to ask this question - if Ange Postecoglu was available would you prefe him to ricki? If the answer is yes, then isn't the premise of Worthington's article (which is fairly rubbishy) actually correct? i.e. is there not at least an argument that they should have looked around before rushing to give him a contract? It's not as if he is in such demand that he's going to run off elsewhere, his stock clearly has fallen since the world cup.

For all of the good he had done, he's never had the phoenix playing football good enough to win the competition. I don't know the actual stats but I'd be surprised if he's beaten the league winners in the season they've won the competition.

2 out of the 3 are true though HN, and we're all working to similar budgets. Someone is clearly doing something right.james dean2011-11-15 11:27:35

Having succeeded in sacking Terry, JD goes after Ricki.

That's a little harsh Doloras.  He's wrong but he's allowed his opinion.

Hard News2011-11-15 11:46:33

I withdraw and apologise, or at least add a winky smiley to the above.

Thanks Piney.  I suspected that was the case but I'm WAY too lazy too check.

I remember the events but not which season they were in.

the Herald does better (and shows more 'loyalty') with their headline

I guess the question really is if you assume that we finish outside the 6, or in 6th, what would ricky have to do next year to earn his plus 2? At some point you really want to see us back in the top 4. We were a long way off the pace last year, and same again this year. Need to know that he can keep us moving forward and keeping pace with the top sidesjames dean2011-11-15 20:39:42

Weren't we still a chance at the top 4 until the end last season,or am I thinking of the season before?

We were just scraping into the top 6 last season, so you are thinking of the season before

james dean2011-11-16 01:41:47

^ Agree with JDeenis. And would take Ange in an arrhythmic heartbeat. 

Well if we are to keep pace with top sides we should be keeping pace with their investment into their squads and football operations.

This. Ricki has a budget given by Welnix sufficient to keep the team ticking over while they figure out what to do next, not to create an Invincible Nixcelona. Why does anything think that Welnix would spring for a better coach who isn't subsidized by NZF when they won't spring for a striker?

I have heard no sensible suggestions about how Ricki could do better with the resources he has. (Unless you count "sign Clapham because he'll be cheaper".) The tools bleating about "Ricki doesn't trust young talent" ignore the fact that he signed Kosta and Marco; and ignore the question of exactly where the next Kosta or Marco are coming from. Dakota Lucas doesn't quite cut it.Doloras2011-11-16 11:04:44

Surely everyone has the expectation of this season as a write off?

I like this article by Ross

Agreed.